Esther Ellen Ross (1915-2004)

Mabel Hoschouer & Esther Ellen Ross Photo courtesy of Robin (Hoschouer) Zeller

Esther Ross Sewing room supervisor @ The General Athletic Photos courtesy of Robin (Hoschouer) Zeller

J2 Esther Ellen Ross, born January 3, 1915, died 2000.

Esther Ross never married.

Esther was in the 8th grade in 1929 when the stock market crashed, her parents Linus and Catherine (Cassie) Ross asked her to quit school and help on the farm. They told her that they would buy her what she wanted and she picked out an emerald cut Garnet ring which was her birth stone. Esther helped raise horses and later learned to drive. She drove her parents anywhere they wanted to go and helped Mary take care of them in their golden years.

Esther worked and retired from The General Athletic in Greenville, Ohio. She was the sewing room supervisor.

Esther and her sister Mary lived together for many years and she helped Mary to raise most of her children. In later years she and Mary purchased a house in Ansonia, Ohio.

For Esther, never having children of her own, she had a big family of Mary's children and grandchildren and great grandchildren on down that loved her as another Mother and Grandmother.

Esther loved to travel and go fishing. She also visited all the cemeteries and wrote the names down and took flowers. Esther did extensive genealogy.

I know that our family greatly misses her.