Little Falls High School, Class of 1941

Ancestry.com has provided many good leads and photos to spice-up the blog, don't you think?  Here's another gem that really, only Morrison Co descendants would recognize or cherish.  That means it belongs here, even tho there's only one kid who was born a Hesch (and one lucky girl who became a Hesch) in the pic.  Still, many of the names are familiar from Pierz, Buckman and Royalton, and quite a few of those families have been mentioned here on HH.  

I assume the photo will en-biggen if you click it, but if that's not big enough, right-click it and "save as" (give it a name) and view it on your picture viewing program.  Actually, Paint works pretty well, too.

Here's the list of names that was posted with the pic:
Little Falls High School L to R 1st Row (Top)... D.Kusnerek, H. Schlesky, Ardell Sharon (Mrs. Lester Solem), Jeanne La Fond (Mrs. Vernon H. Lake), Geo. Copa, I. Gruber, Beverly Massy (Mrs. James Downey), J. Heigl, Reinhard Preimesberger (married Pearl Green), I. Japp, Ralph Nelson, Dorothy Manbeck (Mrs. Charles Bachman), Marjorie Rale (Mrs. Kenneth Worlie), M. Bellamy, F. Pitt, Alice Hansen (Mrs. Wilbur Nelson), Milton Voltin, O. Burrows 
2nd Row... Evelyn Wilcox (Mrs. Paul W. Williams), A. Sobiech, Lucille Meyers (Mrs. Stephen St. Onge), L. Perowitz, Viola Olson (Mrs. Vincent Paul), Patricia Gaveney (Mrs. Robert L. Stephenson), R. Hines, Cathryn Gulden (Mrs. Irwin Kastanek), R. Moehle, R. Sohlinkert, Elaine Billstein (Mrs. Kenneth J. Mahoney), Carlyle J. Nelson (married Mary Gannon), Stephen Januschka (married Rose Schmidtbauer), Earl Bayerl (married Virginia Stalpes), Louise Brick (Mrs. A. D. Foster), Eleanor Little (Mrs. F. L. Rigdon), Genevieve Trafas (Mrs. Clarence "Jack" Nowak), Ruth Feucht (Mrs. Robert D Laidlaw) 
3rd Row... D. LeMieur, Alice Hanson (Mrs. Wilbur Nelson), Z. Oothoudt, Leona Sharbonno (Mrs. P. Paulos), Joe Mosier (married Geraldine Reis), Jack Houle (married Mabel Gaboury), C. Mueller, Keith P. Blair (married Eileen Delaney), William Charles Grettum Sr., Margaret Le Blanc (Mrs. Theo Thielen), Mercedes Anderson (Mrs. William S. Lundberg Jr.), P. Piehowski, Betty Kobilka (Mrs. Bruce Sears), R. Kujacinski, Dorthy L. Walkowiak (Mrs. Larry Simonet), Vera Siegel (Mrs. Walter S. Sayer), Lyle D. Nelson (married Colleen Nygaard), D. Sundstrom 
4th Row... Mary Fueger, Clara Richter (Mrs. Jerome O'Brien), Joseph Theis (married LaRayne Lust), Dorothy Sharbonno (Mrs. Marvin Hough), Mary Ginter (Mrs. Charles Aus), Evelyn Zapzalka (Mrs. Henry Witt), Leo W. Thielen (married Dorothy Motschke), Fred J. Plettl (married Lorna Tiedt), Helen Rossa (Mrs. David Gwost), Dorothy Holste (Mrs. Wilbur Hines), Robert J. Mahling (married Marilyn Gosch), Alice Zierman, Jerome Terhaar (married Lois Lafavor), S. Fredrickson, Audrey Bjornoos (Mrs. William McKinney), Bernard J. Deick (married Jeannette H. Leding), Beverly Pantzke (Mrs. Philip M. Johnston), D. LeBeau 
5th Row... R. McGowan, Violet Super (Mrs. Florian Wotzka), C. Stumpf, Morris Virnig (married Lorraine Immel), V. Moeller, Barbara Holst (Mrs. John W. Cullen), S. Mrosik, F. Plohoez, Florence Brick (Mrs. Donald Rasicot), Russell Bergren (married Lorraine MacFarlane), William Gablenz (married Phyllis Frost), Shirley Gish (married classmate Raymond VonderHaar), Roman Vaverek (married Stella Lipshik), A. Solinger, Rose Marie Trafas (Mrs. Slanika), R. Kiewel, Ann F. Evans (Mrs. George E. Atkinson Jr.), Shirley Blake (married classmate Albinus Preimesberger) 
