She was born to Anna Christine Simon Stauber and John Christian Stauber in 1934 at home at 438 Thornton Street, not far from the Licking River, in Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky, the youngest of six children, on the hottest day--108 degrees--ever recorded there for July 22. (More temperature records were broken in the United States in 1934 than in any previous year of Weather Bureau history. The worst drought in American history, epitomized in the Great Dust Bowl, happened in 1934, the worst in a millenium.). Mary's five siblings were Christian ("Chris") Henry Stauber, Ida Mae Stauber Jacobs, Jeannette Catherine Stauber Heileman, Ruth Ann Stauber Elsbernd, and Leo ("Lee") William Stauber. Her father died when she was only one year old. Mary recalled how each Christmas Eve growing up, the family was too poor to buy stockings to hang. So the children put out their cereal bowls instead.
A devoted daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother, Mary Margaret Rita Stauber Donnelly was a devout Catholic who, thanks to her son Tommy, fulfilled her dream of visiting the Vatican in 1999. Every time she would drive over the "Big Mac" Bridge into Ohio from Kentucky she would look at the Miraculous statue atop Immaculata Church in Mount Adams and say, "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee." She was a graduate of Academy Notre Dame of Providence, later to become Our Lady of Providence High School (OLP), in Newport. There she starred in the class play, "Pride and Prejudice." Two of her daughters, Patty and Mary Jude, graduated from OLP.
She had brown eyes and auburn hair, often dyed blonde, and probably had an O+ blood type.
Mary met her future husband at a mixer at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. She married Thomas Meiners Donnelly on September 3, 1955 at Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church in Newport, and they had eight children: Thomas ("Tom") Christian Donnelly (anthropologist, attorney, athletic director, husband, and father), Ann ("Nancy") Mary Donnelly Maushart (nurse, wife, and mother), Kevin Rodger Donnelly (real estate appraiser, real estate broker, husband, and father), Kathleen ("Kathy") Mary Donnelly Smith (artist, wife, and mother), Patricia ("Patty") Mary Donnelly Kues (nurse, wife, and mother), Mary Jude Donnelly Gruenschlaeger (business woman, wife, and mother), Molly Marie Donnelly Simmins (educator, wife, and mother), and Kelly Marie Donnelly Houp (nurse, wife, and mother), 27 grandchildren, and many great-grandchildren. Mary and Tom made sure that each of their eight children got 12 years of Catholic education. All eight children as adults are practicing Catholics.
Mary did many good works throughout her life, including volunteering for the Brighton Center in Newport. For decades she was a member of Saint Thomas Roman Catholic Church in Fort Thomas, Campbell County. Later in life she was employed as a secretary at Reuben Donnelley Yellow Pages in Cincinnati.
She smoked throughout her adult life. On March 23, 2000 she collapsed in the Newport K-Mart parking lot near Newport Central Catholic High School. Eleven weeks later, on June 8, 2000, Mary died of lung cancer that metastasized to the brain, surrounded by all her children and other family saying the rosary at home at 77 West Villa Place in Fort Thomas, at age 65. She is buried next to her husband and her parents, Christine Simon Stauber and Christian Stauber.
She was the fourth of four generations of mothers and daughters buried at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Wilder, Campbell County. Her ancestry was German.
DNA testing reveals Mary and her direct female descendents and ancestors and their brothers are of the clan of "Ursula" (mtDNA haplogroup U). DNA matriline testing reveals that is the same matrilineal clan the 10,000-year-old "Cheddar Man" found in Britain is from. Ursula lived about 45,000 years ago in what is now northern Greece near present-day Delphi. Ursula hunted with sophisticated stone tools. Her clan displaced the Neanderthal humans. Some of the earliest cave art was done by the clan of Ursula. About 11% of people of European ancestry are descended from Ursula.
The Donnelly family gemstone is the ruby. The flower is the tiger lily.
Most of this information comes from the Stauber and Donnelly families. Any errors, however, are mine alone. Please go to the "edit" link on this site with any corrections or additions.
A devoted daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother, Mary Margaret Rita Stauber Donnelly was a devout Catholic who, thanks to her son Tommy, fulfilled her dream of visiting the Vatican in 1999. Every time she would drive over the "Big Mac" Bridge into Ohio from Kentucky she would look at the Miraculous statue atop Immaculata Church in Mount Adams and say, "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee." She was a graduate of Academy Notre Dame of Providence, later to become Our Lady of Providence High School (OLP), in Newport. There she starred in the class play, "Pride and Prejudice." Two of her daughters, Patty and Mary Jude, graduated from OLP.
She had brown eyes and auburn hair, often dyed blonde, and probably had an O+ blood type.
