Naomi Phoebe Welch, the first child of Worth Nelson Welch and Alice Maud Mary Williams, was born in Edwards Township, Ogemaw County, Michigan, on December 30, 1905. Her family relocated from their farm there to a farm south of Davison, Genesee County, Michigan, before 1920.
In the fall of 1922, when she was a junior in Davison High School, she met Hildred Jay Hart when his truck broke down in front of the Welch farmhouse. He left it there, and returned some weeks later with his father to retrieve it. The Welch family invited them to stay for dinner. That Christmas Hildred sent Naomi a Christmas greeting, and she sent him a New Year greeting. Letters began passing between them and Hildred visited her as often as he could.
After graduating from Davison High School, Naomi attended the Lansing Business University, graduating from there in 1925. She worked in an insurance office and Hildred kept courting her until he asked her to marry him in 1926. They were married on December 25, 1926, and they were blessed with two sons, Richard Marlin, born October 24, 1929, and Ronald Jay, born June 24, 1932.
Their family lived in the following Michigan locations: Lake Odessa, Ionia County; Hart's Corners, Tuscola County; Howell, Livingston, County; and Centreville, St. Joseph County. Naomi and Hildred were active in church work in all these places, joining American Baptist Convention churches where possible. She held several positions of devotion and trust in them.
During World War II, Naomi aided the war effort by operating a home nursery for pre-school children of women who worked in munitions and other war material plants. Just after the war ended, tragedy struck their family. Their eldest son, Richard, was killed by an electrical shock while working on a farm near Gregory, Michigan, in 1946. Ronald also met an untimely death, succumbing to a heart attack in 1978.
Naomi had always been supportive of Hildred's hobby of researching family history. She labored alongside him after he retired in 1965, and they began to write the book, "The Genealogical History of Lovira Hart Sr." To obtain information and materials, they visited places in the East where Hart ancestors had lived, and spent hours in libraries and museums. She then did a tremendous amount of work typing notes, letters and manuscripts. Without her help, Hildred could not have published the book in 1979.
Naomi faced declining health in her latter years, suffering from severe arthritis in her hips among other ailments. When Hildred died of a heart attack on September 13, 1989, she died 13 days later on September 26, 1989 at the age of nearly 84.
In the fall of 1922, when she was a junior in Davison High School, she met Hildred Jay Hart when his truck broke down in front of the Welch farmhouse. He left it there, and returned some weeks later with his father to retrieve it. The Welch family invited them to stay for dinner. That Christmas Hildred sent Naomi a Christmas greeting, and she sent him a New Year greeting. Letters began passing between them and Hildred visited her as often as he could.
After graduating from Davison High School, Naomi attended the Lansing Business University, graduating from there in 1925. She worked in an insurance office and Hildred kept courting her until he asked her to marry him in 1926. They were married on December 25, 1926, and they were blessed with two sons, Richard Marlin, born October 24, 1929, and Ronald Jay, born June 24, 1932.
Their family lived in the following Michigan locations: Lake Odessa, Ionia County; Hart's Corners, Tuscola County; Howell, Livingston, County; and Centreville, St. Joseph County. Naomi and Hildred were active in church work in all these places, joining American Baptist Convention churches where possible. She held several positions of devotion and trust in them.
During World War II, Naomi aided the war effort by operating a home nursery for pre-school children of women who worked in munitions and other war material plants. Just after the war ended, tragedy struck their family. Their eldest son, Richard, was killed by an electrical shock while working on a farm near Gregory, Michigan, in 1946. Ronald also met an untimely death, succumbing to a heart attack in 1978.
Naomi had always been supportive of Hildred's hobby of researching family history. She labored alongside him after he retired in 1965, and they began to write the book, "The Genealogical History of Lovira Hart Sr." To obtain information and materials, they visited places in the East where Hart ancestors had lived, and spent hours in libraries and museums. She then did a tremendous amount of work typing notes, letters and manuscripts. Without her help, Hildred could not have published the book in 1979.
Naomi faced declining health in her latter years, suffering from severe arthritis in her hips among other ailments. When Hildred died of a heart attack on September 13, 1989, she died 13 days later on September 26, 1989 at the age of nearly 84.
