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Schroeder in June, 1949. Mary Ellen is a graduate of Kramer High School, has been the assistant chief clerk for the F.B.I., in Omaha. James L., Jr., also a graduate of Kramer High School, served with the United States Marine Corps during World War II. He attended the University of Nebraska, where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
Prominent in organizational work, James L. Rich was the Exalted Ruler of the B.P.O.E.; a past commander of Hartman Post, Number 84, the American Legion; a past president of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, and a president of the Rotary Club in Columbus. He holds membership in the Wayside Country Club and in the Izaak Walton League. Politically, he is a member of the Republican party. Mr. and Mrs. James L. Rich are members of St. Bonaventure's Catholic Church in Columbus.
Henry Rickert, son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Rickert, was born in Oldenburg, Germany, in 1850. When he was eight years old, he immigrated to the United States with his parents. They came to Nebraska in 1858, and settled on land in Bismark Township. John H. Rickert died there on October 22, 1865, when Henry was fifteen years old. After his father's death, he remained on the farm with his mother.
Henry married Katherine Wilke, and they had six children: Rosa, deceased, was married to Louis Groteluschen; Rudolph died in 1893; Adolph, deceased, was married to Ann Krueger; Anna Louise lives in Columbus; William married Emma Groteluschen, and farms in Bismark Township; and Ida, deceased, was married to Ted Dohman.
In 1887, Henry Rickert was the Republican nominee for county clerk. At that time, he owned four hundred acres of land in Shell Creek Valley, and had served in the offices of justice of the peace, township clerk of Bismark Township, school director, and treasurer of his home district.
Henry Rickert died in June, 1911, and Mrs. Rickert died in November, 1910.
John Rickert, Sr., was born October 30, 1850, in Sage Kirchspiel Grossenkneten, Oldenburg, Germany, and died in Columbus, July 10, 1930. He immigrated to the United States in 1867. He first located in Wisconsin and remained there for a year. In 1868, he came to Platte County, where he worked on farms in Bismark Township for a number of years.
On December 9, 1872, he was married to Catherine Elizabeth Heibel. The ceremony was performed in St. John's Church on Shell Creek, John Rickert being a charter member of that church.
He then took a homestead in Colfax County, where he lived for thirty years, with the exception of 1882-1883, when he lived on a farm in Creighton, Nebraska.
In 1902, Mr. Rickert and his family moved to a farm in Platte County, six miles east of Columbus. In 1909, Mr. and Mrs. Rickert retired from active farm work and moved to Columbus.
John and Catherine Elizabeth Heibel Rickert had eight children. Mrs. William Koch, Mrs. Anna Korte, and Carl Rickert are deceased. The others are: Clara, now Mrs. William Engel, who lives in Columbus Township; Martha, married to Herman Went of Columbus; Mary, wife of Charles Moore of Columbus; Kate, widow of Gus Kunneman; and John, who married Eunice Pippen. John, Jr., lives on the Rickert farm home east of Columbus.
John Rickert died July 10, 1930, and Mrs. Rickert died in May, 1938.
John Rickly was born in Canton Berne, Switzerland, March 19, 1815. He attended school in Switzerland and was an apprentice of the butcher trade. He immigrated to the United States in 1834, landing in New York on April 4. He worked at his trade in New York City for a few weeks and then went to Lewis County, New York, and started a brick yard. He carried on this business for one year. Following this he went to Albany, where he worked at his trade for one packing season.
He left Albany with one dollar in his pocket, and walked to Rome, New York, from Schenectady. During that winter, he worked on a farm in Cayuga County. in the meantime, his family had located in Ohio, where nine of them, including his parents, had died during an epidemic. He searched for the remainder of the family and found them at Baltimore, Ohio, where he obtained work on the reservoir of the canal. That fall, he opened a meat market at Newark, Ohio, where he remained until 1838.
