Here’s another photo from Aunt Cleo. Maybe someone can tell us a little more about this…
The back of this photo reads:
Eliz & Justin
uncle Henry & aunt Ruth
Aunt Margaret
Selma
Lucille
Alice
little HenryMother & Father (not sure)
Margie
Ted behind Sis with a baby maybe Teddy
Cleo in front of Sis
Dorothy & Cotsey propst
Mahlon & Maybe Johnny (not sure)
Julie says
I recognize Margie and Barney Fife.
Julie says
Oh look…there is Aunt Elizabeth and in front of her is Donald Sutherland!
Christina says
Didn’t know we were related to so many movie stars did you!
Naomi Vetter says
Is Cotsy Propst the one in the Barney Fife hat? Is his real name Clarence, Sr? I think Aunt Nora is to our right of Uncle Henry.
cleo says
Yes clarence Propst Sr and Dorothy Hemeyer Propst wife of Clarence SR. Mahlon could be holding their son Clarence Lee Jr. or it could be Lolly or Johnny Williams. I am wondering if that man in the hat is father. I am wondering where mother is? Is that Bud in the back with the hat on.. Father liked to hide behind people that is why I thought it might be him.This picture is so much better then the one I sent Lloyd Jr. I can really tell who people are when it is enlarged like this. Thanks Lloyd JR…. Oh by the way for genealoge sake I want to say that Uncle Henry was married to Aunt Nora Erhardt my mothers sister. Aunt Nora was his second wife and the mother of Alice, Henry and Lucille by his first wife he had Dorothy who married Clarence Propst.
cleo says
I want to clear up another mistake I made. Clarence Propst Sr had the nickname of “Spike” that is what everyone called him. His brother Adolph was the one they called “cotsy” Vernon set me straight on that this evening.Vernon said that their land bordered up to Selma’s place, and they would fix fences together. by the way, we don’t have a Aunt Ruth in our family.
Aunt Lolly says
That baby might be clarence Lee Propst,
Danny Sommerer says
I talked to Steve Beck today at a BBQ we had for Calvary HS. I told him that I talked to Aunt Margie at the reunion and she was doing well. He said that he also got to see her and her family as well. We had a good laugh when we talked about Thomas and his pretty little twin sister. I did mention to him that we kind of gave her a hard time about one of her recent dates… Kinda made me think back to the good ole days when we used to welcome all the girl couzzens to Grandma’s house… Ha Ha.
Steve told me that he found the Sommerer family web site and thought how wonderful it was to read all the stories about Sommerers growing up on the farms they had. He told me that the kids always seem to have only the most wonderful memories of growing up in a very hard time in history. I told Steve that I remembered U. Ed Beck very well and he always gave us some paper that we could write on. We were glad to get the little white tablets to scribble on. Steve told me we must have been special cause he never got any of them….. Ha.
Love to all, Danny
Danny Sommerer says
Look at the picture that Julie took with Tina–Rachel–and Meredeth. Do you see that they are slacking on the job of flipping pancakes and leaving all the real work of breakfast making to me….
Aunt Lolly says
That’s pretty funny son!! Mom
Julie says
Oh so it’s YOUR butt in the background over Meridiths shoulder!!! haha
btw I didnt take that pict.
Julie says
On second thought maybe I did. I think Tina gave me her camera to take it!!!