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Ancestors of Alice Ruth Gable


by Alice Gable Kalush

June 2014


Chapter One: Generation One - Alice Ruth Gable and Raymond J. Kalush Jr.

Alice Gable is the daughter of Ruth Musser Kraiss and Charles Marvin Gable. Raymond J. Kalush Jr.

is the son of Raymond Joseph Kalush (b. 21 Mar 1917 Michigan City, Indiana m. 9 Jun 1949 Wood

County, OH d. 5 Oct 1995 Flint, MI) and Barbara Grace Luchenbill (b. 14 Jul 1929 Venice Township,

Shiawassee County, Michigan d. 31 Jul 1992 Elk Rapids, Antrim, MI

1-Alice Ruth Gable

+Raymond Joseph Jr. Kalush

|--2-Benjamin Joseph Kalush

|--2-Patrick Daniel Kalush

+Kristi Tribble

Martha Gable is the daughter of Ruth Musser Kraiss and Charles Marvin Gable. She is married to

Kenneth Glen Bland. Ken Bland is the son of Benjamin Horace Bland (b. 13 Jun 1912, d. 14 Apr

1997 Midland, Texas) and Ellen Marjorie Hughes (b. 13 Jun 1911, Houston, Harris County, Texas, m.

Oct 1939, Dickinson, Texas, d. 11 Dec 2012). Martha and Ken live in Midland, Texas and have no

children.


Chapter Two: Generation Two - Charles Marvin Gable and Ruth Musser Kraiss

Charles Marvin Gable was the son of Charles Dudley

Gable and Hazel Ursula Ruth. Ruth Musser Kraiss was

the daughter of Charles Louis Kraiss and Mabel Elizabeth

Musser.

1-Charles Marvin Gable b. 15 Oct 1918, Cleveland, OH, d. 28 Feb 2004, Las

Cruces, NM, bur. Jan 2008, Cremated, Scattered Ashes In Organ Mtns Near Las Cruces

+Ruth Musser Kraiss b. 10 Nov 1918, Philadelphia, PA, c. 20 Apr 1919, Trinity

Reformed Church, Mountville, PA, m. 22 Nov 1950, First Congregational Church, Berkeley, CA, d. 24 Jan 2008, Las Cruces, NM, bur. Jan 2008, Cremated,

Scattered Ashes In Organ Mtns Near Las Cruces

|--2-Alice Ruth Gable | +Raymond Joseph Jr. Kalush

|--2-Martha Jean Gable

+Kenneth Glen Bland

Ruth Kraiss, Charles Gable, Barbara Kraiss circa 1925


From Ruth Gable's Klugh Family document (some additions by Alice Kalush):

Daughter Ruth Musser Kraiss Gable (first born of two daughters) was born in Philadelphia,

November 10, 1918. Ruth attended Mountville Public School, then graduated from Columbia High

School, June 1936. Her sister, Barb, was family favorite, especially with Barbara Klugh Shindle (for

whom she was named); Grandma would buy new clothes for her while Ruth wore remade hand-me-

downs. Her parents always made her feel not very bright though she was in top third of her high

school class. In January, 1938, she completed Secretarial Course of Lancaster Business College, and

had a variety of secretarial jobs until her marriage. Growing up, the family did above average amount

of travel for that era, frequently visiting first cousins (Leidy) and family in or near Hatfield and

Souderton, summer trips to Ohio, in 1927, an extended trip to Birmingham, Alabama, to visit Deacon

family (Betty Olson); Century of Progress in Chicago, 1932; in 1946, family going to California on six

week trip.

Ruth, Alice, Martha and Charles Gable 1963


Married Charles Marvin Gable November 22, 1950, at First Congregational Church, Berkeley,

California, born October 15, 1918, in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1936, Charles became a member of the

National Honor Society, graduated from Cleveland Heights High School, Ohio, 1937. (His Dad,

Charles D. Gable, was president of the school board). In 1940, he was admitted to Tau Beta Pi honor

society, and graduated from Case School of Applied Science in 1941 with a B.A. degree in Chemical

Engineering; he received a M.S. degree in Chemistry in 1943, with a thesis about Sulfuric Acid. In

1943 he was hired as a research chemist by Shell Development Company in Emeryville, California.

