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Abbey Mausoleum | CROFFORD, John F. (I12569)
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about 2 a.m. at her home | DYAL, Barbara Ellen (I2964)
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about 3 a.m. at Long’s Rest Home | SUTOR, Helene Walleska Jenetta (I3913)
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about 9 p.m. | PHILLIPS, James G. (I13155)
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about noon by Mr. Bancelin in Friederichstadt | BERTRAND, Pierre Jessé (I14243)
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about noon by Mr. Rosselet at Werder | BENEZET, Elisabeth (I14175)
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about noon in the chapel by Mr. Chion, minister | Family: François RAMPON / Marie BERTRAND (F9956)
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Adam’s father died while Adam was quite young, so as a boy, he lived with his mother and later on a farm in Ellinger. After the death of his mother, he moved to a farm in Falls County. There he raised cattle and did some carpentry. He lived alone, but eventually became associated with some carpenters from Ellinger who were building a home on the Walter von Rosenberg farm in Milam County. He became acquainted with the family, and about six years later, met Walter again, this time in Rockdale. On that occasion he met daughter Louise. He decided to stay and help on the farm.
After Adam and Louise were married, they remained in the area for three years. In 1896 Adam bought a fifty acre farm near Hewitt, moving the family there.After nine years, Adam decided to move west. In 1905, after selling his McLennan County farm he bought 200 acres at Lipan Flat near Wall. His brother-in-law, Frank von Rosenberg helped build the home. Adam farmed this land, enjoying life and health. He enjoyed playing the accordian, and he was a member of the Roman Catholic Church. He suffered a serious fall in 1941resulting in a fractured shoulder. After nearly recovering fully, he suffered a stroke which rendered him an invalid until his death. | BECKER, Adam George (I3902)
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Adolph attended school at Round Top and Bellville. He played bass violin in the famous Charley’s orchestra, and he played the bass drum in the Bellville Brass Band.
Adolph and Clara, his childhood sweetheart, made their home in Bellville where he owned a jewelry, confectionery, and book store. After her death, he started a new life in Dallas. There, in April, 1903, he and his brother entered the pharmacy business. He bought the Crescent Pharmacy on North Lamar Street in 1905. He moved his business to Harwood and Bryan Streets when the city widened North Lamar. He also opened the original Fair Park Pharmacy across from the Texas state fairgrounds.
Also in 1905, on June 14th, Adolph married Irene Mahana of Dallas. They moved into their home on North Haskell Avenue, a home they owned for the remainder of their married life. In 1913, he went out of business and went to work as a travelling salesman for Plough’s Chemical Company. He served as the company’s representative in New Mexico and Arizona for twenty years. When his health began to fail, he returned to Dallas. | KOPISCH, Adolph (I3897)
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Adolph Kneip was married in 1870 to Elise Huth who died in 1878 leaving three young sons, Carl, Adolph, and Heinrich. Adolph came to Texas from Germany with his parents and four brothers, one of whom died in the Civil War. They lived on a farm in Fayette County that they had purchased in 1852. His father died in 1866 and his mother in 1896 when the three surviving sons and their families were still living on the family farm. They lived in peace as one large group on the family land for forty-four years. | KNEIP, Adolph Heinrich (I3946)
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Adolphe George’s godparents were Mr. Adolphe George Ahlefeld his uncle and Susanne Jarry née Hovelac his aunt. | JARRY, Adolphe George (I14165)
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After finishing high school, Frances took a course in cosmetology. She did hair styling for a number of years before going to work for the Killeen School District. She enjoyed doing arts and crafts with her daughter. | HOOD, Frances Ann (I29068)
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After Gardner’s death, Grace moved to California and married to William Hall. | GRAY, Grace (I12549)
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After graduating from high school, Eddie worked in a clothing factory before enlisting in the Army Air Corps. He went to Illinois and Arizona for training. In 1944, he was shipped to the Pacific where he served for three years. He was in the B-24 Bombers, 865 Bombardment, Group 494. When he returned home in 1946, Eddie was employed with the New Bedford Gas and Electric Company. Within a year he became an electrician. In 1949 on a rainy day he was on an electric pole and was accidentally electrocuted at the age of 29. He was a devout member of the Catholic church. | BEDARD, Edmond R. (I14189)
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After graduating from Hill’s Business College in Waco he went to work as a bookkeeper at the Schumacher Grocery Company in Houston. The year after he was married and upon the advice of his doctor, he and Ellie moved to a ranch near Uvalde. After his health improved they moved to Coupland where he managed the Hellmuth-von Rosenberg Store. In 1916 he made the final move to Waco where spent most of his life in the cotton business. He was associated with the A. N. Denton Cotton Co. for many years. He was assistant county auditor in Waco in the early 1940s. He also at various times had the Chevrolet-Paige Agency and distributed Quaker State Motor Oil, but he returned to the cotton business. After Ellie, his wife, died, he married Florence Gibbons of Corpus Christi.
