"Once again bright eyes are gleaming
with the light that in them shone
Then like music heard when dreaming
Come the voices that are gone."
---Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864) 'The Voices That Are Gone' (publ. 1865)
Marcella Marie Kantz née Shine aka Marcella M. Kantz née Shine aka Marcella Kantz née Shine aka Marce Kantz, born 5 April 1921 probably in Sloane Maternity Hospital (447 West 59th Street, New York, New York 10019).
Memorious; a poetry-lover who could recite English and American poetry at length and with great effect; voracious reader of Dickens, Kipling, Shelley, Wordsworth...
Marce worked at several jobs on Wall Street in the early days and finished her career at Missouri Title and Guaranty Co., St. Louis, Missouri.
Marcella Marie’s parents were Daniel William Shine "Dan" “Pop” born in Civil Parish (CP) of Rathronan, Barony of Shanid, Athea Town (Part of) (Áth an tSléibhe), District Electoral Division (DED) of Rathronan, Poor Law Union (PLU) of Newcastle West (an Caisleán Nua Thiar), Parliamentary Division (PD) of West Limerick, County Limerick (Contae Luimneach or Luimnigh), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
(8 July 1878 – New York, New York 26 May 1964)
and
Mary Rochfort Shine (24 August 1887 – Sloane Maternity Hospital (1886; name changed 1910 to Sloane Hospital for Women; moved to Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital 1928), 447 West 59th Street, New York 20 January 1927 (death certificate 1861) (buried 22 January 1927)) married 17 June 1917 in New York; both buried Calvary Cemetery, 49-02 Laurel Hill Boulevard, Woodside, Queens, New York 11377, Section 51, Plot 3, Grave 6.
Her home town: Ballaghaderreen (Bealach an Doirín) town, County Roscommon (Contae Ros Comáin), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Prior to 1898 the town and parish of Ballaghaderreen was located in the eastern part of County Mayo.
Her home of record was Cartron More hamlet, Moyne town, Loughglinn or Loughglynn Civil Parish (CP) and District Electoral Division (DED), County Roscommon (Contae Ros Comáin), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Mary Rochfort Shine’s parents were Martin Rochford (1850 - 7 July 1934) and Catherine or Katherine Gallagher (born/died United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1853 - 26 April 1940) married c. 1884.
Their home town and home of record info is the same as that of their daughter.
Mary’s cause of death was declared “hemorrhage etc. chronic bronchitis” (sic).
[NOTE: The cause of death is from a hand-written transcript, not a death certificate.]
Daniel and Mary’s address in early 1927 was 151 West 102nd Street, New York, New York 10025 in East Harlem (torn down).
Interred in the same grave with Daniel and Mary is Marcella Marie Rochfort (11 June 1888 [NOTE: headstone reads ‘1889’] – New York, New York 17 January 1976).
Same home town and home of record info as that of the other Rochforts above.
Siblings:
*Catherine Schoemer née Shine aka Kay Schoemer née Shine (1919-1976) husband Harold J. Schoemer (1913-2001);
*Rosemary A. Martin née Shine aka Rosemary Martin née Shine (1924-2000) husband Myles A. Martin (1925-1990);
*Helen Ruth Wurthmann née Shine aka Helen R. Wurthmann née Shine aka Helen Wurthmann née Shine (1926-2017) husband Henry St. Clair Wurthmann Jr. aka H.C. Wurthmann aka Henry Wurthmann aka Buddy Wurthmann aka Hank Wurthmann (1925-2011).
Philip Frank and Marcella Marie had three children:
---APK (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 22 March 1951 - ) birth record 156-51-111731 filed Monday 26 March 1951 married DMK 22 December 1977 in Clayton, Missouri;
two adopted children;
---Philip Jude Kantz (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 1 August 1958 - ) married Karen Marie Knight Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 12 November 1960 - ) in St. Louis, Missouri 30 April 1983; three children
Timothy Jude Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 30 April 1989-),
Joseph Philip Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 5 March 1995 -),
Kristen Marie Banks née Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 31 October 1985-) married Jason Edward Banks (Springfield, Illinois 12 June 1976-) 30 November 2013 in Sappington, Missouri; two children Evan Michael Banks (St. Anthony’s Medical Center, 10018 Kennerly Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63128 10 November 2007 -) and Hayden Sophia Banks (St. Anthony’s Medical Center, 10018 Kennerly Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63128 14 December 2010-).
---Marie Gerardette Kantz (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 born/died 1963); as indicated in the NOTE above, she is possibly the unidentified infant interred in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, 10 West Stevens Avenue, Hawthorne CDP, Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York 10532-2205, Section 44, Lot 511, Grave 15 along with Gustav Kantz and Mary Kantz née Buckley.
According to a memory Marce dredged up in the 1980s, she was born not at Sloane Maternity Hospital (1886; name changed 1910 to Sloane Hospital for Women; moved to Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital 1928), then at 447 West 59th Street, New York, but in her family's apartment on 102nd Street. The doctor was German and rendered her middle name as "Maria" and not "Marie". Moreover, the doctor had to break one of Marce's forearms to facilitate birth.
Marce's earliest days were spent at 151 West 102nd Street, New York, New York 10025 (demolished) and perhaps her most formative years at 247 Audubon Avenue, apartment 23, New York, New York 10033-7306. In Washington Heights she went to services at Church of the Incarnation, 1290 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York, NY 10033 and graduated from Incarnation School, 570 West 175th Street, New York, New York 10033.
Marce was a proud graduate of Cathedral High School (560 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10022 demolished) and boasted of surviving four years of Latin.
