Comments on: Fred Seibert and Kenmore, Ohio

By: Jamie-lee Duff

Jamie-lee Duff — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:20:59 +0000

I have a painting right now that is stamped F.Seibert and i think it could be your great grandfathers if he was an artist.

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By: Lawrence Rohr

Lawrence Rohr — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:14:11 +0000

I grew up on 21st St. & Florida Avenue. My father and grandfather knew your family through the dry cleaners. My father worked at Metzger’s Drug. I am doing research on speakeasies in Kenmore, Akron, & Barberton. Could you expand on the information provided in this blog? If you wish I can remove your name from any thing that I write – some people prefer it that way.

I thought a Michael Brode at WJ high school. I think that he graduated from John Carroll in June. Ask him about me.

lawrence64rohr@hotmail.com

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By: Bobby Brode

Bobby Brode — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:22:03 +0000

Kenmore as I always remembered it was a hard working community and had its rough spots. I was a 6th Gerneration Brode from that area. My Great Grandfather ran a speak easy in a Basement of a building by the old bus barns. My Grandfather and Father both owned the Brode Dry Cleaners and both served as city councilmen. Hell the high school plays at George Brode Field
. I will always love a cherish Kenmore.

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By: sherrie

sherrie — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:48:05 +0000

Thank you for some wonderful insight. I grew up in Kenmore, went to Kenmore High School, and still have family living there. I went to Lawndale Elementary School and had some of the same teachers that my father and aunt had. Yes, it was a very tight knit community.

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By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:58:27 +0000

Fred also owned a couple other businesses on Kenmore Blvd too. I know he had a soup kitchen and a billard hall. I’m guessing that you are right and that Fred and your grandparents/father did know each other.

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By: Deborah Moore Knittel

Deborah Moore Knittel — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:47:18 +0000

This report is fabulous. I am researching my father’s life in Kenmore. His parents bought a new house on 17th St in 1920 when he was 9. My grandfather worked at Goodrich and spent practically his whole working life in that factory. My family (4 generations of it) lived in that house until October 2001. My father had several small businesses (hot dog carts, etc) on Kenmore Blvd and had a bowling alley in Kenmore later in his life. He graduated from Kenmore High School in 1929 or 1930. I graduated in 1964 from the same school. I didn’t know about this period and your grandfather’s political role until reading this, although I am sure my grandparents must have been very familiar with him. Thank you so much for writing this down for the rest of us.

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By: Independent Spirit - Thelma (Seibert) Furry — Random Ramblings

Independent Spirit - Thelma (Seibert) Furry — Random Ramblings — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:09:58 +0000

[...] beat of her own drum,” but I also think that she got the “tune” from her father and mother. [...]

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Wed, 07 May 2008 00:14:04 +0000

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By: Fred Seibert

Fred Seibert — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:08:30 +0000

Amanda, I came across this post from my personal Google Alerts and I had to leave a comment. Your post is great, and obviously, Fred must have been an interesting and good man.

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By: Janice Brown

Janice Brown — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:46:09 +0000

Amanda,

Your grandfather Fred obviously spent his entire life fighting for the underdog and the common man. Thank you for sharing his story.

Janice

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