Mary met her future husband at a mixer at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. She married Thomas Meiners Donnelly on September 3, 1955 at Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church in Newport, and they had eight children: Thomas ("Tom") Christian Donnelly (anthropologist, attorney, athletic director, husband, and father), Ann ("Nancy") Mary Donnelly Maushart (nurse, wife, and mother), Kevin Rodger Donnelly (real estate appraiser, real estate broker, husband, and father), Kathleen ("Kathy") Mary Donnelly Smith (artist, wife, and mother), Patricia ("Patty") Mary Donnelly Kues (nurse, wife, and mother), Mary Jude Donnelly Gruenschlaeger (business woman, wife, and mother), Molly Marie Donnelly Simmins (educator, wife, and mother), and Kelly Marie Donnelly Houp (nurse, wife, and mother), 27 grandchildren, and many great-grandchildren. Mary and Tom made sure that each of their eight children got 12 years of Catholic education. All eight children as adults are practicing Catholics.
Mary did many good works throughout her life, including volunteering for the Brighton Center in Newport. For decades she was a member of Saint Thomas Roman Catholic Church in Fort Thomas, Campbell County. Later in life she was employed as a secretary at Reuben Donnelley Yellow Pages in Cincinnati.
She smoked throughout her adult life. On March 23, 2000 she collapsed in the Newport K-Mart parking lot near Newport Central Catholic High School. Eleven weeks later, on June 8, 2000, Mary died of lung cancer that metastasized to the brain, surrounded by all her children and other family saying the rosary at home at 77 West Villa Place in Fort Thomas, at age 65. She is buried next to her husband and her parents, Christine Simon Stauber and Christian Stauber.
She was the fourth of four generations of mothers and daughters buried at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Wilder, Campbell County. Her ancestry was German.
DNA testing reveals Mary and her direct female descendents and ancestors and their brothers are of the clan of "Ursula" (mtDNA haplogroup U). DNA matriline testing reveals that is the same matrilineal clan the 10,000-year-old "Cheddar Man" found in Britain is from. Ursula lived about 45,000 years ago in what is now northern Greece near present-day Delphi. Ursula hunted with sophisticated stone tools. Her clan displaced the Neanderthal humans. Some of the earliest cave art was done by the clan of Ursula. About 11% of people of European ancestry are descended from Ursula.
The Donnelly family gemstone is the ruby. The flower is the tiger lily.
Most of this information comes from the Stauber and Donnelly families. Any errors, however, are mine alone. Please go to the "edit" link on this site with any corrections or additions.
She was born to Anna Christine Simon Stauber and John Christian Stauber in 1934 at home at 438 Thornton Street, not far from the Licking River, in Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky, the youngest of six children, on the hottest day--108 degrees--ever recorded there for July 22. (More temperature records were broken in the United States in 1934 than in any previous year of Weather Bureau history. The worst drought in American history, epitomized in the Great Dust Bowl, happened in 1934, the worst in a millenium.). Mary's five siblings were Christian ("Chris") Henry Stauber, Ida Mae Stauber Jacobs, Jeannette Catherine Stauber Heileman, Ruth Ann Stauber Elsbernd, and Leo ("Lee") William Stauber. Her father died when she was only one year old. Mary recalled how each Christmas Eve growing up, the family was too poor to buy stockings to hang. So the children put out their cereal bowls instead.
A devoted daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother, Mary Margaret Rita Stauber Donnelly was a devout Catholic who, thanks to her son Tommy, fulfilled her dream of visiting the Vatican in 1999. Every time she would drive over the "Big Mac" Bridge into Ohio from Kentucky she would look at the Miraculous statue atop Immaculata Church in Mount Adams and say, "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee." She was a graduate of Academy Notre Dame of Providence, later to become Our Lady of Providence High School (OLP), in Newport. There she starred in the class play, "Pride and Prejudice." Two of her daughters, Patty and Mary Jude, graduated from OLP.
She had brown eyes and auburn hair, often dyed blonde, and probably had an O+ blood type.
Mary met her future husband at a mixer at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. She married Thomas Meiners Donnelly on September 3, 1955 at Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church in Newport, and they had eight children: Thomas ("Tom") Christian Donnelly (anthropologist, attorney, athletic director, husband, and father), Ann ("Nancy") Mary Donnelly Maushart (nurse, wife, and mother), Kevin Rodger Donnelly (real estate appraiser, real estate broker, husband, and father), Kathleen ("Kathy") Mary Donnelly Smith (artist, wife, and mother), Patricia ("Patty") Mary Donnelly Kues (nurse, wife, and mother), Mary Jude Donnelly Gruenschlaeger (business woman, wife, and mother), Molly Marie Donnelly Simmins (educator, wife, and mother), and Kelly Marie Donnelly Houp (nurse, wife, and mother), 27 grandchildren, and many great-grandchildren. Mary and Tom made sure that each of their eight children got 12 years of Catholic education. All eight children as adults are practicing Catholics.
