Catharine Karley

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• Name: Catharine Welz
• Name: Catherine Carle
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-104197

Catharine — George Welz. George was born Abt 1833, Of, Wellesley Village, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/207800447
• Name: Margaret Sieling
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-100241

Margaret married Louis Sieling 16 Sep 1919, Linwood, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Louis (son of Henry Sieling and Christina Stange) was born 1864, Mornington Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1942; was buried , Fairview Cemetery, Listowel, Wallace Township, Perth County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Frederika Foell
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-198024
• Residence: 1911, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Frederika — Samuel Foell. Samuel (son of John Foell and Elizabeth Koch) was born Jun 1862, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 22 Aug 1933, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Lydia Badley
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-176790

Notes:

Lydia Badley "At her home on the Lake Road in Puslinch, in her 60^th year. Wife of George H. Badley. She was born in Peel Township, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Foell, now of Waterloo. She resided in Brampton three years and in Galt for one year, before going to Puslinch Township about two years ago. She was a member of Galt Pentecostal Tabernacle. Surviving are her husband; two sons, Harold at home; Lome of Blythe; one daughter, Mrs. T. Krull of Galt; her mother in Waterloo; and five brothers. The funeral took place on Monday afternoon from her residence, where the service was conducted by Rev. J. C. Kleinsteuber of Galt and interment was in Hespeler Cemetery. Pallbearers: C. R. Bond, Robert Reeve, James Aiken, Wesley Tremain, Clifford Tremain and Irvin Kreig."

Lydia married George H. Badley 2 Jul 1904, , Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada. George was born 1873, Peel Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-319306
• Occupation: 1911, Glen Allan, Peel Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario; farmer

John married Margaret Anna "Anna" Diebel 8 May 1911, Mildmay, Carrick Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada. Margaret was born 13 May 1883, Mildmay, Carrick Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada; died 14 Aug 1956, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-52189

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• Business: 16 King St. N., Waterloo, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; A. H. Foell & Co.
• Name: A. H. Foell
• Residence: 47 Avondale Ave. S., Waterloo, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-198025
• Occupation: 1911, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Carpenter
• Residence: 1911, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Notes:

Flash from the Past: Waterloo trucking firm also sold ice from Silver Lake

For most of four decades, A. H. Foell & Co. was a major trucking firm in the north half of today's Waterloo Region. It also sold blocks of "clean, natural ice" that it cut from Silver Lake in Waterloo Park.

Last week's "mystery" photo, taken by Ernest Denton of Kitchener in 1930, shows part of the firm's Waterloo home base at 43-47 Avondale St. S., (then Victoria Street South) just west of the downtown. It also had a storefront office at 16 King St. N.

A half dozen readers phoned or sent emails identifying the site in the photo. Wilbert Sommers of Kitchener, who grew up nearby, said he was in the Foell garage several times as a boy. And Gerry Fischer of Waterloo knew the site because he long ago delivered Record newspapers on the street.

This is only the right side of Denton's photo. The complete image (there wasn't space to publish it all) shows an equal number of vehicles on the left side.

The big house in the picture (not a Foell property) is still there. But the old Foell garage on the left was long ago replaced by a small apartment building. You would never guess today that this residential street, from about 1919 to the late 1950s, held a trucking firm that at its peak had two dozen vehicles.

Addison Henry Foell, the founder, lived at 47 Avondale (Victoria) in a house that's still standing. According to his nephew, Don Foell, 81, of Waterloo, Addison got initial financing from his father, Samuel, who insisted that another son, Don's father, Alvin, help to manage the firm. A third brother, John, was also very involved.

Alvin's family lived at 44 Dunbar Rd. S. (then Charles Street South), which backed on to Addison's property on Avondale. Close by at 72 Dunbar (then Charles), Koch Transport, now based in Cambridge, was started by Wilfred and Elvina Koch in 1924.

Don Foell was just 11 months old when the Denton photo was taken, but A.H. Foell & Co. quickly became a big part of his life, as it was for many of his siblings and cousins.

