Sue VonFeldt This is Joe and Georgia (mom and dad) on their 25th Anniversary. September 21st was always a very special day in our family. It was the celebration of Georgia and her twin brother George's birthday (9/21/1914); then it became the anniversary of Georgia and Joe ( married 9/21/1933) and then Joe passed away on that special day (9/21/1970).
I remember we would always have a "September birthday dinner" to celebrate Georgia and George's birthdays along with the Leo and Earl Hertach families.
In 1958, as the folks were celebrating their 25th anniversary with one of these big dinners at our farm, I invited Karl, to the dinner. It was our second date. He lived 60 miles away at Victoria, Kansas, and I had met him twice and had gone out with him once. He asked me to go out that Sunday afternoon, so I just invited him to the big family dinner.
At the same time, my oldest sister Ann, who graduated from nurses school and living in Wichita, also told us she had invited a special guy to come with her for the dinner, by the name of Ray Dreiling. The surprise was when these two guys got there on Sunday, they knew each other, as they were both from Victoria.
As friends and family know...we both married these guys. Small world. The day before dad passed away, September 20, 1970. we had all been at the farm for one of these September birthday celebrations, dad was fine and we all had a great time. We had just moved to Topeka the month before. Dad was a pallbearer at a cousin funeral the next morning and early afternoon had a massive heart attack and was gone. So that is why September 21st is such a special day in our family, and I hope that Joe and Georgia get to continue to recognize that special day in their afterlife along with all the other families and friends that have joined them.
Happy Birthday mom.
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