John Rickly was married two times. His first wife was Catherina Benningus, who was born in Wurttemberg, Germany, whom he married on February 22, 1838. After their marriage, they moved to Columbus, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Rickly had five children: Mary E., the wife of Francis G. Becher; John J.; Caroline, the wife of William B. Dale, and the mother of Courtney Dale, of Omaha; Catherine, the wife of E. W. Toncray, of Columbus, died in 1873; and one child who died in infancy. Mrs. Rickly died in the spring of 1849.
In the summer of 1849, John Rickly was married to Caroline Bauer, a sister of Tobias Bauer, who afterwards lived in Columbus. Caroline Bauer Rickly was also a native of Wurttemberg, Germany. John and Caroline Bauer Rickly had seven children: William Tell; Louise, the wife of John Archer; Charlese (sic); Rosina, the wife of George Burke, and the mother of Marguerite Burke of Omaha; Albert, born in Columbus, Nebraska, in November, 1858, was said to have been the first white boy born here; Augusta, who was born in 1862, was the wife of Jacob Wagner, and was the mother of Mrs. Louise Wagner Irwin of Columbus; and Samuel. Caroline Bauer Rickly died in 1864 in Columbus, Nebraska.
Mr. Rickly had come to Omaha, Nebraska, in July, 1856, and arrived in Columbus on July 26 where he helped to survey the townsite. In 1857, he moved his family to Omaha, and later moved them to Columbus, Nebraska. On August 1, 1857, he erected the first saw and grist mill in Columbus, the plant being located on
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the north bank of the Loup River, just west of where the Loup Ferry was in operation. He continued in this business until 1872. He took an active part in the early settlement and organization of Platte County, and was a captain in the Pawnee Indian War of 1859
John Rickly was three times a candidate for the Territorial Legislature, and was elected the third time, defeating the man who had twice defeated him. He served as sheriff of the county for one term and as a member of the city council. He was affiliated with the Democratic Party.
William Tell Rickly, son of John and Caroline Bauer Rickly, was born April 22, 1850, in Columbus, Ohio, and came to Columbus, Nebraska, in 1857. He attended the Columbus schools and worked with his father at the saw mill.
Several years later, he conducted a meat market, first located on Eleventh Street, and later on, north of Twelfth Street, on the east side of Twenty-sixth Avenue.
In 1872, William Tell Rickly married Mary Matthews, of London, Canada. The Ricklys had two daughters: Eula and Ruby. Eula, an accomplished musician, taught piano and music at Ames, Iowa, and died there in 1947. Ruby is Mrs. W. L. Chenoweth. The Chenoweths had one son. Mr. Chenoweth was at one time associated with the C. C. Gray Dry Goods Company, in Columbus.
Mrs. W. T. Rickly died in Columbus around the turn of the century. Mr. Rickly died there in May, 1926.
Daniel Joseph Roberts, born at Platte Center, Nebraska, January 11, 1881, is the son of Edmond and Nora Reardon Roberts, who came to Platte County, Nebraska from Boston in 1867.
Edmond Roberts was born June 1, 1835, at White Church, County Cork, Ireland, where he was engaged in farming. Nora Reardon Roberts was also a native of Ireland. After their arrival in Nebraska, they established their home near Platte Center and remained there for the rest of their lives. Mr. Roberts died in 1916, and his wife in 1909. There were nine children: James W., Dennis D., Edward, Patrick, and Anna, who are deceased; and Mrs. Patrick Scanlon and John Roberts, of Omaha; Mrs. Sara Carrigan of Huron, South Dakota; and Daniel J. of Denver, Colorado.
Daniel J. Roberts was married November 5, 1913, at Dalton, Nebraska, to Lucy Agnes Casey, daughter of James and Mary Casey. The Caseys were born in County Kerry, Ireland. Mr. Casey was a wagon and cabinet maker, and also farmed.
Walter Emory Roberts "Walt" was born February 4, 1881, in Lawrence County, Missouri. He came to Platte County May 15, 1905, from Colorado. His father, James Roberts, a farmer, was born in Illinois.
Walter Roberts lived in Missouri and Colorado before coming to