Weddings

Wedding Portrait, Don and Janet with Best Man, Galen (Don's younger brother) and Maid of Honor, Wilma (Janet's best friend)

Don & Janet
1949 Wedding portrait

Chuck & Julie Bergeron
Wedding ~ July 21, 1972

Don & Janet Smith's Wedding Invitation

Emmet & Grace Smith Wedding Portrait
November 30, 1926

Emmet and Grace Smith's Wedding Invitation

Golden Wedding Anniversary 1906
Johann & Anna Hachmann

Ruby and Harry Cueno
Wedding Portrait

Herman Neuendorf and Gusta Reetz Wedding Certificate
Filed December 30, 1912 W. A. Holden, Register
State of Wisconsin, County of Monroe
(Recorded October 1, 1912, Page No. 7M 137)

Otto & Belle's Wedding Portrait

Richard Kreuger and Minnie Neuendorf Wedding Portrait, Mabel Dreps, Adeline Prochnow, Emil Kreuger and Herman Neuendorf standing

"Uncle Charlie" Curry playing banjo at our wedding reception, June 12 1981

Wedding of Bill & Lillie Schoop

John Maro & Mary (Mamie) Geber Wedding 1910
Bridesmaid ~ Kate Geber
Photo curtesy of Elgene Mesch

Leo & Viola Ludovissy
Wedding Portrait

50th Wedding Anniversary
Viola & Leo Ludovissy

Newspaper Announcement

Mr. and Mrs. Leo Ludovissy of Edgewood will observe their Golden Wedding Anniversary with an "open house" on Sunday December 28 from 2 until 4 o'clock in the parlors of the Methodist Church in Edgewood.

Miss Viola Smith and Mr. Ludovissy were married December 30, 1919, in Dubuque. The first twenty years of their married life were spent farming near Turkey River. in 1939 they moved to the Edgewood community where they continued to farm. Ten years ago they retired and moved to their home in Edgewood. They are the parents of three children, Mrs. Karl Putzier (Berdina) of Waverly, Mervin Ludovissy of Strawberry Point and Mrs. Le Roy Stewart (Leanna) of Strawberry point. There are eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

All relatives, friends, and neighbors are cordially invited to attend the open house.

Jacob & Sophia Kemerer
50th Wedding Anniversary

Audrey Smith & Erivin Wegenast Wedding Invitation
(Copy courtesy of Dale Smith)

Emmet and Grace Smith's Wedding Invitation

Don & Janet Smith's Wedding Invitation

A family history
leads to the satisfaction in really knowing who you are
and from when you came.
"Nor long shall any name resound
Beyond the grave, unless't be found
In some clerk's book; it is the pen
Gives immortality to men."
A good life lasts for several generations.
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep,
to know our heritage, to know who we are
and where we come from.

— Alex Haley
To forget one's ancestors
is to be a brook without a source,
a tree without a root.

— Chinese Proverb
Family faces are magic mirrors.
Looking at people who belong to us,
we see the past, present, and future.
We make discoveries about ourselves.

— Gail Lumet Buckley
In every conceivable manner,
the family is a link to our past,
a bridge to our future.

— Alex Haley
What greater thing is there for human souls
than to feel that they are joined for life – to be with each other
in silent unspeakable memories.

— George Eliot
Some people come and go in our lives.
Some stay forever.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.

— Native American Proverb
The memories we give may a lifetime live in the heart
of those we hold so close.

— Unknown
Families are like fudge . . .
mostly sweet with a few nuts.

— Unknown
The family is one of Nature's masterpieces.

— George Santayana
Having a place to go – is a home.
Having someone to love – is a family.
Having both – is a blessing.

— Donna Hedges
Every man is his own ancestor,
and every man is his own heir.
He devises his own future,
and he inherits his own past.

— Fredrick Henry Hedge