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Persönliche Daten Lulu Gertrude Troyer 

• Sie ist geboren am 11. Juli 1890 in Walkerton, St. Joseph Co., Indiana.Quelle 1
• (Fact 2) am 14. Januar 1975 in Clarksville, Johnson County, Arkansas.Quelle 1
• Sie ist verstorben am 9. Januar 1975 in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona, sie war 84 Jahre alt.Quelle 1
• Ein Kind von Daniel Benjamin Troyer und Mary Ellen Hostetler

Familie von Lulu Gertrude Troyer

Sie ist verheiratet mit Lorenzo Dow Brand.

Sie haben geheiratet am 4. Juni 1910 in Knox, Starke County, Indiana, sie war 19 Jahre alt.Quelle 1

Kind(er):

1. Clarabelle Jayne Brand  1911- 
2. Virginia June Brand  1913-1994 
3. (Nicht öffentlich)
4. Marjorie Esther Brand  1916-1992 
5. (Nicht öffentlich)
6. Shirley Rose Brand  1925-1983
7. Carol Elizabeth Brand   

Notizen bei Lulu Gertrude Troyer

[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 7, Ed. 1, Tree #0812, Date of Import: Nov 25, 1997] !Lulu dictated an extensive personal history to her daughter, Beryl, in March 1953. Portions of it are quoted under different family members as it pertains to them. Some other excerpts are as follows: "When we moved to North Liberty, Indiana, I first became acquainted with Mother's Steele relations. Mother's great-uncle Steele owned a saw mill in North Liberty, Indiana, and had been a pioneer there...I went to Hamlet, Ind. schools & was considered bright & smart. I was very good in arithmetic, had an excellent memory and was well behaved. I was not good in spelling (about 80 average) & not really good in reading till the third grade when I suddenly understood the words as sentences & not separate words. I took a Library book, Robinson Crusoe, which was written on the 2nd grade level & I understood it & could read it & from then on read avidly...When I was in the 7th grade, I did not like my home environment nor the fussiness of the boys & therefore applied myself to studying. I graduated in April from the 8th grade, before I was 14, & was the highest in my class. When I was 14, I was debating whether I should go to High School as I thought I was too smart & knew too much to go on. I never was so smart again. My Uncle John told me that if I would go on to High School, he would furnish the books. The first day in High School I found out how little I knew. Algebra & Latin especially opened my eyes to this fact. The first year I was the 1st in my class. The second year of High School, I went to school 4 weeks & the whole town came down with typhoid fever. I was well & there were 50 other cases of typhoid in town, & no help was available. Nothing was worse for me - I was the most humiliated I ever was in my life. When everyone got well, I got sick, typhoid fever; my hair came out & it was cut like a boy's. Then my hair came in again. I got well at Christmas. After Christmas I worked on the newspaper, Hamlet Herald. I was a reporter, set type, was printer's devil, etc. Almost in the middle of summer the Editor discovered he had tuberculosis & moved his paper to Arizona. I went to Uncle John's to visit & expected to find work in South Bend, Indiana." An obituary appeared in the California Intermountain News on January 8, 1976 on Page 7. It read, in part, "Lulu Gertrude Brand died January 9, 1975, in Mesa, Arizona, at the age of 84 years. She was born in St. Joseph, Indiana, and married Lorenzo Dow Brand June 4, 1910, at Knox, Indiana. His work in Chicago enabled them to move to Illinois after the wedding and they lived there until he retired from the New York Central R.R. in 1947... After a marriage that lasted 54 years, Mrs. Brand lived as a widow in Wellton, Arizona, with an unmarried daughter, Shirley R. Brand, who taught college and Antelope High School in that area. The last year of her life she suffered from a fall and a broken arm. A healing broken leg caused her many operations. The family was reunited at her funeral with several households, and many of the 34 grandchildren and 58 great-grandchildren in attendance with many people who had lives touched by her great missionary abilities..." Lulu was buried in Oakland Cemtery beside her husband. Lulu's son-in-law, William Edward Smith, wrote a poem for her 80th birthday celebration that was held in Provo, Utah. It was titled "Mama Brand At Eighty Years". It reads: "It was high summer in a quiet little Indian village, when there came into the world a soul of beauty and light. She played, learned household tasks, made friends. She was a child. She grew up in storm and sunshine, learned that both are part of life. She looked upon the world with wonder and delight. Her mind inquired, her soul reached out for learning, and she learned. And having learned she taught, and by her teaching learned and grew. Her name was Lulu Troyer. In the beauty of her youth she met a man, Lorenzo Brand. He loved her, watched and waited, while she grew to womanhood. In time she saw the greatness of his heart, returned his love, and they were wed. Soon the sound of children's voices, bright and lilting, blessed their home. There were happy times and sad times, there were prosperous years and lean, and they met them all, together, side by side. She brought seven choice spirits to the sunlight of this world, taught them to love and honor truth and beauty and the Gospel of Our Lord. Good wife, gentle mother, gracious neighbor, and true friend, she spoke the kind word, helped the poor, and laid a cool hand on the fevered brow. Her name was Mrs. Brand. When the holocaust of war engulfed the world and sent young men into the jaws of death and pain, though it was a time for resting, she stood up and joined the war in an ammunition manufactory, as an inspector. She required compliance fully with the rules. All faulty ammunition was returned to be reworked, and weary soldiers blessed a name they never knew. Her name was Mama Brand. In the fullness of her years she bade farewell to her companion, Papa Brand, and laid his body in the cool earth on the hill, then gathered up the scattered threads of life anew and faced the future, with a smile upon her face and the sunshine on the silver of her hair. Now her children's children bring their children to her knee to learn the beauty and the wisdom of her love. As she walks the sunlit corridors of time she smiles upon the friends she meets and in her joy counts the summers, not the years. One who sees the glory of the bright unfolding dawn will scarely note the fading of the day. And such a one is she. Her name is Grandma Brand."

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