Mary did many good works throughout her life, including volunteering for the Brighton Center in Newport. For decades she was a member of Saint Thomas Roman Catholic Church in Fort Thomas, Campbell County. Later in life she was employed as a secretary at Reuben Donnelley Yellow Pages in Cincinnati.
She smoked throughout her adult life. On March 23, 2000 she collapsed in the Newport K-Mart parking lot near Newport Central Catholic High School. Eleven weeks later, on June 8, 2000, Mary died of lung cancer that metastasized to the brain, surrounded by all her children and other family saying the rosary at home at 77 West Villa Place in Fort Thomas, at age 65. She is buried next to her husband and her parents, Christine Simon Stauber and Christian Stauber.
She was the fourth of four generations of mothers and daughters buried at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Wilder, Campbell County. Her ancestry was German.
DNA testing reveals Mary and her direct female descendents and ancestors and their brothers are of the clan of "Ursula" (mtDNA haplogroup U). DNA matriline testing reveals that is the same matrilineal clan the 10,000-year-old "Cheddar Man" found in Britain is from. Ursula lived about 45,000 years ago in what is now northern Greece near present-day Delphi. Ursula hunted with sophisticated stone tools. Her clan displaced the Neanderthal humans. Some of the earliest cave art was done by the clan of Ursula. About 11% of people of European ancestry are descended from Ursula.
The Donnelly family gemstone is the ruby. The flower is the tiger lily.
Most of this information comes from the Stauber and Donnelly families. Any errors, however, are mine alone. Please go to the "edit" link on this site with any corrections or additions.
A devoted daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother, Mary Margaret Rita Stauber Donnelly was a devout Catholic who, thanks to her son Tommy, fulfilled her dream of visiting the Vatican in 1999. Every time she would drive over the "Big Mac" Bridge into Ohio from Kentucky she would look at the Miraculous statue atop Immaculata Church in Mount Adams and say, "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee." She was a graduate of Academy Notre Dame of Providence, later to become Our Lady of Providence High School (OLP), in Newport. There she starred in the class play, "Pride and Prejudice." Two of her daughters, Patty and Mary Jude, graduated from OLP.
She had brown eyes and auburn hair, often dyed blonde, and probably had an O+ blood type.
Mary met her future husband at a mixer at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. She married Thomas Meiners Donnelly on September 3, 1955 at Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church in Newport, and they had eight children: Thomas ("Tom") Christian Donnelly (anthropologist, attorney, athletic director, husband, and father), Ann ("Nancy") Mary Donnelly Maushart (nurse, wife, and mother), Kevin Rodger Donnelly (real estate appraiser, real estate broker, husband, and father), Kathleen ("Kathy") Mary Donnelly Smith (artist, wife, and mother), Patricia ("Patty") Mary Donnelly Kues (nurse, wife, and mother), Mary Jude Donnelly Gruenschlaeger (business woman, wife, and mother), Molly Marie Donnelly Simmins (educator, wife, and mother), and Kelly Marie Donnelly Houp (nurse, wife, and mother), 27 grandchildren, and many great-grandchildren. Mary and Tom made sure that each of their eight children got 12 years of Catholic education. All eight children as adults are practicing Catholics.
Mary did many good works throughout her life, including volunteering for the Brighton Center in Newport. For decades she was a member of Saint Thomas Roman Catholic Church in Fort Thomas, Campbell County. Later in life she was employed as a secretary at Reuben Donnelley Yellow Pages in Cincinnati.
She smoked throughout her adult life. On March 23, 2000 she collapsed in the Newport K-Mart parking lot near Newport Central Catholic High School. Eleven weeks later, on June 8, 2000, Mary died of lung cancer that metastasized to the brain, surrounded by all her children and other family saying the rosary at home at 77 West Villa Place in Fort Thomas, at age 65. She is buried next to her husband and her parents, Christine Simon Stauber and Christian Stauber.
She was the fourth of four generations of mothers and daughters buried at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Wilder, Campbell County. Her ancestry was German.
DNA testing reveals Mary and her direct female descendents and ancestors and their brothers are of the clan of "Ursula" (mtDNA haplogroup U). DNA matriline testing reveals that is the same matrilineal clan the 10,000-year-old "Cheddar Man" found in Britain is from. Ursula lived about 45,000 years ago in what is now northern Greece near present-day Delphi. Ursula hunted with sophisticated stone tools. Her clan displaced the Neanderthal humans. Some of the earliest cave art was done by the clan of Ursula. About 11% of people of European ancestry are descended from Ursula.
The Donnelly family gemstone is the ruby. The flower is the tiger lily.
Most of this information comes from the Stauber and Donnelly families. Any errors, however, are mine alone. Please go to the "edit" link on this site with any corrections or additions.
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