On Thursday Feb. 2, 2012 Great Aunt Alice passed away.  Sadly, she was the last of George and Eva Walters’ 9 children to go.  Now they are all together in a better place.  All will be missed but not forgotten:

George Washington Walters (1886 – 1950) & Eva Marie Bierle (1891 – 1952):

1. Elizabeth 1913 – 1940

2. Anna 1915 – 2002

3. Frank Paul 1917 – 1975

4. Christina 1919 – 2004

5. Alice 1921 – 2012

6. George 1923 – 1956

7. Simon Peter 1926 – 2004

8. Susan Dorothy 1928 – 1990

9. Elsie Theresa 1930 – 2006

22 years ago today (Dec. 19, 1989) my cousin David Jacob Faleafine was born.  I just wanted to honor his memory today.  We all miss him, and most of all his family that was closest to him is thinking about him today.  David left us on Christmas day 2010, gone to his eternal resting place.  Happy Birthday Cousin!

For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:1

Aunt Alice was surprised that we came out all the way from California.  It was great to finally meet that side of our family.   Instead of presents, there was a large donation of cat food and litter donated to the Humane Society in Hobart Indiana.

We took plenty of pictures around Portage and of course at the party for Aunt Alice in Hobart, IN.  It will take me a while to add them all.

The old Portage Fire Station is right around the corner from the Calvary Cemetery in Portage.  Grandma’s brother Simon Walters was a fireman there.   Going past the cemetery, we turned on Mulberry and found the old land that grandma’s sister Anna’s house used to sit on.  The house is gone and it is now owned by the VFW on the corner.  The land resembles a park full of old trees and grass that stretches from Mulberry to the next street over.  It is the perfect time of year to see the leaves falling and if you look closely you can see the blue crocus flowers that bloom in the fall, remnants of Annie’s garden.

My dad and I just got back from a trip to Indiana for Alice (Walters) Felty’s 90th birthday.  I have tons of pictures to post, but before I get to that, I have some family history to report.  Christina (Walters) Cipko’s senior yearbook has been donated to the Portage Community Historical Society.  Dorothy (Cipko) Hudson presented on behalf of the family.  Thanks to Kathy Heckman for posting the images online so we can share them with the family for generations to come.

During our trip, we got to visit the museum in Portage and it was very cool to see some of the other donations from the Walters family.  There were some pictures of Christina’s brother Simon, who was a fireman and also some of her sister’s school pictures.  I quickly picked out the picture of grandma’s basketball team on the wall.  I encourage anyone that visits Portage to stop in if its open.