Long-time resident of, and related to, many in the Algona-St Joseph-St Benedict-Corwith area. If a closer relative wishes to manage this, I will transfer. (JB, daughter of her first cousin Donna)
Her family 's obituary material for her is saved at Algona.com (Kossuth County Advance), and also by Lentz funeral home (LentzFuneralHome.com/obituaries/June-Reding/)
Some highlights: She grew up on a farm in the north Iowa parish of the now extinct St Benedict church, The church was about four miles south of #18, the US Hwy. connecting Algona to the west and Wesley to the east. Her parents farmed there. Their farmhouse lay northish of Corwith, so, after her schooling ended at Gr. 9 at St B's, she then rode the school bus, in order to graduate from Corwith HS. She married at St Benedict. She and spouse Marcell would farm there, before moving westish in 1964, to St Joseph, where they enjoyed the company of neighbors name Berte. Algona and Wesley gradually out-did the tiny church hamlets for groceries and other businesses, Algona offering more non-farm work. Thus, the smaller places de-populated. Once a widow, she retired to Algona, her new church then at St Cecelia's. That last church would have a new name by her death, Divine Mercy Catholic, nicely reflecting it had grown to be more than just the old St Cecilia's. Its town not merely larger, but also the county seat, St Cecelia's would be the one to welcome parishioners and save old records from closed churches, such as St. B's.
Her obituaries gave many details of her siblings and children, including married names of the women. By her death, she was grandmother to fourteen, great-grandmother to sixteen, and great-grandmother to one. Her siblings were deceased brother Thomas, plus surviving siblings and a sister-in-law, Marjorie (Marge), Arlene, Gene, Mary, Bonnie (in-law), and Alice. Their geography required a trip in the car for visiting, whether to Blooming Prairie (northward, in MN), or to Evanston and Glencoe (eastward, in Illinois), with most remaining in Iowa, mainly in Algona. Her married sisters' husbands were named Oxley, Rice, and Tigges.
Once grown, three of her children resided in Iowa, while two ventured to states further away than next-door, past Illinois, to Michigan and to Florida. Son Denny preceded her in death; her brother Thomas also; several sisters soon followed.
(JB, 2023)
SOME FAMILY HISTORY: Her Arndorfers were part of a German-speaking colony, not necessarily German-born, coming from the Beaver Dam/Watertown area near Milwaukee, WI, where the German idea of Kindergarten had been introduced. Her father Michael was named for his father, the Michael Arndorfer who married "Dora", the nickname of Victoria Scheberle/Schoeberle/Schöberle. (Dora's father-in-law was the Franziskus/Frank Arndorfer who married Anna Stahl. The ancestors just named were buried at St Benedict's cemetery or at Wesley.)
Read her grandmother Victoria's bio for an account of June's "Deutsch Boehmisch" side (German-speaking Bohemians), coming from north of the Black Forest, in what is now the Czech Republic. June's immigrant Arndorfers/ Andorfers came instead from the south edge of the Black Forest. Black Forest skills meant some elaborate carpentry in some of their churches once here? The Arndorfers' towns "back there" had been close to the Danube Rive. Their region in modern Germany ia an old one called Bayern (Bavaria). Although historically Catholic, Bayern merged, after they left, with the largely Lutheran "Prussian Empire" to its north and with varied smaller "Germanies", to make the Deutsch Republic. A number in the family served in WW I or WW II.
Her first church's patron saint, St Benedict, was remembered for his church-related reforms, his religious order also known as early environmental people, tenders of the land, protecting it from harm. The Benedictines, finally, were noted for plainness, though not as plain as the "a capella" singing Cistercians, who, pushed out of Britain/Wales, became the Trappists. Their otherwise plain white church of St. Benedict had a school for teaching moral lessons and facts, a choir loft in the rear, ornately-turned white castle-like woodwork at the front, and Austrian stained glass windows at the sides, with names of the donor families. The church was remembered for its musical touches and family-style gatherings, neighbors and relatives waiting tables in a church hall or other large place, at wedding feasts, with a big dance afterward, little children often waiting a turn to dance with the bride or groom.
