Billerbeck August 19 and 20

On Sunday morning August 19 we drove about one hour north of Remscheid to Billerbeck (near Munster) to visit Mickey's relatives. After all Ken's Norway relatives, it was finally her turn. Ruby stayed in Remscheid to spend more time with Claus, Heidi, Britta and Juan. Here is Mickey with August Greving and 4 of his 5 children - Katharina, Arndt, Johannes and Maria. The family lives on a farm outside of Billerbeck. They raise pigs and rainbow trout. Mickey's great grandfather Henry Greving was a brother of August's grandfather Max Greving. Henry Greving emigrated to America in 1879 to avoid being drafted into the Kaiser's army. He established himself as a farmer in Kansas and went back to Germany in 1883 to take a German bride (Pauline Osterholt). They lived in Hanover, Kansas for a few years where Mickey's grandmother was born. In 1892 they moved west to Keuterville, Idaho (near Cottonwood) and eventually to Stites, Idaho where the Greving store supplied the miners taking part in the Thunder Mountain gold rush.