Lottie, Lucile, Ida behind Raymond, Emmet, Lydia, Dena, Mabel, Carl, Hazel, Herman, George Brakensiek   front: Wilhelmina & George Freese

standing: Eliza Hillebrand, Wilhelmina Giessmann   sitting: Dorothea Meier, Fritz Paul

Brother Henry did not want his picture taken

Ida and George Freese, Lydia and Herman Freese, Dena and George Brakensiek behind Mina Giessmann

Mina and August with the Thousand Beauty Rose in the garden.
The garden is was still used by her granddaughter Mabel Busdieker and the red barn is in use until the family moved in 2003.

August and Mina Giessmann with Lottie and Lucile Brakensiek

at age ninety, cane in one hand & basket of eggs in the other

George Freese, Wilhelmina, Glennon Kidd at the Table. Carl Brakensiek, Ray Freese, Dena Brakensiek, Herman Freese, George Brakensiek, Mabel Freese, Connie Freese, Lydia Freese, Sam Freese, Emmet Brakensiek, Selma Williams, Ida Freese, and Lawrence Busdieker