KEN POORMAN lock haven pa

Ryan Pix

	Daniel & Frances Monroe Ryan My G-G-Grandparents (Little Gram)
John "Mick" Ryan	Maude Ryan Poorman Big Gram	Hazel Ryan Stoddart Aunt Hazel
Mary Ryan Aunt Mary Nurse	Mary Ryan McNerney Great Aunt Mary	Mary Ryan Aunt Mary Teenager
The Ryan Family - Dan & Frances Monroe Ryan had 5 kids, Maude, Charley, Hazel, Mick and Mary.  Maude, my gram, married John Sylvester Poorman and had three kids, Ken, my dad, Aunt Frances (Smith) and Aunt Kathryn (Moon).  They all worked at the Paper mill.  She was the only one of them who had kids.  Mick was the town drunk.  I only ever saw him a few times, and didn't call him uncle.  I saw my dad kick his butt once.  Couldn't believe my eyes.  Mick used foul language in fromt of gram and me, and dad took him apart, and threw the pieces in the yard, the end.  I never saw Mick again after that.  Charlie was a sweetie, and lived and worked as a bartender in Harrisburg.  We saw him occasionally when he visited Gram.  I rode in the hearse when dad drove it to Harrisburg to pick up Uncle Charlie's dead body.  I don't have any photos of him, but he looked a lot like Gram.  We visited Aunt Mary and Uncle Mick McNerney pretty regularly.  Aunt Hazel married Bill Stoddart from Philly, and they ran the Town Tavern for many years in Lock Haven, until Uncle Bill died.  I spent a lot of time with them.  I still remember Aunt Hazel dying, and still feel badly about it.  She always bought me anything I wanted.  All I had to do was point.  Then Uncle Bill took me around town a lot after she died.  They used to take me to Philly a lot when I was little, to visit his sister, Mary Graff.  I spent a lot of time with Uncle Bill when he was dying too.  But I spent the most time with Gram.  I have a treasure chest of good memories of her.

Four Generations Gram Maude Ryan Poorman, Dad & Me, GG Frances Monroe Ryan Big Gram & Little Gram

Joan O'Donnell	St. Mary of the Mount on Mt. Washington in Pittsburgh, PA, where our Sr. Borgia is Director of Religious Education, 2008.	Sr. Francis Borgia, IHM
SIster Borgia is Uncle Mick & Aunt Mary Ryan McNerney's Niece.  She was Joan O'Donnell of Lock Haven, PA.  Joan lived up on Susquehanna Avenue.  I think she was Principal of the Catholic High School in Bellefonte at one time.  Now, 2008, she is Sr. Francis O'Donnell IHM, and has been Director of Religious Education for several years at St. Mary of the Mount in Pittsburgh.  She tells me she will be retiring to their home in Scranton soon, IHM CENTER.  I hope we can get up to see her there.  It seems I only see her at funerals now.  I saw her at Aunt Mary's funeral at St. Agnes, and last at Dorothy Wolfkeil's funeral at IC.