A page from Lawrence Klein’s photo album, dated 1924. Lawrence was a brother to my husband’s grandmother, Edith Margaret Klein, 1890-1972. Therefore Lawrence is a great-uncle. Edith and Lawrence were children of George Klein and Caroline Jungbluth, born on the prairie in Nebraska, in a sod house – much like Little House on the Prairie! There were seven other children in the family, with Lawrence being the youngest.
This is Bessie Hughes and her pony – a friend of Lawrence. At this time the Klein family was living in Tabor, Iowa – located in Fremont County, almost the exact south-western area of the state!
Mable Walno – another friend.
And this pretty young woman is Viola Rickabaugh – probably another school chum.
The last two sets are definitely school photos. In this group are Ray Whitney and Ruth Brown.
I believe Gladys Whitney and ? Walno – perhaps siblings of the earlier named friends?
A nice look back into the past of a by-gone era!
Categories: Old Photos
I remember Lawrence. He would come to Fairmont, Nebraska every now and then to family gatherings at grandma’s house (Edith Ritchey). I think it was Lawrence’s funeral that mom was going to when she had the car wreck that killed her in 1967, May 5th, outside Washington, Kansas.
Randy,
Your Mom was coming to Uncle Jim’s funeral (Grandpa’s brother) when she had the accident.
Thanks for posting this…. I remember Lawrence (my gr-uncle). He would pull into the family farm near Gothenburg to say hello and I remember when he visited my Grandparents (Lou – his oldest brother) in Gothenburg I will share this with two cousins who are children of my father’s sister, Blanche Klein Stevens. I wish I had more pictures of him. We once visited his wife’s grave in Iowa several years ago.
Ron, I have quite a few photos of Uncle Lawrence I would be happy to send you, just need your address.
Debbie – That would be great…. email address is ronklein@ix.netcom.com if you have them in electronic form… or snail mail I can send you by email if you can give me your email address.
Ron
don’t hyphenate the email address: ronklein@ix.netcom.com