Josephine Fenstermacher
(1885-1956)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. William F. Bucher

Josephine Fenstermacher 1 2 3

  • Born: 29 Jan 1885, Riverside, Northumberland, PA 1 2 3
  • Marriage (1): William F. Bucher about 1910 in , Northumberland, PA
  • Died: 7 Oct 1956, Bloomsburg, Columbia, PA at age 71 2 3
  • Buried: 10 Oct 1956, Espy: New Rosemont Cemetery, Columbia, PA 2 3

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1930 in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA. 1 The 1930 census recorded owning a $3000 home at 616 Front Street: William F. Bucher, brakeman on steam railroad, 58, living with wife Josephine B., 45; William H., 21; George W., 19; stepson Paul J. Brobst, 16, and stepdaughter Grace, 11. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania, except Josephine's mother in Florida. William and Josephine were married when he was 19 and she 15.

2. Obituary: The Morning Press: obituary of Mrs. Josephine Brobst Bucher on 8 Oct 1956 in Bloomsburg, Columbia, PA. 4 Mrs. Josephine Brobst Bucher, seventy-one, Bloomsburg, died at Bloomsburg Hospital at seven-twenty-five last evening. She had been a patient there since Wednesday. Death was caused by complications.
She had made her home with Mrs. Lucy Kline, Bloomsburg, for the past three years.
She became ill while visiting her daughter Mrs. Grace Rothelmel, Sunday.
Surviving are a son, Paul Brobst, and the daughter, Mrs. Rothelmel, both of Sunbury; two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at Shipman Funeral Home, Sunbury. Interment will be in New Rosemont Cemetery.


Josephine married William F. Bucher, son of Henry J. Bucher and Mary C. Eisley, about 1910 in , Northumberland, PA. (William F. Bucher was born about 1872 in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA 1 5 6.)


Sources


1 1930 United States Census, Year: 1930; Census Place: Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania; Roll: 2091; Page: 16B; Enumeration District: 0069; Image: 630.0; FHL microfilm: 2341825.

2 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=101484101.

3 Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1968 (Original data: Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates. Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.), Death Certificate 88057. Josephine Brobst Bucher. Father John Fenstermacher. Mother Isobell Call. Widowed, Spouse William H. Bucher.

4 The Morning Press (Bloomsburg, PA) (Bloomsburg, Columbia, Pennsylvania), 8 Oct 1956, obituary of Mrs. Josephine Brobst Bucher.

5 1880 United States Census, FHL Film 1255164; National Archives Film T9-1164; Page 521A.

6 FamilySearch.org, Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885 - 1950, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VF9G-WXL William F. Bucher and Mary A. Wynn, 01 Jan 1892; citing Marriage, Pennsylvania, county courthouses, Pennsylvania; FHL microfilm 961,095.



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