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2. ROY CHARLES RICHARDS

b. Newcastle, Dixon Co., NE
m. 21 Dec 1960 Blue Springs, NE

Electrical Engineer
restoring classic cars, inventor, woodworking, stained glass

B.Sc.EE U of NE and M.S.EE Purdue Uni

Managing Field Application Engineers for Fujitsu Microelectronics in Santa Clara, CA.

Holds patent for engine control systems for GM cars. Wrote many articles on computer electronics.

Has been in remission for 5 years after having been diagnosed and treated for a thymoma (type of cancer).

GARNET ICIE SCHONEWISE

b. Clarinda, IA

Medical technologist, Calendar Publisher
needlework, reading, piano

Working with Laboratory Services, San Jose, CA

Active in Christian Church

from his Aunt Iola Pennington

When Roy Charles was little he would get to thinking hard about something and fall off his chair. Also he claimed he never went to sleep. He could not remember either going to sleep or waking. I thought that was interesting.

From Iola Penington (Esther's sister)

Esther was a driver. She had a very good scholarship to go to the University but my parents were in such financial distress that they could not supply even the barest things. Dr. Richards wanted to do that but they declined. She taught school and took music lessons in Morningside. She was a strict planner. She practiced at school. Finally she had enough saved up to go to Wayne to finish college, but she got appendicitis and had to spend all her savings to save her life. She did finish her music course at the University of Nebraska and her sisters came and heard her concert. She was highly commended by the head of the Music department at the University.

She taught school, married Jack Humphrey, and had a son, Jeff. I was in Ponca when Jeff was born and took Esther to the hospital in Sioux City. She was afraid she would have a false alarm. We consulted with mother and with Aunt Anna who was there at home, and no one seemed able to give her the advice she needed. She sat in the car, and when she went in Jeff was making his appearance.

She died when he was 14 months old. She had just finished her masters degree, not as she would have liked for she told me the previous May that she was not as smart as she had been. Those cancers were working on her. The Humphreys were good to encourage her in this last endeavor. She had told me years before that she was perhaps losing her sight. She knew there was something very wrong with her health. I do not know the technical name but it was called black cancer. She told me about one time she was trying to cross the street in a cold winter wind, and feared she would not make it. Some man came along and helped her, and she was so grateful. Jeff, her son, was raised by his father and grandmother. He was a smart boy and quite "hyper", as the saying goes.

Esther - my Sister - by Rowenna Erbach

Esther was a joy to me as a little child with her curly red brown hair (mine was very straight) and her many capabilities. She showed an early interest in music and rejoiced when our family acquired a piano. She continued this through her entire life, adding the violin and other instruments as her music education went on. She earned the Regents Scholarship at High School graduation, but this was in the heart of the "great" depression and she did not have the courage to borrow the money necessary to use the scholarship.

She taught in a rural school for a small salary. One of the blessings of that was that she helped Dad not to lose his tractor. She saved money to continue, but the first week of college had a ruptured appendix with complications and on leaving the hospital had no savings left. So she taught school a few more years continuing to take as much part time class work as she could until she was able to go full time and complete her degree. Later, after her marriage she brought one year old Jeff with her to Lincoln and completed her Master's degree.

She was quite exhausted when this was over and was glad to go home to rest. When it became apparent that there might be further problems, it was found that she had a brain tumor which proved fatal in November that year.

She was always very helpful to all of us in every way she could be along with her busy schedule. It was hard for all of us to have this break in our family of nine. Jack and his mother raised Jeff on the ranch near Mullen, NE.

G. ANSON WILBER SCHRAM

b. Newcastle, Dixon Co., NE
m. 12 Aug 1956 Ponca, Dixon CO., NE

Farmer, Lime production
collects fossils

Has lime production quarry and distribution business.

Many fossil clams and some fossil fish on the bluff on their farm near the Missouri River.

Anson has had a cozy lap and a reputation for being a great tease for two generations of nieces and nephews.

VIRGINIA RIFFEY

b. Ponca, Dixon Co., NE

"Sidekick" in business

H. CLARENCE ANDREW SCHRAM

b. Newcastle, Dixon Co. NB
m. 8 April 1944 San Diego, CA

Seventh-Day Adventist Pastor
Carpentry, counseling

Both Clarence and Middle served in the U. S. Navy during World War II as Medical Corpsmen. Clarence served as a Hospital Corpsman attached to the 5th Division of the U. S. Marine Corps. He was with the marines the day they took Iwo Jima. He was on the first occupation forces at Sasebo Japan. After the war Clarence studied for the ministry at La Sierra College and graduated in 1950 with a degree in Theology. He was ordained to the ministry in the Seventh-Day Adventist church in 1955 at San Diego, CA. He had been pastor of churches in California for 15 years then moved to churches in Virginia in 1965. He is presently serving as associate pastor in Woodbridge.

He enjoys personal counseling, visiting the sick and doing carpentry. He is experienced as a finish carpenter and has recently worked in building homes and commercial building.

