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Volume 1

Descendants of John August Prignitz

1 John August Prignitz 1869 - 1947.. +Anna Almira Colgan1870 - 1941........ 2 Alice Mildred Prignitz 1892 - 1981............ +Grover Cleveland Houghton 1885 - 1947........ *2nd Husband of Alice Mildred Prignitz:............ +Ted Banks - 1967........ 2 Charles Francis Prignitz 1894 - 1941............ +Martha Alma Anna Heinze 1893 - 1974................... 3 Earl John Prignitz 1915 -....................... +Ethel Alice Thompson 1915 - 1996................................ 4 Beatrice Irene Prignitz 1938 -................................. +Monte Lerue Goodwin 1938 -........................................ 5 Robert Harold Goodwin 1960 -............................................ +Robyn Blevins 1960 -.................................................. 6 Ashley Ann Goodwin 1984 -........................................ 5 Randy Lee Goodwin 1964 -............................................ +Melissa.................................................. 6 Brett Goodwin 1995 -........................................ 5 Michael Scott Goodwin 1967 -............................. 4 Joan Arlene Prignitz 1941 -................................. +Charles W. Harvey 1940 -........................................ 5 Christy Lynn Harvey 1963 -............................................ +Richard Floyd 1958 -.................................................. 6 Lindsay Jo Floyd 1993 -.................................................. 6 Becca Floyd 1997 -........................................ 5 Amy Jo Harvey 1966 -............................................ +Jeff Biddle 1959 -.................................................. 6 Olivia Marguerite Biddle 2000 -.................................................. 6 Emma Gail Rose Biddle 2002 -............................. 4 Ruth Ann Prignitz 1943 -................................. +Dale Silvers 1943 -........................................ 5 Rick Addison Silvers 1966 -............................................ +Kim Kirker 1968 -.................................................. 6 John Thomas Addison Silvers 1994 -.................................................. 6 Emily Noel Silvers 2001 -........................................ 5 Lori Ann Silvers 1969 -............................................ +Eric Croley.................................................. 6 Nadia Marie Croley 1988 -.................................................. 6 Devin Croley 1992 -.................................................. 6 Marah Alice Croley 1999 -………………...................... *2nd Wife of Earl John Prignitz:....................... +Rosalie E. Miller 1916 -…………...................... 3 Doris Irene Prignitz 1920 - 1998....................... +Richard P. Newby 1923 -............................. 4 Darlene Ann Newby 1945 -............................. 4 James Richard Newby1949 -................................. +Elizabeth Loza Salinas........................................ 5 Lisa Marie Newby 1972 -............................................ +David Edward Clark 1969 -............................. 4 John Charles 1955 -........ 2 Arthur G.J. Prignitz 1897 - 1925........ 2 Leona Minnie Prignitz 1901 - 1967............ +Sidney Bates 1900 - 1989................... 3 Leslie Bates....................... +Florence Norton............................. 4 Dennis Bates............................. 4 Carol Bates............................. 4 John Bates................... 3 Kenneth Bates................... 3 Everett Bates........ 2 Helen Almira Prignitz1915 - 1971

RE: (The picture on the cover.) To begin at the beginning my Great Grandfather came to this country in 1856 from Germany. From the research I have done he came from a village called Jarchow. A year or two later his future bride, Maria Technl came over and they were married in Davenport Iowa in 1859. They later moved down the river to Buffalo, Iowa and my Grandfather, my Father and I were all born in that same house on the banks of the mighty Mississippi river. The last I knew the house is still standing. In the picture my Grandfather is sitting on his mother’s lap. He obviously had three siblings as this was a family tintype picture.

This was the way cars got from the Iowa side to the Illinois side of the great Mississippi river. My first memories of getting across was of the Rock Island arsenal bridge. It was a double decker - cars below and trains above. Now there are four bridges.

A picture of the button shop where my father, Charles F Prignitz worked when he first got married to my mother who was from Andalusia, IL. They cut the button blanks from the clam shells taken from the river.

The above means of crossing the Mississippi undoubtedly was not available to my parents as the cars are obviously of a later vintage. I’m sure that the only way would have been by boat. It seems the old adage comes into play here. You know the one about the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. So it seems the men found the ladies from the other side of the Mississippi more attractive than they were at home.

