Agnes Dorothy Norvell

1906 - 1998  (91 years)

• Name	Agnes Dorothy Norvell  [1]
  Born	06 Mar 1906	Schuyler, Virginia, U.S.A.   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Died	05 Feb 1998	Fair Acres, Media, Delaware, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.   [2]
  Person ID	I13	Kromer-Schraishuhn
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Charlie Robinson Norvell,   b. 22 Jan 1881, Rockfish, Nelson, Virginia, U.S.A. ,   d. 05 Jan 1968, Wilmington Medical Center, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, U.S.A.  (Age 86 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Lacy Arnoah Wood,   b. 14 Mar 1879, Virginia, U.S.A. ,   d. 20 Jan 1951, Federalsburg, Caroline, Maryland, U.S.A.  (Age 71 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Married	22 Mar 1899	Albemarle County, Virginia, U.S.A.   [3]
  Family ID	F22	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 1	George Eicholtz Cantler,   b. 02 Jul 1893, Whiteford, Maryland, U.S.A. ,   d. 05 Oct 1942, Peach Bottom Twp, York, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.  (Age 49 years)
  Married	27 Aug 1921	Street, Maryland, U.S.A.
  Children	1. Betty Garnet Cantler,   b. 25 Aug 1925, York, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. ,   d. 03 Sep 2012, Crozer Chester Medical Center, Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.  (Age 87 years)   2. Gordon Donald Cantler   3. Barbara Jean Cantler,   b. 04 Feb 1935, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, U.S.A. ,   d. 28 Jan 2001, Newark, New Castle, Delaware, U.S.A.  (Age 65 years)
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018
  Family ID	F11	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 2	Joseph Pope Kennard,   b. 06 Apr 1896, Galena, Maryland, U.S.A. ,   d. 19 Mar 1968, Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, Seaford, Delaware, U.S.A.  (Age 71 years)
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018
  Family ID	F20	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 3	Johnny Hopkins,   d. 1976, Maryland, U.S.A.
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018
  Family ID	F21	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Died - 05 Feb 1998 - Fair Acres, Media, Delaware, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos

  Agnes Dorothy Norvell Cantler Kennard Hopkins, Born 06 March 1906

  
  

• Notes

  Schuyler, Virginia, is a pleasant community of 400 residents nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in central Virginia, about 70 miles west of Richmond. Schuyler (pronounced "Sky-ler") was the boyhood hometown of author Earl Hamner, Jr., who wrote several semi-autobiographical stories about his experiences there while growing up during the Great Depression, including Spencer's Mountain, which, in 1963, was made into a movie starring Henry Fonda and James McArthur. Now here was a world class woman. She was raised in Schyluer, Virginia and was married at the age of 14 to George Cantler who was 14 years her senior. She gave birth to her first child at the age of 19 and went on to mother a son and another daughter. After the tragic death of her husband in October 1942 she later married Joseph Pope Kennard, a man who after buring his beloved wife of 20 years Helen Roop, who was an invalid for many years she later moved from Chester, Pennsylvania to Federalsburg, Maryland. Agnes was a tireless woman. She worked from sunrise to sunset and never complained. Her three children produced 7 grandchildren, 5 boys and 2 girls. Agnes was made to be a grandmother and she excelled as "Granny". I am no doubt biased in this biography but she mean't everything to me as did Joseph Kennard "Pop Pop". She had the kindest, most unassuming disposition of any person I have known. Nevertheless she had a work ethic that was second to none. She was loved by everyone who ever crossed her path. She learned to drive (if that's what you could call it) and was a terror on the road. If Agnes wanted to go from point A to point B she took the shortest route and God help you if you were in her way. At the age of 80 she went to the eye doctor who declared her legally blind. She never drove again to the relief of many many people. Shortly afterward she sold the "farm" and went to live with her oldest daughter in Aston, Pennsylvania where she lived quite comfortably until the end of her life at the ripe old age of 91 years. She was "my girl" and always will be. Source: Harold O. Schraishuhn, Jr.

  
  

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