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Florence Marion SZABO

Female 1917 - 2012  (95 years)


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  • Name Florence Marion SZABO  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
    Birth 21 Apr 1917  Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4, 18, 19, 20, 21, 27
    Gender Female 
    Death 23 Aug 2012  Myrtle Beach, Horry, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [19, 20, 21, 27
    • Event Description: Died at home
    Burial 22 Sep 2012  Casselton, Cass, North Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [19, 20, 21, 27
    • Event Description: Buried along side Clyde W. Port. Burial attended by: Frederick R. Port, Thomas C. Port, Paul A. Port, C. Scott & Mary E. Port, Michael S. Port, K.C. Port, Tony Goucher, Justin & Cynthia Goucher, Christopher W. Port
    Person ID I13292  Glassville

    Family Clyde Wendell PORT
              b. 19 Jan 1915, Casselton, Cass, North Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 18 Dec 2007, Myrtle Beach, Horry, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 92 years) 
    Marriage 12 Jan 1940  Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [22, 24
    Children 
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    Family ID F8233  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 21 Apr 1917 - Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 12 Jan 1940 - Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 22 Sep 2012 - Casselton, Cass, North Dakota, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • The Family History of FLORENCE MARION SZABO as conveyed in a letter dated April 15, 1993 to her youngest son, CLYDE SCOTT PORT

      FLORENCE MARION PORT

      Born in Cleveland, Ohio April 21, 1917, the first daughter of Anna Braun Szabo and Alexander Szabo in her home on West 42nd Street. Sister Vera Anne was born February 12, 1919. Lived at that address until about 1921 and moved to Woodward Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio. Attended Madison Avenue Grammar School until March, 1925. Moved to the home of grandparents Joseph and Mary Braun on Scarbourough Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Attended Roxboro Grammar School.

      Lived with grandparents until end of September, 1925 when the family moved to Hollywood, California. Anna and Alexander bought a home on 2030 North Berendo Street. Attended Los Feliz Grammer School, Thomas Starr King Junior High School and John Marshall High School graduating in June, 1934. Went to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and graduated in June, 1938, majoring in Political Science and minor in economics.

      In September, 1934 I met future husband at UCLA in the Freshman Logic Class. He sat behind me. Started to date March 17, 1937. We were good friends all that time. After graduation in June, 1938, I attended business school to improve shorthand and typing. I took the California Civil Service Test and worked in the ax Franchise Department in downtown Los Angeles and as well at the Motor Vehicle Department. Then I obtained a job with the Bank of America as a stenographer. I work a total of one year.

      CLyde Wendall Port and became engaged on my birthday April 21, 1939 on the steps of Royce Hall at UCLA. We were married on January 12, 1940 at Mother of God Counsel Church, located at Vermont and Ambrose in Hollywood, California.

      We moved to an apartment on Chevy Chase in Glendale, California after a three day honeymoon trip to Death Valley and Las Vegas. Clyde had a job in the Glendale General Petroleum Station (eventually Mobil).

      We were transferred to Seattle, Washington and lived in the Edgewater Apartments on Lake Washington. I got pregnant with Fred in July, 1940. While we lived in Seattle my parents came to visit and we all went on a trip to Vancouver, Canada.

      FREDERICK ROBERT PORT was born on April 14, 1941 at the local fish hatchery. We were transferred to San Francisco, California in October, 1941 and rented a house on El Camino Real, Burlingame, the north end of town.

      We were then transferred to Los Angeles in September, 1942. We rented a house on 1541 Hillside Drive, Glendale, California. Son THOMAS CLYDE PORT was born on September 4, 1942, son PAUL ALEXANDER PORT was born on December 8, 1946 and son CLYDE SCOTT PORT was born on January 14, 1952, all three sons were born at Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, California.

      In February, 1954 we moved to 1734 Hillside Drive, Glendale, California. Lived there until we were transferred to Minneapolis, Minnesota in January, 1960. Bought a home on Holdridge Circle, Wayzata, Minnesota. Transferred to New York City in December, 1960 and bought a home on Stony Brook Road South, Darien, Connecticut.

      After CLYDE retired from Mobil in 1974, we built a house in MYrtle Beach, South Carolina at 9324 Cove Drive, overlooking the fourteenth and thirteenth holes at The Dunes Golf and Beach Club. We moved their in November, 1975.

