Person:Oswald Onsen (3)

1910 Wyandotte Co., KS, census, p.241A, Kansas City, April 20, 1910, Emily H. Gilmore: 1871 [can't read street name], 179/182, Oswald Onsen, head, M W 57, md. 28 yrs., Norway Norway Norway, immigrated 1870, naturalized, car repairer, street railway; Carrie, wife, F W 53, mother of 7 children, 3 living, Norway Norway Norway, immigrated 1882; Carrie, dau, F W 19, KS Norway Norway; Melvin, son, M W 14, KS Norway Norway. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Waters - Onsen Wedding July 18

 Stockport-- Miss Eunice Waters, Stockport, and Oswald Onsen, Albuquerque, N. Mex., were united in marriage July 18 at the home of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Arza Brown, southeast of Stockport.  Rev. Roger Swearengen, Stockport, officiated at the double ring ceremony.
 Guests at the wedding included Mrs. Swearengen, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Waters, Keosauqua, Mrs. Margaret Adkisson, Hillsboro, and the W. Cox family of near Ollie.
 The bride is a graduate of Stockport high school and taught for a number of years in Van Buren county schools.  She served as deputy county clerk for some time before going to New Mexico, where she has lived for the past few years.
 The couple left for Albuquerque, where Mr. Onsen owns and operates a cafe.  --The Mt. Pleasant (IA) News, Thursday, July 24, 1952; from actual page images at NewspaperArchive.com

also see: 71. Eunice Belle WATERS [Thomas-3, Samuel-2, William-1] was born 31 August 1907 at Lowell, Henry County, Iowa. She married 1st Oswald ONSEN in Stockport, Van Buren County, Iowa, 18 July 1952. Oswald died in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1 March 1957, where they were living at the time. She married 2nd in Albuquerque, 28 October 1962, P. F. August KEYSER. Apparently both husbands had children from previous marriages, but Eunice did not have any of her own [6]. http://home.netcom.com/~symbios/williamrachel.html 6. N. K. Wilson (1971?), Samuel (1822-1900) and Mary (Ketcham) Waters (1821-1876), Their Descendants to 1970 and Their Ancestors to the First Generations in America. Part III of The Family Record. Unpublished manuscript, Port Washington, New York.

The Albuquerque Tribune, March 4, 1957: Oswald Onsen Rites Planned on Monday

 Funeral services were held today at Exter-Tonella Chapel for Oswald Onsen, resident here nine years who died in a local hospital late Friday after an illness.
 Mr. Onsen, who was 68, lived at 8400 Central SE.  He came here from Kansas City, where he was a member of the Masonic Lodge.  He was a retired letter carrier.  Surviving are his widow; two sons, Marvin and Alfred Onsen of Albuquerque; a brother, Melvin Onsen of Muncie, Kan., three grandchildren and one great grandchild.  --from the actual page image at NewspaperArchive.com

Sunset Memorial Park, Albuquerque, Bernalillo Co., NM Section 16, loc 33 ~ ONSEN, Oswald ~ 1888 May 10 ~ 1957 Mar. 1 Section 19, loc 25 ~ ONSEN, Bessie Rozhon ~ 1908 Feb. 3 ~ 1969 Dec. 21 http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/nmcounties/cemeteries/sunset/sunseto.htm

Bessie Rozhon was Oswald's daughter-in-law, first wife of Oswald's son Alfred. The following online file made the same incorrect assumption from the Sunset Memorial Park records that I had first made: http://www.zodiacal.com/barbarowa/trees/familygroup.php?familyID=F499&tree=Rozhon

Eunice B. Kayser, b. Aug. 31, 1907, d. Feb. 26, 2001, residence, Albuquerque, Bernalillo Co., NM 87112, SSN 478-30-8035 issued Iowa before 1951. --SSDI (Ancestry.com)