Old proverb: "To speak the names of the departed is to make them live again."

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Jean Fieg Provides the Wherewithal

Many thanks to Jean Davie Fieg for her cash donation to help offset the costs of printing and mailing the Fieg Family News to those who have requested a hard copy. 

Her generosity means that we will not have to tap into the Fieg treasury to cover these costs for years to come (unless the cost of postage becomes prohibitive).

Grazie!  Gracias!  Merci!  Danke!  Tak!  Mahalo!  Arigato!  Salamat!

Monday, June 25, 2012

News From the Facebook Archives

Perhaps I should call this "Olds From the Facebook Archives."  On January 9, Mark Roman replied to a message from me and gave an update on his family. 

Mark is the youngest son of Dorothy Fieg Roman, who is the youngest child of Lothar Fieg Sr. of Oneonta, NY. who was the third child of Carl and Emilie Fieg of Pforzheim, Germany.  I am hopeful that Mark and his family will try to attend the reunion in August so we can catch up further!  Here is what he had to say:

"Robert, 27, is just working. Jessica, 25, an RN at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, is doing great. Makes almost as much as I do and I've been working for 35 years. I guess that tells ya getting a degree is the way to go.


Steven, 19, just returned from Kuwait on R&R has to return later this month; Shelby, 17, is a senior in HS, doing fantastic getting ready for graduation and college and Noah, 12, is doing well in middle school getting really good grades. [He and I] go to Las Vegas in March to see Monster Jam world finals. Very into monster trucks.

I turn 50 in March and me being the youngest cousin (I think) means we are all over 50 and there are many cousins much older than I. I have got to make an effort to see everyone...a bucket list to start I think:-)"
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Laura Fieg to marry 'Chief' Valentino








Susan and Jerry Untiedt of Cleveland,GA, and Douglas Fieg and Cindy Harris of Simi Valley, CA have announced the wedding of their daughter, Laura Fieg, to Kasibante (Chief) Valentino on Saturday, June 23, in Dahlonega,GA.

Valentino, 30, is a youth minister from Kampala, Uganda in Africa. He and Laura, 32, met while
Laura was serving as a school teacher in Kampala.


To View Laura & Kasibante's wedding, click here:


Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Case Family Member Passes Away

Steven Case reports that his mother, Cathy Weeks Case, widow of Arthur "Mike" Case, youngest child of Emilie Fieg Case, has died.

Cathy lived with her son Mike and wife Jenny in the Triangle-area of North Carolina, near the home of Steve and his wife Susan and in the same general vicinity.

Here is Steve's e-mail to me:

Judy--
Here's a link to the obit at the funeral home site:
http://www.brightfunerals.com/obituaries.php?page=2&op=view&id=1395

As far as her other history--after she got her BA from Southwestern University in Texas, she moved to the northeast and worked for Prudential, somewhere in the wilds of New Jersey--Norristown I think, but I wouldn't swear to it. She met dad at there--so working in insurance can't be all bad

So far as I know, she didn't work after they married--he was drafted, they went to Texas and Oklahoma till he earned his discharge, and then returned to the east coast where he worked for IBM (New York, where Michael was born; Florida, where I was born; back to New York, Virginia, and finally North Carolina).

One other thing I'd say is that she had a great time traveling in her 60s and 70s. Mostly package tours with friends, but she went to England several times, and to southern and western Europe (Spain, Italy, France).


Love
Steven