Pictures of the Family of Henry Halbur and Sidonie Ertz

Bernard as a young man

Bernard and Rita, First Communion (in Eden)

Wedding party (My 29, 1948), on lawn. Front Row, L to R: __________, ________________, Katherine, Margaret (Rashid), Mary (Peshman). Back row: Greg, ________________, Bernard, Norbert, Pat Peshman

Bernard Halbur and wife, Katherine Gindt, about 1955

Katherine (Gindt) and Bernard celebrating their Golden Wedding, St. Mary’s Church, FdL.

Bernard & Katherine, Golden Wedding. Their siblings pose for a picture after the Mass at St. Mary’s FdL. L to R: Margaret Gindt Rashid, Connie. Rita, Bernadette, Mary Halbur Peshman, S. Lucina, Norbert

Bernard & Katherine’s Children (JoAnn not born yet): John 10 months. Ray 2. Rose 4. Pauline 6. David 8. Peter 9.

Bernard holding John, Katherine holding JoAnn, Peter (on stairs). Front: Rose. Pauline, Ray, David.

Bernadette and Connie visiting at Bernard and Katherine’s house. Back: Pete, Bernadette, Pauline, Connie. Front: Ray, rose, JoAnn, John (David was not on the picture.)

Rose Halbur & Al Bertram Family. The two girls on the edges are exchange students. Rose is holding Emily.

Rita & Bill’s wedding, Nov. 21, 1954

Rita & Bill’s formal wedding photo.

Rita and Bill Steinhilber with Norbert’s daughters, Chris & Anne.

Bill Steinhilber, Rita, and Jeannette Ertz Weske.

Rita and Bill Steinhilber at S. Connie’s place.

Mary at about 18-20 years of age, sitting on a fencepost!

Wedding picture for Mary Halbur & Lawrence “Pat” Peshman, Jan. 21, 1946. Standing: Uncle Tony (Henry Halbur’s brother William Anthony), Bernard Pat Peshman, Mary Halbur, Rita Halbur, Warren Samp (Pat’s cousin). Foreground: Mary’s close friend Trudy, Flower girl (Name?), and ______________.

Mary Halbur and Lawrence (“Pat”) Peshman wedding. Taken in the living room of the Halbur family home in rural FdL

Mary & Pat, coming out of church (St. Mary’s, Eden) on their wedding day, Jan. 21, 1946

Mary & Pat Peshman wedding party, picture taken in Summer, rather than wedding day.

Greg and Priscilla, wedding day, Oct. 9, 1948, in front of Priscilla’s mother’s house in FdL

Greg & Priscilla’s wedding day, coming out of church.

Greg and Priscilla’s wedding, St. Mary’s Church, FdL. Coming out of church. In foreground: Priscilla and Connie. Connie was a junior bridesmaid.

Marie, her husband Mark Westemeier, Madeline and Grace.

Barbara and her mother, Priscilla

Sheldon, Sharon, Sharon’s husband, Mike, and Ben

Kyle Larson (Barbara’s son) and his wife Kristie.

Family of Jim Halbur and Kelli O’Brien. Children, L to R: Corban, Chloe, and Christian.

This picture was on the cover of the program for Shepherd of the Hills Presentation of the Living Way of the Cross. Mikey Mueller (son of Cindy Halbur & Brian Mueller) took the part of Jesus. The school has put on this performance 12 years in succession, as of 2006. It is extraordinarily well done, inspiring the audience in a way no other presentation of Jesus Passion and Death has done.

Diane Halbur and her husband Art Koehler

Philip and Dawn Walber’s family: Philip, Emily Elizabeth, Nicole Marie, Dawn , Gregory Aaron, and Joshua

L to R: Mike O’Connor (Sharon’s husband), Laurie Halbur Kelly, Pat Kelly, Irene Halbur Wolf (husband’s name is Jeff), Mike Mueller (Cindy’s son), Cindy Halbur Mueller

Kyle Larson, son of Barbara Halbur Larson. He’s a meteorologist in the Air Force. He is standing in front of their house in Germany. (It pays to watch the weather!)

Norbert’s First Communion.

Norbert and Greg as young men, on a load of manure!

Norbert in the Army, about 1953

Norbert Halbur and Mary Birschbach wedding, 5-14-1960

Norbert and Mary. Norbert grew a beard. We can’t remember why.

Tom, ____________, Teresa

Bernadette’s First Communion

At St. Joseph Convent, Milwaukee, June 13, 1947. Bernadette is invested as a School Sister of St. Francis. She was given the religious name Sister Nerissa. The family, L to R: Henry, Rita, Greg, Mary (Peshman), Bernard, Bernadette, Pat Peshman (Mary’s husband), Monica, Connie, Norbert, Sidonie

Bernadette on “Reception Day”, 6-13-1947

Bernadette as a professed sister (“Professed” means that she had already made vows.)

Bernadette at work as principal of St. Clare Colegio (a high school), San Juan, Costa Rica. In the late 1970s.