They purchased their first house, two bedrooms and bath at 1015 Elm Court, El Cerrito, California,

shortly after their marriage and lived there until Martha was born when they moved to 815 Rosedale

Avenue, Lafayette in 1956. There was a creek behind the house and we had a bridge that ran across

the creek into the woods where Daddy built us a treehouse. Charles built his own ham radio and used

the call sign W6WPX which was also used on our car's license plate.

In 1972, Charles was transferred by Shell Development to Houston, Texas,1 living at 5946

Rutherglenn, until 1979 when he retired after 36 years; he worked his entire career for Shell. On

retirement, they moved to 806B Mormon Place, Las Cruces, New Mexico. In 1990, they moved to the

Good Samaritan Village, 3045 Buena Vida Circle, Apt 3-203, Las Cruces, NM 88011.

1 Intro to new coworkers in 1972: Charlie Gable is working in the Petroleum Processing and Engineering Department. An

electronic tinkerer, Charlie also likes hiking, sightseeing, and is an amateur radio operator, though rather inactive on this

hobby at present.


Gable Family 1989 Bar Harbor, Maine

Front Row: Martha Gable Bland, Ruth Musser Kraiss Gable, Charles Gable

Middle Row: Patrick Kalush, Kenneth Bland

Back Row, Ray Kalush, Benjamin Kalush, Alice Gable Kalush


Below are some photos from the Sulferox project in Texas.


The family traveled extensively while the girls were growing up. Each summer for vacation, they

took a long trip – sometimes back to visit family in Ohio and Pennsylvania; national parks; several

Sierra Club Wilderness Threshold trips in the Sierra. Ruth was active in Girl Scouts and Parent

Teacher’s Association receiving special awards from both these organizations. Also she sewed almost

100% all the dresses, skirts, jumpers, blouses, play clothes, and coats for Alice, Martha and herself.

Then she became interested in handwork, doing a great deal of needlepoint – personally designed

handbags, lots of pillows with a variety of stitches, several needlepoint seats, several pictures, most

prized of which is hot air balloon designed by Royal School Needlepoint in London.

Ruth has written trip accounts, including extensive writing of foreign trips. In 1979, became member

of Daughters of American Revolution after receiving meticulous records from Trinity Lutheran

Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She is interested in Unied States postal stamps (purchased Rosi and

Phil Minch’s collection) and acquired antique post card collection of Mabel Kraiss.


Chapter Three: Generation Three - Charles Dudley Gable and Hazel Ursula Ruth

1-Charles Dudley Gable b. 18 Sep 1887, Medina County, Ohio, d. 10 Apr 1963,

Concord Community Hospital, Concord, Contra Costa County, California, bur. Cremated

+Hazel Ursula Ruth b. 27 Jun 1889, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, m. 9 May

1912, Cleveland, OH, d. 8 May 1975, Rossmoor Manor, Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California, bur. Cremated

|--2-Charles (baby) Gable b. 12 Jun 1916, d. 12 Sep 1916

|--2-Charles Marvin Gable b. 15 Oct 1918, Cleveland, OH, d. 28 Feb 2004, Las | Cruces, NM, bur. Jan 2008, Cremated, Scattered Ashes In Organ Mtns Near

| Las Cruces

+Ruth Musser Kraiss b. 10 Nov 1918, Philadelphia, PA, c. 20 Apr 1919, Trinity Reformed Church, Mountville, PA, m. 22 Nov 1950, First

Congregational Church, Berkeley, CA, d. 24 Jan 2008, Las Cruces, NM, bur.

Jan 2008, Cremated, Scattered Ashes In Organ Mtns Near Las Cruces |--3-Alice Ruth Gable

| +Raymond Joseph Jr. Kalush

| |--4-Benjamin Joseph Kalush | |--4-Patrick Daniel Kalush

| +Kristi Tribble

|--3-Martha Jean Gable +Kenneth Glen Bland

Charles Dudley Gable was the son of David K. Gable and Mary A.

Rickert. Charles Dudley Gable married Hazel Ursula Ruth2. Hazel

was the daughter of Richard Frank Ruth and Marie (Mary) Kumrow.

Charles and Hazel had two children both named Charles. The first

Charles died when he was a baby. They also raised Glenn Shaw, the

son of Hazel’s deceased sister Wilhelmina “Minnie”. Charles and

Hazel lived on Rydalmount Road in Cleveland Heights until about

1952 when they moved to 3454 Freeman Road, Walnut Creek,

California to be near their son Charles Marvin Gable and his family.

