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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I12951)
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John served in the military at Fort Hood, Texas. He married Juanita, and they spent most of their married life in Killeen and Temple, Texas. John was known as "Big John," and was noted for the clean night clubs he operated where people could take their families. He was good at buying produce from someone the thought was in need, then he would give it to the guests in the club. He also operated small country stores, also giving things away. John helped look after Juanita's uncle and aunt who lived at Lake Belton as though they were his own parents. He was raised in Mississippi where his parents lived and made Juanita's family his as well. He was a good father Omar's daughter, and he and Juanita had two children of their own. John dropped dead one morning just after closing the club. He was preparing to go to Mississippi the next morning. Once more a widow, Juanita's daughter Kathy moved in with her mother. The other children were married and had families. John was able to enjoy his grandchildren for a short time before his passing. | WILSON, John Travie (I1432)
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John Stuart had three children from a previous marriage. | STUART, John McClairy (I12486)
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John worked for the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington from 1941 to 1946, as a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington from 1946 to 1955 and as section chief of radio and magnetic materials at the National Bureau of Standards, now NIST, in Boulder from 1955 to 1977. He was a member of Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He earned several awards for his work in electromagnetism and the development of radios. John enjoyed gardening, reading and building radios. | DALKE, John Lawrence (I13131)
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Johnnie was a director of the Fayette County Fair Association and Engle Mutual Insurance. He served as an election judge for 57 years. He also held a number of offices in the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Swiss Alp, Texas. | KOENIG, Johann Heinrich (I29020)
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John’s first wife was Frances A. Tabken. They married 5 Nov 1855 in Fayette County, Texas. | MOSS, John C. (I13554)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I36164)
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Joyce attended Ada Henderson School and Yoe High School in Cameron, Texas. She graduated in 1948 and married one year later, at which time they moved to Houston, Texas and then to Deer Park, Texas. While working full time and taking care of a family, Joyce took classes at the University of Houston. She retired from General Electric. | VON ROSENBERG, Joyce (I39160)
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Julia came to Texas in 1848 at the age of 19 years with her father and siblings. Her mother had died in 1844, and the family had suffered business losses. The family lived their first year in Texas as renters on the old Ernst place near Industry, but the father soon bought a farm that had been a part of Nassau Plantation. With this move they became neighbors of the von Rosenberg family.
Julia was a busy housekeeper who also found time to help friends and neighbors. She was part of a group of women who took turns cooking soup for sick neighbors. Her only outside interests were quilting parties and the midafternoon “Kaffee Klatch” with the other women. Small in stature and energetic, she wore her hair in braids tied around her head with a black velvet bow. She is remembered for her gentle manners, good fashion taste and home decorations. | GROOS, Julia Wilhelmine Christine (I3911)
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Julia was her mother’s companion, helper, and nurse in many family illnesses. She graduated from La Grange High School and then attended Texas Presbyterian College for one year. Due to her mother’s illness she did not return to college.
