Helen married MCKEEBY, Walter in 1944. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 12/16/1943

Miss Helen Sessman's engagement
to Aviation Cadet Walter McKeeby
is announced by her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Bernard Sessman, of this
city. Cadet McKeeby is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver McKeeby.
of Bloomfield, N. J., and is stationed
at Palmer Field. South Carolina,
where he is training to be a pilot
the United States Army Air
Force. The wedding will take place
in the spring.

Bernard + GRAVEL, Lydia. Lydia was born about 1895 in Lawrence, Essex County, MA; died on 8 Feb 1959 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 2/11/1959

AMBRA— In St. Mary's Hospital,
day, February 8. 1959. Lydla Sessman
Ambra of 329 71st St. Wife of
Pasquale Ambra, mother of Mrs. Lydia
Dallo and M r s . Helen McKeeby. both
of Stanhope, N.J., Raymond Sessman
of Sanborn, N.Y.. Bernard Sessman
of this city. Sister of Joseph, Gene,
Alcide and Leo Gravel, all of Lawrence.
Mass. Also survived • by 7
grandchildren. Funeral services will
be held from the Lane Funeral Home,
8022 Buffalo Ave.. Thursday, February
12. 1959 a t 9:15 a.m. and from
St. John De LaSalle Church at 9:30
a.m . Interment Gate of Heaven Cemetery.
St. John's de LaSalle Church Altar
and Rosary Society will recite the Rosary
Wednesday- evenlng at 9:15.

ALSO

Niagara Gazette - 2/9/1959

Mrs. Lydia Sessman Ambra,
64, of 329 71st St., died sud
denly Sunday (Feb. 8, 1959) at
Mt. St. Mary's Hospital.
A native of Lawrence, Mass.,
she had lived here for 39 years.
She served as chaplain for the
Women's Benefit Assn. for sev-
eral years, and was past presi-
dent of the Post No. 54, Vet-
erans of Foreign Wars Auxil-
iary. She was also a member
of Post 381, American Legion
Auxiliary.
Survivors include her hus-
band, Pasquale Ambra; two
daughters, Mrs. Lydia Dallo
and Mrs. Helen McKeeby, both
of Stanhope, N.J.; two sons,
Raymond Sessman, Sanborn,
and Bernard Sessman, this city;
four brothers, Joseph, Gene,
Alcide and Leo Gravel, all of
Lawrence, Mass.
Funeral services will be held
at 9:15 a.m. Thursday at the
Lane Funeral Home and at
9:30 at St. John de LaSalle
Church. Burial will be in Gate
of Heaven Cemetery.