In the 1950s, of Grace Institute, 149 West 60th Street, New York, New York 10023, its original location in the "old Moore Mansion”. Several Moores claimed the address 153 West 60th Street, New York, New York 10023: Arthur J. Moore (New York Athletic Club member), Thomas L. Moore (1844-? assistant engineer, Bureau of Highways, Bronx), John A. Moore (metals dealer---copper, iron, zinc, nails, etc.) formerly Troup & Goelet (Christopher B. Goelet ?-1836, member St. Andrew’s Society of the State of New York and Robert R. Goelet 1841-1899, yachtsman*)), 62 Water Street corner Old Slip).
*Robert was a member of the exclusive Philadelphia Club, the New York Yacht Club and the Union Club of the City of New York. He was also a member of the Jekyll Island Club on Jekyll Island, Georgia.
After marriage, Marce and Phil lived briefly at West 168th Street 10032 before moving into 551 West 174th Street, apartment 18, New York, New York 10033-8201. Phil was killed 4 October 1968 in the South Bronx.
Upon the kind invitation of her sister Helen Ruth Wurthmann née Shine and brother-in-law Henry St. Clair Wurthmann Jr. aka H.C. Wurthmann aka Henry Wurthmann aka Buddy Wurthmann aka Hank Wurthmann (1925-2011) Marce and her two children, Philip Jude Kantz (1958) and APK (1951-) moved to 3543 Crittenden Street, St Louis, Missouri 63118-1107 in 1971. Several addresses in St. Louis followed: 1218 San Jacinto Court, St Louis, Missouri 63139-3702; 3008 Virginia Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63118-1229; 5632 Magnolia Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 10033-7306; 9658 Chancellorsville Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63126; and finally 6227 Loran Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63109-3134.
Some time in the 1990s Marce visited Ireland and stayed with an unidentified cousin "still living at the Shine home". She was accompanied by her sister Rosemary Martin née Shine (1924-2000) and brother-in-law Myles Martin (1925-1990). Marce reported "turbulence" on the return flight while Rosemary thought "the plane was going to crash".
Died Incarnate Word Hospital, 3545 Lafayette Avenue/1630 South Grand Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63104.
Funeral Mass celebrated in Saint Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church, 6303 Nottingham Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63109.
FAMOUS QUOTES from Mom Kantz:
---Advice to her eldest son
"The world doesn't revolve around you, mister."
"Quit fiddling with stuff...you're always fiddling."
"Wishing your life away---so like you."
"You're always up to something."
"You're not that good looking so plan accordingly."
---After any loud noise
"Hit him again!"
---Bombulation
"Another county heard from!"
"I think there's somebody at the door."
"Who came in?"
---Bon Appétit
"Enjoy in good health!"
---Compassion
Poor, pathetic derelict."
---De profundīs clāmō
"Everything is smashed."
"Worse than Fibber McGee's closet."
---De mortuīs nīl nisi bonum
"He/She died in the odor of sanctity."
---Down on her luck
"Could you lend me five bucks til I get straightened out?"
---Encouragement
"NOW you're cooking with gas!"
---High Society
"Garçon, please inform Mr. Cugat that the Shine girls are here."
"I've been thrown outta better joints."
---Hollywood
I remember Francis X. Bushman when he was a bushman. Now he's an ex-bushman."
---Hygiene
"Don't comb your hair like that; you look like a tin-type."
---Kind Word
"He has a head like a bishop."
---La Bête Humaine
"Only an Armenian can outwit a Jew."
"The natives are restless."
"The Shady Element."
"We'll (all) be slaughtered in our beds."
---Literary
"An abundance of caution!"
"The course of true love is not a railway." (Dickens, Pickwick Papers)
---New York City Subway
"The geedee GG!" (NOTE: Charles Mingus Jr. (1922-1979) wrote a 1959 instrumental entitled 'GG Train'). (NOTE: Beginning 6 May 1985, use of double letters to indicate local service was discontinued, so the GG was relabeled G)
“Subway delays are so annoying!”
---On H.J.S.
"He sits like a potentate. You don't whether you should talk to him or not; you know how he gets!"
---On Judge Crater
"A good-looking man, always well dressed. To think that you can just vanish like that! Sad, really."
---On Mahalia Jackson
"All you can see is her belt buckle."
---On MLK:
"...a coon-caller."
---On St. Paul:
"He was wild! That hair!"
---On survival:
"Eggs got people through the Depression."
---Outrage
"...and the FACE on her!"
---Political Commentary
"Maurice Chevalier was a stinking collaborator."
---Resignation
"Always half a loaf."
---Shopping
"It fell off the truck."
---Stifling NYC summer heat
"The Black Hole of Calcutta was better."
---The Two-Drink-Minimum Rule
"I just like two."
"You can't fly on one wing."
---The Voice of Discretion
"And now, if you'll excuse me, I must shed a tear for Old Erin."
"And now, if you'll excuse me, I must send a message to García."
"It's time to take a dip in the Lakes of Sligo."
---Words of wisdom from the nuns:
"You LOVE people, but you ADORE the Baby Jesus."
---Words to live by
"S.P.S.: Self-Praise Stinks."
---Your indulgence, please
"My favorite song is, 'Could You Move the Paddy Wagon a Little Closer to the Curb, Officer? My Poor Mother Can't Make the Steps' ".
---Zoology
"An egress is a female egret."
"The Alaskan euk"
CODENAMES FOR VARIOUS PEOPLE:
Alphonse, Big Daddy, Cable-knit, Chief, Chumley, Herself, Himself, Lizzy Ticklebritches, Lizzy Tish, McGillicutty, McGinty, Smiley, The Spectre at the Feast, Walrus
with the light that in them shone
Then like music heard when dreaming
Come the voices that are gone."
---Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864) 'The Voices That Are Gone' (publ. 1865)
Marcella Marie Kantz née Shine aka Marcella M. Kantz née Shine aka Marcella Kantz née Shine aka Marce Kantz, born 5 April 1921 probably in Sloane Maternity Hospital (447 West 59th Street, New York, New York 10019).
Memorious; a poetry-lover who could recite English and American poetry at length and with great effect; voracious reader of Dickens, Kipling, Shelley, Wordsworth...
Marce worked at several jobs on Wall Street in the early days and finished her career at Missouri Title and Guaranty Co., St. Louis, Missouri.
Marcella Marie’s parents were Daniel William Shine "Dan" “Pop” born in Civil Parish (CP) of Rathronan, Barony of Shanid, Athea Town (Part of) (Áth an tSléibhe), District Electoral Division (DED) of Rathronan, Poor Law Union (PLU) of Newcastle West (an Caisleán Nua Thiar), Parliamentary Division (PD) of West Limerick, County Limerick (Contae Luimneach or Luimnigh), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
(8 July 1878 – New York, New York 26 May 1964)
and
Mary Rochfort Shine (24 August 1887 – Sloane Maternity Hospital (1886; name changed 1910 to Sloane Hospital for Women; moved to Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital 1928), 447 West 59th Street, New York 20 January 1927 (death certificate 1861) (buried 22 January 1927)) married 17 June 1917 in New York; both buried Calvary Cemetery, 49-02 Laurel Hill Boulevard, Woodside, Queens, New York 11377, Section 51, Plot 3, Grave 6.
Her home town: Ballaghaderreen (Bealach an Doirín) town, County Roscommon (Contae Ros Comáin), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Prior to 1898 the town and parish of Ballaghaderreen was located in the eastern part of County Mayo.
Her home of record was Cartron More hamlet, Moyne town, Loughglinn or Loughglynn Civil Parish (CP) and District Electoral Division (DED), County Roscommon (Contae Ros Comáin), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Mary Rochfort Shine’s parents were Martin Rochford (1850 - 7 July 1934) and Catherine or Katherine Gallagher (born/died United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1853 - 26 April 1940) married c. 1884.
Their home town and home of record info is the same as that of their daughter.
Mary’s cause of death was declared “hemorrhage etc. chronic bronchitis” (sic).
[NOTE: The cause of death is from a hand-written transcript, not a death certificate.]
Daniel and Mary’s address in early 1927 was 151 West 102nd Street, New York, New York 10025 in East Harlem (torn down).
Interred in the same grave with Daniel and Mary is Marcella Marie Rochfort (11 June 1888 [NOTE: headstone reads ‘1889’] – New York, New York 17 January 1976).
Same home town and home of record info as that of the other Rochforts above.
Siblings:
*Catherine Schoemer née Shine aka Kay Schoemer née Shine (1919-1976) husband Harold J. Schoemer (1913-2001);
*Rosemary A. Martin née Shine aka Rosemary Martin née Shine (1924-2000) husband Myles A. Martin (1925-1990);
*Helen Ruth Wurthmann née Shine aka Helen R. Wurthmann née Shine aka Helen Wurthmann née Shine (1926-2017) husband Henry St. Clair Wurthmann Jr. aka H.C. Wurthmann aka Henry Wurthmann aka Buddy Wurthmann aka Hank Wurthmann (1925-2011).
Philip Frank and Marcella Marie had three children:
---APK (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 22 March 1951 - ) birth record 156-51-111731 filed Monday 26 March 1951 married DMK 22 December 1977 in Clayton, Missouri;
two adopted children;
---Philip Jude Kantz (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 1 August 1958 - ) married Karen Marie Knight Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 12 November 1960 - ) in St. Louis, Missouri 30 April 1983; three children
Timothy Jude Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 30 April 1989-),
Joseph Philip Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 5 March 1995 -),
Kristen Marie Banks née Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 31 October 1985-) married Jason Edward Banks (Springfield, Illinois 12 June 1976-) 30 November 2013 in Sappington, Missouri; two children Evan Michael Banks (St. Anthony’s Medical Center, 10018 Kennerly Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63128 10 November 2007 -) and Hayden Sophia Banks (St. Anthony’s Medical Center, 10018 Kennerly Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63128 14 December 2010-).
---Marie Gerardette Kantz (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 born/died 1963); as indicated in the NOTE above, she is possibly the unidentified infant interred in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, 10 West Stevens Avenue, Hawthorne CDP, Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York 10532-2205, Section 44, Lot 511, Grave 15 along with Gustav Kantz and Mary Kantz née Buckley.
According to a memory Marce dredged up in the 1980s, she was born not at Sloane Maternity Hospital (1886; name changed 1910 to Sloane Hospital for Women; moved to Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital 1928), then at 447 West 59th Street, New York, but in her family's apartment on 102nd Street. The doctor was German and rendered her middle name as "Maria" and not "Marie". Moreover, the doctor had to break one of Marce's forearms to facilitate birth.
Marce's earliest days were spent at 151 West 102nd Street, New York, New York 10025 (demolished) and perhaps her most formative years at 247 Audubon Avenue, apartment 23, New York, New York 10033-7306. In Washington Heights she went to services at Church of the Incarnation, 1290 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York, NY 10033 and graduated from Incarnation School, 570 West 175th Street, New York, New York 10033.
Marce was a proud graduate of Cathedral High School (560 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10022 demolished) and boasted of surviving four years of Latin.