It was at a dance in Bellville that she met Victor Miller. He immediately proposed. She laughed. Vic was persistent, persuasive and “never dull.” Their wedding was a week-long affair with many guests. Their marriage was similar with guests invite for birthdays, reunions, trips, picnics, and camps. Julia arranged food, dishes, decorations for bridge parties, church functions, teas, sewing circles, house guests, and youth gatherings. She led a Camp Fire group, working in PTA, and held women’s offices in the Presbyterian church. She was also a popular Bible teacher and for five years sponsored a young women’s service sorority, Beta Sigma Phi. Julia enjoyed travel, entertaining, and letter writing. She also enjoyed gardening, bird watching, bridge playing, and raising canaries and tropical fish. | VON ROSENBERG, Julia Lena (I12597)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I12688)
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Kathleen attended school in Lampasas, Texas where she graduated in 1939. She then attended Jackson Business School and worked for a while at Brown & Root before going to work at Rollins-Brook Hospital in Lampasas. She then went to Wichita Falls, Texas, and worked in the State Hospital for a short time. In 1943 she began working at the U.S. Army Hospital at Camp Hood, Texas as a clerk-typist and transferred to North Camp Hood near Gatesville, Texas where she met her future husband. They were married while he was in the Army and soon after he was transferred overseas. Kathleen was a mother and homemaker until her mother came to live with them in 1953. At that time she went to work at Fort Hood, Texas for Civil Service as a receptionist in the Army dental clinic. When her mother passed away in 1958 she quit her job and returned home. After the children were older, she again went to work as a clerk at Post Finance, and the Post Education Center. She liked to cook and enjoyed sewing, reading, crafts, fishing and traveling. She passed away from a sudden onset of pneumonia. | EVERETT, Velma Kathleen (I1429)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I36136)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I36134)
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Kathyrn’s “family moved to Conroe, Texas when she was 5 years old. She attended school in Conroe, Texas, graduating from Conroe High School in 1977. She then attended Sam Houston State University where she received her Master's degree in Education. Kathryn taught special education at several schools in the Conroe ISD, most recently at Ford Elementary.” | VON ROSENBERG, Kathryn (I13713)
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Known to her many friends as Liz, she was born Demaris Elizabeth Knox on April 13, 1918, to Robert Randolph Knox and Beneva Claire Withers Knox. She arrived at home on her family's farm near Slidell in Denton County, Texas. She was fourth of five children, and the only girl. As she wrote in a 1996 memoir, growing up with four brothers made her thoroughly resilient and her mother was sometimes hard-put to overcome her tomboy ways with ribbons and dresses.
On both her mother's and father's sides, she was descended from men who served in the Continental Army. Her maternal great-great-great grandfather, George Michael Bedinger, was the youngest major to serve under George Washington, and went on to assist in securing the American frontier, including protecting Fort Boonesboro, during the Indian Wars. Her paternal ancestors, the Knoxes and Hamiltons, have a long history in America from colonial times.
Even in Liz's farming family, education was an important objective. Her mother's father, John Allen Withers, taught Latin in a Springfield, Missouri college, and his wife, Mary America Coleman, was tutored by her own mother, Anne Bedford, who had been educated at a convent in England. Liz's uncle, Harry Withers, was editor of the Dallas Morning News for more than 30 years, and her grandfather Withers had given land for the founding of Texas Normal College and Teachers' Training Institute in Denton, from which Liz would later graduate -- as a teacher.
As a young man, Liz's father, Robert Knox, spent five years in the Alaskan gold fields, and his children grew up with stories of tent towns, miners, the sun shining at midnight, and a tent city called Gold Hill. He owned a mine with his cousin, Henry Hamilton, and the stories of their adventures -- plus her father's unfulfilled desire to go back -- gave Liz a lifelong yearning to visit Alaska. She finally succeeded, some 50 years later.
After graduating from the University of North Texas (then North Texas State Teachers College), Liz began teaching in Trinidad, Texas, where she met a handsome young widower and war veteran named Joseph Rowe.
Joseph had two adorable children, George and Mary, 10 and 8, and when he and Liz married in 1941, she acquired an instant family. They moved to Austin, where Joseph pursued his degree at the University of Texas, and Liz taught until their son Joseph Jr. was born in 1942. She went back to teaching, but her career was interrupted by the births of Benjamin in 1945 and Ann in 1946. She was soon back in the classroom.
Tragically, Liz was widowed herself when her husband died of a stroke in the summer of 1951. They had just moved to Arlington, Virginia, where Joseph, a chemical engineer, had obtained a job with the Natural Rubber Bureau. Liz packed up her five children and moved back to Austin. She resumed teaching and the family lived in a two-bedroom duplex on Bull Creek Road. By this time, George and Mary were in college.
One year Liz had a cute little brown-eyed boy in her third grade class at Highland Park Elementary, named David. He had a younger sister, Johanna. Their mother had passed away a few years before. David loved his teacher and insisted that his dad, Dr. Walter Wupperman, a veterinarian, come to PTA. Walter was a native Austinite from a line of Texas Germans that included artists Hermann Lungkwitz, his great-grandfather, and Richard Petri, his great-great uncle. When he and Liz met, it was as if they already knew each other. Walter proposed to her to the strains of Mendelssohn's "Midsummer Night's Dream," and thus in 1954, Liz again married a handsome widower with two adorable children.