"We were driving trucks when we were 10 years old," he recalled in an interview.

Laverne Foell of Huntsville, Ont., one of Addison's sons, sent an email describing his boyhood years.

""It was so exciting to grow up in that environment . . . There were so many exciting things happening every day, with primitive equipment breakdowns, tire blow outs, construction activity, horses, harvesting ice, accidents, mechanics fixing trucks, loading and unloading freight, moving household furniture, picking up mail for the post office, accompanying drivers on trips and listening to their adventures."

For years, A. H. Foell & Co. had the only PCV (public commercial vehicle) licences for hauling freight to London, Ont., and to Toronto, where it had a warehouse and two trucks. It also had the only permit for handling household moves to out-of-town sites. Plus one for carrying heavy equipment.

"In my day, there were trucks leaving Waterloo at least twice a day to Toronto and one going to London," Don Foell said.

There was no Highway 401 in those years and trucks weren't as durable as they are now. Foell recalled an Ottawa trip his father made in the firm's 1928 Gotfredson truck.

"He started with six tires and only one of them lasted for the entire trip."

In town, Foell drivers did everything from picking up mailbox contents for the Waterloo post office to delivering food orders from the York Trading Co. wholesale grocery at King and Madison streets in Kitchener. They carried loads for the Snyder's Furniture Co. and hauled machinery made at the Waterloo Manufacturing Co.

Don Foell recalled unloading flour from boxcars at the Waterloo train station on Regina Street (then Queen Street) and delivering it to Henderson's Bakery.

"We'd be as white as you could get when we were done, just covered in flour."

Some short trips were made by horse and wagon. One of the firm's horses, Pete, was an old Waterloo firehall horse, Don Foell said. If you were on the road and a fire alarm sounded, Pete would head for the firehall.

"You could not stop him."

At Silver Lake, A.H. Foell & Co. had a three-storey insulated building to store huge ice blocks cut from the lake with a mobile saw powered by an old Model T Ford. A second Model T powered a conveyor belt that lifted the blocks into the building.

"As kids we sometimes stood on those blocks of ice in the water and floated on them to the conveyor belt," said Don Foell, who still has a nine-metre pole with a steel hook that was used to move ice blocks.

Addison Foell was a man who enjoyed "any physical challenges he could find," Laverne Foell wrote.

"As my father got older he hired a manager to look after routine aspects of the business so he could spend more time with the heavy equipment challenges. He moved massive punch presses that required a lot of ingenuity to move and erect on site - often requiring the demolition of walls and innovative use of jacks and pulley systems. He also moved houses."

As time passed, A.H. Foell & Co. gradually sold its various licences to rival firms. The heavy equipment licence was the last to be sold. The firm ceased operations not long after Addison Foell's death in May 1954.

Don Foell remained in Waterloo. When he retired in 1988, he was superintendent of planning and construction for the Waterloo County Board of Education, now the Waterloo Region District School Board. Laverne Foell is now retired as a Toronto Dominion Bank manager in Huntsville.

"Flash From The Past: Waterloo Trucking Firm Also Sold Ice From Silver Lake". 2011. Therecord.Com. https://www.therecord.com/life/2011/04/15/flash-from-the-past-waterloo-trucking-firm-also-sold-ice-from-silver-lake.html.

Addison — Lillian Viola Herlick. Lillian was born 31 Aug 1897; died 1980; was buried , Memory Gardens Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Residence: 44 Dunbar Rd., S., Waterloo, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-198026
• Occupation: 1911, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1911, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-198027
• Residence: 1911, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-176792
• Residence: 1939, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada

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• Name: Laura May Krull
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-176794
• Residence: 1939, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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KRULL, Laura

