A PUBLICATION FOR AND ABOUT THE TOWN OF NAPER, Naper Paper NEBRASKA, Volume 17, Issue 3 www.napernebraska.org Fall, 2019 PUBLISHED BY THE NAPER And so that is why we are whose very existence was the re- HISTORICAL HEROES- here today--to remember the fallen sult of segregation. Worse yet, and all who served. from 1877 to 1950, 589 African- SOCIETY. MEMORIAL DAY But how best to remem- Americans were lynched in Georgia ber, how best to not forget? De- with 20 lynchings in Jasper County The mission of the Naper 2019 pending on which records you con- alone. Despite the inequities and Historical Society is to preserve, Let me begin by saying interpret, display, communicate, sult, and how you do your counting, injustices under which he grew up, that it is an honor to appear before close to one and a half million Frederick said “yes” when his na- promote and honor the history, you today. Given that I have no original structures, special places Americans are among our war dead tion called. and artifacts of the people and military service background myself, beginning with the War for Inde- Today, we remember and culture of Naper, Nebraska, and I’m not sure that I am the most pendence and continuing through honor Frederick D. Funderberg. the surrounding area. The qualified or traditional of Memorial ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan And now let us consider Naper Historical Society intends Day speakers. But when Dale Ni- and Iraq--one and a half million Medal of Honor recipient Private to accomplish this mission by colaus, in cahoots with my Mom, operating a museum, publishing fathers and mothers and brothers First Class Joe M. Nishimoto. A a newsletter, sponsoring events, asked me to speak, I said “yes”. and sisters and neighbor kids and California boy, Joe enlisted in the and in other appropriate ways. And I hope that by the end of my friends who did not come home. Army in October of 1943. A little The Naper Historical Society will remarks that just maybe that willing- The names of those dead over a year later, Joe and his squad initially focus on four themes: ness to say “yes” will have a little Americans are etched in stone and from the 100th Infantry Battalion School Days, Life in Naper more relevance in terms of why we bronze in cemeteries across this were engaged in a four day fight Through the Years, White Horse are gathered here today. Ranch, and Naper 28 Plane nation and around the world. Often with the enemy to take a ridge in Crash. Most of us know that Me- Memorial Day celebrations will in- France. Joe’s single-handed hero- morial Day, often called Decoration clude a reading of the names of ics removed three machine gun IN THIS ISSUE Day in the early years, began in local heroes, but how do we read emplacements from action and some parts of the country a few the names of one and a half million opened the way for the Americans years after the Civil War and be- • MEMORIAL ADDRESS such heroes? How do we remem- to advance. A week later Joe was came more firmly entrenched as a ber and honor the sacrifices made? killed in action. AND PHOTOS nationwide event following World And, of equal importance, how do As a Japanese-American War I, finally becoming an official we take meaning from those sacri- during World War II, Joe would • ALUMNI BANQUET national holiday in 1971. fices and apply that meaning to our have had every reason not to an- Originally a day to remem- own lives? swer the call to service. Joe and ber, honor, and celebrate those Those are big questions, his family had been removed from • EXCHANGE STUDENT Americans who died in combat, and I’m not sure I have any big California and interned in a camp in Memorial Day has gradually come answers. So I’d like to approach Arkansas as part of the govern- to also serve as an opportunity to • HOUSES THAT EMMA the matter by remembering and ment’s forced relocation of Japa- honor all veterans and current CLEANED talking about just four of our fallen nese-Americans following Pearl members of the armed forces. soldiers, two from World War II and Harbor. The lives that Joe and his In 1986, President Ronald two from Operation Iraqi Freedom. family had built for themselves in • OL’ HOMESTEADER Reagan spoke at Arlington National And from those four stories, I hope California, their American dreams, Cemetery on Memorial Day. While that maybe, just maybe, we will see were gone forever. Despite the reflecting on those buried at Arling- • LETTERS at least the outlines of something inequities and injustices he experi- ton, he noted, “All of these men bigger. enced, Joe said “yes” when his were different, but they shared this Let us first pay tribute to nation called. in common: They loved America Purple Heart recipient First Lieuten- Today, we remember and very much. . .And they loved with ant Frederick D. Funderberg, a honor Joe M. Nishimoto. the sureness of the young. It’s hard young man from Jasper County, A little over sixty years not to think of the young in a place Georgia. An enlisted member of later, we come to the life of Purple like this, for it’s the young who do the 301st Fighter Squadron seeing Heart recipient Corporal Kareem the fighting and dying when a action in Europe, Frederick claimed Rashad Sultan Khan. Kareem en- peace fails and a war begins.” the first victory for his squadron by listed in the Army upon graduation Reagan continued speak- shooting down two enemy fighters from a New Jersey high school in ing of those who answered the call in aerial combat in June of 1944. 2005 and found himself in Iraq just to serve in Vietnam, “It was often Six months later, while flying escort a year later. Roughly a year into our poor who fought. . .it was the duty for a bomber squadron near his tour in Iraq, Kareem and three unpampered boys of the working Munich, his plane was shot down. squad mates from the 2nd Infantry class who picked up the rifles and Frederick’s body, along with those Division were killed when a bomb went on the march. They learned of his fellow crew members, was exploded in a house they were not to rely on us; they learned to never recovered. clearing. rely on each other. . .They seized As an African-American, As an American Muslim, certainty from the heart of an am- Frederick would have had every Kareem would have had every rea- bivalent age; they stood for some- reason not to answer the call to son not to answer the call to ser- thing.” service. He grew up in an era vice. Even though the attacks of From this, Reagan con- where he was confronted with seg- September 11 were directed by a cluded, “And we owe them some- regated bathrooms, water foun- terrorist from Saudi Arabia and thing, those boys. We owe them tains, restaurants, public transporta- carried out by terrorists from Saudi first a promise: That just as they tion, schools, and more, including Arabia, anti-Muslim sentiment in did not forget their missing com- his service as a member of the post-9/11 America affected Ameri- rades, neither, ever, will we.” Tuskegee Airmen, a military unit can kids like Kareem deeply and

