Alvena Marie Wenkel Schnetzer 1889-1975 part 3

Alvena Marie Wenkel Schnetzer 1889-1975

Part 3, 1920s, age 30-39

Mini Pedigree from Ancestry.com

1920s age 31

Alvena Wenkel detail about 1910
about age 20 with sisters
from Christi Adams

1920 age 31

Alvena Wenkel 1920 census

Name listed as Alva Wenkel, age 29, born about 1891????    She lived on 5th street, Bay, Michigan.  She is working as a servant for the Smith family.  The age difference is about 3 years.  She may have fudged the birth date, but more likely, the Smith family guestimated her birth year by her age.

Source Citation -- 1920 Bay Ward 2, Bay, Michigan, Roll T625_755; Page 17A, ED 57

Ancestry.com.  1920 United States Federal Census [database online].  Provo, UT, USA.  Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2010.  Images reproduced by Family Search

1924 age 35

14 September marries John Jacob Schnetzer in Montclair, Essex New Jersey.  Wonder how they met?  Was she a maid at their house?

1928 age 39

The birth of her first son, Norman John Schnetzer on Christmas Eve in Glen Ridge, Essex, NJ.  In today's times, she would have been considered an Elderly mother.