by boxcar-admin | Apr 29, 2017
Floyd Kersey was born on November 14, 1915 to Arden and Edna (Roderick) Kersey in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Arden was the son of James H. Kersey, who along with his brother George, settled on First Avenue from Canada in the 1880s. Floyd married Geraldine Richardson and...
by boxcar-admin | Apr 28, 2017
Erma Lillian (Scott) Mashatt was born December 22, 1919 to Herman and Evelyn (Zebbs) Scott in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She married Donald Mashatt in 1946. Donald’s family had a long history in Ypsilanti, where Erma moved to from Ann Arbor. Donald was the widower of...
by boxcar-admin | Apr 16, 2017
George D. Goodman was born on September 13, 1940 in Saginaw, Michigan to George V. and Thelma Goodman. The Goodman family has a long history in Ypsilanti and they returned to the City the 1940s, where George grew up and attended Roosevelt High School. His mother...
by boxcar-admin | Apr 15, 2017
Louise (Lane) Bass was born on October 14, 1919 to Frank and Emma (Cook) Lane in Malvern, Arkansas. Louise married Dr. Thomas Bass of New Jersey in 1944. Together they moved to Ypsilanti, where they raised three children, daughters Ann and Leah and son, the National...
by boxcar-admin | Apr 15, 2017
Moses Bass was born on July 1, 1877 to Samuel and Margaret (McGinnis) Bass in Chatham, Ontario. Mr. Bass’s mother was born in Scotland. The oldest person in our archive, Moses came to Ypsilanti with his family in the 1880s and worked in the building trades....
