Andrew Wenkel Part 5 1940-1949

As Promised, here is the 1940 Census

1940, age 40, Census

1 April 1940, New Trier, Cook, Illinois.

Andrew  and Emily Wenkel, 1940 Census

This couple moved again, this time to 334 South Avenue in New Trier IL.  They are both 40 years old, married, not attending school.  Andrew completed 8th grade while Emily completed the first two years of High School.  According to this census, they lived there five years previously in 1935.  However, the census a year earlier shows a Madison Avenue address.  What gives?  He is a paid worker as an auto mechanic and has never been unemployed.

Well, we have to understand how the census was taken.  If, when the enumerator came around, and they were both gone, they asked at the neighbors house.  Neighbors don't always know where you lived five years earlier.  That's the only explanation for the discrepancy.

1946 Family Reunion

Andrew and Emily Wenkel with Anna
photo by Christi Adams, used with permission

Andrew and Emily Logan Wenkel, Anna Wenkel
August and Sophia Rohrsen Wenkel
1946 Reunion, Standish Michigan

1948, age 48

Death of mother Sophia Rohrsen, 2 August 1948, Standish, Arenac, Michigan

Mini Pedigree from Ancestry.com

Alvena Marie Wenkel Schnetzer 1889-1975 part 5

Alvena Marie Wenkel Schnetzer 1889-1975

Part 5, 1940s, age 50-59

Mini Pedigree from Ancestry.com

1939 age 50

John Schnetzer has his auto repr (repair? reposession?) address 91 Greenwood Avenue, their home is 35 Grenada Place in Montclair New Jersey.

1939 John and Alvena Wenkel Schnetzer residence
Montclair NJ directory

John Schnetzer Auto Business
91 Greenwood Avenue, Montclair NJ
Google Maps Image 2017

Source information:  Ancestry.com.  US City Directories, 1922-1995 [database online].  Provo, UT:  Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011

1940 age 50

L-R 1939-1940 Alvina, Celia, Frieda, Anna, Marilyn, Dora Wenkel
used with permission from Marianne McCarthy

This photo was uploaded to the Wenkel Family facebook group by Marianne McCarthy, with permission to use.  Marianne is Frieda's granddaughter.

1940 age 50

John and Alvina Wenkel Schnetzer 1940 Census
Montclair NJ
from Ancestry.com

In this 1940 census, Alvena Schnetzer looks like it's written as "Albena."  She's 51 years old, living with her 38 year old husband and her two boys, ages 11 and 8.  The live at 35 Grenda Place, Montclair, Essex, New Jersey, she same place she lived in in 1935.  

Source Citation -- Ancestry.com.  1940 United States Federal Census [database online].  Provo, Utah.  Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2012.  Original data USA Bureau of the Census, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, Washington DC.  National Archives and Records Administration 1940, T627, 4,653 rolls.

1941 age 52

John J. Schnetzer apparently has two auto businesses, one at 152 Valley Road and an auto repr (repair?) at 91 Greenwood Avenue.  He and Alvena M. live at 35 Grenada Place, Montclair NJ.

John and Alvena Wenkel Schnetzer 1941 Directory
Montclair New Jersey

Source information:  Ancestry.com.  US City Directories, 1922-1995 [database online].  Provo, UT:  Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011

Alvena Wenkel Schnetzer 1941
182 Wildwood Ave Montclair NJ
Google Maps Image November 2016

I love the way this house looks now.  It must have been a great move for this family

1947 age 58

Alvena Wenkel Schnetzer 1947 Directory, Montclair NJ

Alvena M. Schnetzer living with husband at 182 Wildwood Avenue, Montclair New Jersey.  John has his business still at 91 Greenwood Avenue.  He has an employee, Otto Schnetzer, who may be his brother or nephew?

Source information:  Ancestry.com.  US City Directories, 1822-1995 [database online].  Provo, UT:  Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.

1948 age 59

death of mother Sophia Rohrsen Wenkel in Standish MI