HAWK Mary Estelle

1894 - 1949  (~ 55 years)

• Name	HAWK Mary Estelle
  Born	Feb 1894	Ironton, MO
  Gender	Female
  Died	May 1949	Elizabeth, NJ
  Buried	St. Gertrude's Cemetery, Colonia, NJ
  Person ID	I0367	Hans Landis Tree for trimming
  Last Modified	19 Jul 2010

  
  

  Father	HAWK William,   b. Nov 1858, Iron County, IL ,   d. BET. 1905 - 1910, Iron County, MO  (Age ~ 51 years)
  Mother	LONDON Martha A,   b. Apr 1858, Madison Co, MO ,   d. 21 Apr 1916, Madison Co, IL  (Age ~ 58 years)
  Married	ABT. 1874	Probably Iron Co, MO
  Family ID	F0073	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	SONNENBERG John Joseph,   b. 21 Jan 1890, Wakefield, KS ,   d. Sep 1955, Elizabeth, NJ  (Age 65 years)
  Married	11 Nov 1912	Franklin County, IL
  Children	1. Living   2. SONNENBERG Hudson Bernard,   b. 3 Apr 1915, Wood River, IL ,   d. 20 Mar 1956, Hollywood, FL  (Age 40 years)   3. SONNENBERG Maurice,   b. 9 May 1917, Madison Co, IL ,   d. Oct 1979, Rolla, Phelps, MO  (Age 62 years)   4. SONNENBERG John Harben,   b. 19 Jul 1926, Hartford, IL ,   d. 27 Feb 1945, Elizabeth, NJ  (Age 18 years)
  Family ID	F0208	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  For most of her life, Mary Estelle was known as Stella. She reported that she had been so small and sickley when she was born that they put her in a shoe box and filled it with cotton and placed the box by the stove to keep her warm. Stella did survive and grew to be a healthy 5' 6" tall. Stella, her mother, brother, and younger sister Bessie moved to Madison Co, IL sometime shortly after 1910 where they are still found on the Ironton census records. Stella met and married John Sonnenberg in 1912, and her younger brother Jessie lived with them until his sudden death in 1928. Stella was known to all as a kind and generous individual who took care of her family and helped strangers in time of need. The death of her youngest son, Jackie (Junior) in 1945 was devastating for Stella and she never seemed to quite recover from it. She attended church 2 times each Sunday, saying she was going once for Jackie and once for her. Stella died 4 years after the death of her son, from cancer which had spread throughout her entire body.