MILDRED "MIDDIE" ALISE PLEASANTS

b. Lynchburg, VA

Personal counseling
Nutrition, pianist, singing

Middle is an accomplished pianist, is the pianist for the Woodbridge Seventh-Day Adventist church.

1. ALISE SCHRAM

b. Corona, CA

Crusade against drug abuse, Singing Evangelist
jogging, swimming

Works with The Community Crusade Against Drugs

BSc in Music Ed 1969-Columbia Union Col in MD
M. M. in Vocal Performance 1970 Andrews University, MI.
Licentiate in Music (Vocal) 1974 Western Board of Music, Uni. of Alberta.
Diploma in Ed. Curriculum and Instruction 1978, Uni. of Calgary.

Plays organ, marimba, autoharp, piano, recorder and is learning guitar. She has recorded an album called "The Gospel in Song" and at least one other.

2. NANCYAN SCHRAM LIM

b. Fullerton, CA

Licensed Practical Nurse
reading, talking & listening

Does private duty as L. T. N.

Drawing closer to the Lord every day.

Attends Seventh Day Adventist Church.

SAMUEL LIM

b. Canton, CHINA

X-Ray Technician Supervisor
Thai food, football, basketball, tennis, badminton, fishing

Is Supervisor of X-Ray at Washington Adventist Hospital.

Ruth - my Sister - by Rowenna Erbach

Ruth was the most beloved of our family, not because she was the youngest, but because she was the best. She was a joy for us with her smiling ways as babies often are, but as she got older she always seemed to be thinking of ways she could please each one of us. She would buy a bushel of apples for the pleasure of giving them away or sandwich the making of a garment into her busy schedule because she saw it as being something someone could use. Her boys preferred the things she made to "store bought" trousers, etc. Even in college Chuck would visit fabric shops and bring cloth home for his mom to make an outstanding sport coat, shirt or trousers for him.

She had taught school after finishing that training- said she was destined to do it, for every female in her lineage up to then had done so- but she did not like it. Later she began to teach piano students and she loved that. She had a lot of drive to accomplish the things she felt needed to be done. She was very good to Mother and Dad after he was in a wheel—chair and encouraged them to move to Columbus so she could serve them. She needed a duplex, and in spite of others saying it couldn't be done, she figured out how she could do it and she did it. She had a piano studio and their living in one part (they rented the other house out), and Mother and Dad lived in the other part.

Later I heard Chuck give a real tribute to his mother as he said, "If you think we can do it, we can." She was in the process of plans for an apartment for Mother in a larger home which she had purchased, when she was stricken with cancer. She had to lay these plans aside-along with others, and leave her family at a time when they still needed her, but I'm sure her strength helped them to carry on. She was certainly our family's treasure and we would have been much poorer without that ninth baby.

Marsha (Ruth's middle son's wife) writes that Beal and Karen have just bought a lovely house that sits beside a lake and Beal really enjoys fishing

Beal has remarried: KAREN SMITH PENINGTON

1. CHARLES "CHUCK" BEAL PENINGTON

b. Columbus, Platte Co., NE
m. 30 June 1972 Lincoln, Lancaster Co., NE

Professional Musician, Neighborhood planning
swimming, hiking, gardening

Conducted for Gordon MacRae until Gordon's death in 1986. Conducted the "exile orchestra" in the ABC miniseries Amerika. Produces records and jingles, current project being the country music group Overland Express. Conducts the Intergeneration Orchestra of Omaha, a 30-piece group comprised of musicians 22 years and younger or 55 years and older (a nationally recognized ensemble). Conducts occasionally for George Burns. Later this year will be music director of the musical Little Shop of Horrors and for the Miss Nebraska Pageant.

ALLEGRA SMITH PENINGTON

b. Gothenburg, NE

Musician
local politics

Does Free-lance as bassist and is classical piano teacher.

Graduated with distinction from the Uni of NE at Lincoln. Met Chuck while in graduate school. Was Countess of Ak-Sar-Ben in 1968.

As a professional bassist has performed with Phyllis Diller, Gordon MacRae, Tex Beneke, The Drifters, the Lennon Sisters, many others.

Active in local politics and in the summer and fall of 1986 successfully chaired the committee to preserve the neighborhood school, which had been threatened with closure.

2. JOHN THOMAS "TOM" PENINGTON

b. Columbus, Platte Co., NE
m. 27 May 1977 Columbus, Platte Co., NE

Professional Musician
Slot-car racing, restoring classic cars

MARSHA KARGES PENINGTON

Housewife
Ceramics, plants, reading, counted cross stitch

Marsha writes:

Hello,

It's doubtful we'll be able to attend the reunion. Tom plays most all the time, and it's a rare weekend if he's free. Since we can't change that, I'll send what I hope is a "newsy" letter, and hope I get to meet all of you before we're all too feeble to make the trip.

