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The Children of Henry O. Wurth and Rose Fekete Wurth | Henry Wurth, Jr.| Dorothy Cooper | June Donovan |
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Henry Wurth, Jr.
Henry was born and raised in Schenectady, NY, where he has had a successful career as a building contractor. Henry and his wife, Marge, have three children, Mark, Nancy and Susan, who all live in the Schenectady area.
While surfing the web, Henry found this website in 2004 and made some significant
contributions to his parents' story.
He also told us a little about himself.
My Career
I was in the Army Air Forces during a portion of the second world war. When the war ended, the Air Force asked me to stay two more years to become part of the Army of Occupation in Europe. I was only 20 and 1/2 years old and I wanted to go home. I had 4 years of college coming to me free. I made a good decision because occupation duty for more than two years after the war ended was as dangerous as serving in Iraq is now .
So I launched myself into learning a business to live on. With some experience building cabins at my parents Schroon River Boys Camp, I got a pretty good start. I spent a couple of years working with Uncle Herman Setzer who was a carpenter, cabinet maker, pattern maker. Then I went to work for some other builders for a few years before I began working for myself about 1963. I was very busy all through the years up to 2005 and I accomplished many projects during that time. On July 18 , 2005, I sold Cottage Row Apartments. That sale broke the old busy time.
The Dream
In 2005, Henry fulfilled a lifetime dream and took a trip to Europe. Henry wrote a chronicle of that trip and was kind enough to let us print it at this website. It is a wonderful story, especially for those of us with Wurth heritage. A special aspect of his story is that it also includes some Fekete history and we learn a little bit more about Aunt Rose Wurth and her family. Please read the chronicle, Once in Eighty Years at this link.
Dorothy Wurth and Thomas Cooper
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Dorothy Wurth was born and raised in Schenectady, NY. On June 6, 1948, she married Thomas Cooper. They have three children: Gary, Michael and Jeff. |
Tom's surfing led him to this website in 2007. He filled us in on their story.
The Cooper Story
Dot
and I married in 1948. At the time, I worked for Schneuckers
Greenhouses on upper Albany St.
and Dorothy worked in a beauty shop.
In 1960, Dot's
mother and father moved to Florida. We went for a visit and liked what we saw.
In 1961, I left the General Electric Co. (GE) and we moved to Orlando
Florida, where we raised our three boys and lived for more than 30 years.
Initially, I worked for the Martin Company in Orlando; later, on the Saturn
Program at Cape Canaveral; and then, for GE in Plymouth, Florida.
When I retired in 1991 we moved to the Villages of Lady Lake, Florida.
Cyber Friends
Barbara remembers.
I knew who Tom and Dot were, when they lived in Schenectady. In fact, we were all in the Wurth Reunion picture from 1959. But, I didn't know them well. Today, Tom and I have a mutual interest in the Internet and we cousins, who live on opposite sides of the country, are working together and getting to know each other better.
Tom and Dot have made substantial contributions to our resource center with Wurth family and, gym and Turnverein materials. These materials add a lot of excitement to the barjwhit.com project. It is a pleasure to add Tom and Dot as collaborators. In 2008, we will be developing many new pages with these materials.
Marriages add new branches to the family tree and bring new and different people into our lives. We hope to encourage Tom to share some Cooper family history with us, too.
June Wurth Donovan
June was also born and raised in Schenectady, NY.
My mother, Loni Wurth was June's godmother. We have several nice pictures of June, when she was a child and young woman. Because June and I both did our adult lives in Schenectady, I know June pretty well from Kaffeeklatch and family reunions. I have enjoyed her very much over the years.
