Ralph

Thurs., December 7, 1933 - Mrs. Behmer went to Ladies Aid this afternoon and stopped in for Charlotte Faye and me this evening, so that meant no walking.  Mrs. Behmer put a feather tick on my bed today.  I traced and inked some patterns this evening.
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Mon., December 11, 1933 - Mr. Behmer went to Omaha last nite and Vernon B. is here helping.  The schoolhouse was quite warm this morning although it's still cold outside.  The kids put up the stage today.  Mom called up and said that Harry's had gotten to Winner at 9:30 yesterday morning and that Ralph died last night.  She's going to let me know about the funeral and Ola will come after me.

This would be the Ralph mentioned in much earlier posts that Grandma went out with for a while.  The following is from findagrave.com, posted by a Kate DeMers:

     "Ralph was born to Eddie (Edward) Kahler and Mary Ruschmann Kahler in 1911.  His father Eddie died in 1916, leaving his mother with 3 young boys, Ralph being the youngest -- brothers Raymond (b. about 1908) and Walter (b. 1910).  His mother, Mary remarried a younger brother of Eddie's, Harry.  I visited a cousin of Ralph Kahler's (Verna Kahler Smith) living in Winner, S.D. and she has confirmed the story of Ralph dating an Audrey Haukaas from Colome, S.D.  Verna said Ralph was her cousin on the Kahler side and Audrey was a cousin on her mother's side of the family.  His death happened the year she was a senior in High School in Colome, and she remembers attending his funeral in Nebraska with an uncle and aunt from Colome.

     Here is a write-up in a Lake Park Newspaper (Lake Park, Iowa); remember he was born in Iowa:

     Jan. 25, 1934:  Ralph Kahler of Winner, SD, cousin of Mrs. E. H. Anders of Lake Park, was fatally injured last month when alighting from a train in Colome, SD.  He in some manner stumbled and struck his head against a rail, rendering him unconscious for 24 hours before his death. He was 22 years of age. His mother and two brothers survive."

The funeral in Nebraska was likely in Winside as Ralph is buried at Pleasant View Cemetery.

I am confused by Grandma's timeline.  Maybe Harry and Mary got to Winner ahead of Ralph's death -- that they just happened to be there.  Otherwise I can't make sense of how that all worked.  Or maybe my brain isn't in top-notch shape today.

And that is is for 1933, and as mentioned in the last post, our next stop is 1935; at least until I find 1934 (if I even had it to begin with).