Sophie ZOELLER b. Sep 10 1879 d. Feb 21 1971: Our Family History

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1879 - 1971

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Name Sophie ZOELLER

Birth Sep 10 1879

Gender Female

Death Feb 21 1971

Person ID I218 Fisher | Nelson

Last Modified 30 Jun 2014

Notes

As remembered by Barbara Meister Nelson

Grandma Sophie Zoeller Meister was born in 1879, the year Thomas Alva Edison invented the incandescent light bulb.

She entered this world 47 years before Grandma Nadine Gunn Fisher was born but they shared the same date, September 10 under the Zodiac sign of Virgo.

Barbara Meister Nelson describes Grandma Sophie as a fanatic about cleaning and maintaining an orderly house so evidently both Grandma Sophie and Grandma Nadine from different generations carried on the tradition of the true Virgo? i.e. "Cleanliness and Godliness go hand in hand." Since Barbara and her parents lived with Sophie and Frank in Chicago for many years, Barbara recalls continuous house cleaning, dusting, washing, scrubbing, and polishing.

Grandma Sophie was high spirited, a feisty woman with an independent will of iron. She was ejected from three nursing homes in her later years when she was confined to a wheel chair. On one occasion she and a friend at the Nursing Home celebrated life over whiskey and fried chicken. When Sophie left her friend's room she banged into several people in the hallway with her wheel chair.

Sophie Meister died on February 21, 1971 at the age of 92 after a full life and a legacy of 21 descendants.

Father	August ZOELLER, b. Germany
Mother	Josephine KAISER
Family ID	F40	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Frank MEISTER, Sr, b. Jun 08 1878 d. Mar 31 1954

Children

	1. Frank MEISTER, Jr, b. Nov 08 1906 d. Jan 18 1968
	2. Florence MEISTER, b. 1899, Illinois
	3. Evelyn W MEISTER, b. 1908, Illinois

Family ID F126 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 7 Oct 2014

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