Genealogie Wylie » Janet Bernice Newholm (1891-1977)

Persoonlijke gegevens Janet Bernice Newholm 

• Zij is geboren op 7 juli 1891 in Hudson,St. Croix County,Wisconsin.
• Zij is overleden op 17 april 1977 in Tacoma,Pierce County,Washington, zij was toen 85 jaar oud.
• Zij is begraven in Tacoma,Pierce County,Washington,Mt.View Cemetery.
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 20 juni 2011.

Gezin van Janet Bernice Newholm

(1) Zij is getrouwd met Charles Lester "Charlie" Barton.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 6 augustus 1924 te Portland,Oregon, zij was toen 33 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Robert Charles Barton  1929-1988

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Notities over Janet Bernice Newholm

Janet Bernice (BARTON) NEWHOLM, born 7 July 1891 in Hudson, Wisconsin
attended schools in the local community. Both of her parents were
Swedish immigrants. Her father was a sawmill worker who was
injured on the job and became unable work. Her older brother Oscar
failed to settle down and thus it fell to Bernice to support the family
when she finished high school and six months of business school. She
worked as a legal secretary for the local court where she became
proficient at taking dictation and typing court records. (No recording
devices or computers in those days).

Early in her career she lived a year in a small western Minnesota town as
a clerk for the Great Northern Railroad. Later her career led her to
positions in the state capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota where she worked
taking hearings for the Minnesota Railroad Commission. For a while she
continued to live at home in Hudson--commuting every morning on the 6
o'clock train for St. Paul. During World War I she first worked as clerk
of St Croix County Draft Board and then went off to Washington DC to
work in the Naturalization Department. It was near the end of the War
when her father died and she returned to St. Paul.

She took a trip out West in the early 1920's with Christian Endeavor -
her church young people's group and was simply enchanted with
Portland, Oregon. Since her brothers did not yet have permanent jobs
and were constantly pestering her for money, she decided to take her
mother and move to Portland. She had great job skills as a legal
secretary and had no problem finding a position in a law office for an
attorney by the name of Sidney Teiser. Her younger brother, Ted, later
followed her west and began to settle down. In 1924 she was married to
Charles L. Barton. At about this same time her mother became ill with
cancer and died in 1925.

The first years of her marriage were happy ones with the birth of her
two sons. But with the advent of the great depression, living conditions
became difficult. Her husband, a building contractor, could not find work
so she began to enter contests in which in 25 words or less you had to
state why you liked a certain item. She found she a talent for these
contests that stayed with her the rest of her life. She favored rhymes or
jingles. In 1930 her husband obtained a position as a construction
supervisor at the Federal Peniteniary at McNeil Island. The family moved
to Steilacoom, WA and lived a very comfortable life as the salary was
adequate and goods were cheap during the depression. She became active
in the community, began to write poetry and taught a Sunday School
class of eighth grade girls. The good times lasted until 1936 when
Charlie began to experience heart problems and had to retire. The family
made a trip back to her old haunts of Wisconsin and Minnesota that
summer. Upon their return they planned to go back to Portland and start
again. The moving van was loaded when a woman from the Pierce County
Welfare office stopped by with an offer of job in Tacoma for her.
Everything was put on hold until she could interview and accept the
position of typing pool case-record typist. The family found a rental
house on South 96th St in Tacoma.

The typist position paid less than half what her husband had been earning
but it kept the family alive. Her talents were soon recognized and she
became a social worker visiting old age pensioners. Her speaking
knowledge of Swedish helped gain the confidence of many of her
Scandinavian clients. In 1940 her husband Charles died and the family
moved closer to her work which was in downtown Tacoma. She
continued to enter contests both local and national with good success
winning many minor prizes. Ultimately she became a child welfare case
worker placing children in foster homes a position that she really
enjoyed. She purchased the house she had been renting and remodeled the
upstairs into an apartment for herself when her sons went off to college.

After her retirement in 1966 she continued an active and busy life. She
published a book of her poetry called "Memblings" which was a
collection of her poetry that expresses many of her memories. She
traveled locally and took trips to Florida, Minnesota, Hawaii. Later
giving up her car was a very difficult experience for it meant a loss of
her freedom. As her strength finally began to weaken she took an
apartment in a retirement home and sold her house. The last year of her
life was spent in a nursing home where she broke her hip and gradually
lost contact with the world around her. Death came on 17 April 1977
after near eighty-six years. Burial was at Mt. View Cemetery - S Lot 1,
Spruce Addition.

! BIRTH: Hudson, WI; St Croix Co.; Wisconsin Certificate 104540
7 July 1891 (Delayed Cert.)

! MARRIAGE: Portland, OR; Multnomah County
6 August 1924 [Minister's Certificate]

! OCCUPATION: Legal Secretary; World War One acknowledgement of
service in Washington. DC.
State of Washington Social Worker
! DEATH: Tacoma,WA; Pierce Co.; Washington Certificate 1001
17 April 1977
! CENSUS: US 1900, Hudson Wisc., St Croix Co. Vol 67, ED 150, Sh 2, L. 7

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