6th Row... Bernadine Chelling (Mrs. Robert L. Carmichael), Lewis H. Winker (married Marguerite Lux), Rosemary McGivern (Mrs. Daniel McMurray), Ben Lapos, Dorothy Enke (married classmate Donald Felix), Audrey Langer (Mrs. Jerome Deppa), R. Rockwood, Pat Gravelle (Mrs. Donald Moeglein), Otto Kaiser (married Dolores Doll), Claude Kapsner (married Dolores Gallagher), M. Boser, M. Vornbrock, Anthony "Tony" Bieganek (married Marie Rocheleau), Ione Heroux (married classmate Gerald Bratt), Bernard J. Bentler (married Pauline Fulton), Herbert Hesch (married Betty Lynch, from Iowa), Ervin H. Joseph (married Margaret Kurowski), Gertrude Kurtzahn (Mrs. Joseph Hesch) 
7th Row... Norman Brock, E. Bermel, Geraldine Rausch (Mrs. George W. Martin), Raymond Kippley (married Dolores Faust), Lucille M. Anderson (Mrs. Conrad Tschida), Elias Wotzka (married Jo Ann Prezinski), Gerald Bratt (married classmate Ione Heroux), H. Harakel, C. Kemp, A. Witt, Leander M. Preimesberger (married Loretta Blais), Margarette "Margo" Rolph (Mrs. Harold Hendrickson), Lorraine Yourczek (Mrs. Dewey L. Edgemon), Raymond VonderHaar (married classmate Shirley Gish), I. Kupka, Ralph Nelson, B. Thelen, Ambrose M. Gelhar 
8th Row... Mary Trettel (Mrs. Eldred Phillips), R. Lange, A. Karpinski, Charlotte Brandenberger (Mrs. Milton Lonnee), Ken Houchins (married Alice Thielen), Sister M. Florence Liebl, Donald Guild (married Ruth E Dewey), L. Bayer, William T. Stoll (married Delrose Gruber), V. Jones, E. Holmquist, H. Brausen, Rose Vasaly (Mrs. Thomas Jones), James Shackman, C. Nordberg, Celestine Schmolke (married Viola Martinson), G. Erie, G. Gohman 
9th Row (Bottom)... Albinus Preimesberger (married classmate Shirley Blake), R. Rydquist, Shirley Smith (Mrs. Samuel M Lowe), Joseph L. Kempenich, Arlene Merkling (Mrs. Roy R. Muncy), G. Davidson, Ella Mae Worlie (Mrs. Ernest Domschot), Irene Larson (Mrs. George Stone), M. Nagel, Don Felix (married classmate Dorothy Enke), Ray Noe, Philomine Lepinski (Mrs. Douglas Brown), P. Schandel

Class of 1941 Little Falls, Minnesota

Thanks to Larry for finding this, 

and to the class for sitting still 73 years ago ☺

The Buzza Card Company

In the late 30's, rural young people went to Minneapolis to work and to get away from the farm, the same as now. My mother Linda Janson did too. She graduated from Drew's Business College in St Cloud about 1936, went to the big city and got a job with the Buzza Card Company in the "Stenographers Pool". Man, it's not a fancy space--the walls look temporary, and what an odd bunch of desks....but it was war time, and they were only the steno pool:
There's mom, second desk from the corner window. She wrote on the back of the framed picture "1939, Buzza Co Steno", but the calendar on the wall says 1941...lol
Mom worked in Mpls till her own mom became seriously ill in late 1944. Margaret (Naber) Janson died in April of 1945, and mom met dad in December that same year.
They were married 28 September 1946...awww!

Buckman School, 1941

Isn't this sweet? It's the 3rd and 4th grade class on the steps of that old building. Third from the right in the front row is Sue's mom, Joan Suess, and the kid covering her eyes is Rosemany Otremba.
Can you identify any others? They'd be 9 and 10...so born around 1930 or 31...awww! BTW, Sue has her mom's shoulders!

(I love the shoes...lol)