(Dec. 20, 1907 – May 1, 1948)
This is my grandfather, Harry Paul Juers, whom I’ve never had the privilege of meeting. He died when he was only 40, so there’s not a lot I have on him…
Harry Paul Juers was 2nd borne to Adolf & Anna Juers. He had 4 other siblings & together they produced a great many children & grandchildren. Harry met my grandmother Helen Malvina McGinley, and they were married at the Church of Saint Monica, at 405-411 (now 413) East 79th Street in Manhattan. I believe it was 1928. Witnesses there were James F Dorney and Rose Werner (who I think is Helen’s Aunt Rose??). They lived at 770 E. 165th St, NYC.
They left the City proper & moved out to the Classon Point in the Bronx. Harry suffered from a heart condition called I.H.S.S., (idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis) and died at the mindbogglingly young age of 40. They just didn’t know much about it or how to treat it then. His son Harry Walter (dad’s eldest brother) also had it, AND Polio, yet he outlived them all to the age of 82, so go figure. Papa Harry left Nana behind with 6 boys. Their daughter Helen, both in 1933, died in 1937 of the measles, which she contracted from her cousin Paul Juers. Harry was buried 05/05/1948, at Calvary II Cemetery in Woodside, Queens, NY, where Helen, his wife, would join him in eternity on 02/23/19861. Both are interred in the same plot, but Helen’s name has yet to be added to the headstone. We’re working on getting that down.
I know very little about my grandfather, he died 17 years before I was born. My dad was only 10. He had to leave school to help support the family before enlisting in the Navy at 17. Anyone who may have known him, we’d be eternally grateful if you could share some information about him. But for now Papa Harry, this is your page, and all the pictures we have of you will be here…
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