I have mentioned my maternal grandparents often enough that I should let them appear here, since, for some reason, they didn't in the 1948 trip photos. Albeit I have certain problems with my digital, sometimes it takes fair pictures of pictures, which are what these are, from the family scrapbook (i.e., What I Did with Grandma K.'s and Mom's Photos and Albums).
Fern Effie Adelaide Peters, born 5 June 1895, married Laurence John Koftan (originally Kaftan), born 27 April 1891, on his and her mother's birthday (Mary Jane Maher Peters, born 27 April 1857), 27 April 1914. You can read her parents' invitation to the bride's reception between the photos of the couple.
The photo at the left is in front of our house (where I was born) in Center apparently in the 1950s. The photo at the right is at the brick house, the family home in the early part of the 20th century (the 1920s into the 1930s), the one Mom loved the best and Cousin Linda wrote a song about. The Luckert farmstead was nearby, which is how Dad came to work for Grandpa Koftan, where Grandma pushed for marriage to her older daughter, where Dad recuperated after an accident while working in Omaha, and where Mom and Dad spent their first married days.
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