Minnie Elizabeth Itterly, GW# none assigned

Minnie was born on 28 January 1905 in Bushkill Center, Northampton County, Pa., according to her infant baptism record in Salem United Church of Christ Church in Moorestown, Northampton County, Pa.  Her parents were James and Nettie (Fox) Itterly.  In 1910 the family was still living in Bushkill Township.  By 1920 the family had moved to Nazareth.  Sadly, Minnie’s father died in 1925 when Minnie was twenty years old.  Five years later, as reported in the 1930 census, Minnie and her younger sister are still living at home with their mother.  Minnie is working as a buttoner at a cotton mill.  This security would be short-lived; their mother died in 1935.  From the 1940 census it is learned that Minnie’s older sister with her husband and children moved into the house Minnie had been living in with her mother and younger sister.  Minnie reports she had eight years of formal education.  She is working as a button sewer at an underwear factory.  Ten years later in the 1950 census, Minnie is listed as an inspector in the waist industry and still living with her older sister and brother-in-law.  At some point Minnie joined the Gospel Worker Society; in the 1960 Cleveland city directory, she is listed as an order filler at the Union Gospel Press.  She was not assigned a number when she joined.  Minnie died on 16 March 1978 and is buried in the Brooklyn Heights Cemetery in Cleveland with other Gospel Workers.