Kitty and Walter Hagenbucher were married at Holy Family Church June 6, 1936. Her matron of honor was Marie McColgan the wife of her brother John. Her wedding band was made of platinum and engraved with the initials W.O.H.  C.M.M. 6.6.1936.  Kitty told her daughter Joyce-Ann of a particularly painful experience when following her wedding her Aunt Mary cut up her wedding dress because she hadn’t wanted her to marry him.

Walter, born in Philadelphia September 14, 1909, was the only child of Genevieve and Nathan Hagenbucher. He was of German extraction and his grandfather Hagenbucher fought in the American Civil War. His cousin Edson F. Hagenbucher owned The 19th Hole bar at Jamestown Street and Henry Avenue in Roxborough near the Walnut Lane golf course.

Kitty and Walter on the boardwalk Wildwood, New Jersey with her sister in law Marie McColgan to Kitty’s left c.1936.

Following their marriage Kitty and Walter lived in the house on Ritchie Street in which Kitty was raised. Their children John "Butch", Joyce-Ann and Martin were born while they lived there. Her Aunt Mary Malloy left the house to Kitty. In the late 1940s Kitty sold it to the Donohue family and the family moved to an apartment on the second floor of the 19th Hole.  Walter tended bar there and she made sandwiches and other bar food.

Kitty, Walter Marty, John, and Joyce-Ann.	Joyce-Ann, Martin and John near the cabin of their Dad’s cousin in the mountains of Pennsylvania.

Photo of Walter with son John and daughter Joyce-Ann taken on the occasion of John’s First Holy Communion c.1944.

It was while they were living above the 19th Hole, about 1949, that the marriage began to fail. Kitty discussed the situation with Father Lyons at Holy Family Church and he recommended that she and the children get in a more wholesome environment.  She and the children moved to a house on Sheldon Street near Ackey’s Hill, near the intersection of Hermitage and Sheldon Streets, in Manayunk. They divorced in 1951.  

As with her other siblings, Kitty and the children were close with her older brother John McColgan and his family. They enjoyed family gatherings at John’s place in Dushore, Pennsylvania.

 

 

 

 

 

Kitty, with her brother John, Dick Steele and her son Butch”c.1950.

At the lake Dushore front to rear: Marty, Tom McColgan, Joe McColgan, Joyce-Ann, Jack McColgan, Butch and Joan McColgan, 1950.

 

 

Kitty and Dick Steele at the lake in the Pennsylvania mountains during a visit with her brother John, 1950.