I really don't know why I never asked how it was that my parents met. They lived on opposite sides of the Mississippi river. As a matter of fact only her brother Bernhardt found his spouse at home. He married Blanche Reed, who was from Andalusia, Illinois. Both of her sisters, Vallie and Emma married men from Buffalo as did her brother Otto. He married Francis Roe who was a Buffalo girl. Isn’t that interesting?

And then there were three....I came along.

Charles and Martha Prignitz wedding picture above. The three houses we lived in while we were in Moline, Illinois. Then there are 4 more pictures of Earl John Prignitz.

My 1st few years

I always said mom really wanted a girl. Note the dress!

My grand-mother with my Aunt Helen, born just 25 days before I was.

My very first Trix. By the end of my magazine route he was so very, very tired.

At my grand parents home in Buffalo, IA.My Aunt Helen’s wagon

My first memories are of living in Moline, IL. I was probably 3 or 4 years old in this photo in front of our house on 3rd St.

I was 5 years old when my sister, Doris ar-rived on the scene and we still lived in the 2nd floor apart-ment above the Petersons.

One proud brother with his little sister

Still another baby picture.

Pictures that are too good not to include

Buffalo was just a small town, but very early it had a very fine band. My father and grandfather both played in it. My father played a B flat clarinet and my grandfather played an E flat clarinet. When I got old enough I joined in and also played a B flat clarinet, but by that time my grandfather had dropped out so I never did hear him play.

Grandpa always had chickens and here he is feeding them. He built his own boats that he powered with old car engines. He would order cy-press lumber because he said it lasted longer without rotting than other lumber did. He had a long shed where he would glue the strips of cypress lumber together He would sit in front of his bay window all day in the wintertime and tat nets that he would set out in the Mississippi river. But before he could use them they had to be tarred so the threads wouldn’t rot. He had a large steel tub. It must have been 5 feet in diameter and 3 feet deep. It was down by the river and he would build a fire under-neath that tub and fill it with pieces of tar and wait until the tar was very hot. Then from a pulley way up in the tree he would lower those nets into the hot tar after which he would raise them up again and leave them a day or two to air dry. After they were good and dry he would set them out in the river to catch fish that he cleaned and put on ice and distributed out in the country around town.

My dad worked at International Harvester’s Far-mall plant in Rock Island, Illinois for many years. He had a good reputation as a tool and die maker. His specialty was in precision grinding. It was based on that reputation that I was hired and put to work grinding camshafts. I worked at that task for nearly 10 years. As a matter of fact I might have continued that kind of work if the Lord had not called me to the ministry.

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Got this picture of my grandpa (as we always called him) long after I had finished these first few pages, but just had to go back and insert this page. It is such a good likeness of him and my two aunts Helen and Alice. Helen was just 25 days older than I was and Alice was my very favorite aunt. She used me as her chauffer as soon as was able to drive. She loved to go and I enjoyed the opportunity to drive so it was one that pleased both of us.

Getting back to my grandfather. My Grandfather used to say, ”Jack of all trades and master of none.” I can still hear him laugh as he would say it. But I always thought that he was master of many trades and I reaped the benefits because he taught me many of the things he was good at. I always admired the many skills he had. He also lit the lanterns that were on top of the buoys for a five mile stretch of the Missis-sippi river in front of Buffalo, Iowa. The buoys were placed at the end of the wing dams that protruded out from each shore and allowed the captains of the ships that navigated the river to stay in the channel and not run ashore. He did that for the United States government for 30 years. He taught me the tricks of hanging wallpaper and I became quite skilled at the trade and continued to do it even after I got married. My wife would go with me and assist. She did the pasting and I hung the paper. I could hang a ceiling in half an hour. And we got the whole sum of $3.00 a room for our services.

Grandpa did all kinds of odd jobs for people and he would take me along to help get the work done. I well remember him working for one of the county commissioners who had a cottage over on the island between Buffalo and Andalusia. We would go over and clear the land around the cottage in the spring of the year of the weeds that had grown several feet tall. The cottage had a huge porch all around it and we painted it. We also did varnishing of the floors inside the cottage. When their daughter needed transportation from or too the island to Buffalo he allowed me to use his launch to provide that service.

