Her Homes
Homewood Avenue
Bud built this house, circa 1937
John (15), Chris, mama, and Pap at Christmas, circa 1963
Circa 1954
John with his 1948 Willys Jeepster & Mary Pat on his 1964 Ducati motorcycle. Also pictured is Jeannes 1964 MGB and Bud's Ford.
Bud in his back yard. He was so proud of his creations at 40 Homewood Ave.
Bud & Jeanne in New Orleans
Jeanne & John looking at the snow flying
Very dark view of Bud at the Living Room window with view of the creek
View of Wheeling Creek from our Living Room window
Bud carving a ham in the kitchen. Jim and John did their homework at that table, writing in pencil on the Formica surface. At the end of the evening, Jeanne would scout off all of our calculations and writings, making the table ready for another day. The kitchen was the center of that household, other than in the summer, when the screened porch became the center.
Chris in the dining room, cutting fabric, circa 1960.
Chris's college friend, Jeanne, at the bar that Bud built in the basement rec room. One day, Bud came home having purchased a used pool table from a bar in Fulton. After setting up the pool table, we built the rest of a finished rec-room around it. The hardest part was cutting into the brick chimney to add a wood burning fireplace. We thought the whole chimney might collapse, but it didn't and we enjoyed the amenity.
Jeanne leaning over a tough shot at Pap's pool table.
Wheeling Creek ran peacefully past our wonderful home, where we swam, built dams, fished, boated, ice skated, and generally enjoyed the serene flow of the water. But, then there were the floods...1964 brought a spring flood that surrounded our house, with huge, thick chunks of winter ice crashing into its front outside foundation wall, causing the Seth Thomas to chime with every car-sized frozen missile. I have a photo, missing for now, of Bud in his hip-boots and looking forlorn during our all-night ordeal of attempting to keep the water out of the house.
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Hawthorn Court
Jeanne reselected vine covered, stone paths on the hillside as she clipped her way into recreating a once lush and rewarding garden. Nothing could have been more relaxing for her.
Bud was very pleased with his new home and its projects. He and Jeanne had moved up into a better neighborhood and into a turn of the century house with lots of building and architectural opportunities for Bud. He had retired from his position as Comptroller of Scott Lumber Co. in 1969, as his health began to decline, and had 4-5 years to tinker with his new abode before died suddenly, succumbing to heart failure. Bud and Jeanne's last words with each other as she went outside to garden were, "I Love You".
Hawthorne Ct. was a big, old stucco house, built on the side of one of Wheelings tall hills and with old trees surrounding its swimming pool and gardens.
Pictured here is the dining room with butler's pantry beyond. Under the carpet at the head of the table was a button that when stepped upon activated a bell and pointer in the pantry, indicating the room in the house where in the early 20th century the service staff would have known that the master or mistress required their attention. This is much like what we see today on programs such as Downton Abbey.
The living room was a large space, where Bud had built a floor to high-ceiling brick wall surrounding the wood-burning fireplace. The brick was so heavy that he had to support the weight below in the basement with a new block foundation wall.
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Woodlawn Ct.
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After Bud died, Jeanne sold Hawthorne Ct. and moved into a townhouse not far away. It is there where she met her neighbor and future husband, John Coleman, pictured here in 1979 with Klaus, Erich, Katie and Laura.
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Williamsburg Condominiums
Jeanne always made a very comfortable, casually elegant home for herself, surrounded by good light and tastefully bright colors.
Pictured are Jeanne and daughter-in-law, Lynn, relaxing in comfortable conversation.
Jeanne's last home was in the area of Wheeling that we called "out the pike", near Wheeling Park. The Williamsburg Condominiums were low rise brick condo buildings that surrounded a park-like setting with a community pool. Jeanne, who knew just about everyone in Wheeling, was surrounded by people her own age and many of whom she had known for years.
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