In the 1950s, of Grace Institute, 149 West 60th Street, New York, New York 10023, its original location in the "old Moore Mansion”. Several Moores claimed the address 153 West 60th Street, New York, New York 10023: Arthur J. Moore (New York Athletic Club member), Thomas L. Moore (1844-? assistant engineer, Bureau of Highways, Bronx), John A. Moore (metals dealer---copper, iron, zinc, nails, etc.) formerly Troup & Goelet (Christopher B. Goelet ?-1836, member St. Andrew’s Society of the State of New York and Robert R. Goelet 1841-1899, yachtsman*)), 62 Water Street corner Old Slip).
*Robert was a member of the exclusive Philadelphia Club, the New York Yacht Club and the Union Club of the City of New York. He was also a member of the Jekyll Island Club on Jekyll Island, Georgia.
After marriage, Marce and Phil lived briefly at West 168th Street 10032 before moving into 551 West 174th Street, apartment 18, New York, New York 10033-8201. Phil was killed 4 October 1968 in the South Bronx.
Upon the kind invitation of her sister Helen Ruth Wurthmann née Shine and brother-in-law Henry St. Clair Wurthmann Jr. aka H.C. Wurthmann aka Henry Wurthmann aka Buddy Wurthmann aka Hank Wurthmann (1925-2011) Marce and her two children, Philip Jude Kantz (1958) and APK (1951-) moved to 3543 Crittenden Street, St Louis, Missouri 63118-1107 in 1971. Several addresses in St. Louis followed: 1218 San Jacinto Court, St Louis, Missouri 63139-3702; 3008 Virginia Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63118-1229; 5632 Magnolia Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 10033-7306; 9658 Chancellorsville Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63126; and finally 6227 Loran Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63109-3134.
Some time in the 1990s Marce visited Ireland and stayed with an unidentified cousin "still living at the Shine home". She was accompanied by her sister Rosemary Martin née Shine (1924-2000) and brother-in-law Myles Martin (1925-1990). Marce reported "turbulence" on the return flight while Rosemary thought "the plane was going to crash".
Died Incarnate Word Hospital, 3545 Lafayette Avenue/1630 South Grand Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63104.
Funeral Mass celebrated in Saint Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church, 6303 Nottingham Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63109.
FAMOUS QUOTES from Mom Kantz:
---Advice to her eldest son
"The world doesn't revolve around you, mister."
"Quit fiddling with stuff...you're always fiddling."
"Wishing your life away---so like you."
"You're always up to something."
"You're not that good looking so plan accordingly."
---After any loud noise
"Hit him again!"
---Bombulation
"Another county heard from!"
"I think there's somebody at the door."
"Who came in?"
---Bon Appétit
"Enjoy in good health!"
---Compassion
Poor, pathetic derelict."
---De profundīs clāmō
"Everything is smashed."
"Worse than Fibber McGee's closet."
---De mortuīs nīl nisi bonum
"He/She died in the odor of sanctity."
---Down on her luck
"Could you lend me five bucks til I get straightened out?"
---Encouragement
"NOW you're cooking with gas!"
---High Society
"Garçon, please inform Mr. Cugat that the Shine girls are here."
"I've been thrown outta better joints."
---Hollywood
I remember Francis X. Bushman when he was a bushman. Now he's an ex-bushman."
---Hygiene
"Don't comb your hair like that; you look like a tin-type."
---Kind Word
"He has a head like a bishop."
---La Bête Humaine
"Only an Armenian can outwit a Jew."
"The natives are restless."
"The Shady Element."
"We'll (all) be slaughtered in our beds."
---Literary
"An abundance of caution!"
"The course of true love is not a railway." (Dickens, Pickwick Papers)
---New York City Subway
"The geedee GG!" (NOTE: Charles Mingus Jr. (1922-1979) wrote a 1959 instrumental entitled 'GG Train'). (NOTE: Beginning 6 May 1985, use of double letters to indicate local service was discontinued, so the GG was relabeled G)
“Subway delays are so annoying!”
---On H.J.S.
"He sits like a potentate. You don't whether you should talk to him or not; you know how he gets!"
---On Judge Crater
"A good-looking man, always well dressed. To think that you can just vanish like that! Sad, really."
---On Mahalia Jackson
"All you can see is her belt buckle."
---On MLK:
"...a coon-caller."
---On St. Paul:
"He was wild! That hair!"
---On survival:
"Eggs got people through the Depression."
---Outrage
"...and the FACE on her!"
---Political Commentary
"Maurice Chevalier was a stinking collaborator."
---Resignation
"Always half a loaf."
---Shopping
"It fell off the truck."
---Stifling NYC summer heat
"The Black Hole of Calcutta was better."
---The Two-Drink-Minimum Rule
"I just like two."
"You can't fly on one wing."
---The Voice of Discretion
"And now, if you'll excuse me, I must shed a tear for Old Erin."
"And now, if you'll excuse me, I must send a message to García."
"It's time to take a dip in the Lakes of Sligo."
---Words of wisdom from the nuns:
"You LOVE people, but you ADORE the Baby Jesus."
---Words to live by
"S.P.S.: Self-Praise Stinks."
---Your indulgence, please
"My favorite song is, 'Could You Move the Paddy Wagon a Little Closer to the Curb, Officer? My Poor Mother Can't Make the Steps' ".
---Zoology
"An egress is a female egret."
"The Alaskan euk"
CODENAMES FOR VARIOUS PEOPLE:
Alphonse, Big Daddy, Cable-knit, Chief, Chumley, Herself, Himself, Lizzy Ticklebritches, Lizzy Tish, McGillicutty, McGinty, Smiley, The Spectre at the Feast, Walrus
"Once again bright eyes are gleaming
with the light that in them shone
Then like music heard when dreaming
Come the voices that are gone."
---Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864) 'The Voices That Are Gone' (publ. 1865)
Marcella Marie Kantz née Shine aka Marcella M. Kantz née Shine aka Marcella Kantz née Shine aka Marce Kantz, born 5 April 1921 probably in Sloane Maternity Hospital (447 West 59th Street, New York, New York 10019).
Memorious; a poetry-lover who could recite English and American poetry at length and with great effect; voracious reader of Dickens, Kipling, Shelley, Wordsworth...
Marce worked at several jobs on Wall Street in the early days and finished her career at Missouri Title and Guaranty Co., St. Louis, Missouri.
Marcella Marie’s parents were Daniel William Shine "Dan" “Pop” born in Civil Parish (CP) of Rathronan, Barony of Shanid, Athea Town (Part of) (Áth an tSléibhe), District Electoral Division (DED) of Rathronan, Poor Law Union (PLU) of Newcastle West (an Caisleán Nua Thiar), Parliamentary Division (PD) of West Limerick, County Limerick (Contae Luimneach or Luimnigh), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
(8 July 1878 – New York, New York 26 May 1964)
and
Mary Rochfort Shine (24 August 1887 – Sloane Maternity Hospital (1886; name changed 1910 to Sloane Hospital for Women; moved to Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital 1928), 447 West 59th Street, New York 20 January 1927 (death certificate 1861) (buried 22 January 1927)) married 17 June 1917 in New York; both buried Calvary Cemetery, 49-02 Laurel Hill Boulevard, Woodside, Queens, New York 11377, Section 51, Plot 3, Grave 6.
Her home town: Ballaghaderreen (Bealach an Doirín) town, County Roscommon (Contae Ros Comáin), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Prior to 1898 the town and parish of Ballaghaderreen was located in the eastern part of County Mayo.
Her home of record was Cartron More hamlet, Moyne town, Loughglinn or Loughglynn Civil Parish (CP) and District Electoral Division (DED), County Roscommon (Contae Ros Comáin), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Mary Rochfort Shine’s parents were Martin Rochford (1850 - 7 July 1934) and Catherine or Katherine Gallagher (born/died United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1853 - 26 April 1940) married c. 1884.
Their home town and home of record info is the same as that of their daughter.
Mary’s cause of death was declared “hemorrhage etc. chronic bronchitis” (sic).
[NOTE: The cause of death is from a hand-written transcript, not a death certificate.]
Daniel and Mary’s address in early 1927 was 151 West 102nd Street, New York, New York 10025 in East Harlem (torn down).
Interred in the same grave with Daniel and Mary is Marcella Marie Rochfort (11 June 1888 [NOTE: headstone reads ‘1889’] – New York, New York 17 January 1976).
Same home town and home of record info as that of the other Rochforts above.
Siblings:
*Catherine Schoemer née Shine aka Kay Schoemer née Shine (1919-1976) husband Harold J. Schoemer (1913-2001);
*Rosemary A. Martin née Shine aka Rosemary Martin née Shine (1924-2000) husband Myles A. Martin (1925-1990);
*Helen Ruth Wurthmann née Shine aka Helen R. Wurthmann née Shine aka Helen Wurthmann née Shine (1926-2017) husband Henry St. Clair Wurthmann Jr. aka H.C. Wurthmann aka Henry Wurthmann aka Buddy Wurthmann aka Hank Wurthmann (1925-2011).
Philip Frank and Marcella Marie had three children:
---APK (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 22 March 1951 - ) birth record 156-51-111731 filed Monday 26 March 1951 married DMK 22 December 1977 in Clayton, Missouri;
two adopted children;
---Philip Jude Kantz (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 1 August 1958 - ) married Karen Marie Knight Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 12 November 1960 - ) in St. Louis, Missouri 30 April 1983; three children
Timothy Jude Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 30 April 1989-),
Joseph Philip Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 5 March 1995 -),
Kristen Marie Banks née Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 31 October 1985-) married Jason Edward Banks (Springfield, Illinois 12 June 1976-) 30 November 2013 in Sappington, Missouri; two children Evan Michael Banks (St. Anthony’s Medical Center, 10018 Kennerly Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63128 10 November 2007 -) and Hayden Sophia Banks (St. Anthony’s Medical Center, 10018 Kennerly Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63128 14 December 2010-).
---Marie Gerardette Kantz (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 born/died 1963); as indicated in the NOTE above, she is possibly the unidentified infant interred in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, 10 West Stevens Avenue, Hawthorne CDP, Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York 10532-2205, Section 44, Lot 511, Grave 15 along with Gustav Kantz and Mary Kantz née Buckley.
According to a memory Marce dredged up in the 1980s, she was born not at Sloane Maternity Hospital (1886; name changed 1910 to Sloane Hospital for Women; moved to Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital 1928), then at 447 West 59th Street, New York, but in her family's apartment on 102nd Street. The doctor was German and rendered her middle name as "Maria" and not "Marie". Moreover, the doctor had to break one of Marce's forearms to facilitate birth.
Marce's earliest days were spent at 151 West 102nd Street, New York, New York 10025 (demolished) and perhaps her most formative years at 247 Audubon Avenue, apartment 23, New York, New York 10033-7306. In Washington Heights she went to services at Church of the Incarnation, 1290 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York, NY 10033 and graduated from Incarnation School, 570 West 175th Street, New York, New York 10033.
Marce was a proud graduate of Cathedral High School (560 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10022 demolished) and boasted of surviving four years of Latin.
