Ida Wonneberger née Witthuhn

This photo came fully identified but without a location stamp. No problem – Ida Ernestine Johanne Wonneberger née Witthuhn was easy to find in the records!

Ida, who had been born on June 25, 1858, married Arthur Richard Paul Wonneberger on October 2, 1886 in Berlin-Spandau. The couple became parents to a baby girl Irene Anna Margarethe Wonneberger on April 24, 1899.

Ida was working as a cook before she married Paul. Paul was a house-painter by profession. We also know that Ida's father Hermann Karl Wilhelm Witthuhn was a locksmith, and Ida’s brother Erich Georg Hermann Witthuhn (*February 20, 1876) was a mechanic. Ida’s one sister Agnes Hermine (*May 24, 1865), a maid, married a butcher Joseph Burgey. Ida’s second sister Margarethe Anna Rosalie (*June 25, 1871) married a merchant, Johann Friedrich Paul Jacob.

Ida and Paul lived a long life together. They passed away in their 80s within a month of each other at the end of 1942.

I find Ida’s daughter Irene working as a secretary in 1929 when she married an artist Ulrich Anton Huber. According to a family tree built for the Wonnebergers-Hubers on Ancestry, the couple had one child. Perhaps Ida’s grandchild is still out there and I can return this photo to them! Keep your fingers crossed.