Posts about family life.
Dad’s mom, Marie Moellenberg, was born on October 30, 1896, in St. Louis, MO. She was born to John Moellenberg and Adele Barmann. Marie had two older brothers, Frank and Henry. Marie’s mother Adele passed away in 1904 at age 40. Her father would marry Wilhelmina Lansing in 1905. John and Wilhelmina had a daughter Johanna in 1907. John Moellenberg […]
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I thought this article would be the right way to conclude the Ellis Family history. I will continue to add information to the family history as I get it but often, when I think of my family, it is about the holidays. I do not remember much before the 1980s and we did not celebrate the holidays the same way […]
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A couple of years before he passed away in 2008, my stepfather Ernest C. Diaz shared with me something that I never knew about him. After the Korean War, Dad mustered out of the U.S. Army. Dad returned to civilian life in St. Louis, Missouri and began looking for a job. Within weeks, Dad was working at one of the […]
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I met my wife at my sister’s wedding in September 1995. I had known Tam as my little sister’s best friend for 10 years, but I did not really see her as the woman she had become until this day in late September. I got to know her better because I was on wolf duty this day although it was […]
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Growing up I heard lots of stories about my Great Grandmother Caroline “Lee” Ellis from my mother. She spent time with her grandmother who lived in St. Louis. Grandpa Ellis moved to Illinois a couple of times during the 1940s and 1950s. Mom would come back to St. Louis frequently to see Great Grandma Ellis. Grandma and Grandpa Ellis would […]
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The Ellis Family history would be incomplete without a chapter on Lake Tishomingo. My grandparents, Gilbert and Alvina Ellis, owned a lake lot on Lake Tishomingo. We spent every Sunday, Saturdays, and any other day that we could find an excuse to go during the Spring, Summer and Fall between 1976 and 1990. Lake Tishomingo was a large, manufactured lake […]
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Uncle Oscar Von Burg and Aunt Dorothy Von Burg nee Mosblech were my grandparents’ closest friends. Grandma Ellis and Aunt Dorothy were sisters separated in age by about a year and a half. Grandpa Ellis and Uncle Oscar became close friends when they were dating the sisters. Neither Uncle Oscar nor Grandpa danced, so they would escort Grandma and Aunt […]
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Arthur C. Clemmings was born on Thursday, April 3, 1913 in St. Louis, MO. At the start of World War II, Uncle Art enlisted in the United States Army as a private. He was assigned as a semi-skilled metal worker. His term of enlistment, which began on September 2, 1942, was for the duration of the war plus six months. […]
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In St. Louis, MO, the garment industry played a key role in the local economy from the early 1900s to the 1970s. In the 1970s, overseas factories began to take the work once performed Downtown. During the 1920s, the garment district encompassed fifteen blocks of Washington Avenue. Buyers used to walk the fifteen blocks during certain times of the year […]
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My stepdad Ernest C. Diaz married my mother on June 8, 1981. Dad and Mom worked to make sure we had a normal family life. In 1981 or 1982, they decided to take my sisters and me to a professional wrestling show at the Checkerdome (also known as the Arena). Our favorite wrestlers were the Von Erichs. David Von Erich […]
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