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  1. Richard Burtelow: Birth: 26 MAY 1934 in St Louis, Missouri. Death: 15 APR 1937 in St Louis, Missouri

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Notes
a. Note:   At the time these notes were entered on March 22, 2001, the person entering these notes has just come from a Lunch where Adele was one of the special featured guests. As of this writing she is 94 years young (she is truly young of heart and spirit, a very delightful lady).
  A Saturday in April 2002 spent with Adele, Raymond, Robert, Delores, and Catherine Helfrich, family and friends.
 The ladies now being called by their married names, still tell refreshing stories of the Helfrich family heritage, and the men of the family sharing in rich detail some of the family history.
 The occasion, a celebration of Adele's 95th birthday party and what a celebration it was. Adele shared what it was like growing up in St. Louis, in the early 1900s. She also told the story about how she and Harry Burtelow met at a crazy Bridge (Card) party. We were reminded later by Catherine, that it was she that introduced Adele to Harry. She beamed with a certain satisfaction that she had done a good thing, as she shared that brief tidbit with the gathering.
 In her brief answer to the question of what thoughts she would like to pass along to her children, grand children, great grand children and her posterity, Adele responded with gentle words of encouragement and gratefulness for God's blessings, the family had shared together.
 Joe Lipic the fourth, Adele's grandson, shared how meaningful the memories are of having a grand mother hold you and assure you of being loved, and thanked Adele personally for those memorable moments. Others in the family gave interesting personal reflections as well.
 There were members of the families from the Burtelow, Lipic, Koppf and many other families that are included in the family heritage of Joseph and Joan Lipic, the host and hostess of this gathering of ancestors and descendants, to celebrate the life of the birthday lady, Adele, Joan Burtelow Lipic's mother.
 Joe Lipic went from person to person, with a microphone connected to a public address system and tape recorder, letting each of the family members share their thoughts with Adele and those gathered to honor her, there at this wonderful party of family and friends.
 These are the precious family moments not recorded in the dusty vital records storage rooms, of Marriage, Birth, Morturary and Cemetery records, as important as they are, but in the hearts of those that are privileged to share in the memories of those present, experience's of lives, lived first hand.
 And I, in documenting the family heritage of Joe and Joan Lipic, was privileged and delighted to be a guest. Putting faces to what I have only experienced on paper over the past few years, those whose ancestors I have been delighted to research and record in their family history.
 I only hope over the next few days to be able to recall from a few brief notes enough to document the overall liveliness of a 95th year birthday party and the sharing of what family is all about with those yet to be added as family members.
 Many of the family gathered around me before I left to give me birthdates and some additional facts to include in the family archives.
 ( see notes for Raymond, other Helfrichs, Burtelows, the Lipics and various families mentioned above)
  By the time Adele was to marry, in 1932, a woman's right to vote had been established. Just 12 years before the right to vote became law for "the hand that rocks the cradle."
  American Minute with Bill Federer
 August 26th 1920
  Women can vote! That was the monumental news this day, August 26th, 1920, as the nineteenth amendment became law. It reads: "The right of citizens of the U.S. to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." This culminated fifty years effort by many of the women leaders who fought to abolish slavery, one of which was Julia Ward Howe, author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic. She wrote in the third verse: "Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on."
  Source
 Research by Jack Underwood
 Interviews with the Lipic Family
 Inter# Cemetery First Name Last Name M/F Burial Date Age Sec Row Lot +
 501123 RESURRECTION ADELE BURTELOW F Apr 02 2004 96 043



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