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To the Editor: Hi, Sue. Thanks for a grand paper. We started getting the Gazette when Bernie Workman worked for you. Enjoyed the Basketball 1931 photo with Uncle John Notermann in the center. The fishhook is in your Scoop at City Hall on page 6. Thanks again for everything. Wally and Mary Goetz Shakopee, Minnesota
To the Editor: Thank you for the Gazette. I read it from front to back. It keeps me interested to read as you also have a lot of news. Keep up the good work. I also found the fishhook in the advertising of the Victoria Gazette with the Scoop of City Hall scooping into the bag on page 6. Lyla Norman Waconia, Minnesota
To the Editor: Happy Mom’s Day to moms past and present. My mom was born on May 13th. She often had Mom’s Day on her birthday. She was born on Friday, May 13th, 1927, at 2:00 a.m. Her birthstone was the emerald which is green, which is probably why green was her favorite color. We had green everything at home. Green living room walls, curtains, green fridge and stove, green toilet and bathtub, green telephone, Mom and Dad’s bedroom green with green curtains, closets in the living room, halls painted green. Green electric knife that she used to carve turkeys at Guardian Angels Church Festival. Get up at 4:00 a.m. to carve turkeys. I now have that knife. It works fine. We even had green curtains in the kitchen add-on to the back of the house, and the add-on to the family room. Put new countertops in the kitchen, they were yellow as were the kitchen walls. When Ma needed a new fridge and stove in 1983, she was bummed. No more green. She settled for almond color. Ma even had green curlers and green bathrobe. Towels in the bathroom were yellow-orange; they were a new set in the late 1970’s. The older stuff was mixed colors. I’m surprised Ma didn’t have green un-mentionables. The green look went away when Mom passed on. Green is fine for money and grass or anything naturally green but hot household stuff!! No thanks. The City Hall gang can go fishing on page 6 of the April Gazette, where your fishhook is hiding. Happy Mom’s Day to my Stepmom Helen. Kay Meuwissen Chaska, Minnesota
To the Editor: During one recent Wednesday evening Lenten service, we worshipped at Chaska Moravian Church as we had no pastor here at Lake Auburn in Victoria. On another Wednesday evening Katie Bade gave me a shoebox full of old letters; the shoebox was old, too. When I got home, I found there were 100 letters from 1888 to about 1911. They were all addressed to Mary Gerdsen Hoyler. Mary was a distant cousin of mine. She grew up in the Gerdsen house which stood at the entrance to the Carver Park Campground. Mary had a brother, The Reverend Herman Gerdsen, DD, who was a pastor at the Moravian Church in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, in 1888. It is where our son in law, The Reverend Rich Thierolf, is currently serving. Herman had sent some neat letters to his little sister, Mary. Another letter was from my great uncle, The Rev. Herman Holtmeier. His letter tells of his trip from Victoria to Bethel, Alaska. Other letters tell of things happening in the Victoria area, like buggy trips, how the corn crop was doing, and church functions. One thing I did not know was that the Gerdsen farm had been called Auburn Farm and letterheads had been printed to reflect this. Also in the box was a paper doll which was given to Mary in 1885 when she was 13 years old, by her Sunday School teacher. I will drop a copy of it in your Gazette box. She later married The Rev. Clement Hoyle at the Lake Auburn Moravian Church. He was later elected Bishop of the Moravian Church. Of course, there were several affectionate letters from Clement to her when he was away on business. The Hoyler, Gerdsen, and Holtmeier folk mentioned above are all resting here in Victoria in the Lake Auburn Moravian Church Cemetery. Ron Holtmeier Victoria, Minnesota
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