Recently third cousin Mark Donley Feddersen saw sister JaVee's obituary in the Brockhaus Funeral Home (Creighton, Nebraska) listing and got in touch with sister Sue through Brockhaus, since Greg Brockhaus certainly knew Sue, who has worked at the hospital in Creighton for over 25 years, another instance of small-town closeness, as when Kay Vanness Sanger in California found Mom and Dad through writing to the Knox County Courthouse to see if anyone knew Jack or Velma Luckert, the courthouse where Mom had worked for many years in a village where everyone in and out of the courthouse knows family trees branch by branch. (By now I think most of Knox County has intermarried so that most people are shirt-tail relations.) Anyway, he and I share his dad's name for a middle name, though Mom shortcut it for me with her teacher's belief in short names easier for children to spell.
I have some early photos of the second surviving son of John and Nellie Peters Feddersen. Here is Donley at the Old Brick House between Dora Bishop and Mildred Larson.
Below, L-R, Mildred Larson, Donley Feddersen, Velma Koftan, Dora Bishop, Jack Luckert. Then one of Donley and Jack/Dad.
Clearly he's mugging for the camera, coming out of [Great] Uncle [Dr.] Glenn Peters'' house in Randolph, [Great] Aunt Paula behind him in the doorway.
The following two companion photos, not in good shape, are of Donley and Don Sexton at Wayne State College (formerly Teachers College), Wayne, Nebraska. I think these might be the same summer I have several photos of Mom and her friends at summer school there, 1935 or 1936, but I'm not sure.
And, finally, one from 1938 with his parents, John and Nellie, in Fern's garden area north of the house at the Bloomfield farm, a companion to a more populated one earlier including me as a baby.
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