3. JACOB ELI3 WOLF (JACOBRUSSELL2, JACOB1) was born March 21, 1907 in Ravenna, Ohio, and died September 04, 1990 in Ravenna, Ohio. He married (1) HELEN MILLER October 05, 1932 in Ravenna, Ohio, daughter of BELLE. She was born January 23, 1909 in Ravenna, Ohio, and died September 04, 1987 in Los Angeles, Calif.. He married (2) ESTHER MAY SWENNINGSON August 03, 1949 in Ravenna, Ohio, daughter of HANS SWENNINGSON and PEARL GLASS. She was born May 22, 1906 in Salem, Ohio, and died November 21, 2001 in Ravenna, Ohio.
Notes for JACOB ELI WOLF:
Jacob Eli Wolf, Sally's father, was born in the family house at 322 Franklin St. in Ravenna, and grew up in Ravenna graduating from Ravenna High School in 1927. He worked briefly for his father at a junkyard his father owned in Ravenna, marrying his first wife, Helen Miller in 1932, and living briefly in Ravenna. They moved to Los Angeles, Calif. about 1936, during the so-called dust-bowl, post-depression years when many people migrated to California in search of better jobs (depicted in the movie "The Grapes of Wrath" starring Henry Fonda).
Jake found a job in Los Angeles working for Railway Express. His first three children, John, Marie, and Gerald were raised in Los Angeles in the late 30's and early 40's. He worked for the railroad until 1945, when he then was forced to return to Ravenna, Ohio to help run his father's junkyard business, due to his father's faltering health. His wife, Helen, chose not to return to Ohio with him, and within a short time they were formally divorced, with his children remaining in California to be raised by their mother.
Jake married his second wife, Esther Swenningson, in 1949, and continued running his father's junkyard after the death of his father in 1949. His daughter, Sally, was born in 1952. He later sold the junkyard business, and worked maintence in a tool factory, before retiring completely. He served as an officer of Ravenna's Civil Defense during the early Cold War years, and was a member of the Ravenna Lions and Moose Clubs.
He and his second wife Esther purchased a summer cottage up on Bob's Lake, Canada in 1949, which they went to just about every summer through 1989, inviting up many of their friends and relatives throughout his remaining years. He passed the cottage on to his daughter Sally, and son-in-law in 1985 to run, which they still do to this day. Jake suffered a debilitating heart attack and stroke in 1988, endured a successful heart by-pass operation that year at the age of 81, and passed away in 1990. (Compiled- Aug. 2000)
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Burial: September 07, 1990, Ravenna, Ohio (Maple Grove Cemetary)
Notes for ESTHER MAY SWENNINGSON:
Esther Wolf, Sally's mother, continued to live at 322 Franklin St. Ravenna, Ohio after her husband, Jake, passed away in Sept. 1990. She lived there until December, 2000 when she was placed in Long Meadow Nursing Home in Ravenna at the age of 94. The family home was sold and vacated on April 26, 2001 after being in the Wolf Family for approximately 95 years. Four Generations of Wolf's had resided in the house throughout the 20th Century. Esther passed away peacefully at the Nursing Home in Nov. 2001 at the grand age of 95. (Kevin Langan- November, 2001)
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Burial: November 27, 2001, Ravenna, Ohio (Maple Grove Cemetery)
Children of JACOB WOLF and HELEN MILLER are: