Sylva Elmina Weber^[1]

1878 - 1952  (74 years)

• Name	Sylva Elmina Weber
  Born	10 Jan 1878	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Name	Sylva Elmina Gischler
  Residence	1891	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Methodist
  Eby ID Number	00127-7953.3
  Died	26 Feb 1952
  Buried	White Chapel Memory Gardens, DeWitt, Onondaga Co., New York
  Person ID	I18736	Generations
  Last Modified	1 Dec 2024

  
  

  Father	Louis Sylvanus Weber,   b. 22 Mar 1853, Heidelberg, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 25 Oct 1934, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Emma Knechtel,   b. 24 Nov 1856, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 31 Jan 1926, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 69 years)
  Married	6 May 1875	Wallace Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada   [5]
  Family ID	F4780	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rev. Abel Dipp Gischler,   b. 3 May 1873, Frielingen, , Hessen, Germany ,   d. 28 Aug 1952, Syracuse, Onondaga Co., New York, USA  (Age 79 years)
  Married	14 May 1902	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Last Modified	3 Dec 2024
  Family ID	F44327	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Mrs. Gishler Dies; Retired Pastor's Wife MRS. SYLVIA WEBER GISHLER, wife of the Rev. Abel D. Gishler, retired Syracuse clergyman, died today at her home, 107 Landon av. Mr. Gishler was former pastor of the old Immanuel Evangelical Church in S. Townsend st. Born Jan. 10, 1878, in Heidelberg, Ont., Mrs. Gishler was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Louis S. Weber. She studied in Ontario schools and also at the St. Catherine's Ladies' College at St. Catherine's, Ont. SHE WAS married May 14, 1902, to Mr. Gisher, who accepted a call to the First Evangelical Congregation in Canada. Later he served in Buffalo, and then Syracuse. Mrs. Gishler was widely acclaimed for her social service work, and had served the City Missionary Society from 1929 to 1932, which carries on work supported by 65 churches of Syracuse and vicinity. Surviving, besides her husband, are a brother, Lewis A. Weber of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; three daughters, Mrs. Wayland Buck of Syracuse, Mrs. Ralph A. Philorook of Aurora, and Mrs. John Glasemire of Buffalo; two sons, W. Stewart Gishler of Buffalo, and the Rev. Lewis Gishler, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Muncie, Ind., and eight grandchildren. Services will be conducted in the Elmer E. Price funeral home at 2: 30 P.M. Friday by the Rev. Michael Salmon, pastor of the First Evangelical Church, and the Rev. Dr. L. Ernest Otter of Furman Methodist Church. Burial will be in White Chapel Memory Gardens, DeWitt. Friends may call from 7 to 9 P.M. tomorrow and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. Thursday. Syracuse, New York The Herald-Journal newspaper Tuesday, February 26, 1952 Page 12, Columns 3 and 4

  
  

• Sources

  [S10] Book - Vol II A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 618. [S148] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1901, Woolwich F-7 Page 7. [S130] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1881, Div. 1 Page 34. [S1821] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1891, Section 6 Page 7. [S2403] News - Unidentified Newspaper Obituary, Obituary of L. S. Weber.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 10 Jan 1878 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Methodist - 1891 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 14 May 1902 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - White Chapel Memory Gardens, DeWitt, Onondaga Co., New York  = Link to Google Earth