She and Walter each adopted the other's minor children, and thus a rowdy and loving family was born. They moved to a modern L-shaped house on 25 acres in the woods outside of Austin, on a country road called Balcones Trail, now known as MoPac and Steck. It took that much land, plus a milk cow and a succession of pet dogs, to get the last five kids to adulthood.
Their union was a happy one, filled with barbecues, large Christmas and Easter gatherings, camping trips, many "music nights" (a group of friends listening to the Wuppermans' beloved classical music), a succession of surrogate children, and 10 grandchildren, until Walter's death in 1986. Against daunting odds, they made it work, and Liz's greatest pride was that her children all got along and loved each other all her long life.
After her second widowhood, Liz indulged her love of travel and took many trips with friends and relatives. She regularly visited her daughter and son-in-law, Ann and Gary Seaman, in Los Angeles where Gary is a professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. One of their traditions was picnicking at the Hollywood Bowl and then taking in a concert that included Mendelssohn's "Midsummer Night's Dream".
Liz was a charter member of Cedar Park Methodist Church and also a member of St. Philip's Methodist Church. She had lifelong friends from both houses of worship, and many other friends from all walks of life. | KNOX, Demaris Elizabeth (I12730)
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Kurt received his bachelor’s degree in December, 1986, in Civil Engineering. He graduated Cum Laude. His master’s degree was earned in the field of Information Systems. | KING, Kurt Alan (I2885)
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Larry Froelich was a member of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Point Comfort and had also been a member of the Salem Lutheran Church Council in Port Lavaca. He was a member of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church Masonic Order A.F.&A.M. and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Larry was a manager for Central Power & Light Company in the Port Lavaca and Point Comfort area from 1955 to 1978. He was chairman of the Calhoun County Navigation District in 1969 and a commissioner of the navigation district from 1968 to 1973 and from 1980 to 1985. He also served as director of the Mid-Coast Water Development Board in 1972. Larry was also a chairman of the Salvation Army in Port Lavaca and president of the Rotary Club from 1960 to 1961, the Chamber of Commerce and the United Fund. He also served as a member of the original City Charter Commission, City Parks Commission, the Boy Scouts Planning Council and the Champ Traylor Hopital Advisory Committee. | FROELICH, Lawrence Leslie (I3725)
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Larry went to grade school in Lake Victor, Texas and graduated from high school in Lampasas. He served in the Navy in World War II until the war was over. His grandmother Eugneia Concordia Adams had four sons in World War I and four grandsons in World War II. They all returned safely home. Larry returned to the farm he grew up on and soon had full responsibility. After he married Nalda, they built a house close to his parent's home. He helped them out, eventually purchasing the farm and livestock. He began using all the newest technology in farming and breeding livestock. As his neighbors moved from the their farms, they leased their land to Larry. He was a member of the Lake Victor Masonic Lodge and was active in community projects. | HODGE, Larry Neal (I1426)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I11)
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Laura was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority at the University of Texas, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. She studied foreign languages there and at the University of Michigan while Bill worked on his Ph.D. She taught in the Water Valley schools in Galveston. After the children were older, she returned to teaching in the Jefferson County schools in Birmingham, Alabama. She earned the title of Life Master in the American Contract Bridge League and worked as a sectional director for 18 years, receiving credit for original progressions for individual player tournaments. After Bill’s death, Laura moved to Dallas, Texas to be nearer her family. She did some Spanish coaching, bridge playing, and traveling. She was a member of Covenant Presbyterian Church. | MILLER, Laura Edith (I13600)
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Laura was fond of pets, was interested in sport, and was proficient in music. She was also popular and was chosen as “sponsor” of the La Grange firemen’s association for one of its annual celebrations. She died a premature death just days before her twentieth birthday. | VON ROSENBERG, Laura Ida (I12596)
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Lee was an expert cabinet maker and mechanic. He worked for many years for the Russell Brown company in Houston. The company was the builder of the school in Bellville, and it was this project that took him to Bellville in about 1918. Around 1920 he began working for the Sinclair Refining company and continued with them until his retirement in about 1936. | LAMBERTH, Lee Daniel (I12570)
