Grandpa Vic may be just a couple of months from turning 91, but these pictures don’t make him look like 91. The plastic rows are all watermelon – plus another row planted just in case those don’t do well. The plastic wrapped cages are tomatoes. He is planting sweet corn in these pictures.
Grandpa Vic (almost 91 years old) planting sweet corn
Grandpa Vic's Garden 2009
Grandpa Vic's Garden 2009
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Kellie and Aric Mickelsen (Mom and Son)
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Grandma Kay Bollwitt Green and Aric Mickelsen
With so much in the news about our military, I would like to give tribute to our nephew, Aric Mickelsen. He is the grandson of Kay Bollwitt Green and son of Kellie Green Mickelsen. He graduated from high school in 2008 and left shortly after that for basic training. Aric stopped last July to visit with us on his way home for a quick visit. We were so pleased to be able to share a meal and time with him. These pictures were taken when he graduated from basic training. Our family is very proud of Aric.
I will try to add some of the surnames that are in the family tree, knowing well that I won’t get them all. Starting with great great Grandpa Ernst and Grandma Sophie Bollwitt, their children were in order of birth: Wilhelmina (Mrs. Herman Poppen/Charles Lentz); August and Sarah Smith Bollwitt; Sophie (Mrs. Lewis Rueter or Reuter); Johanna (Mrs. Andrew Krug); Charlotta ‘Lottie’ (Mrs. August Blenkle); Ernst and Marie Klusmann Bollwitt; Amelia ‘Mollie’ (Mrs. Ernest Spindler); Dora (Mrs. Frank Roebke); Marie (Mrs. Richard Blum).
August and Sarah Smith Bollwitt (our great grandparents) had the following children in order of birth: Ernest and Sadie Gill Bollwitt; Anna (Mrs. Charles Snowardt); August ‘Gus’ and Gladys Gill Bollwitt; Carl and Millie Tagel Bollwitt; Fred ‘Fritz’ Bollwitt; John and Anna Roesch Bollwitt; Frank and Marcella Emsick Bollwitt; George Bollwitt; Mary Rose Dorothena Bollwitt.
I won’t try to list all the surnames beyond the above, but a couple from each family are Cramer, Young, Scott, Babutzke, Woeppel, Wagman, Pruden, Kaczor, Reiling, Garmann, Hunter, Wederski.
If you are able to search for your surname and come to this blog, please leave us a comment. We would love to have this be an instrument of reaching more descendants of Ernst and Sophie Bollwitt. Shirley
