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Mabel Julia Duncan 1890-1970
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Mabel Julia Duncan
was born on 17 Oct 1890 in Madisonville, Hamilton County, Ohio. She was raised
in Madisonville along with her three siblings,
Wilber 1888-1964,
Edward John 1893-1961 and
Addie Marie1896-1987.
Her parents were
Mabel Julia Duncan and Herbert B. Kohus Sr were married on 15 Apr 1907 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio (#346). They had seven children, Evelyn Elisabeth 1909-1978, Louis Oscar 1910-1994, Edward Henry 1912-1990, Herbert Bernard 1917-, Adeline Virginia 1920-1997, Robert 1924-1924 and William Clifford 1928-1991. Mabel joined the Catholic Church after marrying Herbert and took the name Mary when she was baptized. One of her favorite pastimes was playing bingo. After winning $500. at bingo in the early 1950's she used it as a down payment on a house east of Cincinnati in Mt. Repose, Ohio. She, Herbert and daughter Adeline, who lived at home and never married, moved there from Cincinnati where they had lived all their lives. Their house on Floyd Place in Mt Repose was just a few houses away from where her son Herbert Kohus Jr. (my father) had moved a year earlier. Floyd Place is a short dead end street in a subdivision in the suburbs. They moved in shortly after her husband Herbert Sr. retired from the Cincinnati Transit Company, now The Queen City Metro in Cincinnati. On 3 May 1969 Mabel's husband Herbert Bernard Kohus Sr died. Mabel (Mary) Julia (Duncan) Kohus died on 30 Sep 1970 after a long debilitating illness. She and Herbert are buried in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
By Mike Kohus: Herbert and Mabel Kohus were my grandparents. I have only fond memories of growing up just down the street from their house on Floyd Place. I visited often when I was a child, maybe too often but don't ever remember a discouraging word from them. Grandma would often get out her harmonica and play tunes like "Suwannee River," "My Old Kentucky Home" or "Yankee Doodle Dandy." I don't know when she began playing but she was pretty good at it. I would often ask to play it and she would always oblige. A typical summer day at my grandparents house was hanging out around the house, probably getting under foot, while grandpa chewed his Midwest Tobacco while watched the Reds baseball game on their old black and white TV, grandma fixing him something to eat, the windows all open, with the hum of the fan, (no AC in those days) and my aunts parakeet "Dee Dee" chirping profusely in the background. Sometimes the best memories are the simplest.
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Mabel Julia (Duncan) Kohus
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Mabel Julia (Duncan) Kohus
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Herbert Kohus Sr & Mabel J Duncan
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Herbert Bernard Kohus Sr. & Mabel Julia (Duncan) Kohus
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(L-R) 1. Mabel & son Louis Oscar - 2. Mabel & Herbert Sr, son Edward Henry - 3. Mabel & son Herbert Bernard Jr. - 4. Mabel and brother Edward John Duncan 1893-1961 - 5. Herb & Mabel with son William Clifford |
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Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio
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