MEMORIES OF SIXTY-FIVE YEARS PLUS

About the Book

This is about the love story of Richard and Margaret Rosenkoetter. It recounts their early childhood, meeting, courtship, and marriage; their children, relatives, friends, acquaintances and occasional stranger, some trials and triumphs. This was a relationship that lasted sixty-five years, plus three months and three days. Richard was born January 13,1921 at home on1808 State Street in Quincy, Illinois. His parents had moved into town from the farm the previous year; he resided in that home until a short time after his marriage to Margaret. He had one sister, Anna, who was three years older. His parents, Henry Lewis Rosenkoetter, was born June 24,1886 and died, August 18, 1948 and Hattie (Weed) Rosenkoetter, born August 3, 1891 and died June 8, 1958. Hattie, a lovely and proper lady of English descent, was born and raised in Quincy, Illinois, living at 1808 State Street in Quincy. She gave birth to two children and was a homemaker, up until the time of her death at age 66. Richard's father was a wonderful and well-respected gentleman of German descent. He was a farmer until moving his wife and young daughter into the home at 1808 State Street, in Quincy. For the greater part of his remaining years he had a good job working for Prairie Farms Dairy until the time of his last illness, passing away at their home on 1808 State, at age 62.

About the Author

Margaret was born in the country outside of Quincy, the last of six children. She was born December 28, 1923, to Fredrick John Henry, born in 1880, in New Jersey and died March 19, 1958 at their last home in Quincy, and Florence Ruth Savage Wiechman, born in Rome, Georgia, February 12, 1881 and died, September, 16, 1963. Her last illness took her way from Quincy to where her eldest son and wife lived in Southern Illinois. Florence, a delightful, Southern born lady, of English decent, was raised in Rome, Georgia, came north at age 16, eventually met and married Fredrick. She was a homemaker and gave birth to seven children, one passing away at birth. They lived in numerous homes (four) in Quincy, finally buying their own home on eleventh Street, one block north of Broadway Street. Margaret's father, Fred, was a friendly, outgoing gentleman of German decent raising his family for the most part on the farm, finally moving his family to 636 Adams street in Quincy during the summer of 1925 when Margaret was two and a half years old. Richard and his wife, met in the late summer of 1940 at the A&W Root Beer Stand where Margaret worked as a "Car Hop."