{"id":4327,"date":"2011-09-27T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/?p=4327"},"modified":"2011-09-24T18:22:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T01:22:11","slug":"tombstone-tuesday-grandma-in-the-cemetery-walter-anthony-dreffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/27\/tombstone-tuesday-grandma-in-the-cemetery-walter-anthony-dreffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tombstone Tuesday &#8211; Grandma in the Cemetery (Walter Anthony Dreffs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_4328\" style=\"width: 417px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4328\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4328\" title=\"Mary Rose Dreffs, marking the burial site of Walter Anthony Dreffs\" src=\"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/1970circa_MaryDreffs_nexttograve_AndrewAllenKolba_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Rose Dreffs, marking the burial site of Walter Anthony Dreffs\" width=\"407\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/1970circa_MaryDreffs_nexttograve_AndrewAllenKolba_sm.jpg 407w, https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/1970circa_MaryDreffs_nexttograve_AndrewAllenKolba_sm-150x147.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/1970circa_MaryDreffs_nexttograve_AndrewAllenKolba_sm-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Rose Dreffs, marking the burial site of Walter Anthony Dreffs<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recently I was scanning in a few hundred pictures from a box my mother had in the pole barn.\u00c2\u00a0 I ran across this photo of my grandmother, Mary Rose (Stroik, Kasper, Karpuk, Dreffs) Romaine.\u00c2\u00a0 She is kneeling in a cemetery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At first I didn&#8217;t take much stock in this photo.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, I tried to figure out when it might have been taken.\u00c2\u00a0 I got to thinking&#8230; I&#8217;ve seen that style of gravestone before.\u00c2\u00a0 A closer look at the image showed that the grave she is next to is one  of Andrew Allen Kolba.\u00c2\u00a0 I know this because I can compare it to pictures  I look of this location on that trip in 2000.\u00c2\u00a0 This must have been taken in Floral Gardens Cemetery in Bay City, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I took a trip there in August 2000 to photograph the grave of my grandfather, but his grave is not in this picture.\u00c2\u00a0 I looked at this picture again and noticed that Grandma was kneeling in a peculiar location.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_4338\" style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4338\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4338\" title=\"Grave of Walter Anthony Dreffs (Taken February 1972)\" src=\"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1972_02_WalterDreffsGrave-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"Grave of Walter Anthony Dreffs (Taken February 1972)\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1972_02_WalterDreffsGrave-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1972_02_WalterDreffsGrave-148x150.jpg 148w, https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1972_02_WalterDreffsGrave.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grave of Walter Anthony Dreffs (Taken February 1972)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Then it hit me!\u00c2\u00a0 My Grandma is kneeling at the burial site of her late husband, my grandfather Walter Anthony Dreffs.\u00c2\u00a0 The cemetery office told me that my Mom purchased a marker for her father on January 19, 1972.\u00c2\u00a0 Grandma must have been showing my Mom where her father was buried so she could buy the marker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Walter Anthony Dreffs is buried at Floral Gardens Cemetery in the &#8220;Garden of the Last Supper&#8221;, Lot 209, Space D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was scanning in a few hundred pictures from a box my mother had in the pole barn.\u00c2\u00a0 I ran across this photo of my grandmother, Mary Rose (Stroik, Kasper, Karpuk, Dreffs) Romaine.\u00c2\u00a0 She is kneeling in a cemetery. At first I didn&#8217;t take much stock in this photo.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, I tried to figure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","category-tombstone-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4327"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4333,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions\/4333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}