Date of interment 8/15/1983
Florence Lucile Biddle Baumunk (1900 - 1983, daughter of John Richard Biddle (1872-1948) and Sarah Mabel Stull (1876-1912). Sister of Eugene S Biddle (1897 - 1985) and Emilie B. Biddle (1902- ). She married Curtis William Baumunk (1892-1969) in 1917 .
Florence was the mother of Mabel Florence (Baumunk) Clendening (1918–1996), Seana Barbara Baumunk (1919–1919), Avonell B. (Baumunk) Williams (1920–2008) and Beatrice Jean (Baumunk) Stavitz (1922–2013). Together, Florence and curtis would raise the last generation on the Baumunk homestead, an 1866 dairy farm in the isolated northern appalachians of PA. - which only had 2 generations raised there, with wars taking toll on local workforce and industrialization drawing people to cities for jobs, the youth started getting starry eyed. Drifing away from the old world man vs nature struggle.
The daughters grew up running the farm. One by one they went to college and civil cervice ww2 jobs in Philadelphia, met their future GI's and pursued carrers in Education. With a lack of farmhands, and the future in consumer chariots, Florence and Curtis opened a very successful auto parts store which they ran themselves into their final years. Curtis d. in 1968. The farm was sold when Florence Passed in 1983.
Date of interment 8/15/1983
Florence Lucile Biddle Baumunk (1900 - 1983, daughter of John Richard Biddle (1872-1948) and Sarah Mabel Stull (1876-1912). Sister of Eugene S Biddle (1897 - 1985) and Emilie B. Biddle (1902- ). She married Curtis William Baumunk (1892-1969) in 1917 .
Florence was the mother of Mabel Florence (Baumunk) Clendening (1918–1996), Seana Barbara Baumunk (1919–1919), Avonell B. (Baumunk) Williams (1920–2008) and Beatrice Jean (Baumunk) Stavitz (1922–2013). Together, Florence and curtis would raise the last generation on the Baumunk homestead, an 1866 dairy farm in the isolated northern appalachians of PA. - which only had 2 generations raised there, with wars taking toll on local workforce and industrialization drawing people to cities for jobs, the youth started getting starry eyed. Drifing away from the old world man vs nature struggle.
The daughters grew up running the farm. One by one they went to college and civil cervice ww2 jobs in Philadelphia, met their future GI's and pursued carrers in Education. With a lack of farmhands, and the future in consumer chariots, Florence and Curtis opened a very successful auto parts store which they ran themselves into their final years. Curtis d. in 1968. The farm was sold when Florence Passed in 1983.
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