June 19, 2021

Dear Maria, Sharon, Nancy and Tom,
I am sending my prayers for your family as you celebrate your mother/step mother’s life. She was a light of hope and love to all. My mother loved and cherished their longtime friendship.It was always my pleasure and honor to see her at church when I would attend with mother. There are so many favorite memories, but it will always be her kind words and beautiful smile that I remember the most. May the Lord bless you all richly as you honor, dear Maria on this day. Sending prayers and love to each of you, Barb Charles

April 09, 2020

Dear Sharon and Maria,
We were so sorry to learn of Maria’s passing. She was Mother’s first
friend at Mennonite Home, just a little over a year ago. Her warmth and
friendliness made Mother feel at home from the start. 
You both brought so much joy to your mother. How she looked forward
to walks inside and outside Mennonite Home, seeing others
(including us) near the cafe, and most of all—being with her daughters.
Please know that the very best of your mother will live on in both of you.
WIth sincerest sympathy,
Bonnie Boothman and her daughter Kathy 

April 06, 2020

To Maria and Sharon,
Dear girls, we were neighbors of yours on Nolt Ave in Willow Street when you were both very young little girls.  Your mother was lovely and so caring with you both.  Your father, Gene, also welcomed us as a young couple with a baby.   But is your mother’s lovely smile that we remember and her constant devotion to you both.  After we moved away we would see you mother from time to time and “catch up”.  Always her proudest words were about you.
We send our understanding and sympathy at this difficult time.
Jim and Linda Kopf

April 05, 2020

Sharon & Maria….I have such wonderful memories of Maria beginning with “Eugenie” when I was a student nurse in 1960-61 and the family through the years until Dr. Weber retired.  He always loved Maria and so did I. She loved her “girls” so much and you will miss her. Remember all she taught you as you try to be like her.  Thinking of you in your sorrow….
Love, Grace 
 

April 01, 2020

I have seen my auntie „Tante“ Mitzi only three times during her rare visits to Austria, her birth country: once when I still was child and later with her second husband Jack. Besides that I heard tales about the difficult years during and after WWII from my mother, as Wolfgang stated.
It’s only after a Skype meeting at the occasion of a family meeting in 2015 that we had regular contact by mail and telephone calls. I was surprised of how good her memory was at her age and that she wrote letters in flawless German. I think Mitzi was a warm-hearted woman who experienced a lot of hardship in her young days and managed to create herself a new life and her own family in the USA. I was planning to visit her this year, she was looking forward to this date, and now I am sorry that this last meeting cannot take place. Tante Mitzi, I wish you a peaceful eternal slumber. Maria and Sharon, please accept my deepest condolence, I share your sadness. Manfred

April 01, 2020

Dear Maria and Sharon,
To get 90 years old is a great gift but yet always much to early to loose  a so close member of the family.       I remember “aunt Mitzi” very well and saw you all on the occasion of your first  visite in Vienna and the last  time with her second husband. My mother told me many stories about the bad times short after war, when she provided us with food from the restaurant kitchen she was working during that time (and later met your father there). She was  open to everyone, always so friendly and so much  interested in the roots of her family in Austria.  We had our last telephone call 2 years ago. She was mentally so acvtive and fresh,  and her German was excellent. I am very sorry that she is gone, as the last link to the generation of my father.
with all me best wishes to you, wolfgang
   

March 31, 2020

Wir haben unsere “Tante in Amerika” sehr gern gehabt. Unsere Begegnungen in Österreich oder den Vereinigten Staaten waren immer ganz beondere Erlebnisse. Gemeinsam mit meinen beiden Cousinen Maria und Sharon werde ich meine Tante Mitzi immer im Herzen tragen. 
 
We loved our “aunt in America” ​​very much. Our meetings in Austria or in the United States have always been very special ans beautiful experiences. Together with my two cousins ​​Maria and Sharon, I will always carry my “Tante Mitzi” in my heart.
Harald Waitzbauer from Salzburg/Austria