Theresa Ann Garber (or Tag, as she was known to her family) was born at home (an apartment on W. Barry Avenue) during a snow storm in Chicago that delayed the doctor from arriving in time to deliver her. She was the first daughter born to Catherine Julia (Commes) and Nicholas J. (Nick) Garber.
She was named after her paternal grandmother, whom she never got to meet as she had passed when her father was only nine years old.
Nick, a WWI vet, was able to get a lump sum of money because of his time in the service and used it to put a down payment on their house at 2725 N. Parkside in Chicago and this is where the family called home for the rest of Nick and Catherine's lives.
Tag went to Schubert Grammar School and then to Steinmetz High School, graduating in February of 1948. From there she went to keypunching school with IBM. She advanced in the field and was quite a career woman at a time when that wasn't so common.
She learned to sew from her seamstress mother and Tag was known to be very adept at it and was very creative.
She was married in 1959 to William Baker and they had one child, a daughter, Cheri. They lived in South Holland, Illinois where they were both active in the JayCee's and Tag was very involved in the PTA.
When Bill's job took him north they relocated to Mount Prospect, Illinois.
When their marriage dissolved, Tag moved back to her beloved Chicago home, with Cheri, to help her now widowed mother. After Catherine passed away, Tag got back into keypunching and then that evolved into word processing.
After Cheri got older Tag decided to relocate to Albuquerque, New Mexico to be near her sister, Helen. She lived there for several years but was unable to find a job to sustain her there so she moved back to be near her daughter who was now married. She bought a place in Wooddale, Illinois and worked for many years, retiring from Groot in 1995.
Once she became a grandmother, she was very involved in her grandchildren's lives.
She may not have been born a Baker but she definitely was an excellent baker and her grandchildren were the lucky recipients of this. And she was known to make them any kind of Halloween costume they wanted. She amassed a large Lego collection and would spend hours helping her grandsons build with them.
She loved to walk through a nearby forest preserve or a park and her grandsons were often companions on these walks in which they would feed ducks or just enjoy nature, which they recall quite fondly.
After several years of retirement, Tag moved to an apartment as her home became too much work. She lived at Peace Memorial in Downers Grove, Illinois and was very active with the different needs of that community, serving on several different committees and in several roles.
In her final years, as her health declined, Theresa was at Bridgeway of Bensenville and then Bridgeway Senior Living, both in Bensenville, Illinois.
A warm, generous woman with a wicked sense of humor, she is deeply missed by all who knew and loved her.
She was named after her paternal grandmother, whom she never got to meet as she had passed when her father was only nine years old.
Nick, a WWI vet, was able to get a lump sum of money because of his time in the service and used it to put a down payment on their house at 2725 N. Parkside in Chicago and this is where the family called home for the rest of Nick and Catherine's lives.
Tag went to Schubert Grammar School and then to Steinmetz High School, graduating in February of 1948. From there she went to keypunching school with IBM. She advanced in the field and was quite a career woman at a time when that wasn't so common.
She learned to sew from her seamstress mother and Tag was known to be very adept at it and was very creative.
She was married in 1959 to William Baker and they had one child, a daughter, Cheri. They lived in South Holland, Illinois where they were both active in the JayCee's and Tag was very involved in the PTA.
When Bill's job took him north they relocated to Mount Prospect, Illinois.
When their marriage dissolved, Tag moved back to her beloved Chicago home, with Cheri, to help her now widowed mother. After Catherine passed away, Tag got back into keypunching and then that evolved into word processing.
After Cheri got older Tag decided to relocate to Albuquerque, New Mexico to be near her sister, Helen. She lived there for several years but was unable to find a job to sustain her there so she moved back to be near her daughter who was now married. She bought a place in Wooddale, Illinois and worked for many years, retiring from Groot in 1995.
Once she became a grandmother, she was very involved in her grandchildren's lives.
She may not have been born a Baker but she definitely was an excellent baker and her grandchildren were the lucky recipients of this. And she was known to make them any kind of Halloween costume they wanted. She amassed a large Lego collection and would spend hours helping her grandsons build with them.
She loved to walk through a nearby forest preserve or a park and her grandsons were often companions on these walks in which they would feed ducks or just enjoy nature, which they recall quite fondly.
After several years of retirement, Tag moved to an apartment as her home became too much work. She lived at Peace Memorial in Downers Grove, Illinois and was very active with the different needs of that community, serving on several different committees and in several roles.
In her final years, as her health declined, Theresa was at Bridgeway of Bensenville and then Bridgeway Senior Living, both in Bensenville, Illinois.
A warm, generous woman with a wicked sense of humor, she is deeply missed by all who knew and loved her.
