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1. Title:   Birth Cert & Dale J. Smith
2. Title:   Colorado Death Cert # 16-279667

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a. Note:   My mother was the child of an immigrant family from Hungary. She was born on Monday, 12-21-1914 at 10:15 AM at home by a midwife (Birth cert #7089) while they lived in a walled colony called Kossuth colony that was near the current St. Stephen's church at 1114 Troy St. The address was 130 Kossuth Colony. She was born on the shortest day of the year & hence she said that is why she was short (4 feet, 11 1/2 inches tall.) She had a younger brother, George, whom she dearly loved but there was sibling rivalry.
  Theresa Vida's baptismal certificate & family hx is enclosed with a loose translation. It was translated by Gene Megassy, Hungarian Consul for Colorado. (10,000 Hungarians live in Colorado in 2002.)
  Theresa Vida baptismal certificate & family hx a loose translation is as follows:
  December 29, 1914 Greetings in the name of the Lord....In 1914 on December 21 a daughter was born & baptized on the 25th at Holy Name church, 416 Dale Ave., Dayton, OH. Her name is Theresa Vida. Vida, Gyorgy (George) and (W should be V) ie. Vlaszacs, Ida of the county of Szatmor in Sa'rkozujlok for George Vida. Jo'ssefhasar for (Marie or Mary) Ida Vida. They live in Dayton, Ohio at Kossuth colony (a closed, walled, area with factory-owned houses. They had to pay rent, buy food, clothes, necessary things at the company store to repay probably part or all of their ship fare.) Father Karoly (Carl or Charles) Policsek baptized her. Her Godparents in Hungary are Janos (John) Magyr and Csaki Eossebet (Elizabeth, from whom she received her middle name) She had substitute Godparents here.
  (signed) Rev. Karoly Policsek
  She attended Allen Public GS in No. Dayton, OH. She spoke only Hungarian when she enrolled in school & this was very hard for her, she always said. She then aspired to be a nurse but her father forbid this so she quit Kiser HS after her sophomore year & went to work.
  She met my father while working at Brandt's restaurant on Troy St. They were married on 7-28-1934 in the Holy Name church rectory in West Dayton, OH since my father was Protestant (Non-catholics weren't married in church!). The priest was Fr. Voynich. They moved to a small house on Notre Dame Ave in No. Dayton, OH. John worked at Gen. Motors, Frigidaire division, Moraine City, OH. He wanted to live in the "country" & they had a house built in the suburbs. World War II put an end to that dream with no gasoline available & they moved to 421 Waneta Ave., Dayton, OH 45424. My mother worked most her adult life. She was a liberated woman way back then & for awhile ran a bar in No. Dayton near the Duriron Co. where her father worked. She worked at Rike's Dept store in the tearoom serving coffee for a while. Then she worked at David's uniform shop in No. Dayton in sales. She liked that work. In 1950 they along with Geo. & Phyllis Vida opened a restaurant near Waynesville, OH. This was difficult for there was no booze sold since this area was a "dry" county. She decided to get illegal slots! to bolster business & that it did till one day when the "other mob" came in & stole her machines & destroyed them. She was out of the gaming business as well as the restaurant business! She then worked in sales at Ontario, a large Target-like store, till she retired.
  Mom was a religious woman & devout Catholic (despite the slots) who took religion very seriously. She attended mass regularly at St. Stephen's or Our Lady of the Rosary in No. Dayton, OH. She was a meticulous housekeeper & a superb cook, especially chicken dumplings or apple pie. (Both her recipes are still used by her g-daughters.) But she didn't like to make Xmas cookies! She was frank & forthright & you always knew where you stood with her. She didn't like outdoor things until later in life. She loved to sew & crochet so we had doilies everywhere. She was very against imbibing alcohol & all the men she knew drank, some more than they should. She was reliable & you could count on her in a pinch. She was loving with her sons but was not outwardly a kissing-mom. She was proud of their accomplishments but again this was not easily verbalized. She was a victim of the Great Depression of 1929, World War II & this altered her personality considerably, hence it was hard for her to "lighten up."