I married my high school sweetheart two years after graduation. As soon as I got a job at International Harvester Farmall plant in Rock Island, Illinois we planned for our wedding, which took place in Muscatine, Iowa March 9, 1935. Viola Smith was our officiating min-ister. She was pastor at Buffalo but she lived in Muscatine. Helen and Harry Seward stood up with us and we set up housekeep-ing in Davenport, Iowa. Our house was just 1 block away from Ethel’s sister on Thornwood avenue. We lived there one year and then following a robbery one Saturday evening while visiting a cousin in Rock Island we decided that the big city was not the place we wanted to live so we moved back to our roots in Buffalo. After renting for a year my parents offered me the vacant lot next to their home and with the help of my grandfather, who had always said, “I’m jack of all trades, but master of none”, we built the 5 room home pictured below. As I recall the lumber cost us $500.

Irene

Irene

Some newly uncovered pictures

Ethel’s family l to r Loyd, Pop, Charles, Fred, Helen, Ethel and Victor.

Helen and Harry Earl, Ethel, Jolanda and Loyd

We had three lovely girls and we always thought they were pretty cute. I know my par-ents were very pleased with their first grandchild.

Irene

Irene

Joan

Joan

Joan

More early pictures

Joan found this page in her baby book which reminded us of the time when she was just four and one half months old that she swallowed an open safety pin. This happened just a few hours after my dad’s funeral. She was rushed into Dr. Jor-dan’s office and luckily he retrieved the pin. At that point Ethel fainted! Proud Aunt Doris shown holding

Joan with Irene looking on.

Joan

Ruth Ann

Joan

Irene

Pop with Marilyn and Wayne Seward and Joan and Irene Prignitz

Joan.s 3rd Birthday

And still more

My mother, Joan andIrene

ProudParents

AuntDorisagainJust us three.

Can you believe it? Still more

Transportation in summer And in winterMomandJoan

Dad and Joan Joan and Trix

Still more old Photos

L. to R. Loyd and Jo, Charles and Mary, Bea and Freddie. Harry and Helen, Ethel and Earl

The left picture l. to r. Earl and Ethel Prig-nitz, Jolanda and Loyd Thompson. On the right is a very nice pose of Ethel

4 years in New Sharon, Iowa 1944-48

Dress-up time for the girls. (left)

Ethel and her flowers on the right

New Sharon Friends invited us to serve as pastor starting Sept. 1, 1944. Church and parsonage are pictured above.

Assortment of pictures taken at New Sharon dur-ing the 4 years we were there as pastor. I started college at the same time at Wm. Penn College 15 miles to the south.

More pictures taken at New Sharon. Ethel at her sewing machine above. The one be-low was at Pella Iowa at the time of their Tulip Festival

The girls loved Fred and Lydia Briggs dog and whoever the kit-tens be-longed to at New

TeaTime

An-other dress-up time

All dressed up and no-where to go!

Dressed in their mother’s finest handiwork.

Bed time Girls!

The three girls at play. Irene and on-lookers. It’s time for a parade!

Irene is off to school. Joan and her bicycle. Ruth with her favorite babysitter,

Tillie Heintz

Irene and Joan are ready for school.

Ruth Ann is justseeing them off.

We loved to have visits from our loved ones. My mother and girls above. The girls grandfather, Fred Thompson (above and to the right.

Uncle Victor above and Ethel’s Uncle Al-fred Steen with the girls to the left

A few more pictures taken while we were at New Sharon. Ethel and Thelma Baxter with their girls above while visiting the Baxter’s in Sturgeon Bay, WI. The 2 shots below were taken when visiting the Ridpath family at New Sharon. The top right shot was in our back yard. The one at the right was taken when we visited Doris and Richard in Pleasant Plain, IA where Richard was pastor. My mother Martha Prignitz is holding her latest grandchild, Darlene Newby and with our three daughters

One Sunday afternoon Ethel was tak-ing a nap, I was working on my evening sermon, and Ruth Ann was at the neighbors. She got into their lip stick asyou can see.

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1959 also meant a trip to Iowa so Ethel could bake and deco-rate Seward’s 25th Wedding Anniversary cake.

Pictured left to right are their son Wayne, Helen, Harry and their daughter Marilyn Wright

Cutting

the

cake.

Again standing left to right are Ethel’s father Fred Thomp-son, her brother, Charles, sister Helen, Ethel and brother Loyd.

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Talk about a busy year. Joan received her nurses cap, we celebrated our 25 wedding anniversary, our first grandchild arrived on the scene and we moved to our new home in Xenia. What a year!

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More 1960

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On top of everything else we moved to Xenia, Ohioin the fall of 1960.