Hazel worked as a stenographer before her marriage but devoted

herself to the family thereafter. She enjoyed gardening and was

involved in womens clubs.

Charles received an A.B. degree from University of Michigan in 1910.

Charles worked in the banking business at Cleveland Trust Company.3

His son, Charles Marvin Gable, always said he thought it was fitting

that his father worked in the banking business during the depression

and he worked in the oil business during the oil crisis in the 1970s and

1980s. Charles was on the Cleveland Heights School Board. They

continued to support education all their lives and started a family

tradition of paying for their grandchildren’s college education. They

liked to travel and visit relatives.

I enjoyed my visits with Grandma and Grandpa in Walnut Creek. I

remember their pretty garden. Grandma was always making yummy

things in the kitchen. She had this really cool set of candlesticks with

hanging crystals. She liked to play Canasta.

2 There is more about the Ruth, Kumrow and Budde families in my document History of the Budde Family

3 Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 21, 1952


My sister Martha and I would sleep in a green sofa bed in their spare room. On one visit I decided that

I’d be a good girl and fold up all the sheets and blankets and put away the sofa bed. This turned out

to be a little more difficult than I thought because we were too little to do it the normal way. We

managed to wrestle with it until it was partially folded up but we couldn’t get it to drop into place. I

solved this by climbing up on it and leaning on it. Grandma was so proud that we put everything

away. This went on for a couple of years because now Grandma thought we could fold up the bed.

Grandma and Grandpa had a pinkish 1957 Chevrolet with the fins that they drove for many years and

turned down many people wanting to buy their classic car.

Grandpa was a cigar and pipe smoker which unfortunately shortened his life a lot. When I was a

child, there was a small dark wooden cabinet in the living room where he kept his tobacco. This was

off limits (as in -- you’ll be in big trouble) for us children. Grandpa avoided even opening the cabinet

while we were around so obviously I started to get really curious about it. One day when all the adults

were in another room or outside, I snuck into the living room and opened up the cabinet. Immediately

a really big stink wafted out of it. I closed that door faster than greased lightning because I was sure

that everyone would know I’d been in the cabinet because of the stink. I didn’t even have time to see

what was in it. As far as I know, no one else noticed the big stink or realized I’d opened the cabinet.


Cleveland Heights Board of Education

The Heights Press, November 13, 1947


Charles Marvin Gable and Laddie at 1624 Rydalmount Rd, Cleveland Heights


Year 1887 Medina Township


Year Information4

1903 East High School Yearbook, Cleveland, Class of ‘06

1904 East High School Yearbook, Cleveland, Class of ‘06

1906 East High School Yearbook, Cleveland, Photo and caption Classical (German), played Mr. Snawley in play Nicholas Nickelby, Quotes “This bold, bad man”

1907 Student, r 1581 E. 86th NE

1908 Student, r 1581 E. 86th NE

1911 Bkkpr, Garfield Savings Bank r 1581 E 86th NE

1912 Clk, Garfield Savings Bank r 1087 Parkwood dr NE

1913 Bkkpr, Garfield Savings Bank r 1098 Parkwood dr NE

1914 Teller Garfield Saings Bank Co r 1089 Parkwood dr NE

1915 Teller Garfield Savings Bank Co r 1273 E 125th NE

1916 Clk r 1211 Saywell av NE

1917 Clerk r 12111 Saywell av

1920 Auditor Garfield Savings Bank Co r 11400 Hopkins av

Census 1920 1402 Hopkins Ave

1922 Clk h 1624 Rydal Mount rd, Cleveland Heights (CH)

1925 Gable, Charles D. (Hazel), Asst. Comptroller The Cleveland Trust Co. Euclid av at E. 9th Phone Prospect 3000. H1624 Rydalmount rd CH, Tel Fairmount 2326-J

1927 Gable, Charles D. (Hazel), Asst. Comptroller The Cleveland Trust Co. Euclid av at E. 9th Phone Cherry 3300. H1624 Rydalmount rd (CH), Tel Fairmount 2326-J

Census 1930 1624 Rydalmount Road

1930 Gable, Charles D. (Hazel), Asst. Comptroller The Cleveland Trust Co. Euclid av at E. 9th Tel Main 1600. H1624 Rydalmount rd (CH), Tel Fairmount 2326-J



