Sunday, December 12, 2010

Info from Obituaries

Two obituaries from  Iowa in 1915 and 1944.  Margaret Kauper Naber was the wife of Henry Naber, who was the half-brother of  great grandfather Gerhard Naber.  (Henry's mom was Elizabeth Rupipper, and Gerhard's mom was Elizabeth Richels).  But look what other info is included--she was born in Lohn, Hanover, Germany, which leads us to look in that area for Nabers, too, since immigrants tended to settle in the new world near people they knew in the old.  It turns out that Henry died exactly a year before two of his half sisters Mary Schlichte and Grandma Margaret Janson. (They both died in April, 1945).
This below is just a sweet bit of daily life on the Naber farm in Bancroft, Iowa.  The reporter was a friend, you can tell, and he probably got supper out of the deal that day, too...lol
(BTW, Larry said the woman mentioned, "Mrs Jos. Baltz" was the former Clara M. Raskoff (1872-1956), just so we know ☺).


On the left is Henry Naber with his daughter Walburga, and on the right, Henry with daughter Ida.  Below is a young Reinhard Janson with the sisters, probably in Bancroft, probably in the 1940s.


THANKS for searching newspapers, Larry! ☺

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