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continue to do so through today. ded in our Pledge of Allegiance. We are in- much but who are in need. Again, we must Despite the unjust anger directed toward him deed one nation, indivisible. do so because we are America, one nation, and those of his faith, Kareem said “yes” Unfortunately, I think sometimes we indivisible. when his nation called. forget that greater purpose; our recitations of The relatively obscure American Today we remember and honor the Pledge of Allegiance become little more poet Wallace Bruce is not considered one of Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan. than a display of rote memorization as op- our most talented or successful writers, but The final American hero I will talk posed to something we reflect upon and dedi- the last few lines of his poem titled “Memorial about today is Specialist Dustin L. Workman cate ourselves to. Day” are what makes Wallace Bruce quota- II. From Greenwood, Nebraska, Dustin enlist- So occasions like Memorial Day are ble. In speaking of America’s war dead, ed in the Army upon graduation from high a good time to renew our dedication to Ameri- Bruce wrote, “Who kept the faith and fought school in 2005. After advanced training in can ideals. Remembering and honoring the fight;/the glory theirs, the duty ours. . .” Fort Carson, Colorado, Dustin deployed to those who sacrificed their lives in war is good As we remember and honor the Iraq. In early July of 2007, Dustin and four and right so long as we do not do so with an fallen on this Memorial Day, we must realize fellow soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Division end toward glorifying war but in keeping with that the sacrifices of kids like Frederick, Joe, were attacked by insurgents in Baghdad. All words offered by President Eisenhower a few Kareem, and Dustin mean nothing unless we five died of wounds sustained from impro- months after the end of World War II: “War is say ”yes” to the duty those sacrifices impose vised explosive devices. Dustin was nineteen a grim, cruel business, a business justified upon us. years old. only as a means of sustaining the forces of And so as we go forth today, let us I was Dustin’s middle school and good against those of evil.” do so by embracing the true meaning of “my high school principal for six years for grades Sustaining the forces of good in- country right or wrong.” Let us celebrate and seven through twelve. My youngest daughter volves, as President Eisenhower would re- acclaim what is right and dedicate our lives to was one of Dustin’s classmates at Ashland- mark over a decade later during his Presiden- owning and correcting what is wrong. Greenwood High School. While she was cy, recognizing that “In vast stretches of the And let us always remember that, preparing for a study abroad experience at earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will guided by the example of Frederick, Joe, Oxford after her sophomore year of college, spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the Kareem, Dustin, and of all our fallen, we are Dustin was dying in Iraq. I went to Dustin’s sun goes down, they will still know hunger. America. memorial service and saw and shared the They will see suffering in the eyes of their Let us be worthy of that birthright, of pain felt by his mother and brother and sister, children. . .So long as this is so, peace and that duty. knowing that the hugs and words of condo- freedom will be in danger throughout our lence I offered were not enough. Dustin’s world.” [Ray (R.C.) Bentzen, a 1974 NHS graduate, death was and is personal for me. President George H. W. Bush, like was the Memorial Day speaker and gave As an eighteen year old, barely out Eisenhower someone who had experienced the audience much to think about. He was of childhood, Dustin would have had every first hand the grim realities of World War II, the 1973 state winner of the VFW spon- reason not