Individual Notes
Note for: Walter Alexander Pacacha, 27 MAR 1914 - 9 DEC 1975
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Education: Place: Attended Dusquene U;
Occupation: Place: Salesman
Event: Type: Latest Employer
Place: Westvaco (CA Reed Co.)
Event: Type: Hobbies
Place: Golf, sports, cigars
Event: Type: Burial Info
Place: Montoursville Cemetary
Religion: Place: Roman Catholic
Burial: Place: Montoursville Cemetery, Lycoming Co., PA
Individual Note: In 1937 at the time of his first son's birth, the family lived at 1064 Vine Avenue, Williamsport.
In 1939 at the time of his second son's birth, the family lived at 355 Washington Blvd., Williamsport.
Joined the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in about 1935, helped build the stone wall along the east side of PA Route 87 near Hillsgrove PA. While in the CCC he met Esther and married her in LaPorte Sullivan Co. PA. Wally stayed in Williamsport to work for the C.A. Reed Paper Company as a travelling salesman.
Wally coached and managed many basketball and baseball teams during his time in Williamsport, including the St. Joe's High School basketball team. He resigned in September 1947. Baseball included the Neyhart's and Five Points Hotel teams. The St. Mary's High School "Dutch" team also coached by Wally. He was also president of the Williamsport City Baseball League.
Florida Death Certificate No.: Certificate: 86037.
Individual Notes
Note for: Esther Victoria Smithgall, 27 SEP 1917 - 30 AUG 1997
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Occupation: Place: Housekeeping Supervisor
Event: Type: Latest Employer
Date: 1979
Place: Lycoming College
Event: Type: Hobbies
Place: gardening, crafts, pets
Event: Type: Burial Info
Place: St. James Lutheran (White Church) Church, Muncy Twp., PA
Religion: Place: No formal, converted to Catholicism w/ 1st marriage
Burial: Place: White Church Cemetery, Muncy, Lycoming Co., PA
Individual Note: The house at 818-816 Tucker Street was previously occupied (rented) by Albert & Lizze Sholder and Earl R. & Vivian Sholder who rented the property in 1930. Walter and Esther bought the property in the mid 1940s.
Esther told stories of her upbringing mostly by her grandmother. Her mother had to work and couldn't take care of Fred and Esther as young children. She remembers her grandmother and grandfather's farm near Muncy and riding horses at her great aunt Lucy's farm nearby. She also remember spending summers with an aunt in Picture Rocks at a house on the main street. They were given meat on Saturday by the Smithgall and Ging Meat Market in the Williamsport Growers Market House. They especially liked the sausage. She doesn't remember much about her father or his relatives since he wasn't around much. Her father had a motorcycle with a side-car in which he gave her and her brother rides around town in the early 1920s. She remembered her father's funeral when she was 7.
During the mid 1950s Walter and Esther divorced. Esther was always friendly with Walter's family even after their divorce; they still came to visit her and she to visit them in Pittsburgh. Esther soon met Walter Good aka "Walt", "Pappy" or "the Grouch."
Esther loved animals so much. The first family dog was a black dog named Dutchess, then a black and white chihuahua named Pepper and the calico cat, Sugar. Then came the poodles by the litter. There were always fish, stray cats and hand-fed backyard squirrels. She loved her son Bob's farm and the animals there.
Esther worked most of her life to support her sons. She worked at the Neece Paper Company and Lycoming College. She had all of her grandchildren convinced that she worked at a coin mint "making the pennies." She started coin collections for some of her grandchildren. She told her older grandchildren stories of the wild Lycoming College fraternity parties and Monday morning cleanup. She retired from Lycoming College in 1979. She was interested in all kinds of crafts and crocheting items to sell at bazaars and flea markets. She never owned a clothes dryer or dishwasher. She ironed the bed sheets. Sunday dinners were always a treat, as she was an excellent cook of home cooked simple foods. She slept on a sofa off the kitchen for over 50 years.
Esther and Walter belonged to several of the local "clubs" the Loyal Order of Moose and VFW in DuBoistown.
The family reunions almost always took place at World's End State Park with her family. Other reunions were held at her sister Mary's trailer and river lot between Nisbet and DuBoistown.
Individual Notes
Note for: Frederick Steven Pacacha, 28 APR 1939 -
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Education: Place: University of Miami
Occupation: Place: Golf Professional / Retail Sporting Goods Entrepreneur
Event: Type: Latest Employer
Place: Golf professional
Event: Type: Hobbies
Place: Golf
Individual Notes
Note for: Gerald Sylvester Pacacha, 23 DEC 1940 -
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Education: Place: Williamsport HS
Individual Notes
Note for: Walter Roscoe Good, 8 FEB 1904 - 15 AUG 1984
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Education: Place: Buried St. James (White Church) Cemetary, Muncy, PA
Occupation: Place: Avco Lycoming Laborer Assembler
Burial: Place: St. James (White Church) Cemetery, Muncy Twp., Lycoming, PA
Individual Note: Mr. Walter "Pappy" Good was formerly married and separated from his first wife until her death in Sept. 1962, he then married Esther Pacacha, whom he had lived with for the past two decades. He worked for Avco-Lycoming. He loved sports and always had a baseball game on TV.
He owned a restaurant in the 1930's with his former wife.
Individual Notes
Note for: Benedictus Pacacha, 15 APR 1885 - 5 MAY 1984
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Alias: /Pacaho/
Education: Place: 6th Grade
Occupation: Place: Locomotive Engineer in U.S. Steel Mill, Tailor
Emigration: Date: 1913
Place: Ellis Island, NY, NY
Event: Type: Latest Employer
Place: Bethlehem Steel
Religion: Place: Roman Catholic
Burial: Date: 9 MAY 1984
Place: St. Hedwig's Cemetery, West Mifflin, Allegheny, PA
Individual Note: Ben Pacacha worked as a tailor for the Austro-Hungarian Army before emigrating to the US in 1913. His trek to the US was delayed for 2 weeks in London. Ben got a job shoveling coal into the open-hearth at the Jones & Laughlin Steel Mill in Pittsburgh in 1913, years later he was promoted to "Dinky Driver" (the small locomotive pulling ladles) at the Duquesne Steel Mill. During the Great Depression, the family received soup twice a week from the church and Salvation Army. Ben dug shale coal to heat his house. Wally, Cy & Steve sold newspapers to help out.
Ben had 7 brothers, Stanley also came to the US. Stanley's children had very similar names including Irene and Regina.
The name Pacaho was the original from Poland.
When the were first married, they lived on Williams Street in Duquesne where their son Walter was born.
They moved to the Iowa Avenue house in 1925.
WWI Draft Registration Card Info: (not sure if this is our relative)
Benigny Pacocha
33, born May 15 1885
Resides: 509 Inglefield Street, Dusquene, Allegheny Co., PA
White, declared alien
Occupation: Laborer in brickyard of Carnegi Steel Co.
If not a US citizen, of which country are you a citizen?: Galicy, Austria
Wife: Mary Pacocha, same address
medium height and build, blue eyes and sandy hair
Sept 12, 1918
(to find record: Allegheny Co. Draft Board 8; under O, card 158)
The 1930 Federal Census list Beney Pacocha, 44, and his wife Mary, 38, living on Ohio Street, Mifflin Twp., Allegheny Co., PA. Their children are: Walter, 16; Josephine, 14; Irene, 12; Steve, 10; Regina, 5; Dolores, 3 years and 5 months; and Norbert, 9 months old. Ben and Mary were born in Poland. All the children were born in PA. Ben is a laborer in the steel mill Both immigrated in 1910. They speak Polish and English. Ben owns the house which is worth $4000. They do not own a radio. Ben is a naturalized citizen, Mary is "Al". (April 3, 1930; E.D. 2-699; Sheet 2B)
The Social Security Death Index lists Ben and Mary as "PACOCHA"