by baltWIE | Aug 16, 2024
Anna SchertleMarch 20, 1901-September 30, 1991 Anna H. Klaus was born in 1901 in Baltimore, Maryland. She was the identical twin sister of Marguerite Klaus. Anna, Marguerite, and their three siblings were the children of immigrant parents from Germany. When she was...
by baltWIE | Jul 15, 2024
Marguerite SchertleMarch 20, 1901-April 18, 2001 Marguerite Klaus was born on March 20th, 1901 in Baltimore, Maryland. She was the identical twin of Anna Klaus. Marguerite, Anna, and their three other siblings were the children of German immigrant parents. Marguerite...
by baltWIE | Jul 14, 2024
Phyllis Sanders was born around 1923. She began to work at the Woman’s Industrial Exchange in 1939 when she was about 16 years old, after graduating from vocational school. She was best friends with fellow waitress Rosalie Simon, to whom Phyllis referred the...
by baltWIE | Jul 13, 2024
Layne Bosserman was known as “The Baby” when she worked at the Woman’s Industrial Exchange for about 2 ½ years from the late 1990s to around 2000, when the Exchange was being revitalized. When she began working at the Exchange, Marguerite Schertle had recently retired...
by baltWIE | Jul 12, 2024
Carrie GeraghtyCirca 1907-January 10, 2003 Carrie Willback was born around 1907 in Baltimore, Maryland. She was raised on Aiken Street and attended St. John’s Parochial School when she was a child. She did not like school and therefore applied to work at the...
by baltWIE | Jul 11, 2024
Miss Willy outside of the Exchange building (December 31, 2000), Photo Courtesy of the Baltimore Sun Wilhelmina “Willy” Godwin1910 – September 18, 2002 Wilhelmina Godwin was born in 1910 to Charles Fischer Godwin and Lucia Fischer Godwin. She had a brother named...
