Theresa M. Schmitz

The picture below has been taken from the funeral website. However, I helped my nieces write this up and with the picture.  

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Also, please be aware I forgot to mention our aunts and uncles. This information is below. 

Theresa was also preceded in death by her paternal uncle, John S. Schmitz of Marlboro, New York. Also, by her maternal uncle and aunt Louis and Edith (Rollings) Gauquie of Victorville, California. 

Survivors include her paternal aunt Genevieve (also known as Jenny) (Recia) Schmitz of Florida, and her maternal Uncle James J. Gauquie of New Windsor, New York. 

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Theresa Mary Schmitz 

This was the name she was born with. However, over the years her name took on many changes. Theresa Timberger. Theresa Reynolds. Theresa Coates. Theresa Schmitz Coates. Theresa Schmitz-Coates. 

You can take your pick as these are all Theresa.  She was a very fluid personality is as much as we can say about her if you had to pick 1 word. 

I can tell you when she got her start in life. 

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We can add in and talk about where our ancestors came from. 

She's the granddaughter and 2 x great granddaughter of Polish immigrants. 2nd great granddaughter of Danish and Belgium ancestors. All of which this blog is about.  It's these thousand loves who made her up in body.

You have the things which you can see in her pictures growing up and places you've been. These are below. 

The start of her life, when she was born, she lived in Newburgh, New York with her parents. 

However, the job market was drying up due to WW2 coming to an end and the economy and jobs were changing. Her father, who had completed his boot camp and his first enlistment before separating from the military, decided to go back into the US Navy. 

His orders were to report to New London, CT. Her mother, father, Theresa and her young Uncle Jimmy, were off to live off base there which they did for a time.

Over the next 15 or so years the family lived in many different states throughout the east coast of the USA which depended upon where the military sent her father. 

Copyright family photo of Theresa in 1950s.

Finally, their mother decided she had enough of moving around the United States, they decided to buy a home where their relatives were and settled back into Newburgh, New York. 

This is the same house as when they lived there but in 2013. Credit: GoogleEarth

Or when she started taking on her own personality in high school.

Or when she became a wife or soon to be wife....

Or when she became a mother....

Her first daughter, Jessica

Her second daughter, Becky

Jessy and Becky were growing up

Lastly, her final daughter, April arrived.

Credit: Family Photo

Credit: Family photo at Theresa's brother's wedding

Through it all, they lived in many nearby towns and villages - several places in Walden (one is below), Newburgh 

These stories, above, are what we tell to 'put the flesh' on the bones of the person. These are the stories which you want to hear and tells us more about the person.

This is how, now that she's passed, we need to remember. We should all be remembered with respect. These are the important things in life.

We need to cherish each life as it had been lived.

Tell us, in comments below, of a memory of her which you remember. 

Put more flesh on those bones of hers...