Notes for David Carl Attride: David Attride, grandson of Ruth Weidenthal of Cleveland, undertook the genealogical project in honor of his grandmother, in about 1970 (See notes on Ruth Weidenthal). He is the contact man between the Weidenthal-Tilles-Heller-Lamdan families through this Familytreemaker Site. We owe him much thanks for all the research and thus the results in this large tree which has seemingly turned into a forest of branches in many countries and many denominations.
Via email to Yonina from David Attride, January 2004
Dear Yonina, I hope this year has been a rewarding one and satisfying year for you and your family. It has generally been a good year for my family. Sherry & I celebrated our 25th anniversary in June.............. Kevin, graduates from High School this next May. He was able to go on a mission trip to Fiji for 10 days last June. The trip made a deep impression on him. Our younger son, Tim, is in the 10th grade. He thoroughly enjoys being on an acrobatic team. They are great boys. Sherry earned her Master's degree in Marriage & Family Counseling several years ago. She works for a Pediatrician counseling some patients and their parents. I have now been working for Eastman Chemical Company for 24 years. For the last 2 years I have had 3 main projects: complete, startup and run a new facility to make Vitamin E; build, startup and run a new facility to make a raw material for a new pesticide (in equipment separate from that which makes Vit.E); and make a new blue dye for Fuji film. I thought others in the family might be interested in seeing on their computer copies of some of Grandpa's (Carl Broemel) paintings, some photos that he took in Greenland. Here is a summary of the family pictures that may not be obvious: Cafe Broemel in Stadtilm, Germany Ruth Broemel's brother, Carl Weidenthal Elisabeth Seckel, who married George Kock, Ruth Weidenthal's grandmother Rachel Koch's brothers ; Fred, George & Sam Johann F. Broemel, b. 1806.....Carl Broemel's grandfather Rose Koch (Rachel Koch's sister) and her daughter, Marie Sam Koch (Rachel Koch's brother) Sam Weidenthal family (He was Harry Weidenthal's brother)My web site that listed some pics of Carl Broemel: www.mounet.com/~dattride
My mother, Phyllis Broemel was born in Cleveland, OH in 1922. In 1944 she married my father, Wm Attride in New York. My Dad was in the U.S. Navy at the time. After he got out of the service, they moved to California where he earned a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at Un university. of Calif. at Berkeley. About then, 1949 they moved to the Chicago area where my two sisters were born (Sally in 1949 and Karen in 1952). Then about 1954 he took a job in southern California so I was born there (Fullerton) in 1956. In 1963 his company (North American Aviation) transferred him to Florida (the Cape Canaveral area), so I grew up in Florida and attended the Un university. of Florida where I earned a BS in Chemical Engineering in 1979. I landed a job with Eastman Kodak in eastern Tennessee where I have been ever since. Take care! David
Hi Yonina, My mother, Phyllis Broemel, was born 24 Oct 1922 in Cleveland, OH the daughter of Carl Broemel (1891-1984) and Ruth Weidenthal (1895-1985). My mother passed away 7 Jan. 1994 in Daytona Beach, FL. She died of lung cancer even though she had only smoked very lightly back in the 1940s & 1950s.
My Dad, Bill Attride, was born 23 Dec. 1922 in Riverside, CA the son of George Raiset Attride (1892-1965) and Beatrice Williams (1888-1976). He lives in Melbourne, FL and has re-married to Charlotte Hickman.