Our first grandchild Bob Goodwin.

Xenia Friends Church Xenia Parsonage

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!961 and 62 were busy years. Ruth Ann graduated from Xenia high school in 1961 and Joan was married in 1962. As I did in Irene’s wedding, I walked Joan down the aisle as father of the bride, while Richard Newby stood in as minister for me, then I turned around and officiated for the rest of the ceremony.

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We were in California for Craige Le-Breton’s ordination into the Methodist ministry. Standing (right) are Sue (Thompson) LeBreton, Tommy in his daddy Craige’s arms, Fred (Ethel’s brother) holding Stacy and Bea Thomp-son.

A couple of stops along the route.

The above picture is of Joan’s wedding party.

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1961 (cont.)

Ruth Ann graduated in 1961 and Bobby was growing up already to the delight of mother, grandmother and great grandmother!

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1963

Christie Harvey arrives

Grandma is tired!

Great Grandma Admires

Bobby doesn’t know what to make of his new cousin. But he loves the dog.

The Newbys.

Bobby

Great Grandma loved to read to Bobby

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1964

Another big year. I was invited to join the staff at the Friends United Meeting headquarters as Executive Secretary of the Board on Christian Education. This meant that we had to have a place to live in the Richmond area. We decided to build on one of the va-cant lots that we owned in Dublin. That is what we did and we lived in that house for 30 years

I served as Executive Secretary for seven years, when FUM went through a change in structure. They went from the five boards to three commissions. The five executives were warned that we had no assurance of a job when the change would take place in six months. That is when Prinit Press was started as I didn’t feel inclined to take an-other pastorate. But I did have a job at the office as I was offered the position of man-ager of Quaker Hill bookstore and Friends United Press so I stayed on another 10 years.

When I took over the Friends United Press position it was just getting started with Errol Elliot’s book, Quakers on the American Frontier. By the end of my stay we had published or reprinted 60 different books plus a number of pamphlets. I also managed Quaker Hill Bookstore during that time.

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1965

1965 was one full year. Ruth Ann graduated from Central State Uni-versity. I tried to help Monte and Irene as much as I could in building their house. We attended Wayne and Sondra wedding back in Iowa. Then I officiated at Ruth Ann’s wedding and of course Ethel did a lot of sewing and cake decorating.We attended a National Council of Churches meeting in Bermuda (three pictures below)

And the old Mississippi river flooded again in 1965. The house I was born in is shown sand bagged to the right

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Buffalo Iowa gets flooded regularly!

The house be-hind the telephone pole is the house that I was born in.The right side of the photo.

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1965 continued

Nephew, Bobby Goodwin was her ring bearer

And of course the cake was created by her mother.

Ruth Ann’s Wedding

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1966

The Thompson family gathered to celebrate Pop’s 87 birth-day. L. to R. Loyd, Ethel, Pop, Helen, Freddie and Charles.

Ethel was always the happiest when sur-rounded by her grandchil-dren.

Emma, Pop and Bobbi in Pop’s to-mato garden.

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1967

Chuck and Joan Harvey with Amy and Christie.

And I enjoyed my grand-children too whenever we were able to be with them.

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Game Time

Pop and his grandchildren play games

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Prinit Press

Prinit Press began as a little side business in our garage. It soon grew into a full time operation and had to be relocated. The apartment dwelling became available so we moved the equipment around the corner to Frank-lin street. It also filled our need for something to do after I retired from FUM.

We did mainly short run book print-ing. We had the equipment to set the type, print, collate and do perfect bind-ing. We ran a 1” ad in Writer’s Digest and had business from all over the United States and beyond.

When I retired from the office in 1980 my grandson, Bob Goodwin was working for me full time. So after a year or so I took him into partnership with me and then later sold the busi-ness to him and just worked for him as needed.

We needed additional space so we put an addition on the back side of the building. My grandsons were good help in the project.

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1968

Sleepy Time.

The Harvey’s home in Greenwood, Mississippi

Mississippi cotton field.

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1968 (cont.)

ChristieHarvey

learning to read And ride

Pop and Amy and Christie

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1969

Pop(FredAndEmmaThompson

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1970

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1970 (cont.)

Out to see the glacier sights!

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1971-1972

We had a great time in Hawaii. Enjoyed every min-ute and attended the CBA conference as well. Also loved the Anniversary flowers Ruth sent, and then the 3 girls did that every year following that one. Aloha!

