David and Florence (Bettin) Hvezda

Dave and I were married in 1958.  We have four children--all are good citizens, independent and successful.  We have four grandchildren and they were raised well and are independent.  One grandson is in the Marines--defending our country.  We have one great-grandchild.

 

Dave retired many years ago.  I still work most days of the week but am fortunate enough to be able to tell them when I'm going to be gone for a day or several days.

 

We have gone to Phoenix about Feb 15th to Mar 15th for the last 6 years.  After that month of lazing around, we are both ready to come back to Minnesota to more of a routine (it’s usually still winter!).











I was excited to be asked to sew this wedding dress for my granddaughter even though it created more gray hair.

 

My granddaughter, Andrea and daughter, Jeanne—don’t they look like they could be sisters?

 

 

 

 

 

 





Richard (Dick) & Kathy (Petroskey) Otto

Our daughter's wedding July 2012.

Rachel, Kristie, Craig, Lynnae, Kathy, Dick, Annette, Jackie, Steve

The entire family.

We have six children and twenty grandchildren.

 

 

 

Dick had a dairy farm by Millerville for twenty years.  Then he worked for the Minnesota Department of Transportation for twenty-two years. In his retirement years he enjoys gardening, fishing and hunting.


 

Norbert Wagner 1956 -- Mary Ann (Suchy) Wagner 1957

Norbert and Mary Ann Wagner will be married 58 years on October 4, 2013. After their marriage, they moved to St. Paul MN where they started their family business of 50 plus years, which is now located in Inver Grove Heights, MN.   They have eight children, eighteen grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren.  Norbert and Mary Ann love to travel. They have been on several cruises and have traveled to many cities in the US.  In the summer months, they enjoy spending time at their home on Lake Moses in Brandon, MN.  In the winter months, they enjoy vacationing at their home in Henderson, NV.

 

 

Norbert and MaryAnn have eight children who live within 30 miles of their Inver Grove Heights home.

Norbert and Mary Ann with their eighteen grandchildren.  This picture was taken at their grand daughter's wedding in June 2012.  One grandchild is missing in this photo.

 And here are the fourteen great grandchildren ranging in age from 11 years old to 3 weeks old.   The pictures are shown by family.

 

 

Mary Ann is retired and enjoys gardening and fishing when she in not cooking or baking.

 

 

 

 

Norbert is also retired.  He enjoys meeting his buddies for coffee on a daily basis. He also enjoys staying involved with the sod and landscaping business.   Norbert remembers when cutting, rolling and stacking sod, used to be done by hand.  Now they have automated machinery for these jobs.

Orris and Judy (Klimek) Schjei

 

 

I was born in the farm house on the Schjei family farm south of Brandon MN, which is now known as Long Lake Lodge.  I helped with the farming, attended district # 82 country school  and Brandon High School.

 

 

 

In 1960 I married Judy Klimek of Alexandria.  Our children were born while we lived on the farm,  which I operated until 1968. After attending Alexandria Technical College for accounting, I worked at Ludke & Co/Henry's Foods for nearly 40 years.

 

 

 

 

 

Tim, Steven

Peggy & Ann

 

We raised our four children in Alexandria and lived in the Lake Victoria area.  We built a new home in 2000 where I enjoy yard work, gardening and wood working,  I also enjoy walleye fishing and have bowled for over fifty years.  We have traveled yearly for family reunions, mostly to the western states.   We have eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren .

Bill Suchy and his tractor

Bill in the Millerville Butter Days Parade

Dennis Korkowski 1956 -- Christella (Goering) Korkowski 1957

 Dennis went into the Air Force right after graduation and served four years, spending three of it in Scotland.  Chris started work in the First National Bank in Alexandria.  We were married in 1959.  Dennis went to Northwest TV & Industrial Electronics School in Minneapolis while Chris worked at Electronic Supply Merchants Inc. in Minneapolis.  After graduating Dennis worked at Honeywell where he worked on the guidance systems for many of the early space missions including Mercury, Gemni and Apollo.

 

We moved to Brandon in 1965 when we started Brandon Communications and operated this company for 38 years.    We served customers over a 10 county area.  When we retired we moved to a small hobby farm in the country.

 We have six children and eight grandchildren. 

 Back: Tom, Ed, Rick, Ron & Pat  Front: Deb, Christella & Dennis

This family photo was taken in 2007

 

It is hard to get everyone home at the same time.

  These pictures were Thanksgiving and Christmas of 2011

 

Dennis got his pilot's license at age fifty and flew small aircraft for twenty-three years.

 

Chris keeps very busy at the Brandon History Center. 

 Keeping track of the 10,000 plus pictures on our computer is memory therapy.

 

Dennis shares a ham radio station  in our basement with son Pat.  He contacts fellow hams in all the corners of the earth.  Keeps him busy when Chris is sitting at the sewing machine.

 

We are counting the days until the class reunion.

Ardyce ( Hockert ) LeBlanc

 Ardyce is always busy with her family.  She has eight children,

 seventeen grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

One son passed away five years ago.

 

Celebrating a daughter's birthday in August 2012

 

 

 

 

Celebrating a wedding in St. Cloud with her sons and a nephew.

Vincent, Ardyce, Jim and a Hockert nephew.

 

Ardyce enjoying her family.

 

Ardyce has worked in the Osseo Senior High School kitchen for sixteen years and loves it.   While at work she gets to see some of her grandchildren in the lunch room,  who attend  school there.  Ardyce loves to listen to good music and  read a good book.  She loves to travel and hopes to do more in the future.