Ernest John TREPTOW

                   REFERENCE: REIM, Herman A. 1954-1972; genealogical file.
TREPTOW, fammily group record.
FUNERAL SERVICE PROGRAM, Ithaca United Methodist Church, Ithaca, Nebraska, 4
Dec 1982.

Ernest John TREPTOW married Elsie Rood, a school teacher from Wahoo, Nebraska
on October 9, 1933.  The government during World War II purchased the land they
farmed in order to establish the Nebraska Defense Corporation, Mead Ordnance
Plant, where they made aerial bombs.  They then bought the Dech farm, located
on an Indian burial mound just outside Ithaca, and the site of the first white
settler in Ithaca.  Ernest and Elsie had no children, but they raised two
orphans, Wilma and Betty.  Along with farming, Ernest was also the postmaster
of Ithaca for 16 years, and collected stamps as a hobby.  He loved communicating
with people, and had many pen pals around the world.  He would write people
featured in articles in magazines such as the National Geographic, if he had
something interesting to discuss with them.  Ernest was driving his wife and
mother to Wahoo one Sunday afternoon when they were involved in an automobile
accident in which both women were seriously hurt.  Elsie died July 8, 1962 at
the age of 65.  Katie, his mother died three days later.  Herman died November
30, 1982 at the age of 86.  These notes by Kathryn Rae (HANKE) STEVENS, June 4,
2000.