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1972

Doll house patterned after their house no less.

This picture came in too late to include it in the proper place. We lived at Nobles-ville and looking top down are Earl, Ethel, Helen, Harry, to the right of Harry is Joan, then Ruth Ann is on Pop’s lap and Wayne standing along side.

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1973

All prepared to ride the Maid of the Mist at Niagara Falls

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1974

We were privileged to visit the Holy land to attend a CBA meeting.

While there we got to see our Dublin neighbor, Anna Langston, who was serving as pastor of the Ramalah Meeting and principal of the girls school.

The 2 pictures to the left found us resting for awhile

We were loaded to the limit and ready to take off for somewhere. I’m not sure where.

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1975

OurdearfriendsJohnandThelmaBaxter

All dressed up in the tradi-tional Quaker garb!

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1975-76

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More 1976

We were able to visit Fred and Bea and Don and Lucille Greaves on this trip in 1976

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Still more 1976

More pictures when we travelled west to Boulder and Big Bear. Also a couple back home of Ruth and 2 of her grandchildren and Joan in her kitchen as she was preparing a meal for us. The picture below is of Amy’s Birthday Party.

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1977

Freddie and Bea’s 50th Wedding Anniversary

Our Buffalo friends, Fern and Fran Dodds.

EthelAndFernDodds

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1978-79

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1980

Beauty in our own front yard!

Uncle Sidney and Aunt Alice Ethel feeding her geranium bed

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More 1980

1980 was the year we became property owners in Florida. We went down for a vacation and Fred Wood got us interested in buying a mobile home to spend the winters there. We bought an old one and I worked hard to make it acceptable for Ethel. Then I made the mistake of saying if we liked it we could trade it in for a bet-ter model. She didn’t see any point in waiting. She said if we were going to trade do it and enjoy the new one, so the next year we began looking for a new one. We found one that had been used as an office at a sales location. So we traded our 8 foot wide model for a 14 foot home and enjoyed it for another 8 years. I built the flower box in front out of white brick

I enjoyed my golf in Florida. We went out early almost every morning at daybreak. Ethel and her neighbor would get together for coffee and chatting while we were out. One day I had a hole in one and on Saturday morn-ing at coffee club I got the donut with a ball in the hole.

I also enjoyed singing in the Covenant Presbyterian 70 voice Choir. We not only sang for 2 services each Sunday, we put on special concerts each year.

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1983

Fun day at Joan’s pool in Indianapolis, Indiana

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1985119

The picture says it all folks

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1986-89

The first 2 great grandchildren came into our lives during these years. Ashley Good-win, daughter of Robert and Robyn and Nadia Croley, daughter of Eric and Lori. We also had another grand daughter graduate from college, Christie Harvey received her degree in pharmacy from But-ler University. It was sometime in this time frame that I took up carving as a hobby and as a small income. My specialty was Santa’sbut I didn’t stop there as I took classes on Indians and animals too. See the next page for a display

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Wood Carving

I would carve each evening

Carving a horse and the finished product. My EP Clauses card below.

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1990

Two Graduates in 1990, Amy Harvey and Mike Goodwin. I spent a lot of time in the hospital too. First Jewish National in Denver for 3 weeks, Reid in Richmond for 2 weeks and St Vincent in Indianapolis. Mike and I also remodeled the house across the street from us.

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1991

Those roses need some attention!

This seems to be getting to be a habit!

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1992-93

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More 1993

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1994-95

We were at Irene and

Monte’s home in Spiceland, Indiana when

the girls put on the party for our 80th Birthdays.

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1995

I assumed the pastorate of Dublin Friends in 1995 along with Wayne Cox as assistant. As you can see I always wel-comed family and friends at Meeting.

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1996

1996! What a year! Two weddings in the family and then bam...Ethel’s untimely death! After sixty-one and one half years. Years filled with joy and happiness brought to an abrupt halt in one fleeting second.. The girls did everything they could to help me through those lonesome times. They were distraught too. They decided a dog would help and purchased a Schnauzer puppy and named him (what else) Trix? I vis-ited my daughters. The picture in the lower left shows me doing my thing frying crepes and to the right making an adjustment to a screen-door at Ruth Ann’s home

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Amy-Jeff’s Wedding was different

Amy’s wedding was different. No kidding about that. Instead of the traditional Church ceremony she chose to have her Wedding at the Conner Prairie farms entertainment center. Then to be really different she planned to have the nuptials spoken on the landing between the two floors of the building. If that wasn’t suffi-ciently unique, all the lights were dimmed. The only lighting was from the little Christ-mas tree lights that were up and down the railing. I was one surprised minister to say the least! But all went well!

