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Descendants of Anton Brehm

18. LOUISE DOROTHEA⁴ KATZ-DIERS (MARTHA ELIZABETH³ BREHM, JUSTUS², ANTON¹) was born March 8, 1897 in Nemeha County, KS, and died May 8, 1993 in Kinsley, KS. She married FRIDTJOF "FRITZ" NANSEN RIISOE August 3, 1919 in Kinsley, KS. He was born September 9, 1895 in farm north of Kinsley, KS, and died February 8, 1963 in Kinsley, KS.

Notes for LOUISE DOROTHEA KATZ-DIERS:
Wedding write-up:
Diers-Riisoe
      The marriage of Miss Louise Diers and Mr. Fridtjof Riisoe was solemnized Sunday night at 7:30 o'clock at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Diers. The Rev. A. S. Allphin officiated.
      The bride wore a dress of white Georgette crepe trimmed with white satin. The house was decorated with golden glows.
      The only guests other than the bride's and groom's parents, were Mr. and Mrs. Dan Weyrich, and the bride's cousin, Mr. Harry Schlotfelt, of Iowa.
      At 8 o'clock Mr. and Mrs. John Riisoe, Mr. and Mrs. John Mullikin, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Riisoe, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Diers and family, Mr. and Mrs. Carl McKee of Bellefont, Miss Edna Riisoe; Messrs. Clyde Taylor and Harold Riisoe came and surprised them, after congratulations and best wishes refreshments were served by Mrs. Weyrich and Mr. Harry Schlotfelt.
      The young couple have grown to manhood and womanhood in this community and are highly esteemed by all who know them. The Mercury joins their many friends in hearty congratulations and best wishes.

Louise Dorothea Katz was born March 8, 1897 in Du Bois, Nebraska. She was baptized August 22, 1897 by Rev. G. Schulz, with sponsors Louise Charlotte Schlotfelt and Johanna Dorothea Katz, also in Du Bois, Nebraska. According to an official document copy\\

