Wow - what a great website. I have my 98 year old aunt, Marie Zeman
Marik, living with me here in Texas. She and my father grew up on
the south side of Chicago - for many years on Robey Avenue, which
she says later turned into Damon Ave, and much later on Campbell
Avenue.They attended Robert Fulton Elementary and graduated from
Lindblom. My aunt worked many years at Wilson & Co., and must have
been an accomplished bowler as she still has trophies that are
inscribed Chicago City Champions. In her thirties she married Joe
Marik, who worked for AT&T. My father's name was Charles Zeman - he
was a supervisor for the Chicago Park District. They also had a
brother, Joe. I have heard stories about the area my entire life,
from my dad, my aunt, and many of their southside friends who
relocated with them to Ruskin, Florida, where I grew up. I believe
there are still relatives in Chicago, some who came to Florida in
the 1960's when I was little. They would have come from my
grandmother's side, the Novak's ( I know, that name is kinda like
Smith :)). The names that my aunt very vividly remembers are
Jeanette and Marion. Jeanette married Joe Stuiber. We have a number
of pictures that I believe are all from the Stuiber family. The
names on a few of them are Ronnie, Richard, Paul, and Janice, who
was a nurse. They seemed to be teenagers and young adults in the
1960’s and early 70’s, when the pictures stop. I realize this is a
long shot, but if we still have family in the area, I thought they
might see this posting and respond. Sorry for the long post, but I
wanted to drop as many details as possible in the hopes of jogging
someone's memory.
