Volume 1

Descendants of John August Prignitz

1 John August Prignitz 1869 - 1947
.. +Anna Almira Colgan1870 - 1941
........ 2 Alice Mildred Prignitz 1892 - 1981
............ +Grover Cleveland Houghton 1885 - 1947
........ *2nd Husband of Alice Mildred Prignitz:
............ +Ted Banks - 1967
........ 2 Charles Francis Prignitz 1894 - 1941
............ +Martha Alma Anna Heinze 1893 - 1974
................... 3 Earl John Prignitz 1915 -
....................... +Ethel Alice Thompson 1915 - 1996
................................ 4 Beatrice Irene Prignitz 1938 -
................................. +Monte Lerue Goodwin 1938 -
........................................ 5 Robert Harold Goodwin 1960 -
............................................ +Robyn Blevins 1960 -
.................................................. 6 Ashley Ann Goodwin 1984 -
........................................ 5 Randy Lee Goodwin 1964 -
............................................ +Melissa
.................................................. 6 Brett Goodwin 1995 -
........................................ 5 Michael Scott Goodwin 1967 -
............................. 4 Joan Arlene Prignitz 1941 -
................................. +Charles W. Harvey 1940 -
........................................ 5 Christy Lynn Harvey 1963 -
............................................ +Richard Floyd 1958 -
.................................................. 6 Lindsay Jo Floyd 1993 -
.................................................. 6 Becca Floyd 1997 -
........................................ 5 Amy Jo Harvey 1966 -
............................................ +Jeff Biddle 1959 -
.................................................. 6 Olivia Marguerite Biddle 2000 -
.................................................. 6 Emma Gail Rose Biddle 2002 -
............................. 4 Ruth Ann Prignitz 1943 -
................................. +Dale Silvers 1943 -
........................................ 5 Rick Addison Silvers 1966 -
............................................ +Kim Kirker 1968 -
.................................................. 6 John Thomas Addison Silvers 1994 -
.................................................. 6 Emily Noel Silvers 2001 -
........................................ 5 Lori Ann Silvers 1969 -
............................................ +Eric Croley
.................................................. 6 Nadia Marie Croley 1988 -
.................................................. 6 Devin Croley 1992 -
.................................................. 6 Marah Alice Croley 1999 -
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................... *2nd Wife of Earl John Prignitz:
....................... +Rosalie E. Miller 1916 -
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................... 3 Doris Irene Prignitz 1920 - 1998
....................... +Richard P. Newby 1923 -
............................. 4 Darlene Ann Newby 1945 -
............................. 4 James Richard Newby1949 -
................................. +Elizabeth Loza Salinas
........................................ 5 Lisa Marie Newby 1972 -
............................................ +David Edward Clark 1969 -
............................. 4 John Charles 1955 -
........ 2 Arthur G.J. Prignitz 1897 - 1925
........ 2 Leona Minnie Prignitz 1901 - 1967
............ +Sidney Bates 1900 - 1989
................... 3 Leslie Bates
....................... +Florence Norton
............................. 4 Dennis Bates
............................. 4 Carol Bates
............................. 4 John Bates
................... 3 Kenneth Bates
................... 3 Everett Bates
........ 2 Helen Almira Prignitz1915 - 1971
 RE: (The picture on the cover.) To begin at the beginning my Great Grandfather came to
this country in 1856 from Germany. From the research I have done he came from a village
called Jarchow. A year or two later his future bride, Maria Technl came over and they
were married in Davenport Iowa in 1859. They later moved down the river to Buffalo,
Iowa and my Grandfather, my Father and I were all born in that same house on the banks
of the mighty Mississippi river. The last I knew the house is still standing. In the picture
my Grandfather is sitting on his mother’s lap. He obviously had three siblings as this was a
family tintype picture.

This was the way cars

got from the Iowa side to
the Illinois side of the
great Mississippi river.
My first memories of
getting across was of the
Rock Island arsenal
bridge. It was a double
decker - cars below and
trains above. Now there
are four bridges.

A picture of the
button shop where
my father, Charles F
Prignitz worked when
he first got married to
my mother who was
from Andalusia, IL.
They cut the button
blanks from the clam
shells taken from the
river.

The above means of crossing the Mississippi undoubtedly was not

available to my parents as the cars are obviously of a later vintage. I’m
sure that the only way would have been by boat. It seems the old adage
comes into play here. You know the one about the grass is always
greener on the other side of the fence. So it seems the men found the
ladies from the other side of the Mississippi more attractive than they
were at home.

And I really don't know why I never asked how it

then was that my parents met. They lived on opposite
there sides of the Mississippi river. As a matter of fact
were only her brother Bernhardt found his spouse at
three.... home. He married Blanche Reed, who was from
I came Andalusia, Illinois. Both of her sisters, Vallie and
along. Emma married men from Buffalo as did her
brother Otto. He married Francis Roe who was a
Buffalo girl. Isn’t that interesting?
 Charles and Martha
Prignitz wedding picture
above.
The three houses we lived
in while we were in Moline,
Illinois.
Then there are 4 more
pictures of Earl John
Prignitz.
 My 1st few years

I always
said mom
really
wanted a
girl.
Note the
dress!

My very first Trix. By the end

of my magazine route he was so
very, very tired.

My grand-
mother with
At my grand my Aunt
parents home Helen, born
in Buffalo, IA.
just 25 days
My Aunt
before I was.
Helen’s wagon
 My first
memories are of
living in
Moline, IL. I One
was probably 3 proud
or 4 years old in brother
this photo in with his
front of our little sister
house on 3rd St.

Still another
baby picture.

I was 5 years
old when my
sister, Doris ar-
rived on the
scene and we
still lived in the
2nd floor apart-
ment above the
Petersons.
 Pictures that are too good not to include

Buffalo was just a small town, but

very early it had a very fine band.
My father and grandfather both
played in it. My father played a B
flat clarinet and my grandfather
played an E flat clarinet. When I got
old enough I joined in and also
played a B flat clarinet, but by that
time my grandfather had dropped
out so I never did hear him play.

Grandpa always had chickens and here he

is feeding them.
He built his own boats that he powered
with old car engines. He would order cy-
press lumber because he said it lasted longer
without rotting than other lumber did. He
had a long shed where he would glue the
strips of cypress lumber together
He would sit in front of his bay window
all day in the wintertime and tat nets that he
would set out in the Mississippi river. But
before he could use them they had to be
tarred so the threads wouldn’t rot. He had a
large steel tub. It must have been 5 feet in
diameter and 3 feet deep. It was down by
the river and he would build a fire under-
neath that tub and fill it with pieces of tar
and wait until the tar was very hot. Then
from a pulley way up in the tree he would
lower those nets into the hot tar after which
he would raise them up again and leave
them a day or two to air dry. After they
were good and dry he would set them out in
the river to catch fish that he cleaned and
put on ice and distributed out in the country
around town.

My dad worked at International Harvester’s Far-

mall plant in Rock Island, Illinois for many years.
He had a good reputation as a tool and die maker.
His specialty was in precision grinding.
It was based on that reputation that I was hired and
put to work grinding camshafts. I worked at that
task for nearly 10 years.
As a matter of fact I might have continued that
kind of work if the Lord had not called me to the
ministry.
 Continued

Got this picture of my grandpa (as we always called him) long after I had finished these first few pages,
but just had to go back and insert this page. It is such a good likeness of him and my two aunts Helen and
Alice. Helen was just 25 days older than I was and Alice was my very favorite aunt. She used me as her
chauffer as soon as was able to drive. She loved to go and I enjoyed the opportunity to drive so it was one
that pleased both of us.

Getting back to my grandfather. My Grandfather used to say, ”Jack of all trades and master of none.” I
can still hear him laugh as he would say it. But I always thought that he was master of many trades and I
reaped the benefits because he taught me many of the things he was good at. I always admired the many
skills he had. He also lit the lanterns that were on top of the buoys for a five mile stretch of the Missis-
sippi river in front of Buffalo, Iowa. The buoys were placed at the end of the wing dams that protruded out
from each shore and allowed the captains of the ships that navigated the river to stay in the channel and not
run ashore. He did that for the United States government for 30 years.

He taught me the tricks of hanging wallpaper and I became quite skilled at the trade and continued to do it
even after I got married. My wife would go with me and assist. She did the pasting and I hung the paper. I
could hang a ceiling in half an hour. And we got the whole sum of $3.00 a room for our services.