  They retired about 1973 & moved to the Muskingum River near Stockport, OH on Kosky Rd. with my dad. They bought a large, new trailer home & they were in 7th heaven. Fishing, boating, eating fresh vegetables, shopping in Parkersburg, WV & playing cards. She attended St. James Church in Mc Connelsville, OH. My dad died in 1975 & she was single 5 years when she met a gentleman farmer, Ernest Denver Hambel, from Malta, OH. They were married by Msgr. Cullen in Englewood, CO. at St. Louis church on 1-20-1980. She then sold the old homestead on Waneta Ave & moved to Denver's farm near Malta, OH. She developed lots of friends & took up square dancing, bowling (she actually won a trophy,) lots of card parties and travel to see her sons & granddaughters in CO & CA. She attended St. James church in McConnellsville, OH. She always liked cars and loved motor trips. For a city slicker she readily took to being a farmer's wife to my surprise. She was exceedingly happy & proud of her g-daughters. She was a generous & loving g-mother.
  In June, 1991 she had a triple by-pass done at Riverside Hsp in Columbus, OH. She was always a "lady of iron" and 23 hours after surgery she was having her hair done. A favorite thing she liked to do. She also had hypertension & neuralgia of unknown cause that caused lots of pain in her feet. She was not a very patient person.
  In August 1994 she & Denver along with her sons & their spouses, g-daughters & their spouses & great granddaughter went to Maui, HI to celebrate her 80th birthday. She was stunned when we told her this was her birthday gift. It was a long, hard trip but she & Denver did very well. She went deep-sea fishing, eating & shopping. What fun! She especially enjoyed being with Katrina, her great g-daughter, & was down crawling on all 4's to teach her to crawl.
  On 5-25-98 she was operated on at Good Sam Hsp, Zanesville, OH for a broken hip she sustained 2 days earlier & about 2 weeks later broke her humerus while in the hospital! She suffered considerable more confusion after this although her bones healed nicely & she became strong. She lived in the Inn at North Hills, Zanesville, OH till Denver's death. On January 8, 2000 she moved to Denver CO and resided at the Brighton Gardens of Lakewood CO. suffering from Alzheimer's disease. She has had a rocky time there but did enjoy being near her family. She was transferred to Porter hospice on 8-10-2001after a stroke. She died on 8-13-2001 at the age of 86 years, 7 months, 23 days. An aged Franciscan friar, Friar Declan A. Madden, said a very moving mass at the Mt. Olivet mortuary. (He died on 7-18-2006.) A rosary service was conducted by Suzanne & a beautiful, stirring eulogy was delivered by Karen. Anne was a pallbearer along with Don Smith, Rick Hambel, George Vida, III, Ben Vida & his friend Chris.
  She was buried on 8-21-2001 in lot 93, Calvary cemetery, north-east corner off of St. Mark's drive, section 31 in Dayton, Ohio aside of John A. Smith. Denver Hambel died 12-15-99 & his cremains are buried in Dew Cemetery in Perry Co., Ohio near Burr Oak state park aside of his first wife, Betty Briggs Hambel.
  Her obituary read as follows:
  Theresa Smith Hambel Homemaker
  Theresa Smith Hambel passed to her eternal reward on 8-13-2001. She was a life long resident of Ohio and of Denver CO since January, 2000. She was born on 12-21-1914 in Dayton OH. She survived husbands, John A. Smith and Denver Hambel.
  Her survivors include 2 sons, Dr. Dale (Lois) and Donald Smith (Karen). 3 grand daughters, Karen (Greg) Hoggatt, Suzanne Nuttall and Anne (Kyle) Durlam. She has 4 great-grand children, Katrina, Meredith, Trevor and Bryn. She has a nephew, George Vida, 2 grand-nieces, Erin and Rachel and a grand-nephew, Ben. In addition she has a stepdaughter, Emiria Kasler (Roger) and 2 step grandchildren, Tammy and Rick.
  She loved crocheting, cooking, bingo, square dancing and was a trophy-winning bowler.
  Funeral services will be held in Denver on 8-17-01 with burial at Calvary cemetery in Dayton, OH, following visitation at Maggetti-Gavin August 21, 12:30 to 1:30PM.
  Contributions may be made to Porter Hospice, 2379 S. High St., Denver CO 80210. Dale J. Smith, M.D./2002



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