to answer the call to service, in- said during his inauguration speech: sored Voice of Democracy contest.] cluding his mother trying to talk him out of it. “America is never wholly herself unless she is But Dustin was a stubborn kid and had his engaged in high moral principle. We as a mind set, so he said “yes” when his nation people have such a purpose today It is to called. make kinder the face of the nation and gentler Today we remember and honor the face of the world.” Dustin L. Workman II. President Bush was often ridiculed So we have an African-American for his talk of a kinder, gentler nation. Yet I growing up in a segregated America, a Japa- would argue that his assessment of what our nese-American forcibly relocated because of overriding purpose as Americans should be his race, an American Muslim dealing with remains, if anything, more true and essential pervasive animosity toward his religion, and a today than it was thirty years ago. small town Nebraska kid ignoring his mom’s In 2011, President Bush offered this advice. These four young men sound like advice for Americans: “There could be no they are about as different as they could be, definition of a successful life that does not but I’d argue that what they have in common include service to others. Find something to Color Guard at Knoll Crest Cemetery outweighs all differences. do. Get off the bench. Don’t sit there whin- Sterling Schultz, Duane Sieh, Tom Brauer, President Barack Obama, while still ing, sucking your thumb, get in the game.” Dave Beck, Merle Riesselman, Bob Allpress, a senator from Illinois, addressed the 2004 And that is where we can use this Hoyt Cline, Kelly Bendig, Kip Brewer, Keith Democratic National Convention and said, Memorial Day as an opportunity for each and Meyer, Dale Reber, Dale Nicolaus “...there is not a liberal America and a con- every one of us to get in the game. Just as servative America — there is the United Frederick, Joe, Kareem, Dustin, and nearly a States of America. There is not a black Ameri- million and a half other Americans said “yes” ca and a white America and a Latino America to serving America and willingly paid the ulti- and an Asian America — there's the United mate price, each of us can say “yes” to being States of America.” Frederick, Joe, Kareem, of service to others on a daily basis. and Dustin did not serve as an African- And the beauty of this call to service American or a Japanese-American or an directed toward all of us is that it is a chal- American Muslim or a small town Nebraska lenge we rise to almost naturally. As you all boy--they served and died as Americans. know first hand, every time the rains fall and This is as true for the past as it is the floods rise, every time the storm clouds today. Consider, for example, the Naper 28. lower and destruction is left behind, every Those twenty-eight young men who died time a spark ignites and homes and lives are when their Army Air Force transport crashed changed forever, and every time injury or southwest of Naper in 1944 came from six- sickness or accident befalls a neighbor, we teen different states, from California to New reach out and show that we are America, we York, from Arkansas to Oregon. They were are the great one nation, indivisible. America. And so the next step for all of us, More recently, the soldiers who died the next challenge we must accept and over- with Dustin Workman in Baghdad in 2007 had come, is to extend what is instinctive in us to last names of Martinez, Kim, Mendoza, and the next level. We must ignore the efforts to Hiltz. They, with Dustin, were America. divide that are all too common and instead This notion of unity, of all of working offer a hand of support and an effort at under- Larry Allyn and Cheryl Nicolaus plac- together toward a greater purpose, is embed- standing to those who may not look or be like us or even whom we may not like all that ing wreaths on the memorial eVolume 17, Issue 3 Page 3 Fall, 2019 16,

