THE BORSINGER CHRONIK
HEDWIG ANNA MARIA CLARA born 1912 and died March 3,1990, daughter of Karl and Olga,born Michel, primary school under Anita Meyer, privat tudor, then Institut in Bulle after which she stayed with her mother at the Schoeneck and after its bancruptsy followed her to Baldegg,where her mother Olga had a stroke,was admitted to St.Anna Hospital in Lucerne,where she died. Hedel,as we called her,then went for 3 1/2 years to Portugal where she brought her sisters Josel and Wilma and my sister Elsa,who worked in related families as babysitters. After her return she started at Feldpausch in Basel as cashier and in 1943 took over as manager the Feldpausch fashionhouse in Zuerich, where Jo in 1952 bought a lovely dress. She then was found to have pulmonary TB,was sent to Arosa where an attempt to do a pneumothorax failed, but Prof.Brunner of the University in Zuerich (my former Professor) did a pneumolysis at the Theodosianum Hospital which resulted in a successful pneumothorax. At one time she had a TB Otitis.Her treatment ended in 1947 However, in about 1950 she had a pulmonary resection and did well.With the Feldpausch’es she went to San Francisco to the wedding of their son to an American girl. They rented a car afterward and traveled the USA crossing it and from N.Y.C Hedel called me up. In 1971 Hedel was admitted after Maria’s insistance to Hirslanden Hospital after having had a jaundice and intermittend abdominal pain. She had a successful colon resection, she went with her sisters several time for their wintervacations to Barbados.We saw her last time in 1984 with her “Jaguar” in Orselina in Church with Oli and Toni. She had her privat apartment in Zuerich, where in 1990 she suffered a stroke,was attended by Maria,admitted to Hirslanden Hospiatl wher she died. She was burried at her mothers grave at the Hofkirche in Lucerne.
MARIA ANNA ALOISIA,bornJune 19,1913 daughter of Karl and Olga.Privat tudoring at the Schoeneck she then went to the Institut in Menzingen and from there to the Nursing school in Baldegg. Her practical training in nursing she received at the Kantons-hospital in Lucerne and at the Clinic Les Delises in Gene`ve. Since 1937 she is at the Hirslanden HospitalIn Zuerich, where she moved up from headnurse to supervisor. I have heared from friends and acquaintenances in the military, who talked very admiringly about her .During her vacations she was frequently with the Dr.Meyers at their cottage in Salavaux at the lake of Murten, where ones Maria caught the biggest fish ever caught in that lake and appeared in the newspaper. Maria was always there,when needed, especially for Hedel.She is the godmother of Alberto Amstutz in Orselina. She has an apartment in Zuerich,where she retired. I have never seen her since I left Switzerland in 1949.
JOSEPHINA ANNA MARIA CAROLINA born Dec.22,1914 daughter of Karl and Olga. Primary school under privat tudor,1930-31 at an Institut in Belgium and in1932 in England, together with Wilma in Wimbledon. Further education in Baldegg as Kindergarden teacher. When she went to Barcelona, arranged by Dr. Meyer Rohr and their representatives there ,she was in a family and went through the Spanish civil war with all its troubles and finally had to escape in a car through the Pyronnees together with the family she had served. She was shortly in Switzerland then followed her sisters Hedel and Wilma to Portugal, where she stayed through W.W.II became a language teacher and became accostumed to Portugese life. She returned to Switzerland, because she came down as the 3 rd in her family with TB, was to my knowledge operated in Switzerland, recuperated and returned to Portugal,where she enjoyed a good position,spending some vacations back home and may retired in Orselina. She never married.
WILHELMINA ANNA MARIA HELENA, born April 10,1016 and died May 19,1686, daughter of Karl and Olga Primary school under privat tudor,she then went together with Josel to an Institut in Belgium and in 1932 to England followed by Baldegg for training as Kindergarten teacher. With Hely,Josel and my sister Elsa she then was in Portugal in a family. After she returned home she stayed with her sisters in Basel and for a time with us at the Krone,where during a fashing ball she met Hans Haller,whom she married in 1940. Hans came from a strong protestant family but agreed to a catholic marriage and all the children were educated catholic. Hans was an officer in the airforce, but nor in my regiment, but we met occasionally. His father had a bakery and small Restaurant, which he enlarged to the Hotel Haller,which became a busy and facionable place. Hans Haller became captain in the Airforce, was married in his uniform during the war. He died in 1975 following a prostate operation. His son Juerg,who was for many years manager of the Circus Knee took over the business, and I remember when he and his wife arrived in a Bently at the Borsinger reunion at castle Horben. We met them also at their home with Wilma,at that time under treatment and after Wilma’s death, we were told that she died of bone cancer, but on further inquiry, they told me that about 1981 she had a mastectomy.She died May 19,1986 and is burried in Lenzburg.
Children: 1943 Christine married to Meyer
1944 Peter died only5 daysoldapparently of umbilical septicemia
1945 Joerg took over the business
1947 Elisabeth
1948 Marianne
1954Ursula
1957 Heiner
HELENA ANNA MARIA,born Jan.30,1918, daughter of Karl and Olga. After primary school under tudor she was in Baldegg and later on in Belgium. As the youngest child she has never seen the Schoeneck at its glamour, only its tragedy and the tragedy of her parents and became an orphan at 14 and 16. She stayed with us for about one year after her mothers death,then worked in Basel in an office, underpaid suffering hunger and loneliness, when Hedel and Wilma returned from Portugal she moved with them into an apartment. She had a lovely voice and sang solo at our Christmas mass, I accompanied her on the Violin. Family friends then helped her to get proper lessons and she sang at the Basel opera and “Staettebund theatre” The Meyer Rohrs in Solothurn paid for her further education, she entered, the only Swiss, at a contest in Geneva. She then went to England, where Mario and Sally acquainted closely with her, we saw her on our visit in 1958 and have pictures with her at Trafalgar square and Buckingham Palace. Mario and Sally told us that in 1980 Hely invited them to stay at her place, apparently she was running a hotel.
KARL ALOIS ANTON TARZISIUS,born Oct.16,1922 and died 1951, son of Karl and Olga. He was a very feeble baby for month suffering of rashes apparently caused by the milk, he spent month in clinics and hospitals and very little at home. In childhood he had TB of the hip and again spent month away in a cast.The parents did not mind the expenses,after 7 girl he was the only boy they had. He was ten when his mother died. friends of the family took care of him, he was in school in Solothurn,stayed with the Meyer-Rohr’s. In 1935 I tried to get him into the Stella,which did not work out,he went to the Institut St. Michel in Fribourg, but he had nothing for study, had the urge to the fields,nature and animals and in 1941 went to an agriculture school and expressed to become a manager of a farm. At that time he visited us frequently, in 1942 he went for his basic training in the army, and jumping into the water he perforated his left eardrum, I checked it and referred him immediatly to the army doctor, being suspicious of TB otitis. His X-ray revealed pulmonary TB and he was evaluated by Prof.Alder in Aarau. On his exam.for the service he had only a fluoroscopy,and the TB was missed. Now the army became liable and he was for many years in Sanatoriums,Barmelweid and Ambri Piotta, recuperated and went into Photagraphy, was in Arosa working for a photagrapher, had a girlfriend and made plans fur the future when he was struck with a viral meningitis and died suddenly,Toni went to his bedside. The PM revealed that it was not TB.