| A. O. Heintz 04/08/2011 |
A. O. Heintz was born Amanual Otto Heintz in 1928 in Bessie, Oklahoma. His parents, George and Mary (Etchberger) Heintz, were immigrants to the area, having come from Russia, and were of German heritage.… |
| Adolph Friedemann 01/31/2012 |
Adolph Friedemann was born in 1921 in the house he resides in to this day southeast of Stillwater, Payne County, Oklahoma. He was the youngest of twelve born to his father, who moved to Oklahoma as a child… |
| Alice Steinle & Laveta Estrada 06/22/2011 |
Alice (Kraft) Steinle was born in 1908 about twelve miles southeast of Shattuck, Oklahoma. Alice married Fred Steinle in 1925 and the couple moved to Higgins, Texas. They had five children. They moved… |
| Eldon Goeringer 04/09/2011 |
Eldon Goeringer’s great-grandparents (both maternal and paternal) came to America with thousands of other Germans from Russia, settling in the Bessie, Oklahoma, area. His great-grandparents and grandparents… |
| Frances Kissler 04/08/2011 |
Both sides of Frances Kissler's family are of the German-Russian lineage. Frances was born in Washita County, Oklahoma, and grew up near Weatherford. She attended Enterprise School for grades one through… |
| Joan Franz & Archie Franz 04/09/2011 |
Joan Franz was born in Corn, Oklahoma, in 1935. Archie Franz was born in Kansas but moved to Colony, Oklahoma, when he was two years old. Joan and Archie are both descendants of Germans from Russia. In… |
| LaVerne Saylor 04/08/2011 |
LaVerne (Hamburger) Saylor was born in 1923 several miles south of Weatherford, Oklahoma, to Louie and Lydia (Schreiner) Hamburger. Her grandparents had moved to Oklahoma from Russia, and were of German… |
| Zane Bergen 04/08/2011 |
Zane Bergen’s great-grandparents came to the United States with thousands of other Germans from Russia on the Star of Nevada ship and settled in Kansas where they farmed and established a Krimmer Mennonite… |
