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SPOUSE:  John W. Mitchell (deceased)
 
CHILDREN:  3 Sons  -  John E. (U. S. Navy)
                      Robert E.
                      Carl D.
 
PARENTS:  Dorothy and Edward Sengstacken
 
BROTHER:  Eugene H. Sengstacken (served in U. S. Navy - Korea)
 
GRANDFATHER:  Henry Sengstacken came to Central Park in 1896.  Town was rural, had dirt roads,General Store. 
 
FAMILY BUSINESS:  Lumberyard - Sengstacken and Schaaf
                               General Store  -  Henry Sengstacken
                               Grumman Employees (both parents)
 
STORES/SHOPPING  -  Goettelman Brothers  -  Butchers (Mom's brothers), late 20's early 30's. 
                                     Walton Deli, Geffken Deli, Ralston's, Fredricks', Bogner's Ice Cream Store.
                                     Fortsch Brothers Butchers, Klinglehofer Butcher, Bank, a small "super market" -
                                     (can't think of the names of the brothers that ran it - on Broadway north of RR, 1st
                                     store after gas station.
 
SCHOOL ATTENDED:  Powell Avenue K-8, Farmingdale High School.
 
CHURCH ATTENDED:  St. Paul's Lutheran Church - Sunday School, Choir, Walther League - Youth.
 
PROGRESS WITNESSED:  Rapid growth, street widening, farms gone, Grumman Aerospace. 
 
AVAILABLE TRANSPORTATION:  Car and Long Island Railroad.
 
AVAILABLE RECREATION:  Self-styled  -  ice skating, sledding, skiing @ Bethpage State Park.
 
DEPRESSION:  Vaguely remember
 
WWII:  Recall all of it.  I was in the Cadet Nurse Corp at Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, N. Y., 1943 - 46. 
           We were signed up for Military Service (U. S. Navy) but did not go to active duty since we were
           assigned to the hospital and then - Praise God  -  the war ended: