Peter Ohmer Descendants

Catholic; Sacred Heart church. Died at the Good Samaritan hospital of hypostatic pneumonia.

These notes taken from the diary of MaryLouise Breen Garrity daughter of John P. Breen and Katherine Beckman Breen. Katherine's older sister Anna was married to John Ohmer sister to Minne Grimes.

Later, when we could not be taken so easily from our school work to go on trips, my parents would have my God Parents take over the house while they were out of town. Aunt Minnie and her husband Uncle Ed as we called them. Aunt Minnie was a sister to Uncle John Ohmer and had many of his characteristics- his curiosity and his conversation and his humor that was at times a little sly. Uncle Ed, according to the staunchly held opinion of the two of them was a poet. It was a reputation not shared by too many others unfortunately. Aunt Minnie was a very tiny woman and Uncle Ed was tall and gaunt and had what we called a St.
Joseph beard. He was utterly gentle and utterly incapable of making his way in what seemed to him even then, a harsh, mechanized world. He wanted the world to stay in the era of the horse and buggy which was a world he felt comfortable in. Aunt Minnie was constantly making us marshmallows and gingersnaps and presenting them to us in boxes which she had lovingly covered or painted herself. She loved to make candy of all sorts and then spent a great deal of time decorating the boxes she would deliver them in. Uncle Ed never came to our home with out sticks of gum or pieces of candy in his pockets. Their stays at our home were as I recall always pleasant and we enjoyed having them in our home very much. Uncle Ed in extending his hand to us to shake would always say "Here take this hand because it's nearest and dearest to my heart. We always thought this was an odd thing to say and my older brother John always hoped that if he was with a friend that they would not run into Uncle Ed because he did not want his friend to here Uncle John say that which he did every time you shook his hand. We loved Aunt Minnie and Uncle John very much and to this day I think of them often.