Theresa Ann Garber (or Tag, as she was known to her family) was born at home (an apartment on W. Barry Avenue) during a snow storm in Chicago that delayed the doctor from arriving in time to deliver her. She was the first daughter born to Catherine Julia (Commes) and Nicholas J. (Nick) Garber.
She was named after her paternal grandmother, whom she never got to meet as she had passed when her father was only nine years old.
Nick, a WWI vet, was able to get a lump sum of money because of his time in the service and used it to put a down payment on their house at 2725 N. Parkside in Chicago and this is where the family called home for the rest of Nick and Catherine's lives.
Tag went to Schubert Grammar School and then to Steinmetz High School, graduating in February of 1948. From there she went to keypunching school with IBM. She advanced in the field and was quite a career woman at a time when that wasn't so common.
She learned to sew from her seamstress mother and Tag was known to be very adept at it and was very creative.
She was married in 1959 to William Baker and they had one child, a daughter, Cheri. They lived in South Holland, Illinois where they were both active in the JayCee's and Tag was very involved in the PTA.
When Bill's job took him north they relocated to Mount Prospect, Illinois.
When their marriage dissolved, Tag moved back to her beloved Chicago home, with Cheri, to help her now widowed mother. After Catherine passed away, Tag got back into keypunching and then that evolved into word processing.
After Cheri got older Tag decided to relocate to Albuquerque, New Mexico to be near her sister, Helen. She lived there for several years but was unable to find a job to sustain her there so she moved back to be near her daughter who was now married. She bought a place in Wooddale, Illinois and worked for many years, retiring from Groot in 1995.
Once she became a grandmother, she was very involved in her grandchildren's lives.
She may not have been born a Baker but she definitely was an excellent baker and her grandchildren were the lucky recipients of this. And she was known to make them any kind of Halloween costume they wanted. She amassed a large Lego collection and would spend hours helping her grandsons build with them.
She loved to walk through a nearby forest preserve or a park and her grandsons were often companions on these walks in which they would feed ducks or just enjoy nature, which they recall quite fondly.
After several years of retirement, Tag moved to an apartment as her home became too much work. She lived at Peace Memorial in Downers Grove, Illinois and was very active with the different needs of that community, serving on several different committees and in several roles.
In her final years, as her health declined, Theresa was at Bridgeway of Bensenville and then Bridgeway Senior Living, both in Bensenville, Illinois.
A warm, generous woman with a wicked sense of humor, she is deeply missed by all who knew and loved her.
She was named after her paternal grandmother, whom she never got to meet as she had passed when her father was only nine years old.
Nick, a WWI vet, was able to get a lump sum of money because of his time in the service and used it to put a down payment on their house at 2725 N. Parkside in Chicago and this is where the family called home for the rest of Nick and Catherine's lives.
Tag went to Schubert Grammar School and then to Steinmetz High School, graduating in February of 1948. From there she went to keypunching school with IBM. She advanced in the field and was quite a career woman at a time when that wasn't so common.
She learned to sew from her seamstress mother and Tag was known to be very adept at it and was very creative.
She was married in 1959 to William Baker and they had one child, a daughter, Cheri. They lived in South Holland, Illinois where they were both active in the JayCee's and Tag was very involved in the PTA.
When Bill's job took him north they relocated to Mount Prospect, Illinois.
When their marriage dissolved, Tag moved back to her beloved Chicago home, with Cheri, to help her now widowed mother. After Catherine passed away, Tag got back into keypunching and then that evolved into word processing.
After Cheri got older Tag decided to relocate to Albuquerque, New Mexico to be near her sister, Helen. She lived there for several years but was unable to find a job to sustain her there so she moved back to be near her daughter who was now married. She bought a place in Wooddale, Illinois and worked for many years, retiring from Groot in 1995.
Once she became a grandmother, she was very involved in her grandchildren's lives.
She may not have been born a Baker but she definitely was an excellent baker and her grandchildren were the lucky recipients of this. And she was known to make them any kind of Halloween costume they wanted. She amassed a large Lego collection and would spend hours helping her grandsons build with them.
She loved to walk through a nearby forest preserve or a park and her grandsons were often companions on these walks in which they would feed ducks or just enjoy nature, which they recall quite fondly.
After several years of retirement, Tag moved to an apartment as her home became too much work. She lived at Peace Memorial in Downers Grove, Illinois and was very active with the different needs of that community, serving on several different committees and in several roles.
In her final years, as her health declined, Theresa was at Bridgeway of Bensenville and then Bridgeway Senior Living, both in Bensenville, Illinois.
A warm, generous woman with a wicked sense of humor, she is deeply missed by all who knew and loved her.