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Leitha had married a Lisenbe by 12 Sep 1918. | CROPPER, Leitha Lee (I13478)
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Lena attended school in La Grange. For a number of years she helped in her mother-in-law’s grocery store. She was interested in home and garden matters. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church. | SCHOLZ, Lena Bertha (I6409)
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Leo was a member of the Knights of Pythias for more than 50 years. | FROELICH, Leo Edward (I3698)
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Leo was a native Texan who was reared by his Aunt Anna from the age of six months when his mother passed away due to peritonitis. He graduated from Jefferson High School, San Antonio, Texas in 1935. His freshman class was the first to attend the new school on the far north side of San Antonio. The hardships of the Depression caused Leo to work several jobs. Shortly after starting school at Rice University in engineering, limited finances necessitated his switching his career. As a result, he had a 20 year military career with the Navy as a pilot. He flew Catalina seaplanes on patrol in the Western Pacific Theater until the end of World War II. He also served in the Korean and Viet Nam wars. Upon retirement, Leo returned to San Antonio and began a second career as a commercial airline pilot. He flew internationally and retired in 1976. He loved flying and was an excellent pilot. in his combined 38 years of flying he had a perfect safety record. The true love in his life was Sara, whom he met when she and her sister happened to be visiting a mutual friend in the hospital. Even though he did not know which of the girls was Sara, he called the McGehee house and asked for the girl in the blue dress. They were married not long after. Leo had served as deacon and elder in the Church of Christ and spent much time doing volunteer work. | MEERSCHEIDT, Leo Paul Jr. (I9647)
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| 1278 |
At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I14552)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I2965)
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Leslie grew up in Alton, Illinois, and after graduating from high school attended Purdue University. Shell Oil offered him a job in Houston, Texas as a salesman. After he and Rose were married, they moved to Texas City, Texas where he worked for Union Carbide Corporation as plant maintenance superintendent. He was an active member of the Episcopal Church, and a 32-degree Mason, and member of the Scottish Rite Masons. Leslie was also a member of El Mina Shrine Temple in Galveston, Texas, serving as Captain of the Drum and Bugle Corps, a member of the Jesters, and chairman of the Shrine Circus for crippled children. In 1968 he retired and they moved to Wimberley, Texas. | ENDICOTT, Leslie Adelmer (I13429)
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Leslie was an architect and engineer in California before retiring and moving to Yoakum, Texas about 1964. He was a veteran of World War I and a 1916 graduate of Texas A&M. | VON ROSENBERG, Leslie August (I12608)
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Lester attended Killeen High School and served in the Navy during the Cuban Crisis. In 1965 he joined the Killeen Fire Department, retiring as Captain in 1985 after 20 years of service. He then served as fire chief of the Harker Heights Fire Department from 1985 to 1991 and the Westlake Department from 1991 to 1994. In 1972, Lester was honored as 'Firefighter of the Year' by the American Legion. He taught at several fire training academies including Texas A&M. He passed away from a heart attack at the age of 57. Before he was married, Lester was a Scout Master. | ADAMS, Lester Eugene (I14183)
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Lester grew up in La Grange, Texas where he graduated from La Grange High School in 1935. He worked two years before entering Texas A&M where he graduated in 1941 with a degree in agricultural administration. From 1941 until 1952, Lester worked in government jobs including time in the Army during World War II. He was always interested in horses and cattle and was a land owner and rancher. His principal business was breeding and selling registered Polled Hereford cattle. Lester was a good horseman. He used horses in ranch business and enjoyed riding with his family. During this period Lester also owned and operated an insurance and real estate agency. He was also active in community and church activities. His first wife passed away in 1976, and his brother passed away in 1977. Lester and his brother's widow married and made a good life together. | VON ROSENBERG, Lester Eugen (I13896)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Family: Living / Living (F9267)
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| 1285 |
lic. Galveston County | Family: Walter Eugene SIMMS, Jr. / Aileen MARSCHNER (F24589)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Family: Living / Living (F9208)
