Record of Phone Conversation
Elizabeth Nick (nee Schutze), Novi, Michigan and James Schutze, Sierra Vista, Arizona
17 April 2011
 
Information provided by Elizabeth Nick:
 
William and Greta McCrie are buried in Novi, Michigan. Greta McCrie was born to Peter and Jean Maxwell.
Peter and Jean Maxwell also had sons Jack, Jim, and Stewart.
     Jack married Madeline.
     Jim was unmarried.
     Stuart married Betty Ford (not of the automotive family).
William McCrie worked at IBM and at Argus.
 
William Nick’s mother was born with the same name (Nick) as her future husband’s.
 
Nedra Schutze and Harold Schutze contracted TD, possibly from a boarder who was staying at the Herman Schutze house, and spent time at the Mayberry Sanitarium. Leonard Schutze didn't contract TD but TD tests always showed a positive result.
 
Sarah McCrie was born in 1876 rather than the 1886 noted in the FamilySearch AFR. Sarah worked in a millinery shop at one time, unknown dates and place.
 
Jim and Marie Fraser (Marie worked with Jean Schutze at the Silhouette Camera Shop on Grand River Avenue in Detroit) were married multiple times before wedding each other. They lived in Birmingham, Michigan on Verona Circle and owned Fraser Finer Foods in Birmingham. They named their boat “JimMarie,” which was what Sarah Anderson (nee Schutze) called them when she was very young.
 
Elizabeth Nick (nee Schutze) is a Licensed Professional Councilor. Her hobbies include gardening, walking, reading, cooking, and in her youth, Scottish dancing. She took Scottish dancing lessons and competed in dancing events in the Detroit area and in Ontario, Canada.
 
Anna McCrie (nee Anthony) was born in Ireland and lived in upstate New York, where she gathered herbs and sold them to a pharmacy.
 
Aunt Lillie (nee Estelle) married Ted Schrotzberger and their son, Ed, married Cora, who settled in Oregon.
 
Bessie Estelle changed her name upon arriving in Canada. We don’t know her former name but it may have been similar to Bessie, such as Betsy. She was 
around 16 years old when she and her sister Lilly left an orphanage in London and sailed to Canada. In exchange for their passage, they had to work two years as indentured servants. Their father gave them up to the orphanage after his wife died in childbirth.
 

The above notes were made and transcribed by James Schutze on 19 April 2011.