Adelia Koch: Ruth Weidenthals parents were Harry Samuel Weidenthal & Rachel Koch. Rachel's parents were George Koch & Elizabeth Seckel (both born in Germany and emigrated to Cleveland, OH about 1855. George & Elizabeth had 12 children (Including. Rachel). Adelia Koch was the daughter of Samuel Koch, one of Rachel's brothers. I have attempted some research on the these Kochs from Cleveland such as study the Cleveland Plain Dealer death index. I have not resorted to census on other records just because there are so many KOCHs in the area - the name is too common. They were not Jewish but Protestant so the Jewish records of the Western Reserve Historical Society do not help. Take care! David --- From: David Attride To: Yonina Matz Lamdan Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 5:47 AM My website that listed some pics of Carl Broemel: www.mounet.com/~dattride
My mother, Phyllis Broemel was born in Cleveland, OH in 1922. In 1944 she married my father, Wm Attride in New York. My Dad was in the U.S. Navy at the time. After he got out of the service, they moved to California where he earned a B.SC. in Mechanical Engineering at Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley. About then, 1949 they moved to the Chicago area where my two sisters were born (Sally in 1949 and Karen in 1952). Then about 1954 he took a job in southern California so I was born there (Fullerton) in 1956. In 1963 his company (North American Aviation) transferred him to Florida (the Cape Canaveral area), so I grew up in Florida and attended the Univ. of Florida where I earned a BS in Chemical Engineering in 1979. I landed a job with Eastman Kodak in eastern Tennessee where I have been ever since. Take care! David
Hi Yonina, (SOURCE: David Attride to Y.L. April 23, 2004)
It was bold of you to send me this e-mail I appreciate you thinking of me. Perhaps I have never told you how it came to be that I was not raised Jewish. Here is the story: Harry Weidenthal (1865-1933) was born in Cleveland to Abraham & Rebecca Weidenthal. Abraham was ³old school² and was most distressed with 25 year old Harry announced that he planned on marrying a gentile woman named Rachel Koch. Allegedly, Abraham said, ³son, if you marry this gentile you will be dead in my eyes.² Perhaps Harry was hardheaded but he married Rachel. Their daughter, Ruth (my grandmother) was born in Cleveland in 1895 but apparently saw little or nothing of her fatherıs family. Abraham passed away in 1902 (Ruth would have been 7 years old). When I discovered that Ruthıs paternal grandfather had Weidenthal brothers in Cleveland back in 1976, Ruth as 81 years old and still alert. We talked about what she knew of relatives on her fatherıs side in Cleveland. She told me this story and said that after Abraham died, Harryıs had a little to do with his brothers and sisters. I am not sure if time caused a gap to grow or if Harry was just not that close to his siblings.
So Ruth grew up not as a Jew but actually as a member of the somewhat Christian religion Christian Science. My mother, Phyllis was somewhat bound to Christian Science but my father was fairly typical Christian so as a small child, I grew up going to church some but we stopped going when I was 7 or 8 years old. However, in High School I felt a strong calling to religion and became a committed Christian at age 18.
My family saw The Passion and I found it to be a very powerful (albeit bloody) movie. Since I enjoy reading history I am fairly well acquainted with the sad history of pogroms against Jewish people. During the Crusades, people calling themselves Christians burned and tortured many Jews in Europe. Of course I have never had to experience any anti-Semitism but as I have read several histories of World War II and the Nuremberg trials, I have stopped and thought that my mother was enough Jewish to have been sent to the camps by the Gestapo in World War II Germany. I wonder if you are acquainted with the powerful book ³I Will Bear Witness² by Victor Klemperer. I was moved to tears by this poor manıs struggle and the insults and privation he endured. But back to my monologue about ³The Passion²: I did not see the film as anti-Semitic since I take the New Testament as accurate history. I blame not the Jews for Jesusı death but myself. My religion teaches that Jesus gave his life to pay the price for my sins. He was the ³Lamb of God² sacrificed just as the Old Testament Bible tells us that God told Moses to build a temple and begin a system where the priests sacrified lambs as an atonement for sin.
This movie does have the shortcoming that it does not give any clue as to what motivated Jesus to go through this horrible punishment at the hands of the Roman soldiers. As a Christian, I am familiar with the Gospel stories so I understand the motivation but the movie left that unclear.
I do feel extremely sad that some deranged people will come out of the movie perhaps talking about ³Christ killers.² As I said above, most Christians that I know agree that we all killed Jesus and would not blame any Jews especially those alive today. The rabbi who wrote your e-mail is certainly correct that Mel Gibson exceeded sensible limits and any factual basis by the extreme violence portrayed in the movie such as soldiers throwing Jesus in chains off a bridge. I am not Catholic so I hold no believe in the truth of the mystics to whom Mel Gibson turned for information.
I sincerely hope that the movie does not stir any wacko to any despicable harm against a Synagogue or Jewish person. We have way too much hatred in our world. As a Christian, one of the greatest teaching Jesus left for me was Love: Love to God and Love to my fellow person.
I have visited the Holocaust Museum twice and both times was moved to tears. I was also moved to because a member of that society to help support them financially. I think all Americans should visit that museum to see what hatred and prejudice can cause people to do.
In summary, thank you for sending me this e-mail so I can better understand the perspective of this rabbi.
David
More About David Carl Attride: BS Chemical Engineer: March 1979, U of Florida. Chemical Engineer: Bet. 1980 - 2004, Projects:Vitamin E, Pesticide, Fuji film dye. Eastman Chemical Co.: Kodak Films, Kingsport, Tennessee. Genealogist for Grandmoth: Cleveland, Ohio. Twin of Scott Pierce: 1956, Fullerton, Orange Co. California.
David Carl Attride Ancestry
More About David Carl Attride and Sherry Bonita Vernon: Marriage: June 1978, Atlanta, Georgia.
Children of David Carl Attride and Sherry Bonita Vernon are:
David Carl Attride (b. May 05, 1956)
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