Mom wrote this about her life:
      I was born March 8, 1897. My mother was Martha (Brehm) Katz and my father was William Katz. My brothers were Henry, Herman, Chris, and Willy. My sisters were Mary and Minnie. We all lifed in Nemeha County, KS. My mother was taken ill and died in a hospital in Topeka, KS, and is buried in the cemetery there.
      My father and my oldest sister felt they could not take care of me, so they wrote my Aunt (my mother's sister) Christine Diers and husband, Herman Diers, to see if they could come and get me. Christine Diers came by train and got me when I was one and one-half years old. When we arrived, Herman Diers, Mary, Andy, Fred and William were there to meet us and welcome us home to me from them. Much love was given to me by all the Diers family. Mary loved me and did a lot for me always. I really don't remember too much of the first years. They were all my family who I loved. Years later, the Katz family came to live here where they bought a place (where Leonard Katz now lives). Dad Diers helped them get the place. I saw them from time to time when I grew older. I went to visit them on Sundays, but really never felt the love for them that I felt for the Diers family.
      Herman Diers and others were Lutheran Christian people. He and other members had a meeting in the Diers home and did what was necessary to proceed to take steps to have a school for the children to be educated. The school house was built at a cost of $660 and that was the school I went to my first year, 1903. Jennie Pollok was my teacher and she boarded with the Diers family. She and I would walk across the pasture one mile west of the Diers' home. The school building that was built there was a one-room school with a hall at the entrance.. A pot belly coal stove was used and the teacher had to build a fire and do all the cleaning of the school room. Jennie met my brother, Fred Diers, when he came home from Salina business school. They were married August 4, 1904. His dad built a nice house for them to live in across the creek from the school house (on the west side of the section from the Diers' place). They lived there and Fred farmed and later worked in the bank at Offerle.       I used to help Dad Diers a lot. He had lots of Herford cattle and milk cows. We had a big pond and it had fish in it. I had lots of fun catching them. We had it fixed so they could not get out of the pond, so when we wanted fish to each we had them caught. The pond was furnished by cold water that went through a low cement tank in the milk house and then went out to the pond. We kept butter and milk cool, and other things as well, in this tank. It was enclosed with doors. This house was a wash house with two bedrooms.
      We had a pony I rode a lot. I loved it. I also drove horses for the stacker that put alfalfa in a stack.
      Fred and Jennie moved to Offerle, then to Kinsley, where he worked in the National Bank for C. W. Beeler. When Mary married Carl McKee, she moved to Bellefont. I used to get homesick for her. Mom Diers and I used to drive our horse, Greaser, a big, white horse, and the buggy up to see Mary. In harvest I would stay with her and help her cook and help care for Justine and Junior.
      We had a Sunday school in the school house. Minnie Matthews and Julius Westphal ran it. We always had a good crowd. I received a little Bible and silver thimble from Julius Westphal. I have them yet. They were for perfect attendance. My friend, Violet Matthews, was a year older than I was, and our birthdays were only one day apart. She also went to #37 school house, as did her sisters, Marie and Gertie, and her brothers Gil and Horace. The Westphal kids, Julius and Earl, and Mildred and Lillie Burt attended. The Kuhn kids, Bertha, and later Bill, attended. We had a Craft family of four children and a Langhoffer boy. The Brecheisen children, Carl, Pauline, and Edna, lived where the Tholens live now. Frank Trogden was my last teacher. Katz and Brehm kids.
      I did not go to high school because I did not have a way to go to Kinsley. I didn't want to leave the folks, as I helped Dad Diers with the farm work and Mama in the garden.
      In 1915, Fred Diers wanted to quit the bank and move to the farm, as Herman always wanted to go with Grandpa Diers. So Dad, Mom and I moved to town in a new house they had built at 407 East 6th, Emerson Addition, on Main Street in Kinsley. Fred moved to the farm we left. I got work in the telephone office in 1916. I worked there and worked at home too. I went to the Methodist church Sunday school with some of my close friends. They were Opal (Eakins) Weyrich, Vesta (Eakins) Prather, and Ola ....... We had lots of good times together.
      I went to Iowa February 22, 1918. I went on the train with Louis Brehm and Harry Schlotfelt, my cousins. I stayed at Scholtfelts, as that was where my Grandfather Brehm was staying. My Mom Diers       wanted me to see him. I had a good time visiting the Brehm cousins, also the Mussman girls, and other folks. Made lots of friend as we went to lots of parties and dances when I was there. Aunt and Uncle Scholtfelt, Luella, and Margaret all were lovely to me. The trip was a happy one. I came back by train alone on May 18, 1918.
      Julia (Weyrich) and Oscar Riisoe wanted me to go home with them, as they were having a dance in their new granary. I had a good time and Fritz Riisoe asked to take me home from the dance. I had been dating Delton Eakins some before that. His (Fritz) sisters and friend had lots of picnics and good times together that summer. Then Fritz and Bob Mullikin went away to the Army. They were stationed in Lawrence, Kansas, all the time he was in the service. He learned a blacksmithing course while in Lawrence. The was was over, and he came home discharged from the Army. We continued to date. I was working at the phone company and he was farming and living with his folks. Edna Riisoe was going with Clyde Taylor and we had lots of good times together. We went fishing with Oscar and Julia, Lester and Wave Beck, and Frank and Anna Weyrich. I have some pictures of that. We went to ball games, picture shows, and dances. Fritz played at some of them. Fritz had a Ford car. My folks had a Reo, before that they had a Maxwell. Mr. Simpson sold it to them and I drove both cars.
      Mama Diers would always come to town on Saturday when I was growing up and she took me along and Mary would stay home to do the cooking and cleaning. Mama always bought me bananas which I always liked. We met Mrs. Lizzie Weyrich and Julia. She would be nice to me until she met some of her town friends, and then she would tell me to go find my mama. Which I did, and that was the way she always wa. She and her folks cam to town as they were big in lodges like the Masons and Eastern Star.
      After Fritz came home from the service, we began to get serious and saw a lot of each other. We were married at 3:30 p.m., August 3, 1919, at my folk's home in Kinsley. This was Fritz's parents' anniversary also. We were married by the Christian minister, Rev. Alphin, as the Congregational minister was on vacation. Guests were my folks, Fritz's folks, Lizzie Weyrich, and Harry Scholtfelt, who was visiting from Iowa. After the wedding, the Mullikins, John and Jenny Riisoe, Pete Riisoe, Edna Riisoe, and Clyde Taylor came and surprised us, which was very nice. Edna and Clyde were engaged then and asked why we hadn't told them we were going to be married as they could have too. They were married the 24th of August that year at the Christian church parsonage. Rememberance of Julie Riisoe Ackerman: Uncle Clyde used my dad's suit to be married in, as his did not arrive on time. Good thing they did not try to be married the same day)\
      That summer, Grandpa and Grandma Riisoe bought a house that was on the lot where they built the house where Edna lives now. They moved to town andClyde, Edna, and Pete lived on the Riisoe place north of town. Fritz and I stayed with Grandma and Grandpa Riisoe at their place in town until the 20th when we moved to the Diers' place, where we lived the next 21 years. All my children were born there. John J. and Eila went to District #37 school and then to Kinsley High School, where they all graduated from. I am so proud of all three of them.
      Later, we moved to the Grovie Foltz place tow and one-half miles east and one mile south of the railroad tracks from Offerle. TERRIBLE HOUSE! Eila went to Hutchinson to business college, John J. finished high school, and Julie started school from that place. We brought her (Julie) to Kinsley to school until we bought the house at 812 East 3rd in 1947. Eila came and lived with us when Lawrence was lost in the war in England. Gene was born February 19, 1944, and his dad's plane went down and he never knew he had a son. Gene was born in St. Anthony's hospital in Dodge City, Kansas. It was a terrible time for Eila and a terrible loss.
      When we moved to town in this house we were all comfortable. Later, Eila moved to a house over on 4th street. Julie had polio when she was ten years ols. She became ill on her birthday and was in the Great Bend hospital until after Christmas. Betty Shelley came and helped us out at the hospital with Julie and another polio patient. She finally got over it OK and went back to school. Fritz continued to farm and it was easier for him to go to the farm than to bring Julie to school every day.
      John J. went to the Navy after he graduated from high school. He came home after boot training and he and Marjorie Shelley were married February 11, 1945. She went back to Chicago with John J. When he went overseas, she came home and went to work at the courthouse. When he got out, he went back to farming with his dad. Then they moved in with Sine Mog and farmed with him until he turned the farm over to John J. This is where they have lived ever since, north of Offerle. They have three children: John Leslie, Becky, and Glenn.
      Eila was married to Lawrence Edman at Roswell, New Mexico, on January 23, 1943. He was in the Air Force. He was missing in action. She later married Dale Baringer on August 3, 1947. They lived in Kinsley where their children were born. They are: Douglas, Debby, and Belinda. They moved to Hutchinson and Dale was killed on January 3, 1963, when the boom on the KPL truck hit him on the head.
      Julie went to Hutchinson Junior College for two years and then to Fort Hays State College. She and Kenneth Ackerman were married on February 24, 1962. He works for the Offerle Coop. She finished her college at St. Mary of the Plains in Dodge City, after their children were born. They have two children: Eric and Sheila. I stayed with them while Julie was attending college.
      Fritz passed away on February 8, 1963. I was at the VFW helping serve a dinner to the Kinsley Bank employees. Julie and Kenny were there as she worked for the bank then. He was alright when I left in the afternoon. He was playing ball and was around town and talked to lots of people. When I came home about 8:00 p.m. he said he didn't feel good and was dressed in his night shirt. He went in and laid on the bed and asked me to call the doctor. Dr. Schnoebelen was out of town, and Dr. McKim came and checked him and said he should go to the hospital. He walked to the car and I took him over there. They met us with a wheelchair and put him to bed. Fritz asked the nurse for a shot, and I was giving the nurse his history when she gave him the shot. He began gasping for air immediately. The nurse called the doctor and they all came running with oxygen. They put me out of the room. I went to the desk and called John J. He came right in, but Fritz was gone that fast. Julie and Kenny were there by then.

