Cousin Judy recently made the local newspaper decorating a Christmas tree, so I've made an entry of all her photos. (She's worked for two major nurseries here for decades and lives in Papillion.) I haven't many Luckert family photos but share what I have. Judy's parents were Joseph and Evelyn Cathryn Luckert Bruhn, who lived at Newman Grove. Aunt Evelyn was the second oldest after Elizabeth Mae/Lizzie of George Washington and Anna Jones Luckert, b. 23 May 1899. She and Uncle Joe had two daughters, Joyce, who married Walter Kramer, and Judith, who married Charles/Chuck Masilko. Joyce and Walter had nine children: Barbara, b. 30 September 1940; Betty, b. 30 September 1943; Douglas, b. 20 June 1946; Kathryn, b. 8 December 1949; Donald, b. 4 November 1951; Robert, b. August 1953; Debra, b. August 1954; Scott, b. 27 December 1958; Rochelle, b. 14 December 1961, according to Sue's incomplete record. I met several of the families a few years ago at Barbara's funeral in Newman Grove. Barbara, the oldest, was brought up by Joe and Evelyn, a virtual sister to Judy. She's in just one of the photos I have.
Judith Ann Bruhn at six months.
Barbara Kramer with Judith Ann Bruhn.
(The Barbara I knew as a teen was a tomboy in western clothes who loved horses, in contrast to this picture.)
I'm going to assume the photo at left is Judy's high school graduation picture. I have only this small photo of her daughter, Barbara Jo, b. 20 May 1978, at two, apparently eating birthday cake. Today Bobbi is a polylingual diplomatic liaison in our foreign service, who has been stationed in Europe and Israel and may be back in Washington, D.C., by now, since the last I knew her mother was to go out for the Cherry Blossom Festival with her . She told me at Barbara's funeral she would like to be posted in Spain.
You can compare her to her mother with this article's picture.
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