Name: Colleen Witham Niswander
Birthplace: Pleasant View, Ohio
Born: 1916

Name: Naomi Marie Bowers
Birthplace: Pleasant View, Ohio
Born in: 1928

Naomi: I was born, I think at 117 Westminster – it’s a museum now where they are…where I was born. I went through it and the things is just as we lived there, but as I say it’s a museum now and they got teddy bears and candles.


Colleen: I am Colleen Witham Niswander. I grew up in the country. I have 11 brothers and sisters. I was born in Pleasant View, around Beaver Dam between Beaver Dam and Lima in Ohio in 1916. Well, my father was an orphan and his name is Jerry Morris Witham and wealthy people took him to raise down around Hared.

Naomi: What was their name?

Colleen: John Jacobs, and he was raised around Hared. He met my mother Laura Bell Snider and they were married in…I don’t remember how many years ago do you?

Naomi: I don’t either.

Colleen: They lived around Pleasant View, Ohio. Between Beaver Dam and Lima and that’s where we kids were raised. We went to school at (Laughs), as kids we called it Lord’s Town, in the country, and then we went to Beaver Dam. That’s where we went to high school. There was…how many brothers and sisters did we have?

Naomi: Seven.

Colleen: Seven brothers and sisters?

Naomi: Yes, four girls and four boys.