Children of LOUISE KATZ-DIERS and FRIDTJOF RIISOE are:

	i.		EILA MAE⁵ RIISOE, b. May 16, 1923, farm northwest of Kinsley, KS; m. (1) LAWRENCE MARVIN EDMAN, January 23, 1945; b. August 25, 1919; d. October 5, 1945; m. (2) DALE ROLAND BARINGER, August 3, 1947, Kinsley, KS; b. December 23, 1917; d. January 3, 1963, Hutchinson, KS.; m. (3) JOHN FRANKLIN CLARK, April 5, 1986; b. August 5, 1916.
	ii.		JOHN J. RIISOE, b. April 9, 1926; m. MARJORIE LEE SHELLEY, February 11, 1945; b. October 6, 1925.
	iii.		JULIA "JULIE" ANN RIISOE, b. December 8, 1939, farm northeast of Kinsley, KS; m. KENNETH ALBERT ACKERMAN, February 24, 1962, St. Joseph's Church - Offerle, KS; b. March 26, 1939, Ford County, KS.

19. BERTHA CAROLINE ELIZABETH "LIZZIE"⁴ BREHM (CONRAD ADAM³, JUSTUS², ANTON¹) was born May 10, 1885, and died November 3, 1971. She married GEORGE M. MCKEE October 6, 1909. He was born July 5, 1887, and died January 3, 1978.

Notes for BERTHA CAROLINE ELIZABETH "LIZZIE" BREHM:
Lizzie and George lived at Bellfont, KS.

I have their wedding picture.

Children of BERTHA BREHM and GEORGE MCKEE are:

	i.		VELMA DOROTHY⁵ MCKEE, b. June 29, 1910; d. October 23, 1989; m. JOHN ROBERT THOMAS, July 24, 1932; b. September 3, 1910.
	ii.		ORVILLE MCKEE, b. June 17, 1913; d. June 17, 1913.
	iii.		AUSTIN MCKEE, b. September 17, 1915; d. May 31, 1995, Dodge City, KS; m. ROSE MARIE REISCH, July 30, 1939; b. October 5, 1919, Prowers County, CO; d. November 25, 1998, Trinity Manor Nursing Home, Dodge City, KS.