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More 1996

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The family

trip to

Cincinnatti

for a Reds

game

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1998

In August of 1996 I was looking at a Senior Site and of the 100’s of ads that were shown 1 name stood out in bold for me. It said she was seeking a Christian Pen Pal. I thought I could fill that need and responded giving a brief resume of my own. It turned out my response went to the woman’s daughter who had placed the ad without her mothers knowl-edge. So she had to phone her mother and tell her what she had done and read what I had written in reply. January 11th we said our vows at the close of Worship in the Dublin Friends Meetinghouse. She not only got a Christian Pen Pal she got a new husband!

Then just three and a half months later I had to have emergency surgery for perforated bowels (from taking too much prednisone for my asthma). The surgery was successful however a week fol-lowing I suffered from a minor stroke and then 3 days later a mas-sive stroke. I was placed in the Oakridge Rehabilitation center where with the help of very capable therapists I was able to regain partial use of my limbs and learn to speak and swallow again. After our marriage we were blessed with having five daughters now! My favorite nurse at Oakridge was a gal named Debbie. She was one fine helper.

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Wedding Dinner followed the ceremony

After we said our vows following the Meet-ing for Worship we gathered at the Golay Center for a dinner. There were 70 guests including 19 former members of a class that Rosalie taught at the First Brethren Church at Goshen, Indiana. Seated above are left to right, Israel Gorden, Rosalie’s brother-in-law, Edwina Gorden, Rosalie’s sister, Rosa-lie, Me, Joyce and Bill Wagoner

Cutting the cake in the picture above.

Rosalie’s apartment is pictured to the left. We had agreed to spend part of the time in her apartment and part of the time in mine in Dublin, Indiana. Unfortunately, our plans had to be revised because of my unexpected ill-ness

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More 1998

In addition to being my nurse and caretaker she has taken up barbering.

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1999-2000

Helen’s visitLori (standing) holding

Marah, Devon and Nadia. Randy in the

shadows. Seated, Rosalie, Earl, Helen, and Joan

holding Olivia.

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2002

Sunset at the

Northpole!

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2003-2004

A Master’s Degree, no less

And the beat goes on !

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Christmas celebrations through the years

We have had family Christmas dinners and gift exchange as long as I can remember. I’ve just included a few sample shots. The gatherings have grown consid-erably through the years

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We end this Album by saying how proud we are of all our children, grand children and great grand children

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The end!

We have a professional photographer living at FFC who took this picture of us.

For Rosalie’s birthday a few years ago the girls made a list of things Rosalie did for me. It stretched from the ceil-ing down on the floor. Joan even made a nurses cap for her and of course Ruth Ann’s cake made the occasion complete. We appreciate the crea-tivity of our daughters.

Mother—Daughter

92nd Birthday!

Bobbie came for over the weekend

and celebrated with a family

dinner in the fam-ily room, a room

set aside for small families to gather. Not large enough for our extended

family

Well we have reached the end of our journey. Isn’t it ironic that we end up with 93 pages? Guess what? I’ll be 93 years old in August. Making this album has really been fun. I hope it will be helpful for my family to know something of where they came from. My daughters went through my hundreds of slides and scanned them for me as well as searching through old albums for pertinent photos. The two pictures at the bottom are looking two ways in our 1 room apartment. The one way shows the things of the past, some of my carvings. That is something I can no longer do. And I did enjoy doing it as long as I was able. However looking the other direction we can see out the window and enjoy the present with the birds that come to our bird feeder and the lovely patio where we enjoy cook-outs several time each summer.

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Late comers—odds and ends

Doris’ wedding: Standing l. to r. Richard’s sisters, Joy and Gail, Doris, Richard, me, Fran Dodds and Harry Rauch, and

Irene and Joan in front.

Overlooking Niagara Falls

Family to the right.

Dad following his stroke to the left.

Dad with hisClarinet.

Me with my Colliers bag above left.

Me on my Dad’s knee left.

Mom to the right.