There had been others called the unusual name of June Adel or June Adele in her generation locally. Thus, surnames matter when checking for her old records.
Her family 's obituary material for her is saved at Algona.com (Kossuth County Advance), and also by Lentz funeral home (LentzFuneralHome.com/obituaries/June-Reding/)
Some highlights: She grew up on a farm in the north Iowa parish of the now extinct St Benedict church, The church was about four miles south of #18, the US Hwy. connecting Algona to the west and Wesley to the east. Her parents farmed there. Their farmhouse lay northish of Corwith, so, after her schooling ended at Gr. 9 at St B's, she then rode the school bus, in order to graduate from Corwith HS. She married at St Benedict. She and spouse Marcell would farm there, before moving westish in 1964, to St Joseph, where they enjoyed the company of neighbors name Berte. Algona and Wesley gradually out-did the tiny church hamlets for groceries and other businesses, Algona offering more non-farm work. Thus, the smaller places de-populated. Once a widow, she retired to Algona, her new church then at St Cecelia's. That last church would have a new name by her death, Divine Mercy Catholic, nicely reflecting it had grown to be more than just the old St Cecilia's. Its town not merely larger, but also the county seat, St Cecelia's would be the one to welcome parishioners and save old records from closed churches, such as St. B's.
Her obituaries gave many details of her siblings and children, including married names of the women. By her death, she was grandmother to fourteen, great-grandmother to sixteen, and great-grandmother to one. Her siblings were deceased brother Thomas, plus surviving siblings and a sister-in-law, Marjorie (Marge), Arlene, Gene, Mary, Bonnie (in-law), and Alice. Their geography required a trip in the car for visiting, whether to Blooming Prairie (northward, in MN), or to Evanston and Glencoe (eastward, in Illinois), with most remaining in Iowa, mainly in Algona. Her married sisters' husbands were named Oxley, Rice, and Tigges.
Once grown, three of her children resided in Iowa, while two ventured to states further away than next-door, past Illinois, to Michigan and to Florida. Son Denny preceded her in death; her brother Thomas also; several sisters soon followed.
(JB, 2023)
SOME FAMILY HISTORY: Her Arndorfers were part of a German-speaking colony, not necessarily German-born, coming from the Beaver Dam/Watertown area near Milwaukee, WI, where the German idea of Kindergarten had been introduced. Her father Michael was named for his father, the Michael Arndorfer who married "Dora", the nickname of Victoria Scheberle/Schoeberle/Schöberle. (Dora's father-in-law was the Franziskus/Frank Arndorfer who married Anna Stahl. The ancestors just named were buried at St Benedict's cemetery or at Wesley.)
Read her grandmother Victoria's bio for an account of June's "Deutsch Boehmisch" side (German-speaking Bohemians), coming from north of the Black Forest, in what is now the Czech Republic. June's immigrant Arndorfers/ Andorfers came instead from the south edge of the Black Forest. Black Forest skills meant some elaborate carpentry in some of their churches once here? The Arndorfers' towns "back there" had been close to the Danube Rive. Their region in modern Germany ia an old one called Bayern (Bavaria). Although historically Catholic, Bayern merged, after they left, with the largely Lutheran "Prussian Empire" to its north and with varied smaller "Germanies", to make the Deutsch Republic. A number in the family served in WW I or WW II.
Her first church's patron saint, St Benedict, was remembered for his church-related reforms, his religious order also known as early environmental people, tenders of the land, protecting it from harm. The Benedictines, finally, were noted for plainness, though not as plain as the "a capella" singing Cistercians, who, pushed out of Britain/Wales, became the Trappists. Their otherwise plain white church of St. Benedict had a school for teaching moral lessons and facts, a choir loft in the rear, ornately-turned white castle-like woodwork at the front, and Austrian stained glass windows at the sides, with names of the donor families. The church was remembered for its musical touches and family-style gatherings, neighbors and relatives waiting tables in a church hall or other large place, at wedding feasts, with a big dance afterward, little children often waiting a turn to dance with the bride or groom.
There had been others called the unusual name of June Adel or June Adele in her generation locally. Thus, surnames matter when checking for her old records.