Notes for ROSE MARIE REISCH:
Obituary from Spearville News:
Rose Marie McKee, 79, died November 25, 1998, at Trinity Manor Nursing Home, Dodge City, KS.
Born October 5, 1919, in Prowers County, CO, the daughter of Ernest Adrian and Inez M. (Thornbrugh) Reish, she married Austin G. McKee on July 30, 1939, in Dodge City. He preceded her in death on May 31, 1995.
She was a homemaker. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Dodge City.
Survivors include: one son, Dr. Steven, Parachute, CO; one daughter, Diana Wetzel, Offerle, KS; one sister, Edna Morlan, Dodge City; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
The funeral was at 10 a.m. Saturday, November 28, at the First United Methodist Church, Dodge City, with the Rev. Dick Robbins officiating. Burial followed at Greencrest Cemetery, Dodge City. Swaim Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
The family suggests memorials to a charity of the donor's choice, in care of the funeral home.

iv.

HERBERT MCKEE, b. December 29, 1917; d. February 2, 1918.

20. CONRAD HEINRICH WILHELM⁴ BREHM (CONRAD ADAM³, JUSTUS², ANTON¹) was born March 16, 1888 in Nemaha County, KS, and died February 2, 1961. He married ANNA LOUISE HERRMANN July 1, 1913. She was born August 4, 1888, and died March 19, 1956.

Notes for CONRAD HEINRICH WILHELM BREHM:
Conrad Henry Brehm spent his early years on a farm near Vinton, Iowa. In 1908 he came with his parents to Edwards County and settled on a farm near Offerle.
After his marriage they made their home on the Diers farm west of Kinsley.

His funeral services were held on Monday, February 6, 1961 at 10:00 at St. Nicholas Church with Rev. Robert Herklotz officiating. His burial was in the St. Nicholas cemetery.

His pallbearers were nephews: Irvin Brehm, Quentin Herrmann, Jerome Herrmann, Norman Herrmann, Gilbert Herrmann, and LeRoy Herrmann.

I have a picture of Conrad and Anna Herrmann Brehm's wedding.\\

Children of CONRAD BREHM and ANNA HERRMANN are:

	i.		EULALIA MARY⁵ BREHM, b. March 29, 1914; m. CHARLES FREDERICK STEINBACHER, May 15, 1937; b. August 8, 1901; d. January 29, 1979.
	ii.		NORBERT JOHN BREHM, b. January 15, 1916; m. DOROTHY GRAY ELLIOTT, August 22, 1938; b. April 12, 1943.
	iii.		JEROME CONRAD BREHM, b. September 16, 1918; d. April 26, 1944; m. DOROTHY JEAN LACREGO, 1942; b. September 15, 1921.

Notes for JEROME CONRAD BREHM:
Jerome Conrad Brehm died in the Navy and was buried at sea.

iv.

EVELYN CATHERINE BREHM, b. March 30, 1921; m. JOHN L. KULTGEN, December 27, 1941; b. November 8, 1910, Dubuque, KS; d. May 17, 1980.

Notes for JOHN L. KULTGEN:
He was a retired farmer and carpenter.

He was buried in the Great Bend, KS cemetery.

	v.		DELORES BREHM, b. February 12, 1924; m. ERNEST BRODBECK, January 31, 1942; b. December 17, 1922.
	vi.		JOHN EDWARD BREHM, SR., b. April 24, 1927; m. (1) OLETHA MCDANIEL, November 21, 1945; b. October 4, 1927; m. (2) BARBARA ANN BEDFORD, July 24, 1965; b. December 8, 1932.

21. DOROTHEA MARGARETHA "DORA"⁴ BREHM (CONRAD ADAM³, JUSTUS², ANTON¹) was born March 16, 1888, and died April 12, 1967. She married (1) WILLIAM HERRMANN, JR. June 8, 1911. He was born November 28, 1886, and died March 24, 1919. She married (2) LENNUS BOSTRUM, SR. October 20, 1920. He was born March 25, 1885, and died July 20, 1945.

Notes for DOROTHEA MARGARETHA "DORA" BREHM:
I have Dora and Wm. Herrmann's wedding picture.

Child of DOROTHEA BREHM and WILLIAM HERRMANN is:

WALTER⁵ HERRMANN, b. March 13, 1913, Edwards County, KS; d. March 13, 1988, Kinsley, KS; m. MILDRED B. EDWARDS/BETTY DEDRICK, April 27, 1942, Wichita, KS; d. October 10, 1985.

Notes for WALTER HERRMANN:
Walt was a retired farmer and a lifetime Offerle resident. He was a member of Mount Moriah Masonic Lodge No. 179, and Midian Shrine, Wichita. .