I spent some time in the Library this morning while Elaine was at the Beauty Parlor. While looking at the table of "surplus" books, a lady said she heard me mention the name of "Ted Kooser". She had been the Garland, NE Postmistress for over 30 years and and said she knew Ted very well. When she learned that I had grown up in the Garland area and graduated from GHS, we got into some family history. As we walked out of the building talking about her Dad, Fred Kettenburg, she spotted her older sister that had just pulled up. According to Ann, Fred immigrated from Germany in 1924 when he was 20 years old. He was "sponsored" by a Garland resident who had relatives in the same area of Germany. Fred first worked for John Meyer on the farm that we once owned and married a local Warnsholz girl. She was the oldest girl in that family and the 94 year old fellow we eat with here at Brookdale, married the youngest.. The family connections in this area are most interesting where many of us "old timers" are 2nd or 3rd generation.
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