Mays Family Tree - Person Sheet
NameMary A SMAGOLA 
Birth Date26 Nov 1906
Birth PlacePennsylvania, USA
Death Date19 Dec 1995 Age: 89
Death PlaceCleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH, USA
Burial PlaceCrown Hill Cemetery, Twinsburg, Summit Co., OH, USA104
Spouses
Birth Date13 Feb 1906101
Birth PlaceCurwensville, Clearfield Co., PA, USA
Residence Date191071
Residence PlaceCurwensville, Clearfield Co., PA, USA
Residence DateDec 1929102
Residence PlaceYoungstown, Mahoning Co., OH, USA
Residence DateNov 1936103
Residence PlaceWestover, Clearfield Co., PA, USA
Residence MemoManager of Gates Hardware there
Residence PlaceCleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH, USA
Residence Memo4195 - E - 146, Cleveland
Residence DateJun 197463
Residence PlaceCleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH, USA
Residence DateFeb 19997
Residence PlaceParma, Cuyahoga Co., OH, USA
Death Date13 Feb 1999101 Age: 93
Death PlaceCleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH, USA
Burial PlaceCrown Hill Cemetery, Twinsburg, Summit Co., OH, USA
Burial MemoSection 36, Lot 301, Grave 4
Soc. Sec. #194-03-9139, Issued in Pennsylvania state106
OccupationStore Manager, Gates Hardware Co.* 1936 Westover, Clearfield, PA; House Painter103
FatherHarry Wilbur LINES (1884-1974)
MotherNora Agnes WERTZ (1886-1963)
Misc. Notes
Orville’s multiple residences of Cleveland along with the final listing of Parma, OH may have been the same home as Parma is a suburb of Cleveland and the newspaper references to Cleveland may have missed that distinction.3
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Mr. and Mrs. Orville Lines are listed as conducting a prayer meeting on Friday September 6, 1940 at the First Baptist Church in Curwensville, PA. Rev. Geo. T. Evans, Pastor.107
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An Orville H. Lines, Curwensville is listed among the admissions at the Clearfield Hospital on November 15, 1961 and discharged on 21 November. (The Progress, Clearfield, PA. 16 November 1961, p. 20, col 6; and 22 November, p. 10, col. 2.) In other issues he is shown being discharged on 12 Dec 1968.3
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Orville, like several others in the family suffered from Macular Degeneration which usually affects older adults that results in a loss of vision in the center of the visual field. It is a major cause of visual impairment in older adults. Macular degeneration can make it difficult or impossible to read or recognize faces, although enough peripheral vision remains to allow other activities of daily life.108
Memories of my Uncle Orville
By his nephew Richard Lee Gleason
Orville was my oldest of all his siblings who I saw on just a few occasions, as a youth and during a couple of visits to Ohio as an adult.
I can recall his coming to Maryland from his home in Cleveland just once when I was a boy. It was early in the 1960s when my mother and I lived in an apartment on Hamilton Street in Hyattsville, Maryland. I recall a few years later, when as a young boy, I was in Pennsylvannia I spent a day and an overnight stay with my Uncle Orville and Aunt Mary. We spent part of the day traveling from the Clearfield area to Madera, PA where Mary’s sister or brother lived. I can’t recall much about the trip nor the reason why I traveled with them but I do recall spending the night at the relatives home that sat on a hill high above the street.
Uncle Orville like many of his brothers was tall and lanky. He was always pleasant to be around. A bit quiet but always willing to tell a story that would bring a smile to our face. His wife Mary was a small woman, quiet and very nice. Uncle Orville was a deer hunter and lived an active life. As an avid life-long deer hunter Orville “got fed up” with having to constantly eat venison during the years of the depression. From that time forward “deer season or no season” he refused to eat deer meat. When he found success during his many hunting trips he would give the meat away.
He was always physically strong, amazingly fit, and active even in his advanced years. When I last saw him, despite being in his eighties, he continued to rake the fall leaves from his lawn and would climb tall ladders to make house repairs. There was no stopping him.
In a 1987 interview I had with him he told me he was named after the doctor that delivered him, Dr. H. Orville King.