1938 Gable, Charles D. (Hazel), Asst. Comptroller The Cleveland Trust Co. Euclid av at E. 9th Tel Main 1600. H1624 Rydalmount rd (CH), Tel Skyline2326-J

Census 1940 1624 Rydalmount Road

1943 Gable, Charles D. (Hazel), Asst. Comptroller The Cleveland Trust Co. Euclid av at E. 9th Tel Main 1600. H1624 Rydalmount rd (CH), Tel Fairmount Yellowstone 0762

1946 1624 Rydalmount Road, Cleveland Heights, OH on Death Certificate

1952 – abt 3454 Freeman Rd, Walnut Creek, CA

4 All of the data in the table is from the Cleveland City Directory unless indicated otherwise.


1963

1964-1975 Rossmoor Retirement Village, Walnut Creek, CA

1920 Census – Charles, Hazel and their son Charles Marvin, Hazel’s mother Marie Ruth, nephew,

Glen Shaw lived at 11400 Hopkins Avenue, Cleveland, OH. Their home was owned and mortgaged.

Charles Dudley is listed as an auditor at a bank.


1930 Census – Charles D, Hazel and their son Charles, Hazel’s mother Marie Ruth, nephew Glenn

Shaw lived at 1624 Rydalmount in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. They owned their home which was

valued at $13000.

Charles D. is listed as an Asst Comptroller at a bank. Charles D was not a veteran.

1940 Census – Charles Dudley, Hazel, their son Charles M, and mother-in-law Marie Ruth. Charles is

an accountant at the bank with an income of $5000. They owned their home which was valued at

$9000. They did not own a radio set.


Chapter Four: Generation Three - Charles Louis Kraiss and Mabel Elizabeth Musser

1-Charles Louis Kraiss b. 10 Mar 1885, Philadelphia, PA, c. 19 Sep 1885,

Zion

Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA, d. 19 Jun 1957, Altoona, Blair

County,

PA, bur. Mountville, Lancaster Co., PA

+Mabel Elizabeth Musser b. 14 Sep 1885, Mountville, Lancaster County,

PA, m.

17 Oct 1917, Mountville, Lancaster Co., PA, d. 29 Dec 1967, Mountville,

Lancaster County, PA, bur. 2 Jan 1968, Mountville Cemetery,

Mountville,

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

|--2-Ruth Musser Kraiss b. 10 Nov 1918, Philadelphia, PA, c. 20 Apr 1919,

| Trinity Reformed Church, Mountville, PA, d. 24 Jan 2008, Las Cruces,

NM,

| bur. Jan 2008, Cremated, Scattered Ashes In Organ Mtns Near Las

Cruces

| +Charles Marvin Gable b. 15 Oct 1918, Cleveland, OH, m. 22 Nov 1950,

First

| Congregational Church, Berkeley, CA, d. 28 Feb 2004, Las Cruces,

NM, bur.

| Jan 2008, Cremated, Scattered Ashes In Organ Mtns Near Las Cruces

| |--3-Alice Ruth Gable

| | +Raymond Joseph Jr. Kalush

| | |--4-Benjamin Joseph Kalush

| | |--4-Patrick Daniel Kalush

| | +Kristi Tribble

| |--3-Martha Jean Gable

| +Kenneth Glen Bland

|--2-Barbara Musser Kraiss b. 7 Nov 1920, Philadelphia, PA, d. 21 Mar

2010,

| Manheim, Pennsylvania, bur. 25 Mar 2010, Pleasant Hill Cemetery,

Spring

| Grove, PA

+Willis C. Miller b. 27 Dec 1925, Jackson Township, York County, PA,

m. 5 Jul 1947, d. 21 Jun 1958, Pleasant Hill Church of the Brethren

Cemetery, Spring Grove, PA

|--3-Kathy Elaine Miller

| +Douglas Hengst

| |--4-Beth Ann Hengst

|--3-Daniel Jerome Miller

+Donna

+Kimber Gehr

|--4-Kara Lea Miller


From Ruth Gable's Klugh Family document:

Daughter Mabel Elizabeth Musser Kraiss (fourth born of four children) born September 14, 1885, in

or near Mountville, married Charles Louis Kraiss October 17, 1917, in Philadelphia. Mabel lived in

