In recent days your editor has received several e-mails from the descendants of Emilie Roseina Fieg Case and her husband Arthur with information that they are happy, healthy and certainly very interested in renewing family ties.
After Sharon Hirsch, Aunt Millie's great-granddaughter, left a comment on our blog, she sent some follow-up e-mails, telling me that her mother is Judy Case Smith Wood, Aunt Millie's eldest granddaughter and the eldest daughter of Millie's eldest son, Stanley. Sharon is also Judy's eldest daughter!
Sharon gave a quick recap of what her family is doing, but the most amazing information she shared is, "I live in Durham, NC -- literally within one mile of Steven Case (Cathy and Mike's son). I ride my bike and walk past his house regularly, though we don't see each other as often as we should! Beth Case (Betty and Walter's daughter) lives in nearby Apex. Steven's brother Michael is also in the Triangle-area and Aunt Cathy lives with Michael and Jenny (Ridley - she's from Milford, too) currently." Alert the the Greensboro contingent!
I also received an e-mail from Sharon's mom that reads in part, "I live in Peapack Gladstone, New Jersey and I have three children - Sharon lives in Durham, NC., near Steven and Michael Case - Mike's children, Kevin lives in Verona, NJ and Kelly lives in Oyster Bay Cove, NY. I was divorced from George Smith, who passed away 2 years ago. However, I remarried in 1997 to Christopher Wood. He has two boys. Between us we have 12 grandchildren, 8 of whom are mine." So now the New Jersey and Long Island City/Hudson River Valley contingents will have to be alerted as well!
Next I received an e-mail from Steven Case, son of Arthur "Mike" Case, who is also Millie's grandson. He included the e-mail address of his brother Mike and you can be sure that all the above will receive an invite to join our Google group so they can receive copies of blog postings too.
Well, your editor now has her work cut out for her in filling in the pages of our family tree and she also proposes that we put together a family address book. Does anyone know of an online service of that type? Do I hear someone volunteering for that duty? (insert sound of cricket chips here).
Judy Wood has said she will attempt to visit the reunion in August and I am not alone, I am sure, when I say that any members of the Case family who attend will be the honored guests this year, as was Doris Holm at our last reunion.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Word Received From Case Family Descendant
After years of futile search we have finally received word from a descendant of Emilie Fieg Case, better known as Aunt Millie. Sharon Smith Hirsch stumbled onto the Fieg Family News and sent us a missive. We could not be more delighted.
Sharon writes, "My mom is Judy Case Smith Wood, daughter of Stanley and Emily Case. I, too, was born in August -- August 9, 1965. I'm the one mentioned in Emilie's letter as the one year old (note 14). It is amazing to see this history -- I'm sharing it with my kids (Matthew is almost 20 and Katie is 17.)"
Please join us in welcoming Sharon and her family back to the fold. We only hope to be so fortunate to see them at the Fieg family reunion in Cooperstown on August 3 through 5.
Regrettably, though Sharon contacted us through the FFN blog, we cannot immediately determine how or where to respond to her. If there is a family member who can help us to do this, please contact your editor at 361-387-7329 or jkestner@stx.rr.com.
Aunt Millie died in Milford, Pa. in 1984. What a thrill it would be to add a leaf to the branch of the family tree and what tid-bits of family lore have been handed down through the Case line!
Judy Kestner
Editor
Sharon writes, "My mom is Judy Case Smith Wood, daughter of Stanley and Emily Case. I, too, was born in August -- August 9, 1965. I'm the one mentioned in Emilie's letter as the one year old (note 14). It is amazing to see this history -- I'm sharing it with my kids (Matthew is almost 20 and Katie is 17.)"
Please join us in welcoming Sharon and her family back to the fold. We only hope to be so fortunate to see them at the Fieg family reunion in Cooperstown on August 3 through 5.
Regrettably, though Sharon contacted us through the FFN blog, we cannot immediately determine how or where to respond to her. If there is a family member who can help us to do this, please contact your editor at 361-387-7329 or jkestner@stx.rr.com.