Grandpa did all kinds of odd jobs for people and he would take me along to help get the work done. I well
remember him working for one of the county commissioners who had a cottage over on the island between
Buffalo and Andalusia. We would go over and clear the land around the cottage in the spring of the year of
the weeds that had grown several feet tall. The cottage had a huge porch all around it and we painted it. We
also did varnishing of the floors inside the cottage. When their daughter needed transportation from or too
the island to Buffalo he allowed me to use his launch to provide that service.
 I married my high school sweetheart two years after graduation. As
soon as I got a job at International Harvester Farmall plant in Rock
Island, Illinois we planned for our wedding, which took place in
Muscatine, Iowa March 9, 1935. Viola Smith was our officiating min-
ister. She was pastor at Buffalo but she lived in Muscatine.
Helen and Harry Seward stood up with us and we set up housekeep-
ing in Davenport, Iowa. Our house was just 1 block away from Ethel’s
sister on Thornwood avenue.
We lived there one year and then following a robbery one Saturday
evening while visiting a cousin in Rock Island we decided that the big
city was not the place we wanted to live so we moved back to our roots
in Buffalo.
After renting for a year my parents offered me the vacant lot next to
their home and with the help of my grandfather, who had always said,
“I’m jack of all trades, but master of none”, we built the 5 room home
pictured below. As I recall the lumber cost us $500.

Irene

Irene
 Some newly uncovered pictures

Ethel’s family l to r Loyd, Pop, Charles, Fred, Helen, Ethel and Victor.

Helen and Harry Earl, Ethel, Jolanda and Loyd

Irene Joan

Irene

Joan

We had three
lovely girls and Joan
we always thought
they were pretty
cute.
I know my par-
ents were very
pleased with their
first grandchild.
 More early pictures

Joan

Joan found this page in her

baby book which reminded
us of the time when she was
just four and one half months
old that she swallowed an
open safety pin.
This happened just a few
hours after my dad’s funeral.
She was rushed into Dr. Jor-
dan’s office and luckily he
retrieved the pin.
Proud Aunt Doris shown holding At that point Ethel fainted!
Joan with Irene looking on.

Joan

Ruth Ann Irene

Pop with Marilyn and Wayne Seward and Joan

and Irene Prignitz

Joan.s 3rd Birthday

 And still more

My mother, Proud
Joan and
Parents
Irene

Aunt
Doris
Just us three. again
 Can you believe it? Still more

Transportation in summer Mom And in winter

and
Joan

Dad and Joan Joan and Trix

 Still more old Photos

L. to R. Loyd and Jo, Charles and Mary, Bea and Freddie.

Harry and Helen, Ethel and Earl

The left picture l. to

r. Earl and Ethel Prig-
nitz, Jolanda and
Loyd Thompson.

On the right is a
very nice pose of
Ethel
 4 years in New Sharon, Iowa 1944-48

New Sharon Friends invited

us to serve as pastor starting
Sept. 1, 1944. Church and
parsonage are pictured above.

Assortment of
pictures taken at
New Sharon dur-
ing the 4 years we
were there as
pastor. I started
college at the
same time at Wm.
Penn College 15
miles to the south.

Dress-up
time for the
girls. (left)

Ethel and
her flowers
on the right
More pictures taken at New
Sharon. Ethel at her sewing
machine above. The one be-
low was at Pella Iowa at the
time of their Tulip Festival
 All dressed up and no- Dressed in their mother’s Bed time Girls!
where to go! finest handiwork.

Tea An-
Time other
dress
-up
time

The
girls
loved
Fred and
Lydia
Briggs
dog and
whoever
the kit-
tens be-
longed to
at New
 The three girls at play. Irene and on-lookers. It’s time for a parade!

Irene is off to school. Joan and her bicycle. Ruth with her Irene and Joan
favorite babysitter, are ready for school.
Tillie Heintz Ruth Ann is just
seeing them off.

