Cousin Hazel’s Rhubarb Upsidedown Cake Recipe

July 10, 2015July 10, 2015 Schmidt Reunion Food beverly, charlene, cookbook, cooking, delicious, dessert, family, gibbon, hazel, iowa, lauwagie, messner, miller, minnesota, recipe, recipes, restaurant, reunion, reunite, rhubarb, schmidt, schmidts, spencer, upside down cake, west bend, yellow cake Leave a comment

Rhubarb Upsidedown Cake Creator: Hazel (Messner) Schmidt (1922-2015) Contributor: Beverly (Schmidt) Miller Circa: 1975 Ingredients: 1 box of yellow cake mix 4 cups of diced rhubarb 1 cup of sugar 1 pt. of heavy cream Cool Whip Directions: Mix the yellow cake mix as directed. Pour into 9×13 cake pan. Add diced rhubarb to top […]

Henry and Celina (Wirtz) Schmidt family

May 17, 2015 Schmidt Reunion Family History, Family Photos 2016, abbell, alsleben, arline, arnold, bernadine, bethesda, brownton, bucklin, california, celina, dorothy, eldwin, family, gaylord, gladys, gruendemann, henry, hutchinson, illinois, iowa, joyce, jr, junior, lindstrand, lyle, marjorie, mary ann, maryland, messner, millie, minnesota, peoria, reunion, san marcos, schmidt, schmidts, silver lake, simonton, spencer, thiem, viola, west bend, willmar, winthrop, wirtz Leave a comment

Henry Jr. and Celina (Wirtz) Schmidt and their children: (From left to right) Back row: Arnold Schmidt (farmer — Gaylord, MN); Joyce Abbell (interior designer — Bethesda, MD); Gladys Gruendemann (3M/antique furniture restorer — Hutchinson, MN); Lyle Schmidt (farmer — Hutchinson, MN); Marjorie Bucklin (3M worker — Hutchinson, MN and Orlando, FL); Eldwin Schmidt (trucker […]

Happy Mother’s Day!

May 10, 2015May 11, 2015 Schmidt Reunion Family Photos 50th, alice, anliker, anna, annie, anniversary, belva, carl, christine, elizabeth, esther, family, farm, girls, humboldt, ida, iowa, irene, jergens, kathryn, katie, knobloch, krug, ladies, lindemann, lindemanns, lizzie, lydia, messner, michael, mike, moadinger, mogler, mother, mothers, mothers day, neighbors, niewoehner, perkins, photo, photograph, picture, reunion, rick, sabine, schmidt, schmidts, spencer, wedding, west bend, wilson, women Leave a comment

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms in the Schmidt Family! Here are 14 mothers in the Schmidt family, at the Carl Lindemann farm in Humboldt, Iowa. A couple of them are still unidentified–perhaps you can help? This photo was taken during Mike and Lizzie (Schmidt) Lindemann’s 50th wedding anniversary celebration in July 1937. (Left to […]

Cousins Sandy and Bernadine Help Identify Photos

April 28, 2015April 28, 2015 Schmidt Reunion Cousin Updates, Family Photos ancestors, bernadine, faces, family, genealogy, history, iowa, messner, minnesota, names, photographs, photos, pictures, reunion, sandra, sandy, schmidt, schmidts Leave a comment

Thanks to our cousins Sandra Schmidt and Bernadine (Schmidt) Messner for helping to identify the faces in a whole load of photographs from the Henry and Celina (Wirtz) Schmidt branch of the family! In this photograph, you can see, from left to right: Celina (Wirtz) Schmidt, Mary Ann (Schmidt) Thiem, Arline (Schmidt) Lindstrand, and Bernadine […]