Note: N9 Of all the sisters, I remember the youngest, Gertrude, as an especially precious person, She was, as some might say, “as homely as a mud fence,” but to us, and to our children, the beauty of her soul shone forth like a beacon. She never married, but dearly loved children, and was the beloved aunt to a couple of generations. I do not know why she never married; perhaps she never met a man who saw deeper than the surface. I know that she would have been a wonderful wife and mother. She supplied me with a number of photographs of Ginsbach ancestors, including Mary Kiefer and Joseph and Walburga Gfroerer. She had been a teacher, and worked nearly up to her unfortunate and premature death from cancer as a bookkeeper for a furniture company in Chehalis. She left a small estate; a couple of thousand dollars to each of her neices and nephews. Marilynn used her share to buy a puppy (our dear little dachshund Lili Marlene VII), and a bedroom set, most of which at this writing is in Clint’s possession. In the 1930 census, Gertrude lived in a boarding house in Bone Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin, and was working as a school teacher.
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