Ethel (Lashier) Simmel_1930s_Broome County, NY
Interested to find out if there are any descendants of the SIBLINGS of Ethel (Lashier) Simmel who might know if Ethel's husband Harold W. Simmel abandoned or divorced her (any family lore about it). Ethel was born Jan 1896 Broome County, NY, married Oct 1926 and died Nov 1950 in Johnson City, Broome County, NY. As far as I know, Ethel did not have any children and she kept her married name to the end and she is buried in Riverhurst Cemetery. Ethel's 1950 obituary shows her siblings were:
Miss Olive Lashier, of Johnson City, Mrs. Mabel Adams, of Syracuse, Ralph D. Lashier, of Johnson City and Leon I. Lashier, of Binghamton.
Harold W. Simmel (a.k.a John H. W. Simmel or Wesley Simmel) is in the 1930 census with his wife Ethel in Broome County, NY and a news item shows he opened up an auto garage in Johnson City, NY in 1931 and then he shows up in Stamford, CT in the late 1930s as "Wesley" Simmel married to a woman named Doris Skinner. He died in 1943 and is buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Darien, CT. No children.
John Harold Wesley Simmel was my father's first cousin.