Long-time resident of, and related to, many in the Algona-St Joseph-St Benedict-Corwith area. If a closer relative wishes to manage this, I will transfer. (JB, daughter of her first cousin Donna)
Her family 's obituary material for her is saved at Algona.com (Kossuth County Advance), and also by Lentz funeral home (LentzFuneralHome.com/obituaries/June-Reding/)
Some highlights: She grew up on a farm in the north Iowa parish of the now extinct St Benedict church, The church was about four miles south of #18, the US Hwy. connecting Algona to the west and Wesley to the east. Her parents farmed there. Their farmhouse lay northish of Corwith, so, after her schooling ended at Gr. 9 at St B's, she then rode the school bus, in order to graduate from Corwith HS. She married at St Benedict. She and spouse Marcell would farm there, before moving westish in 1964, to St Joseph, where they enjoyed the company of neighbors name Berte. Algona and Wesley gradually out-did the tiny church hamlets for groceries and other businesses, Algona offering more non-farm work. Thus, the smaller places de-populated. Once a widow, she retired to Algona, her new church then at St Cecelia's. That last church would have a new name by her death, Divine Mercy Catholic, nicely reflecting it had grown to be more than just the old St Cecilia's. Its town not merely larger, but also the county seat, St Cecelia's would be the one to welcome parishioners and save old records from closed churches, such as St. B's.
Her obituaries gave many details of her siblings and children, including married names of the women. By her death, she was grandmother to fourteen, great-grandmother to sixteen, and great-grandmother to one. Her siblings were deceased brother Thomas, plus surviving siblings and a sister-in-law, Marjorie (Marge), Arlene, Gene, Mary, Bonnie (in-law), and Alice. Their geography required a trip in the car for visiting, whether to Blooming Prairie (northward, in MN), or to Evanston and Glencoe (eastward, in Illinois), with most remaining in Iowa, mainly in Algona. Her married sisters' husbands were named Oxley, Rice, and Tigges.
Once grown, three of her children resided in Iowa, while two ventured to states further away than next-door, past Illinois, to Michigan and to Florida. Son Denny preceded her in death; her brother Thomas also; several sisters soon followed.
(JB, 2023)
SOME FAMILY HISTORY: Her Arndorfers were part of a German-speaking colony, not necessarily German-born, coming from the Beaver Dam/Watertown area near Milwaukee, WI, where the German idea of Kindergarten had been introduced. Her father Michael was named for his father, the Michael Arndorfer who married "Dora", the nickname of Victoria Scheberle/Schoeberle/Schöberle. (Dora's father-in-law was the Franziskus/Frank Arndorfer who married Anna Stahl. The ancestors just named were buried at St Benedict's cemetery or at Wesley.)
Read her grandmother Victoria's bio for an account of June's "Deutsch Boehmisch" side (German-speaking Bohemians), coming from north of the Black Forest, in what is now the Czech Republic. June's immigrant Arndorfers/ Andorfers came instead from the south edge of the Black Forest. Black Forest skills meant some elaborate carpentry in some of their churches once here? The Arndorfers' towns "back there" had been close to the Danube Rive. Their region in modern Germany ia an old one called Bayern (Bavaria). Although historically Catholic, Bayern merged, after they left, with the largely Lutheran "Prussian Empire" to its north and with varied smaller "Germanies", to make the Deutsch Republic. A number in the family served in WW I or WW II.
Her first church's patron saint, St Benedict, was remembered for his church-related reforms, his religious order also known as early environmental people, tenders of the land, protecting it from harm. The Benedictines, finally, were noted for plainness, though not as plain as the "a capella" singing Cistercians, who, pushed out of Britain/Wales, became the Trappists. Their otherwise plain white church of St. Benedict had a school for teaching moral lessons and facts, a choir loft in the rear, ornately-turned white castle-like woodwork at the front, and Austrian stained glass windows at the sides, with names of the donor families. The church was remembered for its musical touches and family-style gatherings, neighbors and relatives waiting tables in a church hall or other large place, at wedding feasts, with a big dance afterward, little children often waiting a turn to dance with the bride or groom.