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Lillie was a member of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Austin. | SUNDAY, Lillie Elvira (I13230)
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Lina was considered an excellent housewife who had a particular talent for canning and preserving. She was a loving and devoted mother and spent most of her time at home with her husband and children. | GROOS, Lina Marie (I3948)
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| 1289 |
At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I115)
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| 1290 |
At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I32280)
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Lois met her future husband at Fayetteville, Texas, where they were both teaching in the high school. They were introduced by Lois’s cousin, Kelsye Weber Garces. Between 1939 and 1952, she and B. E. resided in Fayetteville, Brenham and Austin before returning to La Grange where she lived the final 14 years of her life. There she and her husband operated the local International Harvester, Pontiac and Oldsmobile dealership. | VON ROSENBERG, Lois Marie (I13897)
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Lois spent most of her life in San Antonio, Texas, where she attended Jefferson High School in 1932. She attended and received degrees from both the University of San Antonio (now Trinity University) and the University of Southern California. She taught school for over forty years, teaching physical education in elementary schools in the North East School District for more than 20 years. Lois loved to play tennis and was a former city, state and southwestern champion. She also coached the Silver Fins Synchronized Swim Team for several years. As the owner and swim teacher of the Jefferson Swim Club for 16 years, Lois was famous for teaching small babies to swim. She also was a well-known medical hypnotist and lecturer. She volunteered for the Red Cross and sold real estate. | CAMPBELL, Lois Bertha (I194)
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Lorena attended school in Lake Victor and Lampasas, Texas. After she and Willerson were married, he enlisted in the United States Army. Lorena lived with her mother during the time he was overseas. After he returned home they bought a ranch in Burnet County. They celebrated fifty years of marriage in 1993. She was a member of the Baptist Church. | ADAMS, Ola Lorena (I29077)
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Louis attended school in La Grange and lived most of his life there. He was employed by the telephone company in La Grange for over forty years. He enjoyed growing flowers, working in his yard, and fishing. He was a member of the Baptist Church and served as treasurer for forty-five years. | SCHOLZ, Louis Henry (I6421)
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Louis played the violin. | von STRUVE, Louis Joseph (I13793)
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Louisa, called “Doll” by her father, grew up on a farm near Round Top. The family later moved to Ellinger, and then about 1886 moved to a farm near Rockdale. Louise attended Leechville Rural School. She enjoyed good health except for two operations from which she recovered remarkably well. She was christened in the Lutheran Church, but became affiliated with the Methodist Church at Wall where she was a regular attender. She was also a member of the Lutheran Missionary Society in San Angelo. Her hobbies included gardening and needlework. | VON ROSENBERG, Louise Auguste (I3889)
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Louise immigrated with her parents from Germany to the United States. After marrying Max, the couple lived near and in Dilley, then San Antonio about 1892. Louise died there in 1893, most likely of appendicitis. | BLUMEL, Louise (I3010)
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Louise was born in Washington County, but her parents moved the family to a farm near Round Top when she was young. She was a member of the Lutheran church choir and singing society in Round Top. She was also talented at needlework and crochet, and she enjoyed dancing and horseback riding.
Anna took over managment of her husband’s general store and farms after her husband died. She did have the assistance of her oldest sons and daughters. A few years later she sold the store to her son Walter. She later sold her home in Round Top and moved to Bellville to give her children a better education. After her youngest daughter graduated from high school, she moved to San Antonio to be with her two youngest children. After several years they all moved to Houston, but at the age of seventy-five, Louise decided to move back to Bellville. | LEVIEN, Louise Marie (I3893)
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Louise’s godparents were Jean Cavailler and Louise Hetler. | BONNET, Marie Louise (I13797)
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Lucile was married to a Willis prior to her marriage to Marcus von Rosenberg. | SWINEY, Lucile (I10219)
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