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Sentimental Sunday – Happy Birthday Mom!

Published on October 6, 2019September 24, 2019 by lauracubbagedraper

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My mother was born today in Bauschlott, Germany. I looked for some birthday party pictures like I posted for my Dad, but don’t have any scanned. I’ll have to check her picture stash the next time I’m home.

This is a picture of Mom around 1950 in Stein, Germany. The picture was taken while she was at school in kindergarten. When her mother (my grandmother, Elise Gegenheimer) saw the picture, she was mad that my mother wasn’t wearing any shoes! I always loved this picture and the story that went with it. Happy Birthday Mom!

Thankful Thursday – Opa’s Birthday

Published on September 12, 2019September 11, 2019 by lauracubbagedraper

Yesterday would have been my maternal grandfather’s 100th birthday! Adolf Emil Haberkern was born on 11 September 1919 in Stein, Baden-Württemburg, Germany. He was the son of Karl Haberkern and Emma Sidonie Lindenmann. Opa, as he was known to us, married my grandmother in 1942 (Oma would have been 100 earlier this year), they arrived in the United States in 1952, and he died in 2009 just shy of 90 years old. Opa was gentle and funny and loved his family – especially his grandchildren. Below are a few of my favorite pictures of my grandfather. Happy Birthday Opa!

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Fall 1972

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Published on May 12, 2019April 16, 2019 by lauracubbagedraper

Happy Mother’s Day to all of you Mamas out there! I thought I’d post a few pictures of moms and kids from our families.

My mother with her mother, Elise Gegenheimer Haberkern, in Stein, Germany, 1945.

Agnes, Cork, Jeff, summer 1945crop — My father with his brother and mother, Agnes Speck Cubbage, on the North Side of Pittsburgh, 1945.

Scan of picture — My great-grandmother, Maine Swank Cubbage, with her daughters Marian, Marge and Babe, and most likely her daughter-in-law Happy Griffith Cubbage, Monessen, Pennsylvania, 1930s.

004 — My husband’s great-grandmother, Mary Kelovcy Simko, with children Mary, Susan, Michael and Walter, circa 1930.

image 2011-4-2 0025crop — My great-grandmother, Elizabeth Linnemann Speck, with either Agnes (1915) or Frank (1918) in Monessen.

Linneman (front) around 1904 — My great-great-grandmother, Barbara Elisabeth Nilkowski Linneman, with her children Christian, Gerhard, George, William and Elisabeth, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 1904.

Wordless Wednesday – Stein, Germany

Published on May 1, 2019April 16, 2019 by lauracubbagedraper

My grandparents (on the left), Adolf Haberkern and Elise Gegenheimer, with friends, in Stein, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, circa 1948.

Lovely Valentine’s Couples

Published on February 14, 2019February 13, 2019 by lauracubbagedraper

Happy Valentine’s Day!

I honor of this day of love, I searched around my family (and hubby’s) for Valentine’s records, marriages or pictures … nothing! Lots of marriages in December and January, but not much happening in February! I did find this clipping in the Cubbage Family Bible … I wonder which family member clipped it from the newspaper?

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So no Valentine’s marriages or love letters, but here are some of the oldest pictures that I have of family couples:

c. 1902, Jackson “Jack” Draper and Sarah Pierce in Bedford, Virginia, married in 1894.

1915, Elizabeth Linnemann and Frank Speck, Monessen or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, taken around the time of their marriage.

mary michael — 1934, Mary Simko and Michael Petrun, Male Zaluzice, Slovakia, taken around the time of their marriage.

c. 1939, Elise Gegenheimer and Adolf Haberkern, on a date near Stein, Germany, married in 1942.

Agnes & Art — 1938, Agnes Speck and Art Cubbage in Monessen, Pennsylvania, married in 1939.

I wish that I had more older pictures, but I am very thankful for those that I do have of our families. Do you have any Valentine’s marriages in your family? How about your oldest family pictures?