Ona Jane Schoembs

b. 28 November 1925, d. 21 June 2006
  • Ona Jane Schoembs was born on 28 November 1925 in New York.
  • Miles Frank Schoembs and Irene Jacques appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Buffalo, Erie County, Pennsylvania, at 32 Shirley. Other members of the household included Ona Jane Schoembs.
  • She married Oliver E. Becker Jr., son of Oliver E. Becker and Marion Dee.
  • The following appeared on 13 November 1948 in The Evening Observer: (Forestville) Mr. and Mrs. Miles Schoembs and Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Becker of Buffalo were Sunday guests of Mrs. Agnes Neuendorf.
  • Ona Jane Schoembs became a widow at the 20 April 1969 death of her husband Oliver E. Becker Jr.
  • The following appeared on 21 April 1969 in the Buffalo Courier-Express: Oliver E. Becker Jr., 43, Alden restaurateur and town assessor, died Sunday morning in his home, 1338 Exchange St., Village of Alden.
         In 1963 Mr. Becker opened the Whistle Stop Inn at the Exchange St. address after two years as assistant menager of the Roycroft Inn in East Aurora. For 15 years beginning in 1946 he managed his father's tavern at William and Bailey in Buffalo.
         The Alden Town Board appointed him assessor last October.
         Active in service and fraternal activities, Mr. Becker was president of the Alden Kiwanis Club, member and immediate past president of the East Aurora-Orchard Park Shrine Club and member of Springville Lodge 351, F&AM; New York State Assessors Assn., Western New York Innkeepers Assn. and the American Legion's Alden Post 1377.
         A lifelong Buffalo area resident, he formerly served in the Merchant Marine.
         Surviving are his wife, the former Ona J. Schoembs; two sons, Oliver E. III and Douglas; two daughters, the Misses Diane and Donna Becker; his father, Oliver E. Becker of Buffalo; a sister, Miss Mildred Becker of Buffalo, and two brothers, Wilfrid of Hamburg and Sherwood of Buffalo.
         A funeral service at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Alden Presbyterian Church, Broadway and Crittenden Rd., will be followed by burial in Acacia Park Cemetery, Pendleton, Niagara County.
  • The following appeared on 8 December 1970 in the Buffalo Courier-Express: [Died] Miles F. Schoembs, of Irving St., Alden, N.Y., Dec. 6, 1970. Husband of Irene (nee Jacques); father of Mrs. Ona Becker; brother of Elmer, Mrs. William Albach, Mrs. Irving Ryersee, Ralph and the late Albert and George Schoembs; surviving are four grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Funeral from the Charles Meyer Funeral Home, 13228 Broadway, Alden, N.Y. Friends may call from 2-5 and 7-10 p.m. Mr. Schoembs was a member of the Telephone Pioneers, Oddfellows Lodge No. 259, Buffalo and Springville Lodge No. 351 F.&A.M.
  • The SSDI lists Dover Plains, Dutchess County, new York, as the last residence of record of Ona Jane Schoembs.
  • Ona Jane Schoembs died on 21 June 2006 at age 80.
  • Last Edited: 28 Dec 2013

Family: Oliver E. Becker Jr. b. circa 1926, d. 20 April 1969