Thursday, August 4, 2016

Cousins


On the back of this picture are the names of the children.

Please help me if the names are wrong or you know one that has not been identified.

What year was this? 

Left to Right

Back row:      Unknown, Bertha, Goldy

Middle Row:  Martha Fleming, Verna Jensen, Alice Wiebe

Front Row:     Lelia Frezen, Unknown, Ardith Wiebe 
               small child in front of Ardith is Unknown

Susanna Richert Duerksen



Not sure when or where this photo was taken. This is my great-grandmother. She's the mother of my grandmother Mary (Duerksen) Wiebe. She and her husband were born in present day Ukraine.


Susanna C.W. Richert  
b: 30 June 1868  in Waldheim, Molotschna, South Russia (present day Ukraine)
d: 22 Jan 1927 in Corn, Oklahoma
Her parents were:
Father: Cornelius Jacob S. Richert   born: 17 April 1832 in Waldheim, Molotschna, South Russia
Mother Susanna P.R. Wall                born:  12 July 1842

Susanna C.W. Richert married Abraham D. Duerksen on 25 May 1890 in Korn, Oklahoma.
 
 








Thelma Jean Duerksen


Thelma Jean Duerksen, the daughter of Abraham J  and Clara Duerksen who died in 1922.



Birth: 
Apr. 16, 1921
North Platte
Lincoln County
Nebraska, USA
Death: 
Aug. 24, 1922
North Platte
Lincoln County
Nebraska, USA
Buried Aug 24,1922
Lot 282
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Thelma Jean Duerksen
April 16,1921-Aug 24,1922

Thelma Jean Duerksen, living at 1700 west 4th died yesterday at 11:30 o'clock. She was one year, four months and eight days old. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2:30 from the Christian church, with Rev.Stevens officiating. Burial will be made in the local cemetery.

The North Platte semi-weekly tribune., August 25, 1922 

Burial:
North Platte Cemetery
North Platte
Lincoln County
Nebraska, USA

Created by: David Goltry
Record added: Apr 08, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 50810993

I'm so grateful to Greg Pilgrim for this information.  

Grandfather's home

I wish heaven had phones so I could hear your voice again.    This is a photo from 1931 in Bessie, Oklahoma. It's of my Great ...