We loved to have visits

from our loved ones. My
mother and girls above. Uncle Victor above
The girls grandfather, and Ethel’s Uncle Al-
fred Steen with the girls
Fred Thompson (above
to the left
and to the right.
 A few more pictures taken while we were at New
Sharon. Ethel and Thelma Baxter with their girls
above while visiting the Baxter’s in Sturgeon Bay,
WI. The 2 shots below were taken when visiting the
Ridpath family at New Sharon. The top right shot
was in our back yard. The one at the right was taken
when we visited Doris and Richard in Pleasant Plain,
IA where Richard was pastor. My mother Martha
Prignitz is holding her latest grandchild, Darlene
Newby and with our three daughters

One Sunday afternoon Ethel was tak-

ing a nap, I was working on my evening
sermon, and Ruth Ann was at the
neighbors. She got into their lip stick as
you can see.
Volume 3
 1959 also meant a
trip to Iowa so Ethel
could bake and deco-
rate Seward’s 25th
Wedding Anniversary
cake.

Pictured left to right

are their son Wayne,
Helen, Harry and
their daughter
Marilyn Wright

Cutting

the

cake.

Again standing left

to right are Ethel’s
father Fred Thomp-
son, her brother,
Charles, sister Helen,
Ethel and brother
Loyd.

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 Talk about a
busy year. Joan
received her
nurses cap, we
celebrated our
25 wedding
anniversary, our
first grandchild
arrived on the
scene and we
moved to our
new home in
Xenia. What a
year!

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More 1960

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 On top of everything else we moved to Xenia, Ohio
in the fall of 1960.

Xenia Friends Church Xenia Parsonage

Our first grandchild

Bob Goodwin.

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 !961 and 62 were busy years. Ruth Ann
graduated from Xenia high school in 1961
and Joan was married in 1962.
As I did in Irene’s wedding, I walked Joan
down the aisle as father of the bride, while
Richard Newby stood in as minister for me,
then I turned around and officiated for the
rest of the ceremony.

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 We were in California for Craige Le- The above picture is of
Breton’s ordination into the Methodist Joan’s wedding party.
ministry. Standing (right) are Sue
(Thompson) LeBreton, Tommy in his
daddy Craige’s arms, Fred (Ethel’s
brother) holding Stacy and Bea Thomp-
son.

A couple of stops along the route.

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1961 (cont.)

Ruth Ann graduated in 1961 and

Bobby was growing up already to the
delight of mother, grandmother and
great grandmother!

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 1963

Christie Harvey arrives Bobby

Bobby
doesn’t
know
Grandma is tired! what to
make of
his new
cousin.
But he
loves the
dog.

Great Grandma Admires

The Newbys.

Great
Grandma
loved to
read to
Bobby

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 1964

Another big year. I was invited

to join the staff at the Friends
United Meeting headquarters as
Executive Secretary of the Board
on Christian Education. This
meant that we had to have a place
to live in the Richmond area. We
decided to build on one of the va-
cant lots that we owned in Dublin.
That is what we did and we lived in
that house for 30 years

I served as Executive Secretary for seven

years, when FUM went through a change in
structure. They went from the five boards
to three commissions. The five executives
were warned that we had no assurance of a
job when the change would take place in six
months. That is when Prinit Press was
started as I didn’t feel inclined to take an-
other pastorate. But I did have a job at the
office as I was offered the position of man-
ager of Quaker Hill bookstore and Friends
United Press so I stayed on another 10
years.

When I took over the Friends United Press position it

was just getting started with Errol Elliot’s book, Quakers
on the American Frontier. By the end of my stay we had
published or reprinted 60 different books plus a number
of pamphlets.
I also managed Quaker Hill Bookstore during that time.

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 1965

1965 was one full year. Ruth Ann

graduated from Central State Uni-
versity. I tried to help Monte and
Irene as much as I could in building
their house. We attended Wayne
and Sondra wedding back in Iowa.
Then I officiated at Ruth Ann’s
wedding and of course Ethel did a
lot of sewing and cake decorating.
We attended a National Council of
Churches meeting in Bermuda
(three pictures below)

And the old

Mississippi
river flooded
again in 1965.
The house I was
born in is
shown sand
bagged to the
right

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 Buffalo Iowa gets flooded regularly!

The house be-

hind the telephone
pole is the house
that I was born in.
The right side of
the photo.

