Rose Eleanor Schultz, Anne Marie Weitzel, and Liz Hrivnak

00:00 Hello. Hi Grandma. Hi and Marie. This is so much fun. Thank you for going to all the work is getting it together. Here. I'm in the hospital had to Ford right now. 19 Mile Road.

00:22 But I'm looking forward to getting out and seeing Danielle and

00:31 Jake's wedding.

00:34 So that's another week.

00:42 26th of September.

00:50 My name is Anne Marie Weitzel. I am 32 years, old. Today is September, 19th, 2008, and I'm also at Henry Ford Hospital here in Clinton Township, Maybe you can tell me your name and today's date.

01:09 I am Rochelle tea and I am 77 years old. I was born.

01:21 I was born in 1930, October 23rd.

01:37 My name is Alex and I am 21 years old, and today is September. 19th 2870. Ford Hospital in Clinton Township, Michigan.

01:49 And doing our grandmother, she introduced herself a little bit just a while ago. So we're going to the questions now.

02:01 Grandma, can you tell me a little bit about where you grew up? And my father has built his own home. It's a very special place on Waters cheese, and I just loved it. They had an empty lot next door that we could play.

02:29 It was just a fun growing up for 3 years and then he got a job offer come to Detroit because he was a broom at a very proud of him. And when we move to Detroit then I'm not sure of what year that the the ban on deer went through. But he actually saw the rivers flowing with the form of the beer, Everybody by

03:08 Work and pop places and he was very brilliant and he designed the bottle washer.

03:20 We moved to Lansing and that's when the country hits early went dry.

03:28 Then he moved to Marquette, Michigan.

03:32 Well, that's that takes me back to a memory.

03:39 My brother was born up there and that's going back 1913.

03:49 He wasn't in Marquette of the beer factory.

03:56 Wow, your dad sounds like he was a pretty special person.

04:00 A little bit about your mom. My mother was a wonderful, lovely lady. She had black hair and hazel eyes.

04:10 We speak and you're the wonderful homemaker.

04:18 They came to us a jab, naam arkestra. Snow was so deep. It was window high. So the lady next door, they see places. We're together. Like

04:33 Tool rental, places attached. And at the time she leaned out. She had my mother lean across the window or Fresh Prince.

04:48 So that was a big help.

05:02 White power came from my father. He had a beautiful head of blond hair.

05:11 And the blue eyes.

05:19 What did your brother and sister? Look like, my brother was very handsome. He had the lighter hair curly and very nice looking. And my sister took out my mother. She has a dark hair and the darker eyes. Brown eyes.

05:42 I'll see you guys end up all kind of looking a little bit, like your parents in different ways. So I'll turn it over to ask a question.

05:51 I want to know how how is your relationship with your marriage between my brother and my older sister and it was actually 14 years between those two. And then not years later. I can go there was a vast difference and we got along all so well because perhaps of the difference in ages

06:26 Thoroughly enjoyed the family.

06:30 Any close friend who had what were they like in Durham that are named the way you do together. I have a girlfriend across the street and not sure of her name now, but she's one of my best friends for years.

06:52 We learn to ride bikes together and made our first communion.

06:58 What was very nice friendly relationship for years and years?

07:07 Okay, this is Emory and back again. Do you remember what your earliest memory is?

07:25 Good question, darling.

07:31 At the moment. I can't think of my first.

07:38 When I was the SALT 3 years old.

07:56 We are renting a place and it frightened me. So I have to go to a new home.

08:05 Hide in the closet.

08:11 Adjusted. It was Nero Park and my mother that mother used to take us over there.

08:19 So we can play in the spring. So, you know, used to.

08:28 Sounds like you had some.

08:42 No, I just knew way back when I was small ones that I really wanted to go to college.

08:51 Always, I enjoyed studying, even then.

08:57 Eventually.

09:03 Accomplished.

09:09 But it was well worth waiting for a little bit about that cuz I think it's a very interesting aspect of who you are. Maybe you can tell us a little bit about when you did and of course College.

09:24 Where you went to school with me and and at what degree do you receive?

09:29 Columbus.

09:33 School to begin with. We had rented a house in Detroit, Eastside.

09:42 Just said, I want to have some water.

09:47 Columbus first.

09:50 Kindergarten, and then, when I went in, first grade went right over to assumption Grotto.

10:02 And I loved it. In fact, I'm going to be buried at the church and the crown.

10:13 So everything is all set for her.

10:17 When it happens.

10:19 However, when I yell as my, I married, Kenneth Whitesell in 1950 and June 24th of 1950.

10:38 And,

10:41 We married way too young.

10:47 Regardless, we were married in.

10:52 He worked for a company, but he really wanted to be a fireman like his grandpa. He worked towards that and then he was happy.

11:12 So after that, we bought a home, we lived with his parents were married. And then I had a miscarriage after 2 months from I yell, we moved my place to my parents place. And after that, we bought the home. Now Warden Goblin 134 Warden.

11:41 I went back to work as a secretary.

11:48 So it was a good life.

11:59 1952. I have Mark Road.

12:05 The Danny was born. December 23rd, 53.

12:14 And Paul, in 1956 of October.

12:19 And Diane Diane Marie was born.

12:25 November 12th of November 16th of 1957.

12:35 Mary Jo Campbell on December 3rd.

12:44 I can't remember the year.

12:48 That was Laura.

12:58 It will come back to Mary Jo.