Naomi Phoebe Welch, the first child of Worth Nelson Welch and Alice Maud Mary Williams, was born in Edwards Township, Ogemaw County, Michigan, on December 30, 1905. Her family relocated from their farm there to a farm south of Davison, Genesee County, Michigan, before 1920.
In the fall of 1922, when she was a junior in Davison High School, she met Hildred Jay Hart when his truck broke down in front of the Welch farmhouse. He left it there, and returned some weeks later with his father to retrieve it. The Welch family invited them to stay for dinner. That Christmas Hildred sent Naomi a Christmas greeting, and she sent him a New Year greeting. Letters began passing between them and Hildred visited her as often as he could.
After graduating from Davison High School, Naomi attended the Lansing Business University, graduating from there in 1925. She worked in an insurance office and Hildred kept courting her until he asked her to marry him in 1926. They were married on December 25, 1926, and they were blessed with two sons, Richard Marlin, born October 24, 1929, and Ronald Jay, born June 24, 1932.
Their family lived in the following Michigan locations: Lake Odessa, Ionia County; Hart's Corners, Tuscola County; Howell, Livingston, County; and Centreville, St. Joseph County. Naomi and Hildred were active in church work in all these places, joining American Baptist Convention churches where possible. She held several positions of devotion and trust in them.
During World War II, Naomi aided the war effort by operating a home nursery for pre-school children of women who worked in munitions and other war material plants. Just after the war ended, tragedy struck their family. Their eldest son, Richard, was killed by an electrical shock while working on a farm near Gregory, Michigan, in 1946. Ronald also met an untimely death, succumbing to a heart attack in 1978.
Naomi had always been supportive of Hildred's hobby of researching family history. She labored alongside him after he retired in 1965, and they began to write the book, "The Genealogical History of Lovira Hart Sr." To obtain information and materials, they visited places in the East where Hart ancestors had lived, and spent hours in libraries and museums. She then did a tremendous amount of work typing notes, letters and manuscripts. Without her help, Hildred could not have published the book in 1979.
Naomi faced declining health in her latter years, suffering from severe arthritis in her hips among other ailments. When Hildred died of a heart attack on September 13, 1989, she died 13 days later on September 26, 1989 at the age of nearly 84.
In the fall of 1922, when she was a junior in Davison High School, she met Hildred Jay Hart when his truck broke down in front of the Welch farmhouse. He left it there, and returned some weeks later with his father to retrieve it. The Welch family invited them to stay for dinner. That Christmas Hildred sent Naomi a Christmas greeting, and she sent him a New Year greeting. Letters began passing between them and Hildred visited her as often as he could.
After graduating from Davison High School, Naomi attended the Lansing Business University, graduating from there in 1925. She worked in an insurance office and Hildred kept courting her until he asked her to marry him in 1926. They were married on December 25, 1926, and they were blessed with two sons, Richard Marlin, born October 24, 1929, and Ronald Jay, born June 24, 1932.
Their family lived in the following Michigan locations: Lake Odessa, Ionia County; Hart's Corners, Tuscola County; Howell, Livingston, County; and Centreville, St. Joseph County. Naomi and Hildred were active in church work in all these places, joining American Baptist Convention churches where possible. She held several positions of devotion and trust in them.
During World War II, Naomi aided the war effort by operating a home nursery for pre-school children of women who worked in munitions and other war material plants. Just after the war ended, tragedy struck their family. Their eldest son, Richard, was killed by an electrical shock while working on a farm near Gregory, Michigan, in 1946. Ronald also met an untimely death, succumbing to a heart attack in 1978.
Naomi had always been supportive of Hildred's hobby of researching family history. She labored alongside him after he retired in 1965, and they began to write the book, "The Genealogical History of Lovira Hart Sr." To obtain information and materials, they visited places in the East where Hart ancestors had lived, and spent hours in libraries and museums. She then did a tremendous amount of work typing notes, letters and manuscripts. Without her help, Hildred could not have published the book in 1979.
Naomi faced declining health in her latter years, suffering from severe arthritis in her hips among other ailments. When Hildred died of a heart attack on September 13, 1989, she died 13 days later on September 26, 1989 at the age of nearly 84.
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