After looking around town for information about Barb's grandparents we decided to find the cemetary and see what we could find out there. We drove all over looking for it but could not find it so we took a drive out in the country to see the sites. Then while heading back into town we found 3 cemetaries, one catholic, one lutheran and one city cemetary.
we wandered around the Lutheran cemetary and found the grave stones for her grandparents, great uncles, aunt and uncle and several other ones. We also ran into some folks looking around the cemetary and found out that he had worked with Barb's aunt at the bank in town back in the 1950's. His name was Bernie and he ended up being the president of the bank in Wabeno before he retired. Small world!!
The next night we went to a concert in the park in town and ran into Bernie and his wife again and Barb talked with Bernie some more and found out where the Rusch store had been. It had a fire in 1955 and burned most of it down. the only thing remaining now was the back of the store, which is now just storage from the looks of it.
No comments:
Post a Comment