There had been others called the unusual name of June Adel or June Adele in her generation locally. Thus, surnames matter when checking for her old records.
Her family 's obituary material for her is saved at Algona.com (Kossuth County Advance), and also by Lentz funeral home (LentzFuneralHome.com/obituaries/June-Reding/)
Some highlights: She grew up on a farm in the north Iowa parish of the now extinct St Benedict church, The church was about four miles south of #18, the US Hwy. connecting Algona to the west and Wesley to the east. Her parents farmed there. Their farmhouse lay northish of Corwith, so, after her schooling ended at Gr. 9 at St B's, she then rode the school bus, in order to graduate from Corwith HS. She married at St Benedict. She and spouse Marcell would farm there, before moving westish in 1964, to St Joseph, where they enjoyed the company of neighbors name Berte. Algona and Wesley gradually out-did the tiny church hamlets for groceries and other businesses, Algona offering more non-farm work. Thus, the smaller places de-populated. Once a widow, she retired to Algona, her new church then at St Cecelia's. That last church would have a new name by her death, Divine Mercy Catholic, nicely reflecting it had grown to be more than just the old St Cecilia's. Its town not merely larger, but also the county seat, St Cecelia's would be the one to welcome parishioners and save old records from closed churches, such as St. B's.
Her obituaries gave many details of her siblings and children, including married names of the women. By her death, she was grandmother to fourteen, great-grandmother to sixteen, and great-grandmother to one. Her siblings were deceased brother Thomas, plus surviving siblings and a sister-in-law, Marjorie (Marge), Arlene, Gene, Mary, Bonnie (in-law), and Alice. Their geography required a trip in the car for visiting, whether to Blooming Prairie (northward, in MN), or to Evanston and Glencoe (eastward, in Illinois), with most remaining in Iowa, mainly in Algona. Her married sisters' husbands were named Oxley, Rice, and Tigges.
Once grown, three of her children resided in Iowa, while two ventured to states further away than next-door, past Illinois, to Michigan and to Florida. Son Denny preceded her in death; her brother Thomas also; several sisters soon followed.
(JB, 2023)
SOME FAMILY HISTORY: Her Arndorfers were part of a German-speaking colony, not necessarily German-born, coming from the Beaver Dam/Watertown area near Milwaukee, WI, where the German idea of Kindergarten had been introduced. Her father Michael was named for his father, the Michael Arndorfer who married "Dora", the nickname of Victoria Scheberle/Schoeberle/Schöberle. (Dora's father-in-law was the Franziskus/Frank Arndorfer who married Anna Stahl. The ancestors just named were buried at St Benedict's cemetery or at Wesley.)
Read her grandmother Victoria's bio for an account of June's "Deutsch Boehmisch" side (German-speaking Bohemians), coming from north of the Black Forest, in what is now the Czech Republic. June's immigrant Arndorfers/ Andorfers came instead from the south edge of the Black Forest. Black Forest skills meant some elaborate carpentry in some of their churches once here? The Arndorfers' towns "back there" had been close to the Danube Rive. Their region in modern Germany ia an old one called Bayern (Bavaria). Although historically Catholic, Bayern merged, after they left, with the largely Lutheran "Prussian Empire" to its north and with varied smaller "Germanies", to make the Deutsch Republic. A number in the family served in WW I or WW II.
Her first church's patron saint, St Benedict, was remembered for his church-related reforms, his religious order also known as early environmental people, tenders of the land, protecting it from harm. The Benedictines, finally, were noted for plainness, though not as plain as the "a capella" singing Cistercians, who, pushed out of Britain/Wales, became the Trappists. Their otherwise plain white church of St. Benedict had a school for teaching moral lessons and facts, a choir loft in the rear, ornately-turned white castle-like woodwork at the front, and Austrian stained glass windows at the sides, with names of the donor families. The church was remembered for its musical touches and family-style gatherings, neighbors and relatives waiting tables in a church hall or other large place, at wedding feasts, with a big dance afterward, little children often waiting a turn to dance with the bride or groom.
There had been others called the unusual name of June Adel or June Adele in her generation locally. Thus, surnames matter when checking for her old records.
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