In the 1950s, of Grace Institute, 149 West 60th Street, New York, New York 10023, its original location in the "old Moore Mansion”. Several Moores claimed the address 153 West 60th Street, New York, New York 10023: Arthur J. Moore (New York Athletic Club member), Thomas L. Moore (1844-? assistant engineer, Bureau of Highways, Bronx), John A. Moore (metals dealer---copper, iron, zinc, nails, etc.) formerly Troup & Goelet (Christopher B. Goelet ?-1836, member St. Andrew’s Society of the State of New York and Robert R. Goelet 1841-1899, yachtsman*)), 62 Water Street corner Old Slip).
*Robert was a member of the exclusive Philadelphia Club, the New York Yacht Club and the Union Club of the City of New York. He was also a member of the Jekyll Island Club on Jekyll Island, Georgia.
After marriage, Marce and Phil lived briefly at West 168th Street 10032 before moving into 551 West 174th Street, apartment 18, New York, New York 10033-8201. Phil was killed 4 October 1968 in the South Bronx.
Upon the kind invitation of her sister Helen Ruth Wurthmann née Shine and brother-in-law Henry St. Clair Wurthmann Jr. aka H.C. Wurthmann aka Henry Wurthmann aka Buddy Wurthmann aka Hank Wurthmann (1925-2011) Marce and her two children, Philip Jude Kantz (1958) and APK (1951-) moved to 3543 Crittenden Street, St Louis, Missouri 63118-1107 in 1971. Several addresses in St. Louis followed: 1218 San Jacinto Court, St Louis, Missouri 63139-3702; 3008 Virginia Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63118-1229; 5632 Magnolia Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 10033-7306; 9658 Chancellorsville Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63126; and finally 6227 Loran Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63109-3134.
Some time in the 1990s Marce visited Ireland and stayed with an unidentified cousin "still living at the Shine home". She was accompanied by her sister Rosemary Martin née Shine (1924-2000) and brother-in-law Myles Martin (1925-1990). Marce reported "turbulence" on the return flight while Rosemary thought "the plane was going to crash".
Died Incarnate Word Hospital, 3545 Lafayette Avenue/1630 South Grand Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63104.
Funeral Mass celebrated in Saint Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church, 6303 Nottingham Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63109.
FAMOUS QUOTES from Mom Kantz:
---Advice to her eldest son
"The world doesn't revolve around you, mister."
"Quit fiddling with stuff...you're always fiddling."
"Wishing your life away---so like you."
"You're always up to something."
"You're not that good looking so plan accordingly."
---After any loud noise
"Hit him again!"
---Bombulation
"Another county heard from!"
"I think there's somebody at the door."
"Who came in?"
---Bon Appétit
"Enjoy in good health!"
---Compassion
Poor, pathetic derelict."
---De profundīs clāmō
"Everything is smashed."
"Worse than Fibber McGee's closet."
---De mortuīs nīl nisi bonum
"He/She died in the odor of sanctity."
---Down on her luck
"Could you lend me five bucks til I get straightened out?"
---Encouragement
"NOW you're cooking with gas!"
---High Society
"Garçon, please inform Mr. Cugat that the Shine girls are here."
"I've been thrown outta better joints."
---Hollywood
I remember Francis X. Bushman when he was a bushman. Now he's an ex-bushman."
---Hygiene
"Don't comb your hair like that; you look like a tin-type."
---Kind Word
"He has a head like a bishop."
---La Bête Humaine
"Only an Armenian can outwit a Jew."
"The natives are restless."
"The Shady Element."
"We'll (all) be slaughtered in our beds."
---Literary
"An abundance of caution!"
"The course of true love is not a railway." (Dickens, Pickwick Papers)
---New York City Subway
"The geedee GG!" (NOTE: Charles Mingus Jr. (1922-1979) wrote a 1959 instrumental entitled 'GG Train'). (NOTE: Beginning 6 May 1985, use of double letters to indicate local service was discontinued, so the GG was relabeled G)
“Subway delays are so annoying!”
---On H.J.S.
"He sits like a potentate. You don't whether you should talk to him or not; you know how he gets!"
---On Judge Crater
"A good-looking man, always well dressed. To think that you can just vanish like that! Sad, really."
---On Mahalia Jackson
"All you can see is her belt buckle."
---On MLK:
"...a coon-caller."
---On St. Paul:
"He was wild! That hair!"
---On survival:
"Eggs got people through the Depression."
---Outrage
"...and the FACE on her!"
---Political Commentary
"Maurice Chevalier was a stinking collaborator."
---Resignation
"Always half a loaf."
---Shopping
"It fell off the truck."
---Stifling NYC summer heat
"The Black Hole of Calcutta was better."
---The Two-Drink-Minimum Rule
"I just like two."
"You can't fly on one wing."
---The Voice of Discretion
"And now, if you'll excuse me, I must shed a tear for Old Erin."
"And now, if you'll excuse me, I must send a message to García."
"It's time to take a dip in the Lakes of Sligo."
---Words of wisdom from the nuns:
"You LOVE people, but you ADORE the Baby Jesus."
---Words to live by
"S.P.S.: Self-Praise Stinks."
---Your indulgence, please
"My favorite song is, 'Could You Move the Paddy Wagon a Little Closer to the Curb, Officer? My Poor Mother Can't Make the Steps' ".
---Zoology
"An egress is a female egret."
"The Alaskan euk"
CODENAMES FOR VARIOUS PEOPLE:
Alphonse, Big Daddy, Cable-knit, Chief, Chumley, Herself, Himself, Lizzy Ticklebritches, Lizzy Tish, McGillicutty, McGinty, Smiley, The Spectre at the Feast, Walrus
with the light that in them shone
Then like music heard when dreaming
Come the voices that are gone."
---Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864) 'The Voices That Are Gone' (publ. 1865)
Marcella Marie Kantz née Shine aka Marcella M. Kantz née Shine aka Marcella Kantz née Shine aka Marce Kantz, born 5 April 1921 probably in Sloane Maternity Hospital (447 West 59th Street, New York, New York 10019).
