| Summary: | Neumann, Litchville, N.D. (Henry and Fred are twins). Deceased are Albert, March 13, 1942; Reinhold, May 17, 1963; Margaret (Mrs. Dan Erdman), July 5, 1965; August, April 26, 1966. Two children died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Wegner and family were members of the St. John's Lutheran Church. WEIGHT, LEONARD AND EDITH Mr. and Mrs. Leonard E. Weight, formerly of the Marion community, now are at home in Chino, Calif. Leonard, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Weight, was born on Sept. 24, 1906. Although both of his parents were of German descent, they migrated to America from the Ukraine in southern Russia. His mother died in July, 1971. Leonard worked for several different farmers in the community for a few years after which he returned home to farm with his father. In the fall of 1929, Leonard rented a farm northwest of Marion in Greenland Township and started out on his own. The following spring, March, 1930, he married Edith Anderson, a childhood school days chum, and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Minius Anderson. With the exception of her first year in school which was in Marion, Edith, together with Leonard, both received their full eight grades of elementary school and graduated from Prairie School No. 3, which was less than a half mile east of her home. Due to progress, that one-room country school house has passed into oblivion. Edith then entered Marion High School. She graduated from Marion High in June, 1927. She did house work in and around Marion until Feb. 1929 after which she worked in Valley City until she married Leonard in March, 1930. After their marriage, Leonard and Edith continued farming in various locations, and along with everybody else, battled their way through the days of depression, the drought and grasshoppers of the 1930's and on until the fall of 1942 when, with defense jobs beckoning due to the second World War, they sold out and moved to El Monte, Calif. There Leonard found employment as a welder at Calship on Terminal Island at San Pedro, a shipyard which built those celebrated "Liberty" and "Victory" cargo ships for the war effort. War's end meant the end of work for such war related job holders, and they returned to North Dakota to farm. This time, for five years east of Sanborn and another three years near Wimbledon. But, "Sunny Southern Cal" had somehow penetrated rather deeply for them. The Weights moved to California in 1953, lived in Pomona until March 1955 when they bought their present home near Chino. Leonard went to work at Mt. San Antonio College, a state Junior College near Pomona, doing gardening (lawn work, etc.) and general maintenance work. After two years of this, he struck out on his own, doing general gardening and yard work at individual homes. He continued with this until in Oct. 1971 when, due to illness, he had to retire. In July, 1954, Edith began working at Pacific State Hospital, an institution devoted to the care of the retarded, as a Psychiatric Technician. Then, four years later, she qualified as a Licensed Psychiatric Technician. She continued working there until eight and a half years later when, in December, 1962, due to a serious auto accident on a dense foggy morning on her way to work, her employment abruptly came to an end permanently. Leonard and Edith Weight raised a family of six children - four boys and two girls. All are grown and married,and in turn, have presented their parents with nine grandchildren. La Vane and Donna have two daughters, live in Fargo; Lowell and Ruth, son and daughter. La Verne, Calif.; Leland and Louise, son and daughter. Fountain Valley, Calif.; Lenore, Mrs. George Marschatl, son and daughter, Alta Loma, Calif.; Lytell and Sharon, Olympia, Wash., his son,,by a previous marriage, lives with his mother, Carol Weight, in Irvine} Calif.; Laurel, Mrs. Andrew Quady, Lodi, Calif. WEIGHT, LEOPOLD AND HELEN AND KAROLINA Leopold was born in Russia in 1873. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Weight, and their other children and he came to N.D. in 1891. He married Helen Taron in 1894. They moved to a farm S.E. of Marion in 1898. Helen died in 1903, a year later he married Karolina Hoffman, who had recently come from Russia. The children from the first marriage are: Alvina (Mrs. Adolph Erdman, deceased), Fred, William (died in infancy), and Walter. The children from the second marriage are Ewald, Arthur, Gerhart, Harold, Regina (Mrs. Harry Bloom), Leonard, Ida (Mrs. Ray Dees), and Elsie (Mrs. Sam Cole, deceased). Leopold's parents made their home with him for several years until their deaths, they had nine children, one daughter was Mrs. Frank Dathe. Leopold died in 1932. WEIGHT, JACOB AND OTTELLIA AND MARY Mary Wuttke came to this country from Russia when she was 18 years old. She worked for some time at different homes in the area. After the death of his first wife, Ottellia Rosseler, she married Jacob Weight in 1909, and took over the duties of wife and mother for his three small sons, Fred, Wm., and Otto. They resided on a farm ten rnile^ southeast of Marion. Mr. Weight passed away in 1925, leaving her to take care of the farm and raise their family alone. Mrs. Weight, with the help of her children, stayed on the farm. In 1955 she decided to sell her farm and move into Marion, where she now lives. She is 87 years of age and lives alone and is able to do her own housekeeping and cares for her own yard, spending many hours on her garden and flowers. She was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church until the time of its closing, after which she became a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in LaMoure. Her children have all grown and taken their rightful place in the world. Fred married Erma Gemar, and lived with his wife and family at Fullerton, N. Dak. and Oakes, N.Dak., until he passed away in 1959. William married Ida Schwartz, and farmed at Litchville with his wife and family until he died in an auto accident in 1964. Otto married Theresa Gemar, and farmed at Fullerton with his family. He passed away in 1970. Helen married Rudy Gemar and they are still farming at Fullerton, N. Dak. Olga married Clarence Bubach, and they farmed southeast of Marion until the fall of 1950, when they moved with their family into Marion, where they now reside. Edward served in the Navy for many years and now lives with his wife and family in Seattle, Wash. Adolph served in the Navy also and married the former Hattie Boelter. They lived with their family in Jamestown, where Adolph was employed at Otter Tail Power Co. until 1974, when he was transferred to the new plant at Milbank, S. Dak. Wilfred served in the U.S. Army, after which he married Patricia Winkleman. They farmed southeast of Marion until 1956, when they moved with their family to Lynnwood, Washington, where he is 129 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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