Aunt Millie died in Milford, Pa. in 1984. What a thrill it would be to add a leaf to the branch of the family tree and what tid-bits of family lore have been handed down through the Case line!
Judy Kestner
Editor
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Dangcas Become Entrepreneurs
Thanks to Diana Monaco for alerting your editor to this tidbit of news:
Did you know that Anna and Alan Dangca are moving?
They are going to start renting out their house in Oneonta to families with children who are going to the All-Star Baseball Camp which is right around the corner from their house. Speaking of which, they named the rental property ‘Around the Corner’ and you can see the house online at www.cooperstownfamilyrentals.com/WhitePicketFence .
Good luck -- make a million bucks!
Sunday, March 4, 2012
A Message from the Fieg Family Association President
It is with immense pleasure and gratitude that I announce the donation to the family from Doris Fieg Holm of a precious family treasure which she has carefully guarded for many decades.
I am speaking of what by virtually any measure should be considered the late Herman Fieg's ultimate masterpiece, an oil painting on wood depicting a herd of sheep imperilled by horses.
This spectacular creation, which we believe in all probability was painted from life when Herman crossed the American continent in the late 1800s on his way to the Pacific Coast, depicts an historic scene vaguely reminiscent of those painted by the renowned New England water colorist and oil painter Winslow Homer, who travelled the American west during the same general period.
The unveiling of this work will be the highlight of the Fieg Family Reunion in August, so I urge you all be to there to see it. It will be the keystone of conversation when the family addresses the dispensation of various family artifacts, mementos and heirlooms in an effort to see that they are passed down to safe and loving hands in generations to come.
Herman's paintings are among the few we have with which to remember him, as his three brothers Carl, Frederick and Lothar Fieg lost contact with him when he disappeared into the wilds of Australia well over 100 years ago. (It is interesting to note that Diana Fieg Monaco has established an Internet alert whenever the name Fieg is published on the worldwide web and many of these occurrences are linked to Australia.)
Doris has given this irreplaceable heirloom to Susan Fieg Williams in Chicago, who is now the sole arbiter of how and when it will be passed on. She is agreeable to the idea of exhibiting it permanently, as are Maxine Fieg Whiteside and various other family members who have been polled unofficially.
I plan to make contact with museum officials and other potential exhibitors in the Cooperstown area later this month to see whether there is interest in adding the painting to local collections deemed appropriate and thematically correct for inclusion.
Doris has invested more than $500 to restore and ship this gift. Please join me in thanking her profusely.
Greg Fieg, President
I am speaking of what by virtually any measure should be considered the late Herman Fieg's ultimate masterpiece, an oil painting on wood depicting a herd of sheep imperilled by horses.
This spectacular creation, which we believe in all probability was painted from life when Herman crossed the American continent in the late 1800s on his way to the Pacific Coast, depicts an historic scene vaguely reminiscent of those painted by the renowned New England water colorist and oil painter Winslow Homer, who travelled the American west during the same general period.
The unveiling of this work will be the highlight of the Fieg Family Reunion in August, so I urge you all be to there to see it. It will be the keystone of conversation when the family addresses the dispensation of various family artifacts, mementos and heirlooms in an effort to see that they are passed down to safe and loving hands in generations to come.
Herman's paintings are among the few we have with which to remember him, as his three brothers Carl, Frederick and Lothar Fieg lost contact with him when he disappeared into the wilds of Australia well over 100 years ago. (It is interesting to note that Diana Fieg Monaco has established an Internet alert whenever the name Fieg is published on the worldwide web and many of these occurrences are linked to Australia.)
Doris has given this irreplaceable heirloom to Susan Fieg Williams in Chicago, who is now the sole arbiter of how and when it will be passed on. She is agreeable to the idea of exhibiting it permanently, as are Maxine Fieg Whiteside and various other family members who have been polled unofficially.
I plan to make contact with museum officials and other potential exhibitors in the Cooperstown area later this month to see whether there is interest in adding the painting to local collections deemed appropriate and thematically correct for inclusion.
Doris has invested more than $500 to restore and ship this gift. Please join me in thanking her profusely.
Greg Fieg, President
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