Memorious; a poetry-lover who could recite English and American poetry at length and with great effect; voracious reader of Dickens, Kipling, Shelley, Wordsworth...
Marce worked at several jobs on Wall Street in the early days and finished her career at Missouri Title and Guaranty Co., St. Louis, Missouri.
Marcella Marie’s parents were Daniel William Shine "Dan" “Pop” born in Civil Parish (CP) of Rathronan, Barony of Shanid, Athea Town (Part of) (Áth an tSléibhe), District Electoral Division (DED) of Rathronan, Poor Law Union (PLU) of Newcastle West (an Caisleán Nua Thiar), Parliamentary Division (PD) of West Limerick, County Limerick (Contae Luimneach or Luimnigh), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
(8 July 1878 – New York, New York 26 May 1964)
and
Mary Rochfort Shine (24 August 1887 – Sloane Maternity Hospital (1886; name changed 1910 to Sloane Hospital for Women; moved to Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital 1928), 447 West 59th Street, New York 20 January 1927 (death certificate 1861) (buried 22 January 1927)) married 17 June 1917 in New York; both buried Calvary Cemetery, 49-02 Laurel Hill Boulevard, Woodside, Queens, New York 11377, Section 51, Plot 3, Grave 6.
Her home town: Ballaghaderreen (Bealach an Doirín) town, County Roscommon (Contae Ros Comáin), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Prior to 1898 the town and parish of Ballaghaderreen was located in the eastern part of County Mayo.
Her home of record was Cartron More hamlet, Moyne town, Loughglinn or Loughglynn Civil Parish (CP) and District Electoral Division (DED), County Roscommon (Contae Ros Comáin), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Mary Rochfort Shine’s parents were Martin Rochford (1850 - 7 July 1934) and Catherine or Katherine Gallagher (born/died United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1853 - 26 April 1940) married c. 1884.
Their home town and home of record info is the same as that of their daughter.
Mary’s cause of death was declared “hemorrhage etc. chronic bronchitis” (sic).
[NOTE: The cause of death is from a hand-written transcript, not a death certificate.]
Daniel and Mary’s address in early 1927 was 151 West 102nd Street, New York, New York 10025 in East Harlem (torn down).
Interred in the same grave with Daniel and Mary is Marcella Marie Rochfort (11 June 1888 [NOTE: headstone reads ‘1889’] – New York, New York 17 January 1976).
Same home town and home of record info as that of the other Rochforts above.
Siblings:
*Catherine Schoemer née Shine aka Kay Schoemer née Shine (1919-1976) husband Harold J. Schoemer (1913-2001);
*Rosemary A. Martin née Shine aka Rosemary Martin née Shine (1924-2000) husband Myles A. Martin (1925-1990);
*Helen Ruth Wurthmann née Shine aka Helen R. Wurthmann née Shine aka Helen Wurthmann née Shine (1926-2017) husband Henry St. Clair Wurthmann Jr. aka H.C. Wurthmann aka Henry Wurthmann aka Buddy Wurthmann aka Hank Wurthmann (1925-2011).
Philip Frank and Marcella Marie had three children:
---APK (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 22 March 1951 - ) birth record 156-51-111731 filed Monday 26 March 1951 married DMK 22 December 1977 in Clayton, Missouri;
two adopted children;
---Philip Jude Kantz (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 1 August 1958 - ) married Karen Marie Knight Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 12 November 1960 - ) in St. Louis, Missouri 30 April 1983; three children
Timothy Jude Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 30 April 1989-),
Joseph Philip Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 5 March 1995 -),
Kristen Marie Banks née Kantz (St. Louis, Missouri 31 October 1985-) married Jason Edward Banks (Springfield, Illinois 12 June 1976-) 30 November 2013 in Sappington, Missouri; two children Evan Michael Banks (St. Anthony’s Medical Center, 10018 Kennerly Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63128 10 November 2007 -) and Hayden Sophia Banks (St. Anthony’s Medical Center, 10018 Kennerly Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63128 14 December 2010-).
---Marie Gerardette Kantz (St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (built 1926, went co-op in 1981), 689 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, New York 10040 born/died 1963); as indicated in the NOTE above, she is possibly the unidentified infant interred in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, 10 West Stevens Avenue, Hawthorne CDP, Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York 10532-2205, Section 44, Lot 511, Grave 15 along with Gustav Kantz and Mary Kantz née Buckley.
According to a memory Marce dredged up in the 1980s, she was born not at Sloane Maternity Hospital (1886; name changed 1910 to Sloane Hospital for Women; moved to Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital 1928), then at 447 West 59th Street, New York, but in her family's apartment on 102nd Street. The doctor was German and rendered her middle name as "Maria" and not "Marie". Moreover, the doctor had to break one of Marce's forearms to facilitate birth.
Marce's earliest days were spent at 151 West 102nd Street, New York, New York 10025 (demolished) and perhaps her most formative years at 247 Audubon Avenue, apartment 23, New York, New York 10033-7306. In Washington Heights she went to services at Church of the Incarnation, 1290 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York, NY 10033 and graduated from Incarnation School, 570 West 175th Street, New York, New York 10033.
Marce was a proud graduate of Cathedral High School (560 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10022 demolished) and boasted of surviving four years of Latin.