THEY’RE AT IT AGAIN! During the 2018-19 school year, Mike and Dee Roth hosted Axell Boxio from Bessanone, Italy, for the exchange program. Although it was hard for the family to say goodbye to their exchange student, they re doing it again! The Roths will be hosting Klara Faxen from Kungsbacka, Sweden. Klara will be joining the Roth family on July 29, attend- ing Boyd County High School, and stay until May, 2020. She plans to participate in volley- ball this fall and possibly basketball later in the year. Klara is the oldest child of Jakob and Charlotta Faxen. She has a younger sister Johanna and will gain two younger exchange sisters, Michaela and Brooklyn, and a younger exchange brother, Jace. Klara enjoys playing floorball in Sweden which is like indoor hockey without the ice and not as brutal! She is looking forward to spending a year in America, learning about our great na- tion. She will also be checking out the Whtie Horse Ranch and Heritage Hall Museums in Naper as well as hiking the Twin Buttes. The Roths look forward to showing her around and introducing her to people in the community. Make sure to say “Hello!” if you happen to seen her around Naper.

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CLASSES OF ‘NINE’ AGED LIKE A FINE WINE . . . The 66th annual naper alumni banquet was may 25. Thanks to Kelly Bendig, class of 1989, for serving as master of ceremonies and keeping everything rolling. the nebrask-inn (gross, ne) served a fine meal to about 90 attendees. we hosted, we toasted, we boasted, we roasted, and we enjoyed the evening the mostest.

Class of 1949-Gaynell Keller with her family: Carol and Randy Keller, Rita and Tim Keller, Cindy and Ron Schroetlin, Gaynell in front

Class of 1959—Kenneth Katzer, Milo “Mike” Stahlecker, Donna Windmeyer Luehmann, Janice Schultz Hysell, Gary Hoyt

Class of 1969-Wesley Fuhrer, Andrew Hambeck, Mary Sparks Schmidt, Jean Rolf Duerfeldt, Kathy Higgins Peppel, Doris Dummer Olson, Bonnie Moody, Ed Higgins

Class of 1979-Bonnie Klien Vogt, Joe Klien

Class of 1989-

Lisa Ahlers Reiman and Kelly Bendig, master of ceremonies

Volume 17, Issue 2 Page 5 Summer, 2019 HOUSES THAT EMMA car. Her mother gave Emma her treadle sew- CLEANED ing machine if Emma would also sew for her mother. For many years, Emma did lots of Meet Emma Stahlecker, a 2019 graduate of sewing for her family, her mother, her sisters Boyd County Schools, the daughter of Joe and others. and Jenny Stahlecker, granddaughter of They moved to another farm on March 1, Marvin and DeLoris Stahlecker (1948 gradu- 1922—the moving day for farmers! (Farmers ate of Naper) and great-granddaughter of Ed Class of 1999-Jessica Cline Haglund, moved early in the year so they had time to and Emma (Mayer) Stahlecker, for whom Tony Schmitz, Traci Zink Muirhead plant oats.) There was no house on this she was named. Emma is attending the farm so they moved one which needed a lot University of Nebraska-Kearney campus and of work before it was livable. They lived on as Dr. Seuss said, “Oh, the places you’ll go!” several farms in the Naper area, in Naper She has already done a lot of traveling in her and in Witten, Chamberlain, Burke, Winner, 18 years and there promises to be more. and Rapid City, South Dakota. Every time they moved, there was another house for them to clean, fix, repair, and/or remodel before they could live in it. She sanded, var- Class of 2019-Austin Koenig nished, wallpapered, painted, and cleaned

======and cleaned and cleaned.

After Ed died in 1972, Emma moved to FATAL CRASH WAS 75 YEARS AGO Spencer to be nearer her family and for the

August 3, 1944, during a first time ever, moved into a house that didn’t horrific thunderstorm, an Army C-47 need cleaning! crashed on the Sattler farm about

seven miles southwest of Naper. She recorded about six hours of cassettes The plane was traveling from Brun- (You might remember seeing Emma at the (remember what cassettes were?) and a ing Air Base, Bruning, Nebraska, to alumni banquet where she was a member of friend transcribed all of them. The Naper Pierre, South Dakota, with 28 men aboard, most of them pilots who the Nebrask-Inn staff.) Paper editor was fortunate enough to inherit were going to complete their training a copy of Houses That Emma Cleaned and Years ago, young people weren’t as mobile before going to war. gathered the information for this story from it. About 400 people came to as they are today. Emma’s great- Naper on August 8, 2004, to honor grandmother Emma, daughter of William and The Naper Paper editor enjoyed reading the those men at the dedication of their Elizabeth Mayer, had never moved until she story and meeting Emma. You know the guy memorial at Knoll Crest Cemetery. married Ed Stahlecker in 1921. They lived in A monument to the men engraved on TV who says, “Everybody has a story.” with their names is located next to the “summer house” on her parents’ farm for That’s so true! So all of you who have a pen the VFW monument and three flag the first two months of their marriage. They and paper or a tape recorder (What???) or a poles where the United States flag, slept in the living room and ate in the kitchen. smart phone or an i-pad—get busy, folks! the Nebraska flag and the Naper 28 When they moved to their first home March flag are displayed. Record those stories and pass them on to 1, 1921, there was a lot of house cleaning your children and grandchildren. (Or you and fixing up to be done. can pass them on to the Naper Paper. . . ) Emma had a big garden, milked cows (by hand of course), raised chickens, helped shock grain and pick corn, plus carried out the day-to-day preparation of meals, laundry, cleaning and child care without the help of electricity, running water, a telephone or a

