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                   REFERENCE: REIM, Herman A., 1954-1972; genealogical file.
TREPTOW, family group record.
SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX; SSN 562-26-5903.

OBITUARY AND FUNERAL SERVICES PROGRAM; Alma Luthern Church, Mead,
Nebraska, 6 July 1999.  Confirmed 11 May 1930, Evangelical Church,
member of the Alma Church on 19 December 1948.  Attended District #50 for 10
years, and graduated from Mead High School in 1934.  After school, he farmed
with his father.  During World War II, he worked in a California aviation plant
for 2 years.  Upon the death of his father, he returned to Ithaca to resume
farming the Treptow home place, and continued untill his death.  Katie Treptow
was able to live in her home until her death, with Gerald and Doris near by to
see to any of her needs.  Gerald and Doris built a new home on the site of the
original home in which all of Herman and Katie Treptow's children were born, and
farmed the Treptow land that had been in the family for over 100 years.  He also
sold insurance for many years.  He enjoyed working with the youth as a Boy Scout
leader.  He was also on the Wahoo Precinct Road Board for 12 years.  Despite
physical challenges in his latter years, he enjoyed visiting with his many
friends and participating in activities at the Wahoo Senior Center.