Grandpa and Grandma Luken - no date any ideas?

Grandma And Grandpa 50th Wedding anniversary

Grandpa and Grandma Luken on the right. No Date. Appears to be a wedding 

If anyone knows the date or the identity of other 2 people, please let me know. Mary Tazari told me that this is Grandma and Grandpa's 50th Wedding Anniversary. ( 1963 )

See the photo of the Henry Luken Family with 6 boys. -- Photo courtesy of Valerie Zimmerman.

Grandpa and Grandma Names

Grandpa and Grandma Names
According to Uncle Bill's geneology papers, Grandpa's name was Gerhard Heinrich Luken and Grandma's name was Helena Maria Budde. These are not the names that are on the tombstones in St. Al's Cemetery.

Story about Grandma and the crayons.

Story about Grandma and the crayons. 

We remember visiting Grandma's house where she kept a tin of crayons and coloring books in the bottom drawer of the dining room china closet. We were able to entertain ourselves while the grown-ups talked in the living room. I am sure that we were offered a treat of some sort. Here is photo of the china closet with the bottom drawer and Jimmie, Barbara, and Susan.

I invite others to add their memories to this story.

Story about Ellis Island and Grandma.

Per Frank Luken as recounted to Barb Manegold, the experience of going thru the process of Ellis Island was not a good experience for his mother. She was a very proper person and this experience was humiliating to her. People were herded like cattle and names were mispronounced and misspelled. People were sprayed for pests and were stripped of their clothes. Grandma was soft spoken and was a gentle person and being as young as she was at the time was a demeaning or difficult thing to do. At this point, we are unable to find documentation of her arrival at Ellis Island.

Wooden Shoes Story - Written by Uncle Bill as part of his report about the 1993 Luken Reunion

For door prizes we had a pair of wooden shoes and two boxes of Esther Price candy. Maybe next year we will have more. Did you know that grandfather August Luken made wooden shoes. In the dead of winter he would take one of his sons and they loaded packframes with their tools and blocks of fresh cut willow wood and go to the neighbor families. They would live with the family until they carved a new set of wooden shoes for the entire family. The wooden shoes were then stored behind the kitchen stove to dry out. By summer, they were as hard as a rock. Not much money changed hands, but it was a social event to break up the long, cold northern German winters.

This is the day of Gregory Kernan's birthday.

This is a new post. It is now 2013 and we are looking at sharing a Luken Reunion web site once again. Here is my Blog for posting information about our family.