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 1965 continued
Ruth Ann’s Wedding

Nephew, Bobby Goodwin was her

ring bearer

And of course the cake

was created by her
mother.

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 1966

The Thompson family gathered to celebrate Pop’s 87 birth-

day. L. to R. Loyd, Ethel, Pop, Helen, Freddie and Charles.

Ethel was
always the
happiest
when sur-
rounded by
her grandchil-
dren.

Emma, Pop and Bobbi in Pop’s to-

mato garden.

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1967

And I
enjoyed
my
grand-
children
too
whenever
we were
able to be
with
them.

Chuck
and Joan
Harvey
with
Amy and
Christie.

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 Game Time

Pop and his

grandchildren
play games

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Volume 1
4
 1971-1972

We had a great
time in Hawaii.
Enjoyed every min-
ute and attended the
CBA conference as
well. Also loved
the Anniversary
flowers Ruth sent,
and then the 3 girls
did that every year
following that one.
Aloha!

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 1972

Doll house patterned after

their house no less.

This picture
came in too late to
include it in the
proper place. We
lived at Nobles-
ville and looking
top down are Earl,
Ethel, Helen,
Harry, to the right
of Harry is Joan,
then Ruth Ann is
on Pop’s lap and
Wayne standing
along side.

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 1973

All prepared to ride the Maid of the Mist at Niagara Falls

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 1974

We were
loaded to the
limit and
ready to take
off for
somewhere.
I’m not sure
where.

We were privileged to
visit the Holy land to
attend a CBA meeting.

While there we got to see

our Dublin neighbor,
Anna Langston, who was
serving as pastor of the
Ramalah Meeting and
principal of the girls
school.

The 2 pictures to the left

found us resting for
awhile

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1975

Our
dear
friends
John
and
Thelma
Baxter

All dressed up in the tradi-

tional Quaker garb!

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1975-76

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More 1976

We were able to visit Fred

and Bea and Don and
Lucille Greaves on this trip
in 1976

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Still more 1976

More pictures when

we travelled west to
Boulder and Big Bear.
Also a couple back
home of Ruth and 2 of
her grandchildren and
Joan in her kitchen as
she was preparing a
meal for us.
The picture below is
of Amy’s Birthday
Party.

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 1977

Freddie and Bea’s 50th Wedding Anniversary

Our
Buffalo
friends,
Fern
and
Fran
Dodds.

Ethel
And
Fern
Dodds

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1978-79

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 1980

Beauty in our own front yard!

Uncle Sidney and Aunt Alice Ethel feeding her geranium bed

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 More 1980

1980 was the year we

became property owners in
Florida. We went down
for a vacation and Fred
Wood got us interested in
buying a mobile home to
spend the winters there.
We bought an old one and
I worked hard to make it
acceptable for Ethel. Then
I made the mistake of
saying if we liked it we
could trade it in for a bet-
ter model. She didn’t see
any point in waiting. She
said if we were going to
trade do it and enjoy the
new one, so the next year
we began looking for a
new one. We found one
that had been used as an
office at a sales location.
So we traded our 8 foot
wide model for a 14 foot
home and enjoyed it for
I enjoyed my golf in Florida. We went out early almost I also enjoyed singing in the another 8 years. I built the
every morning at daybreak. Ethel and her neighbor Covenant Presbyterian 70 voice flower box in front out of
would get together for coffee and chatting while we were Choir. We not only sang for 2 white brick
out. One day I had a hole in one and on Saturday morn- services each Sunday, we put
ing at coffee club I got the donut with a ball in the hole. on special concerts each year.

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 1983

Fun day at Joan’s pool in

Indianapolis, Indiana

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 1985
119

The picture says it all folks

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 1986-89

The first 2 great grandchildren came into

our lives during these years. Ashley Good-
win, daughter of Robert and Robyn and
Nadia Croley, daughter of Eric and Lori.
We also had another grand daughter
graduate from college, Christie Harvey
received her degree in pharmacy from But-
ler University.
It was sometime in this time frame that I
took up carving as a hobby and as a small
income. My specialty was Santa’s
but I didn’t stop there as I took classes on
Indians and animals too.
See the next page for a display

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 Wood Carving

I would carve each evening

Carving a horse and
the finished product.
My EP Clauses card
below.

