Notes for George Ernest SCHNABEL, SR./Elizabeth

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Notes for George Ernest SCHNABEL, SR./Elizabeth

Couple Is Honored Here On Golden Anniversary
Mr. And Mrs. George Schnabel Feted At Dinner; Tribute Is Paid At Church

Mr. and Mrs. George Schnabel, 150 North Eighth Street, were today receiving the congratulations of friends on their Golden Wedding Anniversary. Children and grandchildren honored the couple at a dinner at the Cogswell Tearoom Sunday afternoon. Dinner served at a table centered with a mound of yellow rosebuds and chrysanthemums and evergreen. Yellow tapers were used to complete the motif and gold place cards marked the guests places.

Singular tribute was also paid Mr. and Mrs. Schnabel at the morning service at First Evangelical
Church. As Miss Alice Thurber, church organist, played Lohengrin's Wedding March. Mr. and
Mrs. Sehnabel were led to the altar by Mrs. W. V. Thurber and Fred Klink, where they were presented a basket of yellow chrysanthemums.

Mr. Klink on behalf of the congregation, and the Rev Pallas M. Blatt pastor, offered their congratulations.

Mr. and Mrs. Schnabel, natives of Germany, settled in Olean upon their arrival in this country in
1884. They were united in marriage here October 15. 1884 by the Rev. G. Benreuther at the parsonage of Immanuel Lutheran Church.

To the union were born six children, three sons and three daughters - five of whom united, with their respective families, in honoring their parents. Those in attendant included Mr. and Mrs. W. Schnabel and family, Dunkirk, N. Y., Mr. And Mrs. J. Frederickson, Detroit, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. Ward Smith, Canandaigua. N. Y.; the Rev. and, Mrs. George Schnabel, Washington. D. C., and Mr. and Mrs. P. J. McEvelia. Olean. A son Harry H. Schnabel and family, Dayton, Ohio, were unable to be present.

SOURCE: Times-Herald, Olean, NY October 15, 1934

Fifty-Fifth Wedding
Anniversary Sunday
Mr. And Mrs. George E. Schnabel Will Be At Home To Friends; Both Enjoy Large Circle of Friends Here.

An afternoon tea, between the hours of three and five o'clock, has been planned in honor of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Schnabel of 150 North Eighth Street, Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Schnabel on that day will celebrate their fifty-fifth wedding anniversary. Natives of Germany, both Mr. and Mrs. Schnabel settled in Olean in 1884, and on October 15, of that year, were united in marriage by the late Rev. G. Bernreuther, pastor of the Immanuel Lutheran Church.

They enjoy a large acquaintance in Olean and have lived practically their entire married life in the western section of the city. Mr. Schnabel is a retired employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company where he served as foreman for many years

Six children were born to this union, three sons and three daughters. They are: William P. Schnabel, Dunkirk: the Rev. George F. Schnabel. Washington. D. C.; Harry H. Schnabel. Dayton. O; Mrs. J. B. Frederickson. Detroit. Mich.: Mrs. P. J. McEvelia and Mrs. W. W. Smith, this city. They also have eleven grandchildren.

SOURCE: Times-Herald, Olean, NY October 14, 1939

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