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Our 1st year at New Sharon we took the 1st week of our vacation to help Harry build his house in Bettendorf, Iowa. When we arrived the basement was constructed but by the end of the week the house was under-roof and the chimney through the roof. Ethel’s brother Loyd was building right next door to the Seward’s and so we stopped working on Seward’s house at 4 o’clock on Friday and moved over next door and while I cut out all of the rafters for Loyd’s hip roofed house Pop (Ethel’s dad) would pass them up to Loyd, Freddie and Harry to nail them in place. By dark the roof was framed in all but the attached garage. We then went on to Sturgeon Bay and visited our friends the Baxters. We stayed with the Seward’s every time we returned to Iowa. Ethel always took her sewing ma-chine along to sew for Helen. She also baked and decorated their 25th Anniversary cake in 1959..

Wayne, Helen, Harry and Marilyn Sisters, Ethel and Helen Helen and Harry Seward

Marilyn, Harry, Helen, Wayne, Emma and Pop (Fred Thompson).

Marilyn, Harry, Helen, Wayne Pop, Babe, Helen, Ethel and Loyd

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Then it was off to Noblesville, IN for 2 years, 1948-50.

Our second ministry was at Noblesville, IN where we only stayed 2 years, but only because Tom Jones, President of Earlham College learned of my building experience and invited me to supervise the construc-tion of Stout Memorial Meetinghouse on the Earlham campus and promised to see me through college. The Church and parsonage are pictured here to the left.Below you can see Ethel continued the dress alike pattern even including her dresses like the girls.The girls riding their modes of transporta-tion, and Irene and her friend Vickie Brown giving Trix a bath.

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While we were pastor at Noblesville we made a couple of interesting vacations. The first one was out to the west coast to visit Ethel’s cousin Lucille Greaves and her hubby Don. On the way we looked up Uncle Ed who was operating a drilling rig searching for oil. It was located out in the middle of nowhere, somewhere in Wyoming. Ethel and Irene (Joan behind) are pictured with him below. The other 2 shots are of the rig.

This picture was taken somewhere in the area where oil had already been found and the pumps were busy pulling it from the earth. Mom, Ethel and the girls were investi-gating.

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More pictures of our 1949 trip

Crater Lake, Oregon. Snow balling in June! A direct hit I guess that’s all folks!

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The main purpose of the trip was for Ethel to see her Aunt Flo and her cousin, Lucille Greaves and her husband and family.

Aunt Flo and Ethel Ethel and Lucille Greaves Earl and Don Greaves

In the picture below from left to right are Don and Lucille Greaves and Ethel and Earl Prignitz.

Above are the Greave children with our girls.

We had scheduled our trip to include a stop at New Sharon, Iowa on our return route to officiate the wed-ding of our faithful pianist at the New Sharon Friends Church the four years we were pastor there, Anita VerSteegh and Francis Younkin. So when we got there they were waiting for us and they were united in marriage and promptly set sail for Thailand where Frank was an Agricultural missionary.

Got this pix late and just had to in-clude it. It’s Joan with the mumps when we lived on College Ave. in Richmond, IN

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We also took a vacation trip to the east coast during the time we were living in No-blesville going eastward over the Cumber-land trail. We visited Mount Vernon, home of George Washington as well as the Capitol and then on to New York city as evidenced by our wonderment in the laby-rinth of the big city streets. In the picture below are Irene, Joan, Ethel, my mother all seated for a breather and Ruth Ann standing.

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During my 1st two years at Earlham I spent 40-44 hours a week working on the Meeting-house, took 10—12 hours of classes and preached every Sunday at Williamsburg Friends Church. I laid every block in the base of the build-ing, cut every rafter and all of the trim work around the win-dows, and supervised the over-all work of the construction. This project was the dream of Tom Jones, President of Earl-ham. He convinced the Unions in the area to work side by side with those of us who were non-union and with student and fac-ulty volunteers to be able to build this impressive structure.

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An impressive structure on the Earlham campus and I not only supervised its construction I laid every block in the base before the union mason’s arrived on the scene to do their job

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Then it was on to Williamsburg, IN for 3 years.

With the Meetinghouse completed, I was still pastor at Williamsburg and constructing a dwelling for Leslie and Dorothy Fraser at the end of College avenue. But I was awarded a spot on the Indiana delega-tion to attend the Friends World Conference in Oxford, England so in 1952 Ethel and I boarded the boat headed for England. My mother stayed with the girls.

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A few more pictures of our trip to the Friends World Con-ference. It was quite windy as you can see.

