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    Generation: 2

    1. 2.  Living

      Living married SUE ANNE SHERMAN [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


    2. 3.  SUE ANNE SHERMAN
      Children:
      1. Living
      2. 1. Living


    Generation: 3

    1. 4.  LEONARD CARL SCHWEITZER was born on 12 Mar 1918 in Kawkawlin, Michigan (son of CARL SCHWEITZER and MARGUERITE GEHRINGER); died on 15 Jun 1987 in Bay City, Michigan; was buried in Floral Gardens, Bay City, Michigan.

      Notes:

      Leonard was a big,solid man, 6'3",approx. 260 lbs. A school classmate of his remarked on how Leonard could solve a math problem in his head before the teacher finished writing it on the board. Leonard served with the U.S. Army Air Force
      during WWII, and qualified as a non-commissioned pilot. A more caring and giving man will be difficult to find on this earth.

      LEONARD married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


    2. 5.  Living
      Children:
      1. 2. Living
      2. Living
      3. Living


    Generation: 4

    1. 8.  CARL SCHWEITZER was born on 28 Apr 1887 in Kawkawlin, Michigan; died on 12 Mar 1962 in Bay City, Michigan.

      CARL married MARGUERITE GEHRINGER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


    2. 9.  MARGUERITE GEHRINGER
      Children:
      1. 4. LEONARD CARL SCHWEITZER was born on 12 Mar 1918 in Kawkawlin, Michigan; died on 15 Jun 1987 in Bay City, Michigan; was buried in Floral Gardens, Bay City, Michigan.

    3. 10.  HERMAN LESLIE DOAN was born on 20 Sep 1889 in Bay County, Michigan (son of CHARLES WESLEY DOAN and MARY DIDAMIA STOUTENBURGH); died on 28 Nov 1934 in Bay City, Michigan; was buried on 1 Dec 1934 in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Bay City, Michigan.

      Notes:

      Herman was described as a small man, with a high pitched laugh similar to that of his son Clarence, and with a bow legged gait. He was a well known practical joker, but was otherwise unassuming. Herman lived with his father at 503 Warner in
      1910, while working as a machinist. His marriage certificate, June 20, 1916, lists him as an Iron Worker, residing in Monitor Township, Bay County. By 1920, he and his own family lived at 711 N. Dewitt, Bay City. This house was small, with no
      indoor toilet, and heat was provided by a stove in the living room that sometimes got so hot that it glowed red. After his daughter, Priscilla, was born, he bought the empty lot on the northwest corner of Clara and Dewitt streets. A house
      belonging to the Sims family, on Wenona near Clara was split into 3 parts, one of which was bought by Herman and moved onto his lot. He dug the basement under the house using a horse and a scoop. The house had a bathroom built into the
      upstairs which contained only a toilet and sink. Bathing was done in a small galvininized tin tub in the kitchen. The address of the home is 107 E. Clara, and is across the street from 600 N. Dewitt. 600 N. Dewitt was originally the
      Stark/Telfer residence, but became a center of the Doan family for many years thereafter. Herman and his family were members of The Christian Assembly church where his father, Charles, was the minister of the gospel. Herman loved his Campbell's
      Pork & Beans, and his cigar. On Sunday afternoon, he would walk to the store on N. Henry St. and N. Union St. with one or more of the children and buy a cigar and a can of pork & beans for dinner. He thought it cute to blow the cigar smoke in
      the faces of the children. Life was difficult for the family. Margaret Grace died. The home was sometimes heated with wood that he and his son, Nathan, would go and cut. They had to walk out to the farm of Charles W. Doan to get the horse and
      wagon, go cut the wood, take it to the house, then take the horse and wagon back out to State Park Dr. and walk home. Coal was sometimes too expensive for the family. Herman also planted potatoes on the fertile hillsides of the waste area of
      the sugar plant out on Euclid St. He worked there as a day laborer when he could. It is said that he often had sores from the irritating properties of the lime soil there. He fed the family and made extra money with the potatoes. After Grace
      died, Herman started going to the beer gartens often. He would take young Carl with him, because many of the men there thought he was cute and would buy drinks for Herman. Herman got a job at the Defoe Ship Yards as a laborer. He scratched
      his hand or lower arm which became infected. Untreated, the infection spread throughout his body. His arm was amputated at the elbow in an attempt to stop the infection's spread. He died a painful death in the hospital. He left behind 5
      orphaned children, the oldest just 17 years old.

      HERMAN married MARGARET GRACE STARK on 20 Jun 1916 in Bay City, Michigan. MARGARET (daughter of THOMAS C. STARK and MARGARET JANE TELFER) was born on 7 Dec 1888 in Lake Otsego, Otsego Co., Michigan; died on 4 Jul 1931 in Bay City, Michigan; was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Bay City, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


    4. 11.  MARGARET GRACE STARK was born on 7 Dec 1888 in Lake Otsego, Otsego Co., Michigan (daughter of THOMAS C. STARK and MARGARET JANE TELFER); died on 4 Jul 1931 in Bay City, Michigan; was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Bay City, Michigan.

      Notes:

      Margaret Grace was a short, heavy woman. She loved to sing and could play the piano slightly, as long as the tune was on the black keyes. She likely finished only the 8th grade. There was a fire at her school, during which she fell and was
      trampled on the stairs. She lived only because someone pulled her up and got her down the stairs. She worked for the Carrington family on S. Union St. This family was a wealthy lumber family. They made her use the name Margaret because of a
      conflict within that household. She worked there until, at age 28, she married Herman. Her marriage certificate lists her birth place as Lake Otsego, Michigan. Walter Sims presided at the ceremony with Ross Doan and Estella Stark as
      witnesses. She and Herman started life with very little. The Carrington's gave her a Tiffany lamp, an old threadbare rug, and an old, broken leather couch. Someone else gave them 2 rocking chairs and a table. That was the extent of what they
      owned. She would bake cakes and other goodies on Saturday, which she sold up and down the street on Sunday, for extra money. She was a skilled seamstress. The Sim's family, then of Chicago, would send boxes of clothes for the children.
      Margaret would rip the clothes apart, turn the cloth around, and remake the clothes to fit her family. She first became ill around 1928. By the time she was 40 years old, she was unable to walk. Then she had one last child, Carl. She was
      unable to care for him very well by herself. Complications of tubercular meningitis was the cause of her death. Her death, a gruesome, painful ending, was witnessed by her family from the doorway of her bedroom. Margaret's funeral was held in
      the family home at 107 E. Clara (across the street from 600 N. Dewitt).

      Children:
      1. Living
      2. THOMAS NATHAN DOAN was born on 17 Mar 1919 in Bay City, Michigan; died on 19 May 1997 in Bay County, Michigan; was buried on 22 May 1997 in Sunset Valley Crematory, Bay Co., Mich..
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      4. Living
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