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May 2011

         Elizabeth later moved back home to be with her mother.  Ida and Anton had moved from the Salter House in the mid 1940’s -- they had lived there ten years --  to a new location one block south of the Catholic church.  It’s the stucco home on the corner where Elizabeth has lived these past many years.

         As for Elizabeth’s young sister Julianne, she graduated from Chaska High school in 1951, married Eugene ‘Euch’ Wartman at the St. Victoria Catholic Church in 1954, had seven children, joined the St. Victoria Choir among other good things, and continues to reside in Victoria -- on Rhoy Street, where her cousin Celeste also lived for a time in a brand new house after selling her lifelong home to the church.

         Ida Diethelm came to have 39 grandchildren and many great grandchildren.  One of Ida's grandchildren, Mike Wartman -- oldest son of Julianne and the late Euch Wartman -- stopped by to see his Aunt Elizabeth on the afternoon that I was visiting for this story.

         Mike loved his Grandma Ida Diethelm.  "She was a wonderfully caring person," he said.  “She always liked, loved, and cared for everybody.  She was a great person.  She was a wonderful cook.  Her homemade bread was phenomenal.  She also make elephant ears, which is bread dough fried in oil and sprinkled with sugar.  I think all she did was bake bread in later years.  Her house always smelled like fresh bread.  I remember the cellar being full of jars.  Years later it was full of empty jars."

         Ida suffered a stroke on Memorial Day of 1982 and was moved to the Excelsior Health Care Center where she died on August 14th of 1986.  The quiet humble mother and grandmother was mourned by her entire family and a whole community of friends.  Said Elizabeth, “People asked why I didn’t shed tears at the cemetery.  It’s because Julianne’s kids were crying uncontrollably at the grave and I had to comfort them.”

         Precious memories honor those who are no longer with us.  Thank you, Elizabeth and Julianne, for sharing the life and work of your mother, when you were young.  It is good to know her ... and you.
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Anton and Ida Diethelm and their nine children at daughter Elaine's wedding in 1949.  Said Julianne, "I was still in high school."  (L-r):  Jeanne, Paul, Marie, Mr. Diethelm, Elaine, Mrs. Diethelm, Mildred, Joe, Elizabeth, Julianne, and Dan.