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The Baxter-Prignitz Partnership began in the 1950’s.

We purchased this Letner property on Dublin-Street in Dublin, IN when John Baxter was pas-tor of the Dublin Meeting and I was pastor of Williamsburg Friends. It had 3 additional lots north of this house and a large lot west on Franklin St. We remodeled this old dwelling and had it as a rental for a number of years.

Later we built this block duplex on the lot facing Franklin St. and again had it as a rental for a long time. After we moved to Dublin in 1964 and started Prinit Press in our garage in 1969 and as it grew we moved the operation over to this property. We spe-cialized in short run books and had customers from all over the United States and beyond.

This was a cartoon that Ethel had drawn for me.

John and I built a 3 bedroom house plus attached garage on the corner lot of the plot and sold it to Mary and Anna Langston in 1959. From the proceeds I was able to purchase a new Pontiac sedan that was one of the better cars I ever owned. When I was invited in 1964 to be the Executive Secretary of the Board on Christian Education of the Five Years Meeting of Friends, headquartered in Richmond, IN, I decided to build the above dwelling on the next vacant lot that I owned in Dublin. We lived in that home for the next 30 years.

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Started my ministry in Spiceland in 1953 and ended in 1960.

I have often felt that my ministry was the most effective at the Spiceland Friends Meeting. Maybe that was because I stayed there the longest. At any rate I felt good about the results that followed in the wake of those years of my ministry. The Church and parsonage are pictured above. Just beneath the parsonage was a picture that was on our 1st Christmas Greeting to Spiceland Friends. Yes it included a dog named Trix. We nearly always had a dog named Trix. The family picture below the Church was the way we looked when we ended our ministry at Spiceland. When we accepted the call to be their pastor we understood that the Meeting was ready to accept new ideas, that they wanted to advance, so in the first year I proposed the idea of having a Visita-tion Evangelism program. Ministry and Oversight vetoed that idea almost before I had finished making it. In my second year I repeated the suggestion, but with a series of slides that I had taken when we had used it at Noblesville where it was so successful that we were able to welcome 65 new members into the fellowship of the Meeting. This time they were still very hesitant but did consent to go along with the program if I could find enough members who would be willing to go out in the community and do the visiting. They didn’t know me very well yet for I didn’t have the slightest problem in securing enough teams to accept the challenge. We conducted the program and as a result welcomed 123 new members into the fellowship of Spiceland Friends Meeting on Easter Sunday. The Church was filled to overflowing including the balcony and the extra room.

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My ministry at Spiceland was very fulfilling. In addition to my responsibilities during the Sunday School hour I was expected to bring a message every Sunday during the Meeting for Worship. We had three Youth Meetings going all the time. The Junior and Senior Youth Groups met on Sunday evening and then I started a Junior Quaker group of fourth and fifth graders who met during the week after school. We had a planned program for them that included a Bible lesson, a time for games or recreation and some snacks. I would take them home after the session was over. So I was one busy parson. If you think that was enough. Think again, for I have always considered part of my ministry to be calling on the membership faithfully. The sick were especially a concern of mine and I visited wherever the members decided to go and that included Anderson, Indianapolis, Greenfield, Rush-ville, Richmond and of course New Castle hospitals. I always had a good feeling about my ministry among Spiceland Friends.

But all was not work. We also found time for relaxation and fun, especially when friends and rela-tives came to visit. Pictured below include our friends the Baxters and my sister’s family the New-bys having a picnic in a New Castle Memorial Park.

Richard Newby and John Baxter

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I was very fortunate to be able to finish my college credits and graduate from Earl-ham College in 1953. It took 9 years from the time I entered William Penn College in Oskaloosa, Iowa and then taking a few classes at Butler University in Indianapolis while I was pastor at Noblesville, IN. Then I finally completed the requirements for my degree at Earlham.

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In 1957 we chaperoned a group of Young Friends to Jamaica

The girls all loved Ethel and were with her every opportunity they found.

Above left is where we stayed the 1st night we arrived in Jamaica. The scene to the left is blue hole and it is very deep. To the right is Ethel waiting for some re-freshments from the little shop.

We were build-ing a teacher’s cottage in the 2 left pictures at the mission site.

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I officiated at many weddings while serving the Spiceland Friends Church, but this one was spe-cial. My first daughter’s wedding. Ethel of course made the dresses and the cake. Why in the world should she be so tired after it was all over?