Graef Historical Group

The Graef family legacy digital scrapbook (PDF) is available here: Graef family legacy digital scrapbook

Irons Rickey Families Genealogy Pedigree Chart courtesy of GRAEF-ANCESTRY

Fred & Jean Graef..May 1947 at St. Wencelaus Church for confirmation of their childred.. Beverly, Bette, Robert Graef

From: Robert Graef Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 10:57 AM Subject: Remembering Virgil Bixby on D-Day June 6 Remembering those We Love Virgil Henry Bixby died in the invasion of Normandy Phyllis and Virgil Bixby married days before Virgil left for combat in France This is their wedding photo D-Day The US Army remembers June 6, 1944: D-Day in Normandy, France. Video, audio, photos, posters, and maps tell the story. www.army.mil/ d - day Virgil Died in the assault on Normandy WW 2 http://picasaweb.google.com/robertgraef/PhyllisRickeyBixbyBradleyAndWilliamFord # --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ -----~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Subject: Re: Happy Easter Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 7:23 AM Hi Bob,   I'm in Seoul Korea this week.   I'm here for work, trying to get some business.   Busy, crowded, productive, friendly, social -- that's how I describe this city.   Nice to visit, but I miss seeing parks or trees.   It's amazing how Seoul grew so much in the last 50 years.  This place was leveled after the Korean war, and it grew from ~600,000 during the war to over 10 million today.    Take care.  Mike From: Bob Family To: Michael Eberhardt  Cc: Andrea Eberhardt Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 5:20:01 PM Subject: Re: Happy Easter Mike & Family Thanks for Easter Videos...  I attended   Easter Sunrise Services in Montrose, Iowa April 12, 2009.. Truely a memorable experience for Bob  who enjoyed the forgiveness and rebirth themes of service..  Speaker told  A tale of for...

Thursday, October 30, 2008 Halloween stickers from Lia Burris Lia You are a gem.. Thanks so much for the Halloween e-mail and sticker/seals.. Hand writing "Loretta Graef" on envelope was like my Dad's and pretty much like mine is today ! amazing .. Lia , Thanks , for finding and sending this.. Best wishes to you and your family, Halloween Oct 2008 From the laptop of your cousin Bob Graef -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: Tyrone & Lia Burris To: Robert Graef Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:46 AM Subject: stickers from Lia I guess it really is not a tradition but just a natural thing that Aunts give nieces stickers. Or the way they use to call them they are seals. Then they get passed down sometimes. I thought you might get a Kick out of this set I found this morning and saw the name on the envelope. I scanned it in for you. Sometimes this information is interesting because you find tha...

Albert, Alfred, Jacob Clara, Gertrude, Emma Graef This is an awesome picture.. That man is definitely a Graef,, the chin, eyes, ears all match the family profile So he has to be Jacob Graef and the woman must be Emma Skrable (his first wife) The baby is Gertrude Graef .. then the girl center back might be Clara Graef born Nov 8, 1889.. Emma and Jacob have two other daughters Margaret and Pauline and two sons.. Alfred and Albert (boy in picture) Clara went with her father Jacob (when he separated from Emma) to Oklahoma around 1910 Clara was probably the oldest of the Graef girls and 21 when she went to Oklahoma with her father Jacob.. Clara marries Peter.. ( Jacobs brother) they have two boys Edward Graef (born 1910) and my father Fred (born 1911) were both born in Oklahoma Jacob marries a Lillie C Burns in 1910 they have a son George Frederick born Sep 23 1911 Jacob Graef returns to Iowa with new wife Lilie and has another son Nicholas Syvester born Dec 6 1913 in Iowa City Lillie sepa...