John B. Gatchell

John B. Gatchell is my 2nd Great Grand Uncle that is a Civil War veteran. John served as a 1st Sergeant in Company F, 55th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

Frances Emily (Wallace) Ryan

Frances Emily (Wallace) Ryan was my 2nd Great Grandmother. She was born in Ingersoll, Canada; married there and then immigrated to Milford, Michigan.

This obituary was published Ingersoll Tribune on Thursday, January 15, 1953.

Reading this obituary leads me to the discovery of her sister for the first time.

Jacob Sack

Jacob Sack, a distant ancestor of mine from Fort Wayne, Indiana. This is his obituary from the newspaper in 1885.

Plain Jane--he must have been well known to be so general!

Florence Sack

Here is a the obituary of Florence Sack, an infant child of my Great Grandparents in 1907. Four months old, one of triplets and one of the other babes lies fighting for it's life.... Cholora is something my generation thankfully has never had to face.

Amos Pugh Gatchell

Here is a nice photo of the cemetery marker of my Great-great-great Grandfather, Amos Pugh Gatchell. Amos is interred at the Old Mission Cemetery, Upper Sandusky, Ohio.

Anthony Rucki

Here's the cemetery marker for my Great-grandfather, Anthony Rucki.

He's interred in Forest Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio.

Kathy Lynn Rucki Family Tree

Here's a picture of My Family Tree page from the baby book of my mother, Kathy Lynn Rucki.

It's interesting to me that my great-grandfather, Anthony Rucki is wrote in as Tony Rucki. I haven't come across other documents related to him that reference him as Tony before.

Many of the more recent baby and toddler pictures of my mother and her sister Sue have been taken from this baby book of my mother.

Kathy Lynn Rucki & Sue Anne Rucki

Here's a picture of my mother (left) Kathy Lynn Rucki & my Aunt Sue Anne Rucki (right). My Aunt Susie was very dear to me as my mother died when I was 10 years old and my aunt was always close to me. Aunt Susie was born 15 Jan 1948 in Battle Creek, Calhoun County, Michigan. She passed away on 11 Sep 2003 in Sparta Township, Kent County, Michigan.

Elmer J. Geise Obituary

Elmer J. Geise married my great-grandmother, Agnes Louise Middleton. Elmer was her second husband.

Kathy Lynn Rucki

Here's a couple of pictures of my mother, Kathy Lynn Rucki.

When my wife Marlene first saw these pictures she said these pictures really look like our daughter Dakota. Dakota looked almost exactly like my mother when she was a baby.

My mother died when I was almost 10 years old from colon cancer.