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Household of Ralph Harms

He is married to Lena Sunken.

They got married on March 26, 1942 at fortasse, somewhere in IA or MN, he was 29 years old.

Ralph Harms oo Lena Sunken

Marriage source: Boyken, J. Clarine J., Chairman, The Whistle Blows at Noon, Centennial Hist. of Titonka, (Brainard MN, Titonka Centennial Hist Comm., MCMXCVII), pg 360, 361

'Harms, Ralph _____ - 1991 Harms, Lena Sunken

RALPH HARMS, son of John and Grace Meyer Harms, married LENA SUNKEN, daughter of Henry and Christina Bergman Sunken March 26, 1942." <>

Child(ren):

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Notes about Ralph Harms

Ralph Harms

Source: Buffalo Ctr (Iowa) Trib. Vol 110 # 8, 10 May 2001, pg 12 col 1

'Tim and Tami Heidecker of Clive, Iowa are the proud parents of a son born Friday, May 4, 2001. ... Grandparents are ... Rich and Mavis Looft of Titonka. Great-grandparents are ... Lena Harms of Titonka ...'

Boyken, J. Clarine J., Chairman, The Whistle Blows at Noon, Centennial Hist. of Titonka, (Brainard MN, Titonka Centennial Hist Comm., MCMXCVII), pg 360, 361

'Harms, Ralph _____ - 1991 Harms, Lena Sunken

RALPH HARMS, son of John and Grace Meyer Harms, married LENA SUNKEN, daughter of Henry and Christina Bergman Sunken March 26, 1942. Both families were from rural Titonka.

Ralph worked for area farmers. Lena worked in the cafe for many years. They moved into town in 1949. Ralph died in January of 1991. Lena still lives in her home. They had two children. ... MAVIS was born in 1949. She married Rick Looft of Swea City in June of 1970. Rick was the manager of Custom Farm Service. He owned Rick's Feed Store. Since 1978 Rick has worked for the Titonka Telephone Company. Mavis has been abeautician since 1969, has owned and operated the Beauty Nook since 1976. They have two children: ... Tami, born, December of 1972; graduated from the University of Northern Iowa in 1995. She is in the marketing department of Hills Bank in Iowa City, Iowa. She married Tim Heidecker of Lakota in January of 1994. Tim is a computerprogrammer for N.C.S., Iowa City, Iowa.'

SSDI: 'RALPH HARMS b. 14 Nov 1912 d. 23 Jan 1991 Issued: Iowa' <>

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Ralph Harms

John A. Harms
1869-1955
Krasse Meyer
1871-1961

Ralph Harms
1912-1991

1942

Lena Sunken
1912-2009

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Birthday November 14, 1912

  • The temperature on November 14, 1912 was between 3.3 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
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  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
    • February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
    • June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
    • October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
    • October 11 » First Balkan War: The day after the Battle of Sarantaporo, Greek troops liberate the city of Kozani.
    • November 12 » King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
    • November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.

Day of marriage March 26, 1942

  • The temperature on March 26, 1942 was between -1.9 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
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  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
    • March 29 » The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
    • May 12 » World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
    • June 22 » World War II: Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the Axis capture of Tobruk.
    • July 28 » World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution.
    • August 19 » World War II: Operation Jubilee: The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured. The operation was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy.
    • October 6 » World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal.

Day of death January 23, 1991

  • The temperature on January 23, 1991 was between -0.4 °C and 1.2 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
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  • In the year 1991: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
    • February 24 » Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
    • March 15 » Cold War: The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany.
    • April 9 » Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
    • April 29 » A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.
    • August 8 » The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
    • October 15 » The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.


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