Anne's parents, Elsie and Henry, married in 1913 in Hamburg, Germany, and the same year immigrated to the United States via Portland, Maine, and then moved on to first Saskatchewan and finally to Alberta, Canada, all in the same year.
Anne was born Annabelle Mary in a small cabin in the woods of Athabasca, where her father worked as a lumberjack and her mother was the camp cook. Her sister, Dorothy, was born just over a year later, but this time in a hospital because her mother did not want to give birth in a small cabin in the middle of nowhere again.
The family immigrated to the United States in 1923 and settled in Muskegon, Michigan. When she started school, her parents thought it would be better to have a more "American" name and from then on she was known as Anne, which she very much preferred.
Anne's brother Ray was born in 1925 in Muskegon Michigan.
Anne married George Sidney Ceton in 1945 and had their first child, Pat, in 1949 in Muskegon. Kathy was born 6 years later in Detroit. The family moved to Livonia, Michigan. George became a self-employed heating & air conditioning contractor and Anne did the books and took care of the financial end of the business until his death in 1978.
Anne was a wonderful woman who loved her family, could do anything with her hands (knitting, sewing, crafting), was a great cook and baker, had a great sense of humor, was a hard worker, made the best pie crust in the world, and had the patience of a saint. In her later years she went to live with her daughter Kathy in Maine, where she passed away.
PARENTS:
Henry William Meinke 1886–1962
Elsie Louise Remwolt Meinke 1893–1980
SIBLINGS:
Dorothy Anges Meinke Poel (1920 - 2017)
Raymond Henry Meinke (1925 - 2018)
SPOUSE:
George Sidney Ceton (1920 - 1978)
CHILDREN:
Kathleen (Kathy) Ceton Newman
Patricia (Pat) Ceton
Anne was born Annabelle Mary in a small cabin in the woods of Athabasca, where her father worked as a lumberjack and her mother was the camp cook. Her sister, Dorothy, was born just over a year later, but this time in a hospital because her mother did not want to give birth in a small cabin in the middle of nowhere again.
The family immigrated to the United States in 1923 and settled in Muskegon, Michigan. When she started school, her parents thought it would be better to have a more "American" name and from then on she was known as Anne, which she very much preferred.
Anne's brother Ray was born in 1925 in Muskegon Michigan.
Anne married George Sidney Ceton in 1945 and had their first child, Pat, in 1949 in Muskegon. Kathy was born 6 years later in Detroit. The family moved to Livonia, Michigan. George became a self-employed heating & air conditioning contractor and Anne did the books and took care of the financial end of the business until his death in 1978.
Anne was a wonderful woman who loved her family, could do anything with her hands (knitting, sewing, crafting), was a great cook and baker, had a great sense of humor, was a hard worker, made the best pie crust in the world, and had the patience of a saint. In her later years she went to live with her daughter Kathy in Maine, where she passed away.
PARENTS:
Henry William Meinke 1886–1962
Elsie Louise Remwolt Meinke 1893–1980
SIBLINGS:
Dorothy Anges Meinke Poel (1920 - 2017)
Raymond Henry Meinke (1925 - 2018)
SPOUSE:
George Sidney Ceton (1920 - 1978)
CHILDREN:
Kathleen (Kathy) Ceton Newman
Patricia (Pat) Ceton
Anne's parents, Elsie and Henry, married in 1913 in Hamburg, Germany, and the same year immigrated to the United States via Portland, Maine, and then moved on to first Saskatchewan and finally to Alberta, Canada, all in the same year.
Anne was born Annabelle Mary in a small cabin in the woods of Athabasca, where her father worked as a lumberjack and her mother was the camp cook. Her sister, Dorothy, was born just over a year later, but this time in a hospital because her mother did not want to give birth in a small cabin in the middle of nowhere again.
The family immigrated to the United States in 1923 and settled in Muskegon, Michigan. When she started school, her parents thought it would be better to have a more "American" name and from then on she was known as Anne, which she very much preferred.
Anne's brother Ray was born in 1925 in Muskegon Michigan.
Anne married George Sidney Ceton in 1945 and had their first child, Pat, in 1949 in Muskegon. Kathy was born 6 years later in Detroit. The family moved to Livonia, Michigan. George became a self-employed heating & air conditioning contractor and Anne did the books and took care of the financial end of the business until his death in 1978.
Anne was a wonderful woman who loved her family, could do anything with her hands (knitting, sewing, crafting), was a great cook and baker, had a great sense of humor, was a hard worker, made the best pie crust in the world, and had the patience of a saint. In her later years she went to live with her daughter Kathy in Maine, where she passed away.
PARENTS:
Henry William Meinke 1886–1962
Elsie Louise Remwolt Meinke 1893–1980
SIBLINGS:
Dorothy Anges Meinke Poel (1920 - 2017)
Raymond Henry Meinke (1925 - 2018)
SPOUSE:
George Sidney Ceton (1920 - 1978)
CHILDREN:
Kathleen (Kathy) Ceton Newman
Patricia (Pat) Ceton
Anne was born Annabelle Mary in a small cabin in the woods of Athabasca, where her father worked as a lumberjack and her mother was the camp cook. Her sister, Dorothy, was born just over a year later, but this time in a hospital because her mother did not want to give birth in a small cabin in the middle of nowhere again.
The family immigrated to the United States in 1923 and settled in Muskegon, Michigan. When she started school, her parents thought it would be better to have a more "American" name and from then on she was known as Anne, which she very much preferred.
Anne's brother Ray was born in 1925 in Muskegon Michigan.
Anne married George Sidney Ceton in 1945 and had their first child, Pat, in 1949 in Muskegon. Kathy was born 6 years later in Detroit. The family moved to Livonia, Michigan. George became a self-employed heating & air conditioning contractor and Anne did the books and took care of the financial end of the business until his death in 1978.
Anne was a wonderful woman who loved her family, could do anything with her hands (knitting, sewing, crafting), was a great cook and baker, had a great sense of humor, was a hard worker, made the best pie crust in the world, and had the patience of a saint. In her later years she went to live with her daughter Kathy in Maine, where she passed away.
PARENTS:
Henry William Meinke 1886–1962
Elsie Louise Remwolt Meinke 1893–1980
SIBLINGS:
Dorothy Anges Meinke Poel (1920 - 2017)
Raymond Henry Meinke (1925 - 2018)
SPOUSE:
George Sidney Ceton (1920 - 1978)
CHILDREN:
Kathleen (Kathy) Ceton Newman
Patricia (Pat) Ceton
