♥ ♥ ~ My Grand Uncle Charlie ~ ♥ ♥
☆☆☆～ New York Guard ～☆☆☆
Charlie served in Company E 1st Infantry, New York Guard, in 1914
Charlie was the son of Charles William Rohme, Sr., and Mary Ann Brennan. He was raised as a Roman Catholic, and attended Catholic school through the eighth grade. He converted to the Presbyterian faith as a adult. He was a boxer as a young man, and was known as "Kid Rohme." He fought in the Knights of Columbus Home in Newburgh, and at the Majestic Theater in Wilkes-Barre.
Before he married, he worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad as a freight handler. Later, he worked as an independent coal contractor and then as a machinist. He was a member of the Scranton Consistory of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite and received his 32 degree as a Free and Accepted Mason. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, playing with his hound dogs, growing roses, and eating ice cream.
He married Euada Frances Kline on December 15, 1923, in the Mountaintop Presbyterian Parsonage at Mountaintop, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Rev. Andrew Scott performed the marriage, and the couple had no children.
My Dad's father died when Dad was 10, so his Uncle Charlie was his second father. He taught my Dad how to wrestle and how to shoot a rifle. He also taught Dad how to drive a truck - Charlie never had a car. When Dad got his first car, he let Uncle Charlie drive it.
I loved to visit Uncle Charlie and Aunt Ada as a child. I remember he always sat on a rocking chair next to the old coal stove. Whenever he asked me to go for a walk, I knew we would stop for ice cream. One time we got ice cream cones for ourselves first before bringing home a box of ice cream for everyone else, and he said "Don't tell Aunt Ada" - it was our secret. Another time we brought a box of ice cream home, and after giving everyone their bowls Uncle Charlie said, "First one done gets to help everyone else with theirs." I remember eating my ice cream as fast as I could!
Cause of death: complete intestinal obstruction due to carcinoma and arteriosclerosis
☆☆☆～ New York Guard ～☆☆☆
Charlie served in Company E 1st Infantry, New York Guard, in 1914
Charlie was the son of Charles William Rohme, Sr., and Mary Ann Brennan. He was raised as a Roman Catholic, and attended Catholic school through the eighth grade. He converted to the Presbyterian faith as a adult. He was a boxer as a young man, and was known as "Kid Rohme." He fought in the Knights of Columbus Home in Newburgh, and at the Majestic Theater in Wilkes-Barre.
Before he married, he worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad as a freight handler. Later, he worked as an independent coal contractor and then as a machinist. He was a member of the Scranton Consistory of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite and received his 32 degree as a Free and Accepted Mason. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, playing with his hound dogs, growing roses, and eating ice cream.
He married Euada Frances Kline on December 15, 1923, in the Mountaintop Presbyterian Parsonage at Mountaintop, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Rev. Andrew Scott performed the marriage, and the couple had no children.
My Dad's father died when Dad was 10, so his Uncle Charlie was his second father. He taught my Dad how to wrestle and how to shoot a rifle. He also taught Dad how to drive a truck - Charlie never had a car. When Dad got his first car, he let Uncle Charlie drive it.
I loved to visit Uncle Charlie and Aunt Ada as a child. I remember he always sat on a rocking chair next to the old coal stove. Whenever he asked me to go for a walk, I knew we would stop for ice cream. One time we got ice cream cones for ourselves first before bringing home a box of ice cream for everyone else, and he said "Don't tell Aunt Ada" - it was our secret. Another time we brought a box of ice cream home, and after giving everyone their bowls Uncle Charlie said, "First one done gets to help everyone else with theirs." I remember eating my ice cream as fast as I could!
Cause of death: complete intestinal obstruction due to carcinoma and arteriosclerosis
♥ ♥ ~ My Grand Uncle Charlie ~ ♥ ♥
☆☆☆～ New York Guard ～☆☆☆
Charlie served in Company E 1st Infantry, New York Guard, in 1914
Charlie was the son of Charles William Rohme, Sr., and Mary Ann Brennan. He was raised as a Roman Catholic, and attended Catholic school through the eighth grade. He converted to the Presbyterian faith as a adult. He was a boxer as a young man, and was known as "Kid Rohme." He fought in the Knights of Columbus Home in Newburgh, and at the Majestic Theater in Wilkes-Barre.
Before he married, he worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad as a freight handler. Later, he worked as an independent coal contractor and then as a machinist. He was a member of the Scranton Consistory of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite and received his 32 degree as a Free and Accepted Mason. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, playing with his hound dogs, growing roses, and eating ice cream.
He married Euada Frances Kline on December 15, 1923, in the Mountaintop Presbyterian Parsonage at Mountaintop, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Rev. Andrew Scott performed the marriage, and the couple had no children.
My Dad's father died when Dad was 10, so his Uncle Charlie was his second father. He taught my Dad how to wrestle and how to shoot a rifle. He also taught Dad how to drive a truck - Charlie never had a car. When Dad got his first car, he let Uncle Charlie drive it.
I loved to visit Uncle Charlie and Aunt Ada as a child. I remember he always sat on a rocking chair next to the old coal stove. Whenever he asked me to go for a walk, I knew we would stop for ice cream. One time we got ice cream cones for ourselves first before bringing home a box of ice cream for everyone else, and he said "Don't tell Aunt Ada" - it was our secret. Another time we brought a box of ice cream home, and after giving everyone their bowls Uncle Charlie said, "First one done gets to help everyone else with theirs." I remember eating my ice cream as fast as I could!
Cause of death: complete intestinal obstruction due to carcinoma and arteriosclerosis
☆☆☆～ New York Guard ～☆☆☆
Charlie served in Company E 1st Infantry, New York Guard, in 1914
Charlie was the son of Charles William Rohme, Sr., and Mary Ann Brennan. He was raised as a Roman Catholic, and attended Catholic school through the eighth grade. He converted to the Presbyterian faith as a adult. He was a boxer as a young man, and was known as "Kid Rohme." He fought in the Knights of Columbus Home in Newburgh, and at the Majestic Theater in Wilkes-Barre.
Before he married, he worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad as a freight handler. Later, he worked as an independent coal contractor and then as a machinist. He was a member of the Scranton Consistory of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite and received his 32 degree as a Free and Accepted Mason. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, playing with his hound dogs, growing roses, and eating ice cream.
He married Euada Frances Kline on December 15, 1923, in the Mountaintop Presbyterian Parsonage at Mountaintop, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Rev. Andrew Scott performed the marriage, and the couple had no children.
My Dad's father died when Dad was 10, so his Uncle Charlie was his second father. He taught my Dad how to wrestle and how to shoot a rifle. He also taught Dad how to drive a truck - Charlie never had a car. When Dad got his first car, he let Uncle Charlie drive it.
I loved to visit Uncle Charlie and Aunt Ada as a child. I remember he always sat on a rocking chair next to the old coal stove. Whenever he asked me to go for a walk, I knew we would stop for ice cream. One time we got ice cream cones for ourselves first before bringing home a box of ice cream for everyone else, and he said "Don't tell Aunt Ada" - it was our secret. Another time we brought a box of ice cream home, and after giving everyone their bowls Uncle Charlie said, "First one done gets to help everyone else with theirs." I remember eating my ice cream as fast as I could!
Cause of death: complete intestinal obstruction due to carcinoma and arteriosclerosis