In the 1950s, of Grace Institute, 149 West 60th Street, New York, New York 10023, its original location in the "old Moore Mansion”. Several Moores claimed the address 153 West 60th Street, New York, New York 10023: Arthur J. Moore (New York Athletic Club member), Thomas L. Moore (1844-? assistant engineer, Bureau of Highways, Bronx), John A. Moore (metals dealer---copper, iron, zinc, nails, etc.) formerly Troup & Goelet (Christopher B. Goelet ?-1836, member St. Andrew’s Society of the State of New York and Robert R. Goelet 1841-1899, yachtsman*)), 62 Water Street corner Old Slip).
*Robert was a member of the exclusive Philadelphia Club, the New York Yacht Club and the Union Club of the City of New York. He was also a member of the Jekyll Island Club on Jekyll Island, Georgia.
After marriage, Marce and Phil lived briefly at West 168th Street 10032 before moving into 551 West 174th Street, apartment 18, New York, New York 10033-8201. Phil was killed 4 October 1968 in the South Bronx.
Upon the kind invitation of her sister Helen Ruth Wurthmann née Shine and brother-in-law Henry St. Clair Wurthmann Jr. aka H.C. Wurthmann aka Henry Wurthmann aka Buddy Wurthmann aka Hank Wurthmann (1925-2011) Marce and her two children, Philip Jude Kantz (1958) and APK (1951-) moved to 3543 Crittenden Street, St Louis, Missouri 63118-1107 in 1971. Several addresses in St. Louis followed: 1218 San Jacinto Court, St Louis, Missouri 63139-3702; 3008 Virginia Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63118-1229; 5632 Magnolia Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 10033-7306; 9658 Chancellorsville Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63126; and finally 6227 Loran Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63109-3134.
Some time in the 1990s Marce visited Ireland and stayed with an unidentified cousin "still living at the Shine home". She was accompanied by her sister Rosemary Martin née Shine (1924-2000) and brother-in-law Myles Martin (1925-1990). Marce reported "turbulence" on the return flight while Rosemary thought "the plane was going to crash".
Died Incarnate Word Hospital, 3545 Lafayette Avenue/1630 South Grand Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63104.
Funeral Mass celebrated in Saint Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church, 6303 Nottingham Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63109.
FAMOUS QUOTES from Mom Kantz:
---Advice to her eldest son
"The world doesn't revolve around you, mister."
"Quit fiddling with stuff...you're always fiddling."
"Wishing your life away---so like you."
"You're always up to something."
"You're not that good looking so plan accordingly."
---After any loud noise
"Hit him again!"
---Bombulation
"Another county heard from!"
"I think there's somebody at the door."
"Who came in?"
---Bon Appétit
"Enjoy in good health!"
---Compassion
Poor, pathetic derelict."
---De profundīs clāmō
"Everything is smashed."
"Worse than Fibber McGee's closet."
---De mortuīs nīl nisi bonum
"He/She died in the odor of sanctity."
---Down on her luck
"Could you lend me five bucks til I get straightened out?"
---Encouragement
"NOW you're cooking with gas!"
---High Society
"Garçon, please inform Mr. Cugat that the Shine girls are here."
"I've been thrown outta better joints."
---Hollywood
I remember Francis X. Bushman when he was a bushman. Now he's an ex-bushman."
---Hygiene
"Don't comb your hair like that; you look like a tin-type."
---Kind Word
"He has a head like a bishop."
---La Bête Humaine
"Only an Armenian can outwit a Jew."
"The natives are restless."
"The Shady Element."
"We'll (all) be slaughtered in our beds."
---Literary
"An abundance of caution!"
"The course of true love is not a railway." (Dickens, Pickwick Papers)
---New York City Subway
"The geedee GG!" (NOTE: Charles Mingus Jr. (1922-1979) wrote a 1959 instrumental entitled 'GG Train'). (NOTE: Beginning 6 May 1985, use of double letters to indicate local service was discontinued, so the GG was relabeled G)
“Subway delays are so annoying!”
---On H.J.S.
"He sits like a potentate. You don't whether you should talk to him or not; you know how he gets!"
---On Judge Crater
"A good-looking man, always well dressed. To think that you can just vanish like that! Sad, really."
---On Mahalia Jackson
"All you can see is her belt buckle."
---On MLK:
"...a coon-caller."
---On St. Paul:
"He was wild! That hair!"
---On survival:
"Eggs got people through the Depression."
---Outrage
"...and the FACE on her!"
---Political Commentary
"Maurice Chevalier was a stinking collaborator."
---Resignation
"Always half a loaf."
---Shopping
"It fell off the truck."
---Stifling NYC summer heat
"The Black Hole of Calcutta was better."
---The Two-Drink-Minimum Rule
"I just like two."
"You can't fly on one wing."
---The Voice of Discretion
"And now, if you'll excuse me, I must shed a tear for Old Erin."
"And now, if you'll excuse me, I must send a message to García."
"It's time to take a dip in the Lakes of Sligo."
---Words of wisdom from the nuns:
"You LOVE people, but you ADORE the Baby Jesus."
---Words to live by
"S.P.S.: Self-Praise Stinks."
---Your indulgence, please
"My favorite song is, 'Could You Move the Paddy Wagon a Little Closer to the Curb, Officer? My Poor Mother Can't Make the Steps' ".
---Zoology
"An egress is a female egret."
"The Alaskan euk"
CODENAMES FOR VARIOUS PEOPLE:
Alphonse, Big Daddy, Cable-knit, Chief, Chumley, Herself, Himself, Lizzy Ticklebritches, Lizzy Tish, McGillicutty, McGinty, Smiley, The Spectre at the Feast, Walrus
Inscription
2P 1085
MARCELLA M
KANTZ
APR 5 1921
DEC 23 2004
DEAR WIFE MOM
AND GRANDMOTHER
Gravesite Details
Upright headstone white marble, 42" x 13" x 4", weight approx. 230lbs.
