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| James Knackstedt was born February 13, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois to Robert & Violet (Busch) Knackstedt. He was the fourth of five children. The family moved to Wild Rose where his parents had the Knackstedt Restaurant in a building that was torn down. It was located right next to the Wild Rose Hotel. The parents with children Jean, James & George lived in an apartment over the restaurant.. He was active in basketball, baseball & track. His junior year his was on student council and Homecoming King and Ann Brownlow was Queen. Homecoming was January 26, 1952 because Wild Rose didn't have a football team at that time. He was able to get an additional time out in basketball by "getting the air knocked out of him" from time to time. His nickname was Beach. He married Valorie Gorges, daughter of Mr & Mrs Henry Gorges of New London January 8, 1955 in Wild Rose. They had three children, |
Sunday, May 31, 2020
James Knacksteadt
Hazel Ann Jones Somers
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| Hazel Ann Jones was born June 13, 1894 in Spring- water, Waushara County, WI. She was baptised June 27, 1894 at the Presbyterian Church. Her parents were William Jones 1864-1937) and his wife Jennie Lloyd Davies (1867-1953). She had 2 years of college. She married Edward Archibald Somers (1895-1974). They had a daughter Betty Jane Somers (1924-2010). Betty Jane married Trygve Stea. Hazel died Dec. 20, 1961 and was buriedin Caersalem Cemetery in the Town of Springwater in Waushara County |
Gwendolen Favell Heilman
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| Gwendolen Favel was born June 22, 1908 in Wild Rose, Waushara County, WI. Her praents were Floyd C Favell and Emma Lowe. She graduated from Wild Rose High School. She went to Lawfrence University in Appleton. She was a music major. She was active in Sigma Alpha Iota which was an honorary music society. While at Lawrence she sang the song "Japanese Love Song" in a program and she was the Secretary of Sigma Alpha Iota. Her first teaching job was in Iola in 1930. She moved to Richland Center as a music teacher. She married Ralph Salem Heitman Jr. from Sharon, Pennsylvania on June 14, 1941. She died May 8, 1998 in Sharon. Ralph was born July 9, 1910. His parents were Ralph S Heitman, Sr. and Laura Kirk. |
Floyd C.Favell
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| Floyd Clarence Favell was born Nov. 27, 1881 in Royalton, Waupaca County, WI His parents were William H. Favell and Sarah Rowen. He was living in Pittsville, Wood, WI. in 1900. In 1903 he is lsited as a barber in Grand Rapids (now Wis. Rapids). He was a barber in Phillips, Price County in 1905. He married Emma Lowe Dec. 17, 1906 in Ripon. He lived on Wisconsin Ave. in Wild Rose. The house was on the east side the second house from the corner of Wisconsin and Front St. Rob and Melba Jean Williams owned the house until she died in 2017. Floyd had a daughter Gwendolyn. |
Saturday, May 30, 2020
Oscar J Holt
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| Oscar Holt had the general store at the northeat corner of Main St. and Maple Ave. At one time he had his brother-in-law, Oscar Jones as a partner in the store. It is possible the other man is Oscar Jones. Holt is on the left. He had the house on Maple Ave at the corner of High St. |
Boyd Merryfield
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| This picture may have been taken as late as October of 1946. Boyd Merryfield is the son of Lestor and Lucille Evans. He was a member of the 1942 Wild Rose Basketball team that won the conference championship as well as on the all conference team. He played baseball for Wild Rose and later Wautoma city baseball teams. He served in the Navy in World War II. While he was on a 20 day leave in October of 1946 he went pheasant hunting with his father, Boyd Ruland and; his son Billy, and Donald and Roger Colligan. They went to Mitchell, South Dakota. They came back with 129 pheasants. He married Marian Bernadine Younglove. She died in 1987. More recently he has volunteered at the Veterans Home at King. Lived in Oshkosh from 1963 to 1984 when he returned to Wautoma. They had four children. He diedNovemeber 30, 2018 in Wautoma. |
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
A S Rogers in Mt Morris
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| Augustus S Barlett Rodgers was born in New Hampshire March 25, 1833, He served in the Civil War first in Co.K in the Wis.38th. Later he was a 1st Lieut. in Co I of the 27th Wis Inf. His first wife was Lucy Maria with he had children: Ella, James P., and Frank. They were married in 1854. His second wife was Susan Emigh who he married June 22, 1878. Their children were Charles R., Susan R., Lulu and Inez. Augustus S or A.S. died Jul. 31, 101 and is buried in Marion Cemetery in Waushara County. The picture of his residence is from a flat plat map from 1876. |
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Monday, May 18, 2020
Joyce and Kermit Clark
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| Joyce and Kermit Clark were children of Fred Patterson Clark and Margaret Lowe. Joyce was born in 1910 in Wild Rose. John Kermit Clark was born Jan. 8, 1908 in Wild Rose. Kermit married Agatha Gossens Dec, 27, 1930 in Kaukauna. They had a son Robert. Kermit taught at UW- Oshkosh. He died Aug.30, 1996 in Wild Rose. Joyce married Colonel John D. McConahay Dec. 23, 1941 in Fort Collins, CO. She wasa teacher and had 2 daughters. She died March 16,1964 in Colorado. She is buried in Oakhill in Wild Rose. The Clarks lived on Oakwood in Wild Rose. |
Eldred Etheridge
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| Eldred Etheridge as a baby. His parents were Milford Etheridge and Alice Jenks. he was born March 9, 1913 in Wild Rose but later moved to Clintonville where his father went to work at Four Wheel Drive. |
Cousins Beverly, Evelyn, Fay & Joy
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| Beverly Murty Anderson Ansorge, Evelyn Roth Welke, Fay Etheridge Van Hulla, and Joy Etheridge Kluever at the old Holiday Inn in Stevens Point for the Etheridge Reunion. |
Christmas 1962 in Wild Rose at Murty's
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| Rodney Murty, Blanche Etheridge Murty, Mike Anderson, and Pam Anderson in front. Mom wanted to take pictures and I wasn't very excited. |
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