Nellie Belle Garrison Wheeler Klepacki Veteran

Birth: 26 Jun 1893
Curwensville, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: 31 Jul 1975 (aged 82)
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Burial: Long Island National Cemetery

East Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 40.7624944, Longitude: -73.3998333
Plot: 3D 119
Memorial ID: 2725397 View Source

KLEPACKI-- Nellie M. July 31, 1975. Beloved wife of John P. (Ret. Pinkerton Capt.). Dear mother of Clarence Wheeler, & Virginia Weintz. Fond sister of Mildred Moore, Ethel Laird, Jennie Kelly, & Charles Garrison. Also survived by 5 grandchildren & 3 great grandchildren. Reposing John F. Jurek Funeral Home Inc., 23rd St. & 4 Ave., Bkn. Mass of Resurrection, Church of St., Thomas Aquinas (4th Ave. & 9th St.) mon., 9:30 A.M. Interment L.I. National Cemetery. (Daily News (New York, NY, 2 Aug 1975, Sat., Page 10)
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Nellie first married widower, Charles Augustus Wheeler in Trenton, NJ. He was 18 years her senior in 1911, his first wife, May E. Wilson having died 2 years earlier. Nellie and Charles moved to Brooklyn upon marrying which is where he was from. He died when she was about age 41, in 1933. Nellie and Charles had three children. Nellie married John Peter Klepacki of Brooklyn in 1938. They resided in the Park Slope area and had no children.

She was the second licensed New York City movie theater "Matron" (Usher). Nellie and each of her husbands and children, while young, worked for the Sanders families' movie houses in Brooklyn which included the Globe Theater. In the mid 1920's, Nellie sewed extra long pockets in her boys' knickers to put coins and other found things from the theater seats, while cleaning after movie patrons left.

During her 1st marriage, Nellie worked at Germain's Department Store on 4th Street in the early 1930s in Brooklyn.

Second husband John Peter Klepacki worked as a Long shoreman; BM2 (Boatswains Mate- US-Navy WWII) Bouncer in a bar, Sander's family movie theaters, Pinkerton guard (1950's-1960s)

Nellie was a great cook; she made a fantastic Sunday roast.