Hermann became a Mason at Galveston in 1915, joined Scotish Rite the same year and was a charter member of Waco Consistory of Scottish Rite. He was commander of Waco Commandery No. 10, Knights Templar in 1937, and was potentate of Karem Shrine Temple in 1939. He was a member of Waco Lodge No. 92, A. F. and A. M., and received his 50-year awards from the Grand Lodge of Texas, the Grand Chapter and the Consistory in 1965. He was captain of the Shrine Patrol drill team in the 1920s and headed many Shrine committees over the years. He joined Waco Rotary Club in 1926 and for more than 50 years was a member of First Presbyterian Chruch, where he was a deacon and elder. | HELLMUTH, Hermann Frederick (I12559)
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After graduating from Port Lavaca High School, Margaret attended the University of Tennessee College of Allied Health at Memphis earning her degree in dental hygiene in 1936. , Tennessee. Upon graduating, she returned to Texas where she worked for several years in the Houston Independent School District. She continued working until shortly after her children were born. As the children grew older, Margaret volunteered at the St. Joseph’s Hospital Auxiliary and the Catholic Charity Guild in Houston. She was a member of the Women’s Auxiliary to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers where she served as National Treasurer and President. Later she volunteered as the Scholarship Chairman for the Women’s Auxiliary. | SMITH, Margaret Elizabeth (I13568)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I112)
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After graduating from school in La Grange, Texas, Hilmar attended the Colorado School of Mines where he was on a varsity baseball team and a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He began his career with the Texas Highway Department, retiring in 1961. As a civil engineer, Hilmar supervised many highway and bridge projects in Fayette, Colorado, Jackson, Wharton, DeWitt and Lavaca Counties. In 1948 he was promoted to senior resident engineer and was headquartered in Yoakum when he retired. Hilmar enjoyed hunting whitetail deer and liked to fish, and play dominoes and card games. | KRAUSE, Hilmar Paul (I6411)
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After graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School, San Antonio, in 1941, Paul secured a job with civil service. He was drafted in 1944 after the death of his father. After basic training, he was in the 75th Infantry Division in the European Theater. Severely wounded during battle, Paul was awarded the Combat Infantry Badge, the Army Commendation Medal, the Purple Heart, and two Bronze Stars for valor. After being discharged, he entered New Mexico State University under the GI Bill. When the GI Bill ran out in 1949, Paul applied for active duty. His first assignment was Haneda Air Base in Tokyo, Japan. Three years later he was assigned to Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico recieving a degree in business administration under “Project Bootstrap.” Subsequent assignments included Brunswick, Maine, New Jersey, Nevada, Guam, Taipei and several tours in Okinawa, the last being prior to retirement in 1968 as Commander of the Det 3, 51 St Fighter Wing. The family moved to Spokane, Washington, and Paul was employed by Washington Department of Health and Human Services. He was active in the Boy Scouts and both sons earned the rank of Eagle Scout. After retiring in 1976 to Priest Lake, for three years, Paul suffered a debilitating stroke and eventually moved to Seattle close to his family. | MEERSCHEIDT, Paul Dyer (I14518)
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After Gustav finished his schooling, his parents allowed him to go to Eagle Pass to work with his uncles, Friedrich and Carl Groos, who had started a cotton trading business there, taking advantage of the location on the Mexican border. Gustav had only been in Eagle Pass for a few months when he contracted and died of typhoid fever. As communication in that day was slow he had to buried in Eagle Pass before his family was aware of his death.
