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Millie Matilda Thomas Bortz

Graduated from South High School, Youngstown, Ohio 1916. Received teaching certificate at Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, PA and taught school in Wooster, Mass and Connecticut.  Returned to Youngstown and took a comptometer course and went to work for a J.C. Bailey of Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad in Greenville.  Met her future husband, Charles Sylvester Bortz who lived on a farm on Old Hamburg Road, Greenville.  They traveled by train to Erie, PA where they married on Dec 11, 1919. Six children: Beatrice Ruth, Juanita Elaine, Charles Robert "Bob", Richard Leroy, Marguerite Blanche, and Ronald.




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