Memorial Monday -- Wenkel Family on Facebook

Wenkel Family on Facebook
The Wenkel Family reunion will be August 2018 somewhere near Standish Michigan.  Contact the Facebook page to join and to ask questions.

You would not believe the quilt somebody made, it is a fantastic rainbow, with each child and descendants assigned a colour.

These quilt photos are used with permission of the owner, Kevin Smith, Grandson of Fred Wenkel.  Thank you, Kevin, for your generosity.

The lettering is difficult to see in the lighter-coloured outer segments, but two women put in a lot of hard work on this piece of historical art.  Bertha Wenkel Peppel (daughter of August and Sophia Wenkel) and Eileen Wenkel Partlo (daughter of Fred Wenkel) worked on this big boy.  It is, according to Kevin, 7 feet tall and 6 feet wide.

There will actually be a reunion in Standish Michigan in 2018.  If you are a cousin, plan to go!  You can contact them through the Facebook link above, or contact me using the form to the right.

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• Karoline (Lena) Wenkel Peppel 1886-1975
• Carolyn, 1911-1998
• William 1912-1964
• Herbert John 1915-1966
• Elinor Peppel Welton 1917-2007
• Geraldine Peppel Rhine 1920-1991

Lena, children, grandchildren

• Fred Felix Wenkel 1887-1969
• Velinda Wenkel Boetefuer 1918-2007
• Hershal Wenkel 1920-1929
• Doris Wenkel 1921-1983
• Esther Wenkel Eland 1922-1978
• Eileen Wenkel Partlo
• Clarence Wenkel 1930-2013
• Ernest Wenkel
• Robert Wenkel

Fred, children and grandchildren

• Alvena Wenkel Schnetzer 1889-1975
• Norman Schnetzer 1928-1989
• Arnold Schnetzer 1931-2008
• Anna Wenkel Straub 1891-1972

Anna and Alvena, children and grandchildren

• Dora Wenkel Hohlfelder 1893-1981
• Ellen Hohlfelder 1921-2011
• William Hohlfelder II 1923-2011
• Ronald Hohlfelder 1926-2014
• Marilyn Hohlfelder

Dora, children and grandchildren

• Bertha Wenkel Peppel 1894-1990
• Lucille Peppel 1920-1994
• Otto Lee Peppel 1921-2003
• Marshall O. Peppel 1923-2001
• Elizabeth Peppel Marlow Butterfield 1924-1999
• Priscilla Peppel LeMire 1926-2013
• Barbara R. Peppel 1926-2013
• Martha Lou Peppel

Bertha, children and Grandchildren

• Frieda Wenkel Jost 1896-1978
• Benjamin Jost 1920-1920
• Esther Jost 1921-2013
• Kenneth W. Jost 1922-2004
• Wallace A. Jost 1924-2008
• Edward Roy Jost 
• Evelyn Elizabeth Jost 1928-1993
• Gladys M. Jost

Frieda, children and grandchildren

• Celia Wenkel Schinler Loesch 1897-1997
• Rosemary Schinler 1922-1922
• Helen Schinler Ehrler 1923-2007
• Raymond Schinler 1926-2000

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  August Paul Wenkel 1898-1973
• Laurence P. Wenkel I 1932-1999
• Laura Grace Wenkel 1932-1991
• Lester Wenkel
• Ruth Wenkel
• Nancy Irene Wenkel 1943-2005
• Andrew Wenkel 1900-1979

August and part of Andrew, children and grandchildren

• Sophia Wenkel Hoder 1901-1983
• William J. Hoder 1921-1988

Sophia, children, grandchildren

General overview