Monica’s First Communion

Monica’s First Communion. Back row: Sidonie, Henry, Frances Byrnes (Monica’s godmother), Aunt Katie Baganz (mother of Frances Byrnes, Katie was a half-sister to John Adam Ertz. She was the only child of Christina Klein Ertz marriage to John Schneider who reached adulthood and marriage. There were a number of other children of that marriage some of whom lived beyond childhood, but they died as very young adults. I recall Mother (Sidonie) saying that 9 in one family died of TB in one year. I don’t think all of these children died in one year, but their deaths were not far apart. I have not researched their causes of death, but possibly it was TB, given that they died so close together. Katie is buried on the Schneider plot in St. Matthew’s Cemetery in Campbellsport. John Adam Ertz is buried on the same plot.

Monica graduates from St. Mary’s Springs Academy, Fond du Lac, 1951

Monica is invested as a Sister of St. Agnes, 1952. She received the religious name, Sister Lucina. Sidonie had requested that, because when she was in the hospital to deliver Monica, the doctor did not arrive soon enough, and one of the sister nurses actually delivered Monica. The nurse’s name was Sister Lucina.

S. Lucina, Spencer Peshman’s godmother.

Connie’s First Communion, in front of the family house, June 13, 1943. She is with her godparents, Francis and Dora Flood.

Connie is invested as a School Sister of St. Francis, June 13, 1952.

S. Connie (was known as Sister Salesia at that time.)

S. Connie sitting on Al Bertram’s lap (Al is Rose Halbur’s husband.) Mybe Sheephead went well for Connie that evening.

S. Connie has company! With all the genealogy Connie has done, she gets to know a lot of relatives! The couple here is Dan Halbur and his wife, Laura TaMyo, and their two children, Elaine and Mariah. They are from Bakersfield, CA. Dan is from the Minnesota branch. He is a physics teacher in a local high school. (Picture taken about 2001.)

This time S. Connie is at a Westemeier family reunion in Manchester, Iowa. In the foreground is Ruth Westemeier, wife of Dick Benke, who is right next to her. They are both related to us, but not to each other, and are members of the Theresia branch. Theresia was the youngest of the 5 Halburs from one family who emigrated to the US. She was the only one who remained in the New Vienna area all her life. She was married to John Bernard Roling. (Ruth Westemeier is also related to Marie Halbur Westemeier’s husband. Dick Benke died a few years after this event.)

In connection with her genealogy work, S. Connie has made contact and established friendships with distant relatives. The folks in this picture (Vikki Hamilton and Steve Olson) are on the Ertz side. They are descendants of Johann Ertz, one of Stephan Ertz’ first cousins. We planned to get together in a hotel in Chicago in the Fall of 2000. Vikki and Steve are cousins to each other. In connection with her genealogy work, S. Connie has made contact and established friendships with distant relatives. The folks in this picture (Vikki Hamilton and Steve Olson) are on the Ertz side. They are descendants of Johann Ertz, one of Stephan Ertz’ first cousins. We planned to get together in a hotel in Chicago in the Fall of 2000. Vikki and Steve are cousins to each other.

More results of Connie’s genealogy work. Connie took this picture in the summer of 1995, when she visited Machtolsheim for the second time, the first being 1993. On a few occasions, we drove around to some of the towns where our Ertz ancestors lived. This picture shows the village well in Seissen (near Machtolsheim). The date on the well is 1609! Our ancestors used that well!

Here is S. Connie on top of a mountain in Austria! She is there with a 4th or 5th cousin (I’ve forgotten which), Hans Burkhardt and his wife Eva. They own and operate a fruit juice factory on the edge of Machtolsheim. If you think I, Connie, look at ease on the picture, you are wrong! We did take a lift up to the last mile, but then walked the rest of the way. There are no handrails. Nothing to stop a person from tumbling down, very far down. The path is not smooth, so one could easily turn an ankle. Being at the top was not reassuring; we still had to go down…

In 1995, Connie visited Machtolsheim the 2nd time. It was arranged that the English Ertz descendants would be there at the same time. L to r: S. Connie, Priscilla Horsfall-Ertz, Monica Horsfall-Ertz. During WWII, it was dangerous living in England, and having a German name, so the family used their mother’s name (Horsfall) with the Ertz name. Even then, their father spent some time incarcerated during the war. (How did we happen to have English cousins? Recall that Stephan Ertz emigrated in 1853 with a first cousin, Johann Ertz.. Johann had a son, Frederick, who became a world class artist. He taught in an exclusive art school in Paris. One of his students was an English woman. They fell in love, married, and moved to England. Priscilla and Monica are granddaughters of this couple.)

Another example of the results of genealogy. Here S. Connie is walking along the Mississippi River with Sylveria Sabers Ruden. Sylveria’s grandfather was a brother to Maria Sabers. Maria Sabers was married to Heinrich Halbur. Heinrich & Maria were the great grandparents of Connie & her siblings.

Here Connie was visiting at the house of Myrtle Halbur Singsheim in Racine, Wisconsin. Myrtle is a granddaughter of Barney Halbur, older brother of Heinrich Halbur (great grandfather of Connie & sibs)