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- Niagara Gazette - 9/1/1939
Miss Mary A. Wollaber, of Sanbom,
who celebrated her ninety -
first birthday August 28 while visiting
her niece, Mrs. Pettit. at Wilson.
Miss Wollaber was born at
Cambria. Niagara county, on August
28,1848, daughter of William W.
and Abbie Tisdale Wollaber. She
baslived in Sanborn since 1920. In
early life she became a member of
the Congregational church at Cambria
Center and is still a member.
She still enjoys excellent health
and is keenly interested in community
affairs, particularly social
events. She resides with her sisterin-
law, Mrs. Addle Wollaber, West
street, Sanborn.
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Niagara Gazette - 8/18/1948
LOCKPORT, Aug. 18-While still
keeping abreast of the-news of today,
a Lockport woman who can remember
Lincoln's election to the
presidency will mark her 100th
birthday with two celebration!.
She is Mary Wollaber, whose
first celebration of the event will
be an open home reception At the
home or her niece, Mrs. Edwsrd
Kraats, and family. 332 Chestnut
street. Miss Wollaber moved to
Lockport lite years ago to make her
home with the Kraatz family, following
the deaths of her brother
and sister-ln-law. Mr. And Mrs.
Charles H. Wollaber, with whom
she made her home on the Ridge
road near Molyneaux Corners.
Friends and relatives are Invited
to call between 3 and 5 o'clock Sunday
at the Kraatz home.
Iflia Kraatz will spend her blrthday
August 38 at the home of her
nephew, Fred Barnum, In Wilson,
where the cake which Mrs. Barnum
will mike for the occasion will be
only slightly more elaborate than Its
many predecessors.
Miss Wollaber has many friends
in Wilson where she has Attended
field day celebrations since the
first one. which fell on her birtnday.
About friends. Miss Wollaber has
said for a number of years: "I have
lost many through the years, but I
am always finding new ones."
Though she now finds it necessary
to use A "reading glass" Miss
Wollaber reads the newspapers each
day. Occasionally she makes a trip
to the business district with her
niece.
Miss Wollaber's formula for the
excellent health she always has en-
joyed follows:
"Above all, don't worry. Keep ac-
tive, forget yourself and try to do
something for someone else. If I
come up to a bit of trouble. I take
it to the Lord and He always points.
out a way where I can come out all
right."
And then, just to be doubly sure
that her luck will hold. Miss Wollaber
wears a horseshoe nail ring,
made by her nephew, Harold Kraau.
when he was a youngster.
Born In the Town of Cambria,
Miss Wollaber recalls the stories
told by her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
William Wallace Wollaber. about
their "coming to the West." Her
father first taught school in Warren's
Corners before becoming a
farmer In Cambria. Her mother
taught in Herkimer for 10 shillings
a week, before the trip to the
"West," with four of her mother's
cousins and their wives, was made
by a horse-drawn canal boat.
Miss Wollaber's chief recollection
of Lincoln'* election on the full din-
ner pall slogan was her own relief
because ahe had overheard so often
the prediction. "We'll all atarve If
Lincoln doesn't get ln."
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Niagara Gazette - 7/24/1953
LOCKPORT, July 24 - Believed
to have been Lockport's
oldest resident, Miss Mary A.
Wollaber, died today at the home
of her niece. Mrs. Edward Kraatz.
232 Chestnut street, in her 105th
year. .
Miss Wollaber was born in th:
Town of Cambria, August 28.
1848, daughter of William and
Abbie Wollaber who came to- Niagara
county from the east in a
horse-drawn canal boat.
Her father taught school at
Warren's Corners and later operated
a farm at Cambria. Before
moving here ten years ago. Miss
Wollaber lived in the Ridge road
near Molyneaux Corners with her
late brother, Charles H. Wollaber.
Until three years ago, her health
was good and she made frequent
trips downtown with her niece.
Nieces and nephews are the
nearest surviving relatives, including
William Barnum, Niagara
Falls, Mrs. Grace Smith, Mrs.
Flora Blood and Fred Farnum,
all of Wilson, Oscar Wollaber.
Cambria, Rodger Wollaber and
Edgar Wollaber, Ridge road.
Services will be held Monday
at 2 p.m. at the Gaul Funeral
home. Interment will be in Budde
cemetery, Town of Cambria.
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1848 - 1953 (104 years)