Ruth Jahn

Ruth Wilhelmina Niemeier, 1894-1991, married Jack (Gustav) Jahn 9 Jan 1913. They had four daughters: Naomi, Ruth, Dorothy and Bernice.

1936

1947

 

1950s

Early 1970s

Pictures of Jack

Nothing like a good crisis to turn up new things! After our 2 year-old Eternal (right!) water heater burst Saturday, we ended up with the recovery team cutting out 3/4ths of our carpet in the finished portion of the basement, but everything dried out after 3 days of industrial fans and a heavy-duty dehumidifier. No priceless family artifacts were harmed during this event!

As I moved things back and cleaned and sorted, I disovered a bag of pictures labeled 'I want these back.' Apparently I kept them in such safe-keeping that I didn't find them for the JAHN II book! So now they'll appear over the next few days here as I figure out where they came from. It was Dorothy Werner or Lois Ham or Marjorie Timmel.

First up is Gustav or Jack Jahn.




Jack about 1910 at seminary



Jack with Naomi at Wisner, winter of 1914-15

Jack about 1936

Jack about 1955

Cousin Visits

It's good to hear about on-going connections with the Jahn cousins. From Mike Swanson in Alaska:

Rick, Janna, and David Jahn spent some time in late August visiting Alaska. I got to spend time with them and it was a bit like TN again. Now, I'm visiting Karen Lusk. We drove out to Worms, NE this afternoon, visiting the Konrad's church, looking at that altar in the basement and saying hi to the pastor. The Nightcrawler has been rebuilt so when you come to NE to visit again (hopefully next summer) and we all go out to Worms, we can have a beer there!

Thanks Mike - I hope we can all do that!