I will start with the parents Fred and Bertha. I wrote a little bit about what I knew about them here.
I am still working on determining Fred's family in Germany where he came from but here is his obituary
I was able to locate the tiny village in Pommerania (now Poland) where Bertha came from and wrote about that here and here is her obituary
Fred and Bertha are buried in Minot, ND where they retired. All of Grandmas siblings chose to be buried there as well, except Grandma herself, despite the fact that several were not in the area at all when they died.
Anna 1900 - 1989 was the oldest. She married Sylvester Kinsella and stayed in the Minot area. She had a daughter named Agnes, married name Wunderlich.
Minnie 1901 - 1936 was next. She married Roy Kinzell. They had twin boys, Ronald and Donald, and a daughter Violet. Ronald appears to have passed as an toddler, sadly, but I do not know that story yet. Minnie obviously was young when she died too. The scan I have of the newspaper is not very clear, but the best I could do, and appears to make reference to an abdominal ailment. Donald and Violet (Mueller) are in the Minot area as of July 2012.
Paul, 1903 - 1969 is next. It seems strange that the boys were the hardest for me to find information on, but this was a pretty close family and I had information from an aunt on the girls married names. They showed up in census data quite easily. Paul got married and divorced, enlisted in the Army, from Tacoma, WA during WWII at 39, and I couldn't find him again. It was only after checking with a cemetery about a grave I actually knew was there that I stumbled across both Paul and William being buried there too. He had two daughters. Betty and Cleo. His obituary is the second page after Williams on this document.
My Grandma Elsie is next. Her obituary is here. I didn't know this soft spoken, hard working woman with a bit of a sly smile as well as I would have liked.
Clara, 1906 - 1995 follows. I actually met Clara in CA, but I was far too young to remember. She seems to have kept in close contact with her siblings despite moving to CA and then LA. If you read the obituaries of her brother William and sister Minnie, from 1936, it looks like she was married to someone with the last name of Weisgerber, I will have to track that down. She was later married to William (Bud) Holloway. She had no children.
William, 1909 - 1936 is next. I cannot imagine what it must have been like for his parents to watch two of their children die within 6 months of each other that year.
Finally there is the youngest, Olga, 1911 - 1970. She married Frank Morgan, lived in Butte MT and had a daughter named Corrine.
I received a photo album in amongst a box of photos that I am quite sure is of this family. Very little of it is marked though. Would love to figure out more than I have.
here is one of Olga and Corrine for you