As I understand it, Uncle Orville made himself some eggnog, using several raw eggs. As a result he contracted Salmonella. Extremely ill for about a week his family took his doctor’s advice and gave permission for surgery to be performed. The family was naturally concerned about his advanced years and the surgerys affect. But the doctor said it was the only way possible to save his life. Unfortunately Uncle Orville didn’t survive the ordeal and died on his 93rd birthday.41,3
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My cousin Wilbur Lines Jr. reminded me of a story I had heard, probably on several occasions, in which it was said our uncle Orville had bought his grandmother Hannah (Hoopengardner) Wertz’ house for back taxes. Later Orville, who was leaving the area [possibly in 1929 when he moved to Youngstown, OH], sold the home which forced Hannah to have to move. The home still stands in 2011 on Bailey Road on the way to Greenwood.3,47
*There is a full-page print ad with a history about Gates Hardware at this source.109
Also several photos can be seen of the original Gates Hardware in Curwensville at this source. Said to have been operating since 1877. The original store is located next door to the current [2007] location on Filbert Street. The store began as a blacksmith shop and later added farm machinery. Five generations of the Gates family have operated the store.110
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Mr. and Mrs. Orville Lines are listed as conducting a prayer meeting on Friday September 6, 1940 at the First Baptist Church in Curwensville, PA. Rev. Geo. T. Evans, Pastor.107
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An Orville H. Lines, Curwensville is listed among the admissions at the Clearfield Hospital on November 15, 1961 and discharged on 21 November. (The Progress, Clearfield, PA. 16 November 1961, p. 20, col 6; and 22 November, p. 10, col. 2.) In other issues he is shown being discharged on 12 Dec 1968.3
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Orville, like several others in the family suffered from Macular Degeneration which usually affects older adults that results in a loss of vision in the center of the visual field. It is a major cause of visual impairment in older adults. Macular degeneration can make it difficult or impossible to read or recognize faces, although enough peripheral vision remains to allow other activities of daily life.108
Memories of my Uncle Orville
By his nephew Richard Lee Gleason
Orville was my oldest of all his siblings who I saw on just a few occasions, as a youth and during a couple of visits to Ohio as an adult.
I can recall his coming to Maryland from his home in Cleveland just once when I was a boy. It was early in the 1960s when my mother and I lived in an apartment on Hamilton Street in Hyattsville, Maryland. I recall a few years later, when as a young boy, I was in Pennsylvannia I spent a day and an overnight stay with my Uncle Orville and Aunt Mary. We spent part of the day traveling from the Clearfield area to Madera, PA where Mary’s sister or brother lived. I can’t recall much about the trip nor the reason why I traveled with them but I do recall spending the night at the relatives home that sat on a hill high above the street.
Uncle Orville like many of his brothers was tall and lanky. He was always pleasant to be around. A bit quiet but always willing to tell a story that would bring a smile to our face. His wife Mary was a small woman, quiet and very nice. Uncle Orville was a deer hunter and lived an active life. As an avid life-long deer hunter Orville “got fed up” with having to constantly eat venison during the years of the depression. From that time forward “deer season or no season” he refused to eat deer meat. When he found success during his many hunting trips he would give the meat away.
He was always physically strong, amazingly fit, and active even in his advanced years. When I last saw him, despite being in his eighties, he continued to rake the fall leaves from his lawn and would climb tall ladders to make house repairs. There was no stopping him.
In a 1987 interview I had with him he told me he was named after the doctor that delivered him, Dr. H. Orville King.
As I understand it, Uncle Orville made himself some eggnog, using several raw eggs. As a result he contracted Salmonella. Extremely ill for about a week his family took his doctor’s advice and gave permission for surgery to be performed. The family was naturally concerned about his advanced years and the surgerys affect. But the doctor said it was the only way possible to save his life. Unfortunately Uncle Orville didn’t survive the ordeal and died on his 93rd birthday.41,3
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My cousin Wilbur Lines Jr. reminded me of a story I had heard, probably on several occasions, in which it was said our uncle Orville had bought his grandmother Hannah (Hoopengardner) Wertz’ house for back taxes. Later Orville, who was leaving the area [possibly in 1929 when he moved to Youngstown, OH], sold the home which forced Hannah to have to move. The home still stands in 2011 on Bailey Road on the way to Greenwood.3,47
*There is a full-page print ad with a history about Gates Hardware at this source.109
Also several photos can be seen of the original Gates Hardware in Curwensville at this source. Said to have been operating since 1877. The original store is located next door to the current [2007] location on Filbert Street. The store began as a blacksmith shop and later added farm machinery. Five generations of the Gates family have operated the store.110
Misc. Notes
Mr.s and Mrs. orville Lines and daughters Jean and Florence, all of Youngstown, Ohio, are visiting local relatives and friends for a few days.102
ChildrenJean Agnes (1927-)
Florence (1929-)