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.

Kathy Lynn Rucki

Here's a great baby picture of my mother, Kathy Lynn Rucki.

When I was a small kid my mom worked at Kellogg's in Battle Creek, Michigan. I can remember her coming home one time and her pockets were just stuffed with the prizes that come in boxes of cereal. I asked her how all how these prizes got into her pockets and she said they just fell in there as she was working. I thought to myself what a wonder job it must be to have toy prizes fall into your pockets as you work each day!

Stanley G. Rucki

Here's the obituary of my uncle, Stanley G. Rucki. I only have a few short memories of Uncle Jerry when I was quite young. Grandpa & Grandma Foss lived on Bristol Lake in Michigan. One summer I recall Uncle Jerry came to visit them and while there took me out fishing in the boat. This was a real treat for me as I loved to fish but going fishing in the boat was down right awesome. He took me to some corner of the lake that had quite a few lilies growing. I can also remember him spending sometime with me explaining some of the best jigs to use. It seems like no time at all and I had a very large dogfish on my line. I think it must have been close to three feet long but memories of fish always seem to get stretched. I battled that fish for more than ten minutes and Uncle Jerry came with the net as it neared the boat but at the last moment the fish broke the line and got away!

Peter Weber

Pictured here is the death certificate of Peter Weber. Peter was my grandmother, Eva Rose Weber's brother. Grandma use to tell me was that she was told by her father that Peter died young.

I finally found this death certificate for Peter a few years after Grandma passed away.

Peter was interred at St. Boniface Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. A call to the cemetery found that he was interred in a term grave which term for use was only 20 years. This detail shows the level of poverty of this young family. One must think it was very difficult for this young couple to bury their nearly three year old son with their three older sons Joseph Peter (10), Michael Wendel(8) and John P.(6) requiring their attention as well.

Adela A (Kielb) Galus

We have here the obituary of my great-grandmother Adela A. Kielb--Galus is the name of her last husband, Joseph Galus. I never got to meet her.

Adela is interred in Calvary Cemetery, 2224 Dorr Street Toledo, OH 43607 (419) 536-3751 a call to the cemetery reports her burial in Section 43, Lot 219, Grave #11.

Anna Maie (Clark) Gatchell

Here's my great grandmother, Anna Maie Clark. My own middle name is from her maiden name.

I'm guessing this was a vacation picture of maybe in Florida? She was born in Illinois but passed away in Indiana.

Stanley Anthony Rucki

From what I've learned from family stories my grandfather, Stanley Anthony Rucki was quite the fisherman. I have seen several pictures of him over the years where he's showing his catch like pictured here. I too have a great love for fishing. Just this last week I went fishing here in Texas on the Guadelupe River but unfortunately I only caught a few small catfish unlike Stanley's large catch here.

Stanley Anthony Rucki

We have here a really nice picture of my Grandfather, Stanley Anthony Rucki. Stanley was the oldest of five children; his siblings were Boleslaw J., Bertha, Sophie & Isabell.

Eva Rose Weber

He's another great photo of my grandmother Eva Rose Weber. Grandma grew up in Chicago around the streets where gangsters operated. She once told me the story of the morning she walked to school and passed a group of kids that were dipping little pieces of paper into a pool of blood. Turns out this was a crime scene of the shootout between the infamous gangster John Dillinger and the FBI. Grandma would have been about 12 years old when Dillinger was killed by the FBI.

Eva Rose Weber

Here's a picture of my grandmother, Eva Rose Weber. Grandma was born on 27 November 1922 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. She is the daughter of Michael Weber & Rosalia Magalina Merle. She was married three times. First to Bernard Kill (Killed in WWII), Stanley Anthony Rucki (Died of a heart attack in 1958) and lastly Phillip Henry Foss.

Eva Rose (Weber) Foss passed away on 22 Jan 2000 in East Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan. She is interred in Fort Custer National Cemetery, Kalamazoo County, Michigan.