I. (Left to right) Peggy and Cryn, Ruth, Cree, Flora, 

Eleanor, Richard, Carston, Lyman, Jesse.

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The Descendents of

(I.)  MORRIS PORTER BERTHOLF  1870-1925

IA.  VERA BERTHOLF  1891-1960

            m. CHARLES SCHELL  ?-1941

                                    IA1.  Flora Schell

                                                m. Jesse Ross (dec)

Flora and Jesse, along with Eleanor and Edgar and Ruthe and Lyman, were very good to attend and even help with expenses for many of the Bertholf reunions through the later years.  Jesse was with the IRS and they lived in Salina.  Flora still makes her home there since Jess’s death several years ago.  They had no children.

Address:  216 W. Republic, Salina, Kansas. 67401.

                                    IA2.  Lee Schell (dec)

                                                m. Alice Paul

Lee and Alice lived in Wichita. The rest of their family also lived there at last report.

IA2a.  Lee Schell, Jr.

                                                                        m. Phyllis West

IA2ai.  Kent Schell

IA2aii. Debbie Schell

IA2b.  William Charles Schell

                                                                        m. Carol Denny

IA2bi.  Dana Schell

IA2bii. Aimee Schell

IA3.  Eleanor Schell

                                                m. Alfred Mills (dec) m. Edgar Futrell (dec)

Eleanor is a caring, loving lady.  Her husband, Alfred Mills, died in 1961.  Her second husband, Edgar Futrell, died in 1970.  She lives in Wichita. Address:  6444 Ward Parkway, Wichita, Kansas. 67217.

IA4.  Ruth Schell dec. 1996

                                                m. Carston Johannsen (div) m. Lyman Day

Ruth, called “Ruthie,” was a happy, bubbly lady. Lyman Day was a businessman in Hutchinson and enjoyed the Bertholf reunions.  He died several years ago and Ruthe continued to live in Hutchinson where she was a piano teacher and tireless worker in her church.

IA4a.  Carston Johannsen II

                                                                        m. Peggy Ann Kratzer

                                                                             Carston is a lawyer.

IA4ai.  Carston Cree Johnnasen

IA4aii. Cryn Chase Johnnasen

IA4b.   Candice Johannsen

                                                                        m. Jack Smith(div)  

                                                                        m. Nick  Stroup

IA4bi.  Heather Smith

A4bii.  Holly Stroup

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IB.  FRANK BERTHOLF  1894-1931

            m. Maude ?(dec)

Frank and Maude farmed in the Cheney area.  They had no children and we younger cousins never had the pleasure of knowing them at all.  They are both deceased.

IC.  RUTH BERTHOLF  abt. 1899-196?

            m. Fred Johnson(dec)

Ruth, often called “Little Ruth,” to distinguish her from our Aunt Ruth Klish, was a fine woman.  She and her husband always lived in Wichita and were close to Ruby and Jinx and the aunts and uncles.  Their two sons, Richard and Keith also lived in Wichita and often attended the Bertholf reunions.

IC1.  Richard Johnson  ?-1997

m. Arlene 

IC1a. Georgia Jean Johnson  ?-1997

                                                            m. Richard Schneider

IC1ai.  Crystal Schneider    

IC2. Keith Johnson (dec)

                                    m. Mary (div) m. Dorothy

IC2a.  Diana Johnson

IC2b.  Fred Dean Johnson

IC2c.  Billy Johnson

ID.  RALPH BERTHOLF  1906-1957

            m. Ethel  1903-1993

ID1.  Ann Bertholf

                                    m. ? Morris

ID1a.  Elizabeth Morris

ID2.  Gail Bertholf

                                    m. ? Hardesty

ID2a.  Cynthia Hardesty

                                                            m. ? Givennyth

ID2b.  Steven Hardesty

ID2c.  Bradley Hardesty

ID3.  Robert Bertholf

Ralph and wife Ethel spent most of their life in Pennsylvania, where Ralph was a respected and successful Baptist minister.  Their children, Ann, Gail and Robert came for their mother's burial here in 1993, and many of us got to meet them.  They all live in the East. Ì