Love Letter From The Past

Some of you have already seen this. But for the rest..................Do you remember the Feller Reunion where all the pictures and postcards were on a table for the taking? Well, I found this one and it was a keeper! (Heartiest Congratualtions?!) I can only guess since there was no address on the back, Grandpa mailed this in an envelope to Grandma so no one could read it. (That's just the romantic in me) I wonder what Grandma thought when she received it.

Fellers Growing Up

Brothers

Sometimes I wish I could go back in time and let my Uncles and Aunts know how much they were loved. I guess the older I get the more I appreciate them. Before Grandpa moved to Francesville, we three v's and Mom went to Cissna to "downsize". While Mom and Vic and Ver were in the kitchen, I visited with Grandpa in the livingroom. Bud happened to come over, we three sat and had the best time. I remember thinking, why did I wait so long to ask questions? Grandpa had railroad stories and Bud had funny stories about Mom. I will never forget that day.

Art and Marge Feller

They are just as good looking today as they were on their wedding day! The Bottom pictures are Chowie. I'll send better pictures at a later date.

Click on the pictures and it will make them bigger. (Just in case you didn't know)B-)

from Dawn

Ok now I'm going to try this blog. I love those pictures. It is true they are all good looking(Minnie's). I'm not so sure about the lady in the rocking chair. I can't see her very well. I can't imagine that Aunt Rosella lived with Mart until 3rd grade. Aunt Rosella didn't that seem strange? Also send all your recipes. I like reading recipes though I never seem to get around to trying them out. Maybe I'll learn to cook in my old age. I remember every time Grandma and Grandpa came to visit she would bring a basket with strawberries and cooka bread.

Grandpa & Grandma Barth

Meet Great Grandpa and Grandma Barth. Mom, do you have any memories of them?

Aunt Rosie says

Hi everyone Thanks Val , I'm glad who the diaper dude is. I was quite
sure it was Bud but when different ones asked , I was wandering if I was
right. Hope, wasn't he a cute little guy even in a diaper.
Now I'm wandering if you are wandering , How I got all those pictures??
Aunt Mart ,Grandma's sister , took them.. Since she didn't have any kids,
she was at our house every day and helped Grandma. When I was 4 years old ,
she still didn't have any kids, and that was when I went to live with them.
i lived with them til I was in the 3rd. grade, and then I went home. The
only thing I can figure out, there was one less kid in the house , but when
I was old enough to work, I went back home. So when I got married , Aunt
Mart gave me all those pictures and I put them in an album, and so glad I
put captions under them. When we moved to this duplex, we had to
down-size, and I'm so glad Val took them and is sharing them with all of
you. Now if any more questions on the pictures just email me
Love you all
Rosella

from Veronica

I would agree that Bets is an excellent cook, if she doesn’t say so herself, and I am not surprised that she has mastered kooka bread and spotsa. I was simply mad for Grandma’s cinnamon rolls (and still a weakness to this day) and asked if she would teach me. This was when I was a teenager. I wrote everything down, but I was so confused that one day I finally threw the recipe away. Any of you that helped Grandma in the kitchen may remember that she never followed a recipe. It was a little of this and a little of that and how do you write that down and remember next time?

However, I did get a recipe from a friend that reminds me very much of kooka and I make it now and then...usually around the holidays. I will say I have mastered cream puffs and I am very proud of that. (if I do say so myself :o)

Another cool thing I remember is staying at Grandma’s a week every summer. One time she made me some pajamas while I was there. She sewed like she cooked...without a pattern. She just would hold it up to me and figure it out. Amazing.

from Bets

Hello Young Fellers!

I just couldn't stay silent any longer. You guys are having WAY too much fun. Actually, I'm just now figuring out my e-mail, I have had computer problems and had to cancel one of my addresses - sorry to all it has afflicted. For now, tbkaupp@gridcom is working well.

Hoot-a-known my lil' brother would not be up front and keep me abreast of his various shenanigans in that college town he lives in. Kudos to Veronica for uncovering it. tsk tsk.

As for GOOD LOOKING.... HELLO!!! I have always said the Fellers are the best looking family around anywhere. Uncle Bud looks like a movie star in one of his pics that used to hang in his barn. (Hope, is it still there?) ANy one of my cousins could have won a beauty contest. I'm actually quite proud of you all!

I am going to be a grandma!!! And I HOPE she/he gets some of the feller looks and charm! Elise is due around Sept 30 :) :) :)

I (heh heh) am actually quite a good cook myself (if I say so MYSELF) (anyone see the movie EMMA?) Anyway, I make kooka bread on a rare occasion (it takes all day) and I make Spotsa ALL THE TIME - it's just crepes cut up in squares and put in a LARGE pan with a lid until you have gobs of it to feed an army... only I just make a couple at a time for my sweet youngest child, Danny (now age 18). I don't make the sugar cookies, though.

Memories of Grandma from Kim

We hardly ever saw Minnie or William Feller, but the food you remember is the same! I've never met a soul outside our family who's ever heard of spotsa, or (I thought it was kooga) kooka bread. When they visited the MN resort, Grandma'd make these puffy soft sugar cookies that she'd stamp with a sugared glass, and fill ice cream buckets full of them. I remember one day she was removing the cookie sheets with a towel instead of pot holder, and it touched the oven element and caught fire. If anybody has Grandma's sugar cookie recipe or kooga bread recipe, please send it to me. I'd love to add it to my family cookbook.

Kim