Person:Mary Bortner (2)

!BIR-MAR-DEATH: George Bortner of Codorus Twp., York Co., PA and His Descendants; by Charles H. Glatfelter; 1949; pp. 122-123 Mary Jane Bortner Hale Family Bible; copy in possession of Robert E. Givens, Clovis, CA. Personal Knowledge of Jennie Elizabeth Givens; Clovis, CA. ANCESTRAL FILE: This individual is the same as the one with AFN 3548-RW. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: The following was recorded by me in an interview with my mother, Jennie Elizabeth Hale Givens around 1970: Mary Jane Bortner Hale was 4' 10" tall about 5' around - she was fat. She had dark brown hair - which never got grey. She had a terrific sense of humor. She loved baseball and had a wireless set (radio). She hogged the headset during the World Series every year so no one else could listen. She was very sentimental and was very sorrowful after her son, Claude Irvin Hale (my grandfather), died she was very sad. She never went outside without a bonnet on. He was also a great cook - as were all the men in the Hale family. Breakfast could include: bacon and eggs, pork chops, steak, potatoes and gravy, pie, cake, sugar and molasses cookies. The parlor was always kept closed except for Jennie - she was the only grandchild allowed to play in it as she could go in and play the piano and look through the stereopticon and look at all the pictures in 3-D She had these other remembrances: They had a black and white dog named Mike. She would bathe in the laundry tub in the back of the house. They had to pump water by hand until they got plumbing and electricity later on. She always felt Cornwall, PA (where Mary Jane lived) was her home away from home. Christmas was beautiful there with lots of snow. She loved to pick the wild strawberries and raspberries with the next door neighbor, Johnny Peters. Mary Jane's sister Sarah always came at Christmas and made her and the rest of the grandkids eat nuts with salt to help them digest the food better.

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