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Chester F. Seiler¹

• Last Edited: 15 Jun 2020

• Chester F. Seiler married Barbara J. (?)¹

Barbara J. (?)¹

• Last Edited: 15 Jun 2020

• Barbara J. (?) married Chester F. Seiler.¹

Norma Gertrude Nye¹

• Last Edited: 30 Aug 2023

• Charts: Descendants of Peter Klinger (#1), Descendants of Peter Klinger (#2)

• Norma Gertrude Nye is also referred to as Norma Gertrude Straub in some sources.¹
• She was born in 1926.¹
• She was the daughter of Charles Walter Straub and Mary Elizabeth Koppenhaver.^1,2
• Norma Gertrude Nye married Russell Clayton Wiest, son of Charles R. Wiest and Bertha Sula Klinger, on 8 November 1947, Lutheran Church, Valley View, Schuylkill County, PA.^1,2,3
• Norma Gertrude Nye died on 15 December 2016.¹
• Online obituary:
  Norma Gertrude Nye Straub Wiest of Harrisburg, PA passed away on Thursday, December 15, 2016 at the age of 90.
  Norma was raised by a large adopted family in Valley View, PA. She loved to sing, dance (jitterbug), shop, story tell, play May I, knit, listen to music at the bandstand, comb for seashells, hit the casino, travel, have a draft beer with pizza and occasionally speak Pennsylvania Dutch.
  Norma married the love of her life Russell Clayton Wiest in November 1947. They raised three boys together David Russell, Steven Craig and Jeffrey Scott in Penbrook, PA until Russell passed away in July 1975. She worked for Hammakers, Hartman Motorcars & Freedom Toyota until she retired in 2011 at the young age of 85. She loved to work and be with people. She attended Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Penbrook, PA.
  Norma is survived by her son David Russell (LuAnne), 6 grandchildren – Lurene Wiest, CheraLynn Yankowski (John), Autumn Wiest, Kendra Gettys, Scott Wiest (Donielle), Elizabeth Cole (Ronald) and 6 great- grandchildren. And many others she loved as her own family.
  A Memorial Service will be held on Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 11 A.M. at the Hoover Funeral Homes & Crematory, Inc., 6011 Linglestown Rd., Harrisburg. The Rev. Pamela Carnes will be officiating. Inurnment will be in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens.
  A Visitation will be held on Thursday from 10 to 11 A.M. at the funeral home, prior to the service.
  The family asks that in lieu of flowers, you make a donation to a charity of your choice, hug the ones you love a little tighter and take care of one another, because that is what GG would have wanted.¹
  

• Adoptive father*: Charles Walter Straub¹ b. 21 Aug 1890, d. 28 Aug 1948
• Adoptive mother*: Mary Elizabeth Koppenhaver² b. 30 Jun 1891, d. 21 Jun 1972

Mary Elizabeth Koppenhaver¹

• Last Edited: 25 Jun 2020

• Charts: Descendants of Peter Klinger

• Mary Elizabeth Koppenhaver was born on 30 June 1891, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, PA.¹
• She was the daughter of John W. Koppenhaver and Vianna Lydia Schwalm.²
• Mary Elizabeth Koppenhaver married Charles Walter Straub, son of Tobias Albert Straub and Mary E. Lowe, on 30 March 1912.¹
• Mary Elizabeth Koppenhaver died on 21 June 1972, Good Samaritan Hospital, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, PA, at age 80.³
• Newspaper obituary:
  Mary E. Straub
  Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Straub, widow of Walter Straub of 1716 W. Main St., Valley View, died Wednesday in Good Samaritan Hospital where she was a patient eight weeks. She was 80.
  Mrs. Straub was born June 30, 1891 at Gratz. She was a daughter of the late John W. and Viania (Schwalm) Koppenhaver.
  Prior to retiring, she had 1 worked as a sewing machine operator in the garment industry in Valley View. Her husband died in 1948, and a son, Edwin, preceded her in death.
  Mrs. Straub was a member of Coleman's Church at Lykens Township.
  Surviving are a daughter, Norma, wife of Russell Wiest, Harrisburg; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a daughter-in-law Mrs. Katherine Straub of Center Valley; four brothers, Thomas, Valley View; Allen, Pottsville; William of Pennsburg; and Luther, Myerstown.
  Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon from Colemen's Church. Rev. William Whithman, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church of Valley View, officiating. Interment in Klinger's Cemetery at Erdman. There will be no viewing. Buf fington Funeral Home, Valley View, has charge.
  Pottsville Republican (Pottsville, Pennsylvania), 22 Jun 1972, Thu, Page 2.³
  
• She was buried on 24 June 1972, at Zion (Klinger's) Chu8ch Cemetery, Erdman, Dauphin County, PA.³

• Father*: John W. Koppenhaver² b. c 22 Jan 1862, d. 5 May 1930
• Mother*: Vianna Lydia Schwalm² b. 16 Feb 1868, d. 20 Apr 1945