My Uncles were the greatest! Uncle Ted was closest to my age. With only 8 years difference in our ages, I saw him the most. How Cousin Nancy and I used to tease him. To torment him we would call him, "Teddy Bear." Uncle Dick called me "Pumpkin" forever. He never let me outgrow the name. And, oh, my Uncle George was a handsome one! I'll never forget when he took me for a ride in a little Piper Cub airplane. Uncle Rex was always the grownup uncle; playing the part of the oldest of the family.
Here's the List
- Rex Leroy Holtgrewe was born January 28, 1913, in Alexandria, Nebraska and died on November 13, 2002, in Lincoln, Nebraska. He married Evelyn Mae Hauser on November 9, 1934. Evelyn was born January 22, 1913, in Daykin, Nebraska, and died July 29, 2011, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Rex and Evelyn operated a grocery store in Helvey, Nebraska, when they were first married. They moved to Crete, Nebraska, in 1941.
- George Holtgrewe, Jr., was born on July 25, 1922, in Daykin, Nebraska. He died on February 16, 1981, and was buried with full military honors at the Fort Sam Houston Memorial Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas. He married Ruth Watson of Lubbock, Texas, on December 28, 1944, in Washington, Kansas. Ruth was born on July 5, 1924, and died on June 24, 1997, and is buried at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.
- Richard D. Holtgrewe was born on September 24, 1926, in Fairbury, Nebraska. He died on March 16, 1993, and is buried at the Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Lincoln, Nebraska. Dick married Ann Marie Jones. Ann died on October 9, 2009, and is buried at Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery.
- Theodore Holtgrewe was born on December 28, 1932, in Daykin, Nebraska. He died on March 4, 1983. Ted married Mary Jane Merwin. Mary Jane has remarried Fred Forsyth.