Gustav was known as an intelligent boy who showed promise as a businessman. He was quiet and reserved and bore a strong physical resemblance to the Groos family. | VON ROSENBERG, Gustav Adolph (I3949)
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After her mother’s death, Marjorie was raised by her grandmother in San Antonio, Esther Smith. | SMITH, Marjorie Spencer (I13401)
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After his parents death, Edward has raised by Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Bailleux. | KOERTH, Edward William (I12551)
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After marrying Alfred, she moved to Marble Falls where she spent the remainder of her life. They lived on the Lacy Lans Ranch which belonged to Alfred's mother. Upon her death, Alfred and Regina inherited the ranch. Regina was a homemaker and dedicated her life to the care of her family. She liked to bake bread and take the children to the creek to play. She was a room mother for all 12 years for each of the children. Her interests include wild flowers, classical music, playing the piano, quoting and memorizing poetry and studying birds and nature. She was guardian to a field of bluebells below the house and took bouquets to businesses and friends in town. At 89, she was still actively quoting poetry, listening to music and watching her birds. | GOETH, Regina Marie (I12788)
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After moving to the U.S. Annie grew up in the High Hill community of Fayette County. She and her husband and children moved to La Grange from Schulenburg in 1898. Upon becoming too old to operate a hotel, she discontinued the Kainer Hotel and moved in with her daughter with whom she continued to live until her death. | HRNCIR, Anna (I10190)
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After retiring from the USAF, Chuck moved his family to Austin, Texas where he volunteered as a pilot in the Civil Air Patrol and served 20 years as a U.S. Postal Service carrier. He loved family, flying, food and his car and was a beer connoisseur. | DWYER, Maj. Charles William (I36664)
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After returning from his service in the Civil War, G. E. went to Mexico early in 1865, returning on August 7. The following year he made a crop on his father’s farm, receiving 30 cents per pound for his cotton in Galveston. He married in 1867 and became engaged in carpentry as well as farming. By 1900 he had moved into La Grange. In March, 1896, he took the position of traveling agent for Mr. O. E. Stolz’s marble yard in La Grange. | SPECKELS, Gerhard Eilert (I2944)
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After the death of her mother, Dorothy was raised by her aunt and uncle in Bellville, Lena and Otto Steck. | SMITH, Dorothy Jeanne (I13402)
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After the death of his father, Furman lived with his mother until the outbreak of World War II when he went to work in Fort Worth at an aircraft factory for the duration of the war. He served in the Coast Guard and then moved to Houston where he worked for the Ford & Buick Company. He also did mechanical work for the midget auto car races. He retired about 1979. | RISINGER, Furman Leon (I14184)
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Agnes was a member of the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of San Antonio. She was also a member of the church’s Sunday school and was an evangelism teacher. In addition, she was active in Bexar County P.T.A. | MEERSCHEIDT, Agnes (I6424)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I13072)
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Albert’s family moved to Houston after boll weevils had destroyed their cotton farm. Albert first sold newspapers on a street corner and then for a railroad and later formed a produce company with his two brothers. Albert went to the Rio Grande Valley to be the produce buyer for the company but later grew watermelons near Sealy before returning to Houston as a commercial real estate broker, and, later, a hotelman. In 1925 Albert bought a hotel from an owner who was in failing health and had listed the hotel with Lee's brokerage. Albert refurbished and opened the hotel as the Lee Hotel, located at Polk and San Jacinto. Albert controlled nine hotel properties by 1950, including the Walee, Woodrow, Bell, Stratford, Milby and San Jacinto in downtown Houston and the Fort Mason Inn, a resort in the Hill Country.??Albert was appointed to serve on the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles by Governor Coke Stevenson and was active in politics at both the state and local level. He was one of the founders of the Houston Fat Stock Show and was seen as instrumental in the organization presenting star performers in conjunction with the livestock exhibits in the early 1940s.??In early 1946 he decided to enter the radio business, partnering with Julian Weslow, a friend and attorney. He filed an application for a station to operate full-time on 610 kilocycles with 5000 watts, choosing KLEE as the call letters. Despite competition from the nephew of Sam Rayburn, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the permit was awarded to Albert in May, 1947. He was exposed to television in New York while negotiating with talent to appear at the Houston rodeo. He returned and filed an application for a station on channel 2 in the autumn of 1947. He won approval three months later. Albert sold his TV station a year and a half before his death. The call letters of the radio station were changed to KLBS by the station’s new owners and later became KILT. | LEE, William Albert (I13916)
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Alex was born on a farm near Round Top. He attended grammar school at Round Top and Ellinger and high school at La Grange. After graduating from high school, he attended Capitol Business College in Austin. After completing his coursework there, he went to work for Scarborough and Hicks Co. in Rockdale and later for Woodall and Morse in Taylor.