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 1990

Two Graduates in 1990, Amy Harvey and

Mike Goodwin. I spent a lot of time in the
hospital too. First Jewish National in Denver
for 3 weeks, Reid in Richmond for 2 weeks and
St Vincent in Indianapolis. Mike and I also
remodeled the house across the street from us.

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1991

Those roses need some attention!

This seems to be getting to be a habit!

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1992-93

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More 1993

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Volume 5
 1994-95

We were at
Irene and
Monte’s home
in Spiceland,
Indiana when
the girls put on
the party for our
80th Birthdays.

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 1995

I assumed the pastorate of Dublin Friends in 1995 along

with Wayne Cox as assistant. As you can see I always wel-
comed family and friends at Meeting.

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 1996

1996! What a year! Two weddings

in the family and then bam...Ethel’s
untimely death! After sixty-one and
one half years. Years filled with joy
and happiness brought to an abrupt
halt in one fleeting second..
The girls did everything they could
to help me through those lonesome
times. They were distraught too.
They decided a dog would help and
purchased a Schnauzer puppy and
named him (what else) Trix? I vis-
ited my daughters. The picture in the
lower left shows me doing my thing
frying crepes and to the right making
an adjustment to a screen-door at
Ruth Ann’s home

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 Amy-Jeff’s Wedding was different

Amy’s wedding was

different. No kidding
about that. Instead of
the traditional Church
ceremony she chose to
have her Wedding at
the Conner Prairie
farms entertainment
center.
Then to be really
different she planned
to have the nuptials
spoken on the landing
between the two floors
of the building.
If that wasn’t suffi-
ciently unique, all the
lights were dimmed.
The only lighting was
from the little Christ-
mas tree lights that
were up and down the
railing.
I was one surprised
minister to say the
least!
But all went well!

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More 1996

1997

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The family

trip to

Cincinnatti

for a Reds

game

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 1998

In August of 1996 I was looking at

a Senior Site and of the 100’s of ads
that were shown 1 name stood out in
bold for me. It said she was seeking
a Christian Pen Pal. I thought I
could fill that need and responded
giving a brief resume of my own. It
turned out my response went to the
woman’s daughter who had placed
the ad without her mothers knowl-
edge. So she had to phone her
mother and tell her what she had
done and read what I had written in
reply. January 11th we said our
vows at the close of Worship in the
Dublin Friends Meetinghouse. She
not only got a Christian Pen Pal she
got a new husband!

Then just three and a half months later I had to have emergency
surgery for perforated bowels (from taking too much prednisone
for my asthma). The surgery was successful however a week fol-
lowing I suffered from a minor stroke and then 3 days later a mas-
sive stroke.
I was placed in the Oakridge Rehabilitation center where with
the help of very capable therapists I was able to regain partial use
of my limbs and learn to speak and swallow again.
After our marriage we were blessed with having five daughters
now!
My favorite nurse at Oakridge was a gal named Debbie. She
was one fine helper.

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 Wedding Dinner followed the ceremony

After we said our vows following the Meet-

ing for Worship we gathered at the Golay
Center for a dinner. There were 70 guests
including 19 former members of a class that
Rosalie taught at the First Brethren Church
at Goshen, Indiana. Seated above are left to
right, Israel Gorden, Rosalie’s brother-in-
law, Edwina Gorden, Rosalie’s sister, Rosa-
lie, Me, Joyce and Bill Wagoner

Cutting the cake in the picture

above.

Rosalie’s apartment is pictured to

the left. We had agreed to spend part
of the time in her apartment and part
of the time in mine in Dublin, Indiana.
Unfortunately, our plans had to be
revised because of my unexpected ill-
ness

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More 1998

In addition to
being my nurse and
caretaker she has
taken up barbering.

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1999-2000

Helen’s visit
Lori (standing) holding
Marah, Devon and
Nadia. Randy in the
shadows. Seated, Rosalie,
Earl, Helen, and Joan
holding Olivia.

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2002

Sunset at
the
Northpole!

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 2003-2004

And the beat goes on !

