Mary Ellen BOSTIAN

Mary Ellen BOSTIAN is my great aunt and she was born Dec 22, 1906 in Sunbury PA.
We always called her Mary Ellen, she never married and lived with her mother
Clara BOSTIAN.
On 731 1/2 South Fourth Street in a small very neat and clean 2 bedroom, up stairs apartment that they also shared with my grandfather Charles "Chick" BOSTIAN who was Mary Ellen's brother .
Mary Ellen worked as a Food Service Worker at the Selinsgrove Center PA for the Mental Challenged. She got my dad his job there working in food service.
Often her fellow work mates would give her gifts of big boxes of Chocolates in December.
She would give them to us children. She also gave us nice gifts other times of the year .
One year she bought my cousin Debbie and I a matching set of home made Barbie doll clothes from the Sunbury Market house on Main Street.
She loved us children, and along with her mother who she was a constant companion of,
she helped to raise several of her nieces and nephews who mothers had died young.
Her brother Harold "Bucky" lived a house away,
he was paralized from the waist down since a car accident in 1951,
Mary Ellen helped to care for him.
She was well loved by all.
Mary Ellen died September 22, 1969 of a brain Tumor in Northumberland CO Sunbury PA.
I would love to find her Obituary in the Sunbury Daily Item.
The Sunbury Library has a new micro film machine and the old news papers.
msjbostian@yahoo.com