In 1895 he returned to La Grange where he was employed by the Schumacher Bank. He became a member of The von Rosenberg Company where he was at various times a secretary, bookkeeper, and manager. In 1929 he left the company to become a cashier at the Schumacher Bank, but the work proved too strenuous. His doctors advised him to resign. He did, then taking up his former position at The von Rosenberg Company.
Alexander was a member of the Casino Club, the Gesellschaft Club, and the bowling club. He was also a Democrat. He enjoyed hunting and fishing, especially in his younger days.
While visiting his mother in San Angelo, Alex became ill. He was admitted to the hospital, was treated for phlebitis, and was released after responding to the treatment. In the elevator on his way home, he was stricken by an embolism and died immediately. | VON ROSENBERG, Alexander Ernst (I3888)
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Alexander Otto Meerscheidt attended the San Antonio public schools when young, then Peacock Military Academy and the college in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
His first marriage to Marie Joan Snow by whom he had two sons did not prove successful so they were divorced in 1930.
In 1931 he was married to Anna Lucille Lesterjette and two sons were born to this union. At this time Alexander, or Alex as he is called, was farming and raising chickens in Laredo, Texas. As this did not prove profitable, he became a railroad switchman and a the age of 72 retired as yard master. Alex loves sports and was a great baseball player and as a hobby took part in various amateur plays in Laredo. | MEERSCHEIDT, Alexander Otto (I9646)
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Alexander was born at Eckitten Estate in East Prussia. He immigrated with his parents to Texas when he was sixteen years of age. He worked with his brothers at Nassau Plantation, joining the Confederate Army with them. He was an artillery sergeant and fought in skirmishes in East Texas and Louisiana. He and his brother Walter returned home on a furlough and found their mother had died. After returning to the war, Alexander died. The Froelich book states that he died October 2, 1864 near Liberty, Texas. However, an old letter states that he contracted typhoid fever while in an army camp at Brownsville, Texas and died June 4, 1864, the place not state. He is supposedly buried near Liberty. | VON ROSENBERG, Carl Alexander (I3858)
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Alexander’s first job was that of clerk at George Weyand’s general store at Nassau. There he met Emma Weyand, who would become his wife. After several years, he became employed by Knittle’s General Store in Burton. He then bought the Zapp store in Round Top, before selling the operation in 1900. At that time he moved his family to La Grange and bought the White Dairy. He ran this business as a dairy and meat market, then later as a general store. Later, he became successful at trading horses and cattle, and then real estate. It was from him that the land for the La Grange Fairgrounds was purchased.
Alexander enjoyed music, especially playing the piano. Although an active Democrat, he never sought public office. In 1914 he became a member of La Grange’s St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. Late in high life it was necessary for him to undergo a delicate eye operation which likely hastened his death. | VON ROSENBERG, Alexander Eugen (I3883)
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Alfred was raised in the Salem Community where he attended school. He farmed there until moving to Temple, Texas. His greatest joy was working on cars and thus the Glaser Auto Repair Shop was started. He passed away from lung cancer. | GLASER, Alfred A. (I39238)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I84)
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Alice spent all but two years of her life in San Antonio, Texas, where she graduated from Main Avenue High School before attending Texas Women's University for a short time. In school she was active in sports and was captain of the women's basketball team. She also enjoyed swimming and horseback riding. Alice was a homemaker and was active in the Beacon Hill Presbyterian Church ladies' circle and as chairman of the church suppers. She and Jack loved to fish in Port Aransas, Texas. | REUTZEL, Alice (I14231)
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Although living on several farms, Max learned carpentry. After the death of his wife, Max’s twin sons were raised by their grandmother and an aunt. Max died of a heart ailment in 1920. | MEERSCHEIDT, Max (I3009)
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am Salzhof | SCHWEITZER, Hans Hermann Wilhelm (I36453)
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am Salzhof | SCHWEITZER, Wilhelm Goswin Georg (I36454)
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am Salzhof | SCHWEITZER, Wilhelm Goswin Georg (I36454)
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am Salzhof | SCHWEITZER, Walter Carl Adelbert (I36455)
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am Salzhof | Family: Wilhelm Heinrich Emil SCHWEITZER / Charlotte Luise Clara VON HOTLEY (F24618)
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Amanda was baptized Amande Henriette Louise. Her godparents at the French Reformed Church in Königsberg were Mr. Jean Frédéric Marquart, Mr. Guillaume Schubert, Mrs. Marie Hagen, councillor and secretary, and Mrs. Marie Anne Matz. | FALLIER, Amanda Henriette Louise (I3856)
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Ancestry of Stella Holden Hodges
Parents: George Washington Hodges (b. Gonzales Co TX) and Stella Holden (b. Saline, Saline, AR)
Paternal
Grandparents: David Hodges and Nancy Jane Berry of Gonzales County, Tx.