Mountville until marriage, went to a business college and worked as stenographer for her step-father in

the Penn Mutual Fire Insurance Association. Frequently visited her sister Miami, eleven years older,

who lived in Philadelphia. Became friends of Florence Ingham (Crompton) who lived on the same

block and probably introduced her to Charles. Mabel went to Ocean Grove, New Jersey, for summer

vacations as well as visiting distant relatives in Medina County, Ohio. In 1923 or ’24, they moved to

Mountville into the other half of double house where Grandma Shindle lived (who felt she required

family nearby though in early seventies and still traveled to shore and Ohio). B.K.M.S. was bossy and

tended to “rule” Mabel’s family. Charles took correspondence courses as well as night school at

Temple College, Philadelphia, in 1906. He became a Mason, June 1911, in Concordia Lodge 67,

Philadelphia, and eventually became 32nd

degree Mason. He mostly worked in Mechanical Drawing

with Westinghouse in Philadelphia, Armstrong Cork and Lancaster Iron Works, and lastly York Ice

and Machinery, York. Ours was the first house to have an electric stove when we moved to

Mountville.


Charles’ birth record (Ludwig Karl) is recorded on the births page of the Kraiss family bible.


.

1920 Census – 1230 60th Street, Philadelphia, PA, owned, mortgaged.

Name

Charles L. Kraiss

Mabel M. Kraiss

Ruth Kraiss

Relation Head Wife Daughter

Sex/Age WM 34 WF 34

WF 1 2/12

Marital M M S

Children Profession

Machinist, industrial

Birthplace PA PA PA

Father Germany PA PA

Mother Immigration

Germany PA PA

1930 Census – Main Street, Mountville, Lancaster, PA, owned, value $3000. Age at first

marr 32 for both.

Name

Charles L. Kraiss

Mabel E. Kraiss

Ruth M. Kraiss

Relation

Head Wife

Daughter

Sex/Age

WM 45 WF 44

WF 11

Marital

M M

S

Children Profession Machinist, Cork Uncle (?)

Birthplace

PA PA

PA

Father

Germany PA

PA

Mother Immigration

Germany PA

PA

Barbara M.

Kraiss Daughter WF 9 S PA PA PA

1940 Census – Main Street, Mountville, Lancaster, PA, owned, value $2000, same place as 1935.

Name

Chas L. Kraiss

Mabel M. Kraiss

Ruth M. Kraiss

Barbara M. Kraiss

Relation

Head Wife

Daughter Daughter

Sex/Age

WM 55 WF 54

WF 21 WF 19

Marital

M M

S S

Education

9

9 H4

C1

Profession Machinist, Iron Works

Secretary, Architect

Birthplace Income

$826 PA PA

$600 PA PA

32

Year

Source

Notes 1910

Phila City Dir

Kraiss Chas machst h 1432 N Myrtlewood

1911

Phila City Dir

Kraiss Chas machst h 1432 N Myrtlewood

1917

Marr Cert

r 1612 Brown Street, Phila, PA

1918

Draft Regist

Charles L. Kraiss r 1230 N 60th Street, Phila, PA. Emp machinist, Baldwin Locomotive, Broad Spring Garden, PA

1920

census

res 1230 60th Street, Philadelphia, PA

1925

Lanc City Dir

Kraiss Chas L (Mabel E) formn Merchant & Evans Co r Mountville, PA

1927

Lanc City Dir

Kraiss Chas L (Mabel E) mach res Mountville

1929

Lanc City Dir

Kraiss Chas L (Mabel) mach h Mountville

1930

census

res Main Street, Mountville, PA

1931

Lanc City Dir

Kraiss Chas L (Mabel) mach res Mountville

1940

census

Main Street, Mountville, Lancaster, PA

1942

Draft Regist

res Mountville, PA emp York Ice Machinery Corp, York, PA

1948

Lanc City Dir

Kraiss, Ruth M office sec John B. Rengier r Mountville

1950

Lanc City Dir

Kraiss, Ruth M ofc sec John B. Rengier r Mountville

1957

Death Cert

res 28 East Main Street, Mountville, PA retired machinist York Corp Co.

41

Other Documents about Alice Ruth Gable's ancestors:

'Klugh Family', Ruth Musser Kraiss Gable with additions by Alice Kalush, 1992 and 2014

'Connecting the Gable Family', Alice Kalush, 2014

'History of Kraiss and Jetter/Yetter Families', Alice Kalush, 2013

'History of the Musser Family', Alice Kalush, 2014

'History of the Budde Family', Alice Kalush, 2013

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