13:04 Will Ferrell?

13:12 February 6th.

13:16 February 11th.

13:25 60.

13:41 I have been working for quite a while and I worked for the city of Detroit, the I'm willing to the federal government.

13:51 At that time, I worked for the Detroit Wayne County, criminal justice system, coordinating Council. And I saw that I was working for.

14:07 They could come in at whatever time they wanted. Please sign in when they want to, and I just the opposite, I had to sign in and go back to school and earn a degree, which I do.

14:49 Reminder, in 3 months with the

15:13 What is that called?

15:19 6:07.

15:30 Palestine leader that used to went back and receive such honors. I'm going to hand it over to Liz to ask a question.

15:39 We're on your education funding what year early years of education or like in elementary school. The lessons they taught you to go to when we move to Detroit when we moved from Detroit I went to

16:04 My parents get mad because the church that we went to Mass on Sunday.

16:16 But I couldn't get in because it was so crowded. I went to see you.

16:25 High School where and I went for the 7th and 8th grade and transferred to

16:36 Detroit.

16:41 Whatever they call the high school. So I remember having in the 8th grade on. This is Turner, a wonderful future and I wanted to be an English teacher after meeting her.

17:06 Sounds like she had a big impression on you is such a great teacher.

17:12 Her attitude, her ability to help people and kindness.

17:20 I really liked her. I remember, they're all these years. You, are there any memories from here earlier school years? That really stick out any funny things happen to you, or really exciting. Things are some worst memory. No, not really.

17:41 Not really. I I just like school. I had no problem.

17:47 Sounds like he passed it on Tuesday.

17:51 Hi, this is Anne, Marie Weitzel again. I'm here with my grandmother. Today is September, 19th, 2008. And we're at Henry, Ford Medical Hospital in Clinton Township. And I am 32 years old. I me introduce my grandmother and my cousin list.

18:11 Memories that you'll have some record of all that went into my life with you. My name is Rose Eleanor.

18:30 It was solder.

18:35 77 years old.

18:41 Date of September 19th, 1908.

18:53 And today is September 19th 2008 and we're here at the Henry, Ford clinic and I am 21 years old.

19:04 So, we just been talking about, Grandma's favorite teacher and her experience in her earlier school days, and I had one last question related. That was, was there always a subject that you loved to study during school. Yes. I did. I like very much.

19:31 Interesting.

19:35 If you don't mind talking about your family, a little friend, where they came from and maybe a little bit about your family.

19:54 Both, my parents came from Austria. My mother came from. She always said, she had a royal blood in her and I believe it.

20:10 And my dad came from near where she was my dad came over to America with his mom and dad, when he was very young and my mother came when she was about 16.

20:32 To come over here and help her sister. That was established as a community from Germany and the area they had come from all settled on Taylor Street in Port Huron.

20:49 I was looking at the census, record shows the, the neighbors from that. And almost all of them and spoke German. I didn't know that my mother's folks until I was seventeen years old. My friend. My friend told me she called me one day on the phone and she said, I finally listen to my beautiful mother and I she did have that my parents both German to each other, but I did learn a little

21:49 German remember any of it. Now. How do you say one more time?

22:20 I was wondering growing up but we're your traditions for celebrations for Easter and Christmas and Thanksgiving start with Christmas.

22:33 Celebration, American Style.

22:40 But when I came to eat my dad used to have them horse ready for a short ready and he would go down to the market and buy always had ham and swiss work ready as part of our breakfast with your son's and they would see who can get the biggest.

23:21 Were there any other special occasions or holidays that your parents are necessarily in an American holiday for say no?

23:35 Not that I can remember and what were their birthdays like, for you guys, but they always celebrated our birthday individual birthdays.

23:54 What was the minion birthday that sticks out or any gifts that you received?

24:03 No, I just remember one time I wanted so badly to have a

24:12 For Christmas, I wanted to have a

24:17 College basketball.

24:23 But it was a real baby, you know, with her.

24:29 And I looked in the closet with all wrapped which opened this morning and I was so happy, but then I was so disappointed cuz this morning cuz I knew what I never did.

24:52 Let my sister and that she's never actually snuck in s take a look at presents early personality, classic like family story that you guys would always tell her jokes or songs. You would sing.

25:23 Salata sauce.

25:30 I really can't think of my mother loved.

25:35 Good music. She loved. What's his name with the bubble?

25:47 What's this mean? He has with all the girls Lawrence Welk, the whole family. Going to just throw away enjoyed Lawrenceville parents or siblings that you'd like to share right now.

26:30 Since many of your your grandchildren are now in their lives where they're getting married and starting their own family, is any any advice that you wouldn't want to pass on?

26:51 Setting examples for their children. Always

26:57 Grandma's had a very fruitful family. So she's had six children. 17 grandchildren.

27:06 Up to how many great-grandchildren that we think seven great-grandchildren with another one, on the way in the cold pregnant with her second one. So a very good with him, but it is to have a big family and what about

27:26 Marriage and relationships over the years.

27:43 I think twice before jumping.

27:52 End of time with you and maybe we can do it again in a couple days, but just know how much we love you. And will always always be a very big part of our life.

28:08 I love you, too. Thank you so much for coming.

28:16 Children mean so much to me. The reason I'm still here.

28:28 Do you love you so much and you?

28:33 Thank you for sharing.

28:39 I love you, honey. God bless all of you.