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THE OL’ HOMESTEADER Walter J. Serr, a 1943 graduate had anything to say concerning the union of Naper High School, died at the age of of the bride and groom. SHARES SOME NEWS 95, April 12, 2019, in California. During the moment of silence, a CONGRATULATIONS! Zelda Fischer Dummer, a former young woman carrying a baby stood in the teacher in Naper, died in Winner July 7. back of the church and began walking Amber Bendig, daughter of Kelly and Mon- She was the widow of Marlin Dummer. forward. The congregation was aghast. ica Bendig and granddaughter of Grace Helen Schmitz Higgins, who You could have heard a pin drop. Faatz Bendig, received her bachelor’s graduated from Naper High in 1950, died The groom stared, the bride burst degree from UNK May 3. She majored in July 12, 2019. She and husband Merv out crying, the groom’s mother fainted, the athletic training. lived southwest of Naper their entire mar- best man tried to think of a way to best Trenton Zink married Bailey Leach June 1, ried life—64 years—and raised their family save the situation. 2019, in Kearney. Trenton is the son of of five there. All five children graduated The minister said, “Please tell us Gregg and Renee Zink, grandson of Jeff from Naper High School also. why you have come forward. What do you and Rindy Zink, great-grandson of Louise Len Fuhrer, a 1976 graduate of have to say about this ceremony?” Neumiller Zink. (Another entry in the Naper High, died at his home in Norfolk on The young woman holding the “small world” category: Dean Pofahl, who July 31. baby said, “We can’t hear you in the back.” officiated at the ceremony, knew where CLINE FAMILY Naper was because he used to box here!) Isaac Cline was the photographer during Pastor Samuel Crass was installed at St. the Cline reunion which took place in Na- Paul Lutheran Church in Naper on Sun- Have you looked at the Naper per during the 4th of July weekend. If you Historical Society website? day, July 21. He also serves Zion Luther- want the photos that were taken, please e- (napernebraska.org) You’ll an in Bonesteel. find every issue of the Naper Pa- mail him at [email protected] or per (photos in color on the web- SAYIN’ GOODBYE write to him at the address below to let him site!), photos of all the classes know you haven’t received them yet and from Naper High School, stories of Lyle “Red” Fuhrer died May 25, are interested. Naper history, the White Horse 2019, at the age of 91. He and his wife Ranch, businesses, cemeteries, Isaac Cline Esther (nee Neumiller, 1945 graduate of and historical photos. 315 West St. NHS) raised their family of eight children, If you need to contact the histori- Ft. Collins, CO 80521 all of whom graduated from Naper, a mile cal society, you may: northeast of Naper. He loved to play WHAT DID YOU SAY? call 492-832-5471, cards and tell stories. mail to Naper Historical Society The wedding ceremony was Word was received of the death Box 72 proceeding as planned. The bride was Naper, NE 68755 of Patty Kibby, wife of Duane Kibby, a radiant, the groom was smiling, the par- 1958 graduate of Naper High. They lived e-mail at [email protected] ents of the couple were beaming. in Billings, Montana. The minister asked if anyone

