Verna Elizabeth Graybill

  General Notes:

See general notes on her mother, Lucy Keil, for husband & family.

U.S. Public Records Index 2008 <http://www.ancestry.com>
Name: Verna E Seeley
Birth Date: 1918
Street address: 118 2nd St
City: Highspire
County: Dauphin
State: Pennsylvania
Zip Code: 17034
Phone Number: 717-939-1761
Record Number: 83350427
Household Members:
Verna E Seeley age 90 born 1918
Emeroy W Seeley
This researcher made telephone contact with Verna Graybill Seeley on August 8, 2009. Subsequent exchanges of pictures via post and additional telephone calls added much to the family facts on her side of the family including stories about Alta, Alvah, Paul, and Peggy Hagen as well as her siblings, aunts, uncle, and grand mother Missouri Keil. Verna was able to identify a picture of her mother, her sister Ethel, and herself as a baby in Mechanicsburg, PA ca 1919.

Verna indicated her grand daughter, Wendy Seeley married Steve Dalberto and recently moved to New Bern, NC and is near our Keil side cousin Barbara Sterling. Wendy is at 1014 Pelican while Barb is at 1001 Carl Reef Rd.

  Research Notes:

This researcher talked with Verna Seeley this morning, August 31, 2009. She was a delight to visit with and had many wonderful stories of growing up in Mechanicsburg. She said she knew Alvah and Alta as well as their children, Paul and Peggy Hagen. She said that her brother, Richard (David Richard Seeley) was at Alta's home the morning of her stroke in 1943. [Alta Grace Keil Hagen was Verna's aunt]

Verna married Emery Winchester Seeley Jr, son of Emery Winchester Seeley Sr. and Delia E. Smith. (Emery Winchester Seeley Jr was born on 4 Mar 1925 in Edmunds, Washington Co., Maine, died in Mar 1988 in Highspire, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania and was buried in Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Annville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.)