      ALEXANDER SZABO

      Born in Miskolc, Hungary, February 28, 1880, Deceased February 12, 1964 at the age of 83 in Arcadia, California, due to a heart attack suffered five days earlier. He came to America in 1906 from Hungary and settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

      He was furniture maker by profession, which in learned in Miskolc. He served in the Hungarian Army for two years. His three brothers, Joseph, Steve and Louis and four sisters, Elizabeth, Mary, Susan and Eleanor as well as his mother, Julia and father, Daniel, followed Alexander to America some years later. DANIEL SZABO was born in 1848 and died in 1916. Julia Szabo was born in 1851 and died in 1927. Both parents died in Cleveland, Ohio.

      Alexander owned a furniture factory which made school furniture, he also owned, along with his brother a meat stand in the West Side Shopping Mall. He also owned a Hupmobile agency for a few years.

      Alexander married Anna Braun on June 12, 1916 in Cleveland, Ohio. They had two daughters Florence Marion Szabo, born April 21, 1917 and Vera Anne Szabo, born February 12, 1919.

      In 1925 they sold their home in Woodward Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio and moved to Hollywood, California. They arrived October 2, 1925. Alexander the bought a 25 acre orange grove in Charter Oaks, California, which he held for a couple of years and then sold it and bought a store building in South Pasadena, California which he rented out. For a few years he also had a sausage factory in the San Fernando Valley and a stand in a large market on Hill Street, Los Angeles.

      During the thirties and forties he worked at various custom furniture makers in Los Angeles until he was 65 years old. He then bought 25 acre orange grove in Pacoima, California. They moved from their home at 203 North Berendo Street, Hollywood, California to the ranch after the Second world War, where they lived until 1952. They then moved to Grandview Avenue, Arcadia, California where he lived until he died.

      ANNA BRAUN

      Born February 22, 1888 in Cleveland, Ohio and died June 5, 1984 in Arcadia, California at the age of 96. She was the daughter of Joseph and Mary Schdiedle Braun, she had three sisters, Cecilia, Mary and Emma.

      Her parents owned a dry goods store on Buckeye road, Cleveland, Ohio for many years, and she worked in the store until she married Alexandr Szabo. She was an expert seamstress and her two girls were always well dressed. She was a true mother and housewife and she and Alexander shared their decisions on all business deals.

      She was very devoted to her family and dearly loved her grandchildren (eight). She and Alex were truly devoted to helping their two daughters. Alex made all the furniture in their home as well as the furniture in the homes of their two daughters.

      After Alexander died she lived in the home until 1973, when she moved to an apartment in Sierra Madre. Then she moved in with her daughter, Vera, in 1975 due to health problems. After breaking her hip she lived for four years in the St Teresa Nursing Home Durate until her death.

      JOSEPH BRAUN

      Born in Metzenseifen, Austria Hungary about 1867 and died in 1938. Moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as a young boy with his mother and brother, John. His mother was a widow and remarried and had two children Anne and Andrew. He was a glass blower when very young, but had to give it up because it was injurious to his lungs.

      He married Mary Schmiedle in St. Mary's Church, Cleveland, Ohio on April 20, 1887. They started a small dry good store on Buckeye Road, Cleveland, Ohio. Mary was milliner by trade and she made hats, many times they were paid in produce, chickens and geese, since people had very little money. They had four girls Anna, Cecilia, Mary and Emma.

      He died in 1938 after they had celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. At the time of his death he lived on Scarbourough Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio where they had moved in 1917 after he had retired from the store.

      For many years he drove his daughter Mary Smayda around to bakery stores which were owned by Mary and her husband Eugene Smayda. His mother died about 1922 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

      MARY GIDEON BRAUN

      Born in Metzenseifen, Austria Hungary about 1868 and died April 3, 1944 in Cleveland, Ohio. Moved to Cleveland, Ohio with her mother and two sisters, Veronica and Katherine. Her mother was a widow. She was about 12 years old when she moved to Cleveland, Ohio. I do not know any thing about her father, except that this was a second marriage and that he was much older.

      DANIEL SZABO

      Born in Miskolc, Hungary in 1848, died October, 1916 in Cleveland, Ohio. He married Julia Kunz about 1876. Had eight children plus three that died at an early age from various illnesses. They lived at 12 Templon Street until they moved to Cleveland, Ohio about 1907. He was a tanner by trade.

      JULIA KUHN

      Born in Miskolc, Hungary in 1851, died in 1927 in Cleveland, Ohio. I remember her a very kind person a very good cook. She used to take care of us when our mother would go shopping. I remember sitting at the kitchen table with crayons and pad of paper and eating her good homemade doughnuts.

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