A Master’s Degree, no less

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Christmas celebrations through the years

We have had
family Christmas
dinners and gift
exchange as long as
I can remember.
I’ve just included a
few sample shots.
The gatherings
have grown consid-
erably through the
years

2006

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 We end this Album
by saying how
proud we are of all
our children, grand
children and great
grand children

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 The end!
For Rosalie’s birthday a
few years ago the girls
made a list of things
Rosalie did for me. It
stretched from the ceil-
ing down on the floor.
Joan even made a nurses
cap for her and of course
Ruth Ann’s cake made
the occasion complete.
We appreciate the crea-
tivity of our daughters.
We have a professional photographer living at FFC
who took this picture of us.

Well we have reached the end of our journey. Isn’t it Mother—

ironic that we end up with 93 pages? Guess what? I’ll be Daughter
93 years old in August. Making this album has really 92nd Birthday!
been fun. I hope it will be helpful for my family to know
something of where they came from. My daughters went Bobbie came for
through my hundreds of slides and scanned them for me over the weekend
as well as searching through old albums for pertinent and celebrated
photos. with a family
The two pictures at the bottom are looking two ways in dinner in the fam-
our 1 room apartment. The one way shows the things of ily room, a room
the past, some of my carvings. That is something I can no set aside for small
longer do. And I did enjoy doing it as long as I was able. families to gather.
However looking the other direction we can see out the Not large enough
window and enjoy the present with the birds that come to for our extended
our bird feeder and the lovely patio where we enjoy cook- family
outs several time each summer.

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Volume 2
 Late comers—odds and ends

Overlooking Niagara Falls

Doris’ wedding: Standing l. to r. Richard’s sisters, Joy and

Gail, Doris, Richard, me, Fran Dodds and Harry Rauch, and
Irene and Joan in front.

Family to the
right.

Dad following
his stroke to
the left.

Dad with his

Clarinet.

Me with my
Colliers bag
above left.

Me on my
Dad’s knee
left.

Mom to the
right.

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 Our 1st year at New Sharon we took the 1st week of our vacation to help Harry build his house in
Bettendorf, Iowa. When we arrived the basement was constructed but by the end of the week the
house was under-roof and the chimney through the roof. Ethel’s brother Loyd was building right next
door to the Seward’s and so we stopped working on Seward’s house at 4 o’clock on Friday and moved
over next door and while I cut out all of the rafters for Loyd’s hip roofed house Pop (Ethel’s dad)
would pass them up to Loyd, Freddie and Harry to nail them in place. By dark the roof was framed in
all but the attached garage.
We then went on to Sturgeon Bay and visited our friends the Baxters.
We stayed with the Seward’s every time we returned to Iowa. Ethel always took her sewing ma-
chine along to sew for Helen. She also baked and decorated their 25th Anniversary cake in 1959..

Wayne, Helen, Harry and Marilyn Sisters, Ethel and Helen Helen and Harry Seward

Marilyn, Harry, Helen, Wayne, Emma Marilyn, Harry, Helen, Wayne Pop, Babe, Helen, Ethel and Loyd
and Pop (Fred Thompson).
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Then it was off to Noblesville, IN for 2 years, 1948-50.

Our second ministry was at Noblesville,

IN where we only stayed 2 years, but only
because Tom Jones, President of Earlham
College learned of my building experience
and invited me to supervise the construc-
tion of Stout Memorial Meetinghouse on
the Earlham campus and promised to see
me through college.
The Church and parsonage are pictured
here to the left.
Below you can see Ethel continued the
dress alike pattern even including her
dresses like the girls.
The girls riding their modes of transporta-
tion, and Irene and her friend Vickie
Brown giving Trix a bath.

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 While we were pastor at Noblesville we made a couple of interesting vacations. The first one was out to the
west coast to visit Ethel’s cousin Lucille Greaves and her hubby Don. On the way we looked up Uncle Ed
who was operating a drilling rig searching for oil. It was located out in the middle of nowhere, somewhere in
Wyoming. Ethel and Irene (Joan behind) are pictured with him below. The other 2 shots are of the rig.

This picture was

taken somewhere in
the area where oil
had already been
found and the pumps
were busy pulling it
from the earth.
Mom, Ethel and the
girls were investi-
gating.

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 More pictures of our 1949 trip

Crater Lake, Oregon. Snow balling in June! A direct hit I guess that’s all folks!

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