A Billmeyer Wedding

From the Morrison Co Atlas: Ervin & Louise (VanDerHeyden) Billmeyer & Parents, in 1962.  Ann and Theo Billmeyer most likely the couple next to the groom, with John and Catherine (?) VanDerHeyden next to the bride.

Christian Mothers

A client and I were chatting about making friends 'years ago' when she was a young mom.  She said neighbors were important, but that she made the most connections in Christian Mothers, the work-horses of the parish.  They did the Bazaar, cleaning the church (washing/ironing the communion rail *cloth), organizing school trips, financing new equipment, making new vestments--it was all on the capable shoulders  of the Christian Mothers.

A photo of the Christian Mothers membership in 1962 at
St Josephs Church/School in Pierz, Minnesota.

  I don't think I know any of these women,but the pic was too cool to ignore. Usually, you didn't have to be a mom to join.    Are any of them YOUR mother?

*  Extra credit:  "...a Communion cloth (alternatively called a "domenical," a "manutergium," a "houseling cloth" or a "communion veil") was employed to catch the Host if dropped by the priest, and in some cases to keep the communicant's bare hand from touching the Host".

Extra credit X2--Whatdya call the little gold tray with a handle that the altar boy held under your chin?