G-Grandparents: James Hodges, Sr/Lucinda? ___ (the unknown 1st wife) and Ester Berry/Isaac House all of Gonzales County, TX.
GG-Grandparents: Hodges (unknown in VA)
GG-Grandparents: Francis Berry* a first settler of DeWitt's Colony and Nancy Berry-Berry (b. VA, d. MO).
Maternal
Grandparents: Peter Joseph Holden(ried*) of St. Louis, St., Louis, MO. and Francis Lula Rowland (b. Saline, Saline, AR.) Holdenried was anglicized to Holden after Peter Joseph Holdenried immigrated to MO from Partenheim (now Alzey-Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany).
G-Grandparents: Valentin Holdenried/Maria Elizabeth Hilsdorf of Partenheim (now Alzey-Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany) G-Grandparents: Harris Rowland/Frances 'Fannie' Wills of Saline County, AR.
GG-Grandparents: Thomas Rowland/Barbara Olivia Berdine of NC/AL and Benjamin F Wills/Susan Laura Nixon of VA/AR.
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Anita attended school at St. Ann's Catholic School and Thomas Jefferson High School where she graduated in 1939. She attended Our Lady of the Lake College for two years. When World War II broke out, she started working at Duncan Field and then Kelly Air Force Base where she was until 1946 when she got married. Anita also worked at FHA and San Antonio Independent School District until she started raising her family. She enjoyed working with the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts when her children were young. She was a member of the Catholic Church and enjoyed Bible classes and prayer groups. | MARNOCH, Marie Anita (I202)
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Anita had two stepsons and four stepdaughters. She was the superintendent of nursing at Goodell & Witcher Hospital for twenty years. | WIEDERAENDERS, Anita Minna (I24518)
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Ann was born in Corpus Christi, TX on December 12,1944 to James Ethmur Isbell and Dolce Lee Hornberger. She was known to family and friends by either name, Dallas or Ann.
At around age three Dolce left Dallas and James. Years later Dallas was able to find her mother had remarried and had a son and daughter, Ann’s half-siblings.
With her father, Dallas moved several times in her childhood where he managed motels in the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, Arizona and Nevada where she graduated with the class of 1962 at Las Vegas High School.
While in Las Vegas, during high school, her father managed the Flamingo Hotel and Dallas was able to go to dinners with her father where she met many celebrities. A friend, Tina, said that during the hot summer months Dallas's father would sneak the girls into the pool at the Hotel.
Ann graduated from Lamson Junior College with an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Business Administration July 31,1992. Being a single parent for approximately ten years, she provided for her family as a bookkeeper.
Ann was heavily into her own family history over the years. She was a Member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and was tied into the von Rosenberg family of TX who came from Prussia (pre-Germany) to help settle Texas. Ann was so excited she got to go on a two-week trip with Art Green and several other cousins to tour Europe and visit the von Rosenberg estates and castles.
Dallas was a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during high school. She was a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ever since. She served two Church Service Missions as a Family Search Missionary.
Ann's favorite calling was with the Scouts helping numerous young men achieve their Eagle Rank. She took the time with each individual to make sure everything was completed before age 18. She was very fond of the young men and claimed they were her extended family of boys. | ISBELL, Dallas Ann (I13108)
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Anna attended school in La Grange. She was known in the community for having a fine contralto voice. However, never being very strong, she contracted tuberculosis after her two children were born. She went to San Antonio to recuperate, but never really did. Being homesick for her Henry and her children, she returned to La Grange where she died. | MEERSCHEIDT, Anna (I2972)
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