Tom has taken up a new "old" hobby...slot car racing. He used to do it as a youngster (way back when), and since a track has been opened in Omaha, every Tuesday (job permitting) he and his cars go race. He's tried repeatedly to get me to enjoy the sport, but I must admit I find the whole thing a bit "off". What grown men get out of watching an itty bitty car go 'round an itty bitty race track is beyond me, but guess it's true that little boys grow up to be "big boys". I will have you know that I have tried it and that I ALSO tried my level best to demolish the tiny bugger. I found (much to Tom's amusement) the thing is indestructible. It's amazing how durable plastic is. I crashed the thing into walls, flipped it to the floor and had head on collisions with other "vehicles". The only thing I got was "That's OK Honey, just try it again"... I now wave "bye" and send him off the way every wife should send off her husband. By wishing him a safe trip, and a heart felt..Hope your tires fall off. I will say though, that Tom is quite good. He has a whole slew of first, second and top qualifier plaques, and is now competing for trophies. Guess we'll have to build a mantle if he keeps going as well as he has been.

Besides that, he's still into working on cars. He's restored 3 Triumphs (roadsters) and I mean restored. He even went so far as to buy a heavy duty sewing machine, and reupholstered the cars. We still have 2 of them...and probably always will. I guess you could say there sort'a like a member of the family. We really delight in them in summer, and have even put them in a couple of local car shows. They're pretty much a rarity around Columbus, and have been called anything from a Porsche to "Thomas Magnum's" car. Even Tom gets confused as to what they are, and will refer to them as "headaches". But whatever they are, they're our pride and joy, and a hobby we share.

As for my interests, I guess I'd have to say mine are a bit more sedate. I've always enjoyed plants and reading, but since the first of the year, I've found a couple of new loves. I've started learning the art of ceramics, and I do mean art. I never realized the different techniques involved in painting a piece of greenware. It's really fascinating to watch a taupe blob come to life with only paint, a little imagination, and a WHOLE lot of patience!

My other new passion is cross-stitch and that's the one I really ENJOY! I'm still amazed to take a piece of aida, a bit of floss, a pattern, and watch a picture appear. Since I've just started, might I ask a favor?? If anyone has some leaflets or patterns would they be willing to share? I'd be glad to send them the cost of xeroxing them off for me. And I really don't care what they might be...anything is wonderful. I'd also like to hear from anyone who enjoys this hobby. Just drop me a line at the address below.

I would also like to tell everyone about the newest addition to our family. In our Christmas letters, I wrote about losing our beloved cat, Blue. Well, Christmas Eve, Santa presented me with a new little kitten. I would now like to ask any member of the family who has a farm to invite Tom out and explain the differences between a boy and a girl. What was supposed to be a boy, became a girl and her name is Amanda.. "Mandy" for short. She may have been blessed with a sweet name, but let me tell you, she's a spitfire on four paws. I think she's going through what most people would term as "the terrible two's", and now I know why it's called that. She is into everything!! She delights in opening doors, chewing on her "mom", attacking unsuspecting plants, chewing on her "mom", untying shoe laces, chewing on her "mom", and above all else WATER(?) Yep water...ever heard of a water cat? She loves to jump in the tub, sits in the sink, and if nothing else is available, will play in her cat dish. Her worst punishment is to be put outdoors, and will scream like a banshee till she's let back in. I have decided, the next time I request a cat, I'll be sure to ask God for a cat, and not a goldfish in the shape of a cat. Anyway, she certainly has turned this quiet house back into a busy home, and is very definitely spoilt rotten. (She'd better be, we've tried hard enough).

I'd like to extend an invitation to anyone passing through to stop and visit. We have two extra bedrooms and lots of room.

Hope the reunion goes well and we really wish we could be there with you.

Love to All,

Tom and Marsha

3. DOUGLAS RAY PENINGTON

b. Columbus, Platte Co., NE

Sound Recording
plays drums

Is really enjoying his job.

Just bought a new Honda Accord and that's his pride and joy.

	a. JOANNA BRETTE ERBACH b. Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA drawing b. CHRISTOPHER DAVID ERBACH b. Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA learning to walk

	1. RONALD DEAN SCHRAM b. Manchester, IA m. 11 July 1970 Manchester, IA Owns North Iowa Contractors Stamp collecting, fishing, keeping Carolyn's 1948 Willys running Owns business (with father) that does general construction, highway structures and design for the Communications industry. CAROLYN SUE LETHEM SCHRAM b. Fort Dodge, IA Reading, fishing, running, caring for family

	a. KELLY ANN SCHRAM b. Ames, IA b. CARRIE ALISSA SCHRAM b. Kansas City, MO c. JESSIE REBECCA SCHRAM b. Ames, IA d. MOLLY GABRIELLE SCHRAM b. Ames, IA e. TAYLOR EMMALINE SCHRAM .b Ames, IA

	a. SHAHNA LIM b. Skating, bicycling, piano Sells candy for spending money. Has saved about $100. Reads very well but doesn't like to read books unless she has to.