At Cambridge Memorial Hospital, on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 1989, in her 81st year, formerly of RR 1, Branchton. Beloved wife of Charles (Ted) Krull; dear mother of Glen Douglas of Nova Scotia and Robert James of Sarnia. Predeceased by two brothers, Harold and Lorne Badley. Loving grandmother of six grandchildren. Mrs. Krull is resting at Coutts and Son Funeral Home, 98 St. Andrews St., Cambridge, where the family will receive friends Thursday, 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral and committal service in the funeral home chapel, Friday at 1: 30 p.m., with Rev. Gord Griggs officiating. Interment Memory Gardens.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record 13 Sep 1989 pg A11

Laura married Charles Theodore "Ted" Krull 24 Dec 1932, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Charles (son of Theodore Wellington Krull and Hannah Ann Statz) was born 11 Mar 1912, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Bea Foell
• Name: Laura Beatrice May Martin
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-162556

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LAURA BEATRICE (BEA) MARTIN nee Foell Bea died peacefully, at Trinity Village Care Centre, on Monday, September 29, 2008 in her 97th year. Beatrice was the beloved wife of Amos (Al) Martin who predeceased her on July 25, 1996. She was also predeceased by three brothers, Clarence Foell and wife Grace, A. Ellwood Foell and wife Doris, and Woodrow Foell. She is sadly missed by her sister-in-law, Joan Foell; brother-in-law, Oscar Martin and his wife Marie; sister-in-law, Irene Lichty; many nieces and nephews; and great-nieces and nephews. In addition, Beatrice was a very special great-great-aunt. Bea was a former employee of Bell Canada and Economical Mutual Insurance. She was also an active member of Emmanuel United Church in Waterloo. A special thank you to the staff at Trinity Village Care Centre. Your love and compassion was greatly appreciated. Relatives and friends are invited to share memories of Beatrice during visitation on Thursday, October 2, 2008 from 12-12: 45 p.m. The funeral service to celebrate her life will be held in the chapel of the Erb & Good Family Funeral Home, 171 King St. S., Waterloo, on Thursday at 1 p.m. Interment will follow at Memory Gardens, Breslau. A reception will be held in the Fireside Reception Room of the funeral home. As expressions of sympathy, memorial donations may be made to Emmanuel United Church or the charity of your choice by contacting the funeral home at www.erbgood.com or 519-745-8445. "She whom we love and lose is no longer where she was before. She is now wherever we are." Saint John Chrysostom.

WATERLOO REGION RECORD, Kitchener, Ontario - Sep. 30, 2008

Laura — Amos Lionel “Al” Martin. Amos (son of Peter Oscar Martin and Nancy Shantz) was born 15 Oct 1909, , Ontario, Canada; died 25 Jul 1996; was buried , Memory Gardens Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Ellwood Foell
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-319349

Alvin — Doris Florence Allcock. Doris was born 26 Oct 1915, Walthamstow, , Essex, England; died 15 Jan 2006; was buried , Parkview Cemetery, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Military: WW2
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-317213
• Residence: 1921, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Clarence married Grace Marie Franklin 14 Aug 1941, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada. Grace was born 2 Aug 1916, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; died 15 Apr 2001, Cambridge Century Inn 991 King St. E., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Memory Gardens Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-321222

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FOELL, Woodrow (Woody) - With sadness we announce the passing of our husband, father and grandfather, on Sunday October 16, 2005 at his residence at the age of 81 years. Survived by his wife Joan, his children Mary Ann (John), Christine, Judy, Suzy (Bill) and Carol. Also survived by his sister Beatrice and nine grandchildren.

Cremation has taken place, funeral arrangements are private, in lieu of flowers those who wish may make a memorial donation to Project Share through Morse & Son Funeral Homes.

"Woodrow Foell - Sunday, October 16Th, 2005". 2022. Morseandson.Com. https://www.morseandson.com/memorials/woodrow-foell/112332/obituary.php.

Woodrow — Joan Marie Powers. Joan (daughter of Edward Columbus Powers and Gladys Irene Stock) was born 14 Jun 1929, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 27 Feb 2022, Niagara Falls, Welland Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Cremated. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-52191