Gladys Christina Van Vlack
1904 - 1992 (87 years)-
Name Gladys Christina Van Vlack Born 20 Oct 1904 East End, Pittsburgh, Pa 
Gender Female Died 18 Feb 1992 - Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2014.
Person ID I2281 Marinus (M1) Tree Last Modified 13 Dec 2022
Father Albert Benson Van Vlack, b. 26 Apr 1878, South Parkersburg (previously Lauckport), West Virginia , d. 3 Aug 1966, West View, Pittsburgh, Pa (Age 88 years) Mother Elsie Frances Stroehmann, b. 8 Feb 1880, South Parkersburg, W.Va , d. 29 May 1971, West View, Allegheny Co., Penna (Age 91 years) Married June 10, 1903 Methodist Church, South Parkersburg, W.Va. Notes - +A641 Clyde Stroehmann Van Vlack, b. Nov. 5, 1906 at Pittsburgh, Pa. and lived in West View Borough near there until 1932 when he began work at Stroehmann Bros. Baking Co., Harrisburg, Pa. and later at Williamsport, Pa. He m. Elisabeth Lamade on August 21, 1940 at Staunton, VA. She was b. July 27, 1916 at Williamsport, Pa., a daughter of Charles Dietrich Lamade and Bess Winder Lamade of Williamsport, Pa. There, the Lainade family owned and published the nationally known ?Grit? newspaper. They were prominent in the Masons with a Lodge named for grandfather Dietrich Lamade, founder of the ?Grit?; also a building at Lycoming College, so named; as well as the Little League of Baseball international headquarters building located in Williamsport where the Little League originated. Elisabeth graduated BA Hood College 1937 and MA Columbia University, 1939 and studied at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. She was a journalist, teacher and writer. Clyde was an executive of Stroehmann Bros. Baking Co. until 1948 when he purchased a bakery in Auburn, N.Y., modernizing and expanding it into a 75 route retail business called Van?s Bakery. He was the owner and president until the business was sold when he retired. Clyde and Elisabeth were living in Auburn in 1988.
Family ID F686 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family George Dewey Faris, b. June 24, 1899 Married June 4, 1925 Children 1. Vera Jean Faris, b. March 16, 1926, d. 1930 (Age 4 years) + 2. George Dewey Faris, Jr., b. . Mar 5, 1931 , West View, Pittsburgh, Pa + 3. Joan Ruth Faris Last Modified 29 Apr 2013 Family ID F687 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Gladys Christina Van Vlack b. October 20, 1904 at East End, Pittsburgh, Pa. and moved to West View Borough in 1907. She learned to play the piano at an early age, and belonged to the Blue Bird Embroidery Club sponsored by a neighbor. Living out in the (then) country, activities revolved around the Methodist Church. two blocks from home, which the parents helped to organize in this new community. At times Gladys went to church five times a Sunday - Sunday School at 9:45 a.m., church services at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m., taught at Junior Epworth League at 2 p.m., and attended Young Adults Epworth League at 7 p.m. She played the piano when substituting for the organist, otherwise sang in the choir, but played for all the other occasions all the time.
As the oldest of five children, Gladys had to spearhead the transition of clothing styles and social mores of her parents turn-of-the-century era into the 1920?s flapper era, and it wasn?t easy; father was stern, mother was more persuasive. The change from calf length high button shoes and black stockings to pumps and silk stockings or socks, the shorter dresses, bobbed hair and social dances until midnight were just some of the confrontations at the tine she went to Bellevue high School where the fancy people lived. But Gladys got her ?Dutch? up, was persevering and won out, thus making it easier for the siblings who followed.
Gladys learned shorthand and typing well in high school, graduating in 1922, and was soon employed as a secretary and bookkeeper by the Board of Home Missions of the Methodist Protestant Church.
On June 4, 1925 she married George Dewey Faris of Pittsburgh, Pa., b. June 24, 1899.
After being a housewife for 16 years, and at the beginning of WW III she returned to work for U. S. Defense Plant Corp., a division of United Engineering and Foundry, manufacturers. Later she was transferred to United Engineering & Foundry as secretary to the General Transportation manager, and other training jobs for 15 years, then was made solely responsible for correlating the export shipments from their plants to the ports, obtaining export licenses and dealing with foreign governments, planning shipments of parts for assembly overseas
After Gladys retired, she and brother Ed were living at the family home, but two years later sold and took separate apartments nearby.
Gladys was very talented with her hands and in her Lifetime could sew, did tailoring, knit, crochet, tat, did needlework, painted china and still portraits, much to the delight of her children and grandchildren, who now have heirlooms to remember her by. Living in Avalon Borough, Pittsburgh, Pa., her activities include membership in the North Borough?s Woman?s Club, AARP, Wednesday bridge club, and painting classes at the Sweetwater Art Center, Sewickley, Pa.
- Gladys Christina Van Vlack b. October 20, 1904 at East End, Pittsburgh, Pa. and moved to West View Borough in 1907. She learned to play the piano at an early age, and belonged to the Blue Bird Embroidery Club sponsored by a neighbor. Living out in the (then) country, activities revolved around the Methodist Church. two blocks from home, which the parents helped to organize in this new community. At times Gladys went to church five times a Sunday - Sunday School at 9:45 a.m., church services at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m., taught at Junior Epworth League at 2 p.m., and attended Young Adults Epworth League at 7 p.m. She played the piano when substituting for the organist, otherwise sang in the choir, but played for all the other occasions all the time.