Bronner / Patterson Ancestors - Person Sheet
Bronner / Patterson Ancestors - Person Sheet
NameSTARR, Veronica Mary (Vera) 4
Birth Date28 May 1906
Birth PlaceNewark, Essex, NJ
Death Date4 Sep 1997
Death PlacePonte Vedra Beach, St. Johns, FL
Burial Date7 Sep 1997
Burial PlaceKnollwood Cemetery, Mayfield Heights, OH
EducationBA Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University 1927
Soc. Sec. #297-24-6923
FatherSTARR, John Henry (1880-1958)
MotherCANNON, Margaret Mary (1879-1962)
Misc. Notes
Social Security Death Index lists her date of birth incorrectly as 6 June 1906. Baptized at St. Antonius' Church, Newark, NJ on 10 June 1906.4

The Cleveland Plain Dealer; September 6, 1997 Saturday; FINAL; METRO; Pg. 9B For 30 years Vera Starr Batzer provided ballroom dance classes and party groups for young people in the fifth grade through high school. A group of parents asked her in 1969 to help them start a second debutante ball in Cleveland. She assisted them in creating the Cotillion Society of Cleveland and served as its principal adviser until 1983. Since 1989, Mrs. Batzer lived at Vicar's Landing Lifecare Community in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. She died there Thursday. She was 91. She was born in Newark, N.J., but moved to Cleveland when she was in her early teens. She graduated from Shaw High School, where she met her husband, Russel William Batzer. She was awarded a bachelor's degree with magna cum laude honors at Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University in 1927 and married the next year. When her first daughter was of the age to attend dancing classes, Mrs. Batzer became involved with the Committee of Sponsors for Miss Myrtle Pettingale's ballroom and dance classes. After a few years, Mrs. Batzer began her own classes with Pettingale as her first teacher. Mrs. Batzer added party groups when her daughter and her friends reached high school. "Dancing classes are not a business with me. They are a labor of love," she told a reporter in 1969. Mrs. Batzer took pride in knowing each student by name and greeting them in a receiving line at each class. She gave up her work with young people in 1983 because of health problems. She was made an honorary member of the Cotillion Society in 1989. Her husband died in 1987. Mrs. Batzer is survived by daughters, Judith Starr Bronner of Tequesta, Fla., and Lynne Klopf of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.; foster daughter, Vivian Platek of Chagrin Falls; three grandchildren; and three foster grandchildren. Services will be at 3 p.m. tomorrow in the Chapel of Knollwood Cemetery, 1678 SOM Center Rd., Mayfield Heights.

Appears in 1940 Census on Pennfield Road in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
http://1940census.archives.gov/search/?search.census_year=1940search.state=OH#filename=m-t0627-03049-00205.tif&name=18-35&type=image&state=OH&searchby=location&searchmode=search&year=1940&index=21&pages=40
Spouses
Birth Date5 Aug 1905
Birth PlaceDetroit, MI
Death Date17 Nov 1987
Death PlaceCleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
Burial PlaceKnollwood Cemetery, Mayfield Heights, OH
FatherBATZER, George Julius (1883-1944)
MotherSIRINGER, Theresa Margaret (1878-1954)
Marr Date7 Nov 1928
Marr PlaceCleveland, Cuyahoga, OH
ChildrenJudith Starr (Judy) (1934-2012)
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