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Please use this check toward your LETTERS Naper News. It has been an entertaining publication. Keep up the good work! Fostering the grandparent- LETTERS Cathy Lenz grandchild relationship LETTERS Just got the recent Naper Paper At the Easton Public Library Links and want to compliment you on the great Please use this donation toward for Literature Mini-Golf Fundraiser on Satur- pictures of the local flooding for our out-of- the Naper Paper in memory of Velda day, a 12-year-old boy was playing a few McLaughlin Stahlecker. She was my state people. rounds of the game with his grandmother. neighbor in Decatur, Arkansas, and was a I just want to clarify one article. The pair stayed at the library for a great friend. Velda sent us the Naper Pa- The old café to the east was owned by the very long time. Before coming, they said they per and I still receive the paper and always George Wedige family and then sold to had enjoyed a pancake breakfast at the Easton enjoy the articles. My husband and I have Midge and Louie Kortmeyer. Butch Community Center. With smiles on their fac- visited Naper and Velda was always proud [Boucher] had money invested in it, but es, they both said they spend a lot of time to- of Naper. neither he nor Alberta ran it ever. I know gether. Linda Martin because I was dating him at the time. There can never be enough said Butch held two jobs while in high school-- about the value of a grandparent-grandchild Have you ever done an ances- one at the Mobil station for Harry Bennett relationship. try.com on your founding father Ralph R. and also drove used cars back from Sioux While parents may make the tough Naper. I am particularly interested to know City for Ivan Hansen when he sold used decisions and set limits for their children, if he might be descended from Joseph Na- cars. grandparents get to do the fun stuff and enjoy per, founder of Naperville, Illinois. Joseph It was interesting to see my cousin their grandchildren. had at least one brother, so Ralph may be Frieda Ahlers was still living. Also read While providing them with uncondi- descended from him? Joseph Naper died Walter Serr is among the living. He gradu- tional love, grandparents can share stories in 1862 in Naperville, so I’m thinking Ralph ated in my sister Darlene’s class. about their own childhood, as well as give could possibly be a grandson? Please I appreciate all you folks do to great advice. advise. I am planning a trip out west this keep us informed. They can also give their grandchil- summer and would like to stop in if there’s Iona Mayer Boucher Carstens dren information about their family history, a connection—I was raised in Naperville. exchange jokes from different generations and I wanted you to know we appreciated your R. Michael Landis be good listeners. notes about the donation. “We” is my [Ed. Note: You’re right—Joseph Naper It’s important for children to learn brother Walter Serr in California and me, was Ralph’s grandfather. The Butte Ga- and embrace family history. Grandparents his sister in Colorado. zette of 12/11/86 had a story about the can provide a window to a younger generation Walter J. Serr died April 12, 2019, connection and a visitor from Naperville that can put their perspectives in a different at the age of 95. As for me, I’m still kicking. who had done some investigating.] light. May God bless you. Oftentimes, parents are busy work- I am writing to let you know that DeLoris Serr Taliaferro ing long hours to provide for their children and my mother Leona Rutherford passed away may not be able to spend as much time as a on March 2, 2019. I know she received the Thank you so much for doing the grandparent—who may be retired—can. Naper Paper and enjoyed it while she was Naper Paper! It’s fun to read. My siblings There are many local free or low-cost with us. Thank you. and I especially enjoyed the article about activities grandchildren can do with their James Rutherford our dad. Any of the four of us would enjoy a talk with Mr. Hoffman. Perhaps he will be grandparents, including taking walks and Just a note to let you know how in the area again and we can get together. paying board games, as well as going to school much I enjoy reading the NAPER PAPER. Esther Waddell performances and book fairs and exploring I want to tell my 1968 graduating different neighborhoods. class how much I missed seeing them last Sorry I am late with this check but Grandparents and grandchildren year at the 50th anniversary of our class. I it’s to help clean the cemetery where my can, and should, work to find common inter- had planned to be there, but was unfortu- husband Alvin and my son Douglas are laid ests and utilize them to create everlasting nately unable to attend. to rest. I appreciate everyone that helps bonds. I am enclosing a donation for the with mowing and everything else. Thanks Once they grow up, children will look paper so you can continue your efforts. again to everyone. back on all the memories they shared with Marsha Fyler Lila Schochenmaier their grandparents—and treasure them. My friend gets your paper and I [Ed. Note: Knoll Crest Cemetery, just a [Reprinted from the Easton Courier, enjoy reading it. Enclosed is a check so mile east of town on Highway 12, depends Easton, Connecticut, March 15, 2019. The please put me on your mailing list. Please on volunteers to keep it looking tidy. It was editorial writer is referring to Nathalie Sattler put Mike Schmitz on your list also. especially challenging this year with all the Taranto and her grandson Alexander Taranto. Anna Marie Cahoy rain we’ve had.] Thanks to Nathalie and to Mabel Sattler for sharing.]

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IN THIS ISSUE:

• MEMORIAL DAY AD- DRESS AND PHOTOS

• ALUMNI BANQUET

• EXCHANGE STUDENT

• HOUSES THAT EMMA CLEANED

• OL’ HOMESTEADER

• LETTERS

DETECTIVES NEEDED! This picture of students at the Goodman School northwest of Naper was sent to us by Roberta Hermsen. Her mother, Viola Mayer Boes, was the teacher but none of the children are identified. Maybe the second from left is Milo Mayer, Roberta’s uncle. Can you help us?