My paternal grandfather. He was totally deaf from the age of 2, from a
Scarlet fever epidemic. He was all German, from Stuttgart and Bavaria.
He went to PA School for the Deaf and learned to be a typesetter for Chilton
publishing in Phila. He married his spouse in 1925, Ethel Augusta Nelson (Nielsen).
She was of Danish descent, Copenhagen and Isle of Fyn. She worked in the Lomax
rug mill and cleaned homes during the depression. They both had one son, my dad, Fred
Nelson Greiner. He was their only child due to the reason they felt they could
only handle one child being deaf. My dad, as a result of having deaf parents, didn't
learn to speak words until he was 5, in 1931, due to the kindness of his Uncle Charlie & firemen at the corner.
They gave him pennies to speak words. Also, Grandpop was the oldest of 10 offspring. Mostly
all the Greiner's are buried in Hillside Cemetery in Roslyn, PA.
Scarlet fever epidemic. He was all German, from Stuttgart and Bavaria.
He went to PA School for the Deaf and learned to be a typesetter for Chilton
publishing in Phila. He married his spouse in 1925, Ethel Augusta Nelson (Nielsen).
She was of Danish descent, Copenhagen and Isle of Fyn. She worked in the Lomax
rug mill and cleaned homes during the depression. They both had one son, my dad, Fred
Nelson Greiner. He was their only child due to the reason they felt they could
only handle one child being deaf. My dad, as a result of having deaf parents, didn't
learn to speak words until he was 5, in 1931, due to the kindness of his Uncle Charlie & firemen at the corner.
They gave him pennies to speak words. Also, Grandpop was the oldest of 10 offspring. Mostly
all the Greiner's are buried in Hillside Cemetery in Roslyn, PA.
My paternal grandfather. He was totally deaf from the age of 2, from a
Scarlet fever epidemic. He was all German, from Stuttgart and Bavaria.
He went to PA School for the Deaf and learned to be a typesetter for Chilton
publishing in Phila. He married his spouse in 1925, Ethel Augusta Nelson (Nielsen).
She was of Danish descent, Copenhagen and Isle of Fyn. She worked in the Lomax
rug mill and cleaned homes during the depression. They both had one son, my dad, Fred
Nelson Greiner. He was their only child due to the reason they felt they could
only handle one child being deaf. My dad, as a result of having deaf parents, didn't
learn to speak words until he was 5, in 1931, due to the kindness of his Uncle Charlie & firemen at the corner.
They gave him pennies to speak words. Also, Grandpop was the oldest of 10 offspring. Mostly
all the Greiner's are buried in Hillside Cemetery in Roslyn, PA.
Scarlet fever epidemic. He was all German, from Stuttgart and Bavaria.
He went to PA School for the Deaf and learned to be a typesetter for Chilton
publishing in Phila. He married his spouse in 1925, Ethel Augusta Nelson (Nielsen).
She was of Danish descent, Copenhagen and Isle of Fyn. She worked in the Lomax
rug mill and cleaned homes during the depression. They both had one son, my dad, Fred
Nelson Greiner. He was their only child due to the reason they felt they could
only handle one child being deaf. My dad, as a result of having deaf parents, didn't
learn to speak words until he was 5, in 1931, due to the kindness of his Uncle Charlie & firemen at the corner.
They gave him pennies to speak words. Also, Grandpop was the oldest of 10 offspring. Mostly
all the Greiner's are buried in Hillside Cemetery in Roslyn, PA.
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