Marie Theresa Lindberg

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Called "Dae" -- pronounced like [day] -- by everyone including her son. She told him at about age 10 or 11 that she wanted him to call her Dae instead of mom. Dae comes from her sister, Clara, who was younger.
Clara as a baby couldn't say Theresa, and so called her Dae. She was never known as Marie.

Had ricketts (spelling?) when she was a child. Her mother took her for a daily ride on the Staten Island ferry daily when she was a baby. Ricketts is a Vitamin D deficiency, which wasn't known at the time. Her mother was told that fresh air and sunshine would do her good, so they went on the ferry. It must have been difficult to set aside time every day of the week to ride the ferry in both directions.

Fell in front of a store and broke her hip, which started the decline in her health ending in her death. The store sent someone around to offer her $50.00, which was quite a chunk of money at the time, to compensate for her injury. The doctor she saw for this injury examined her, and commented that she must never have been able to have children. She replied that she had one. "How long did he live?" the doctor asked. "He drove me here today," was her reply.

According to the original marriage certificate, the witnesses to the marriage were Clara Lindberg, Dae's, and J. Henry (or Harry) Walpern. The handwriting is not clear. Dr Jacob W. Lorh, pastor of the German
Evangelican Church (possibly Leherwerhorn St), Brooklyn, NY, performed the marriage. I have made the best interpretation of the handwriting that I could, but spellings could be quite different from what I've typed. The envelope says "Certificate of Marriage for Mr. & Mrs. Frederick C. Droste (Lindberg)."

A strong willed individual. She considered that she knew two perfect people in her life -- her father and her son. At one time she decided she needed a rose trellis, and did not trust her husband to build it correctly. She ordered the materials and had them delivered without his knowledge. One day, just after Fred C left for work, she told Fred R (her son) that she had a job for him. He built the trellis, under Dae's supervision, and it was done by the time dad (Fred C) got home.

Cremated and remains put into a family niche in Rosehill Crematory and Cemetery, Route 25, Linden, NJ.

Marie married Frederick Christian Droste 27 Oct 1915, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States. Frederick was born 5 Mar 1888, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States; died 5 Jan 1970, Ridgewood, Bergen, New Jersey, United States; was buried 8 Jan 1970, Ridgewood, Bergen, New Jersey, United States. [Group Sheet]

1. Frederick Robert Droste was born 6 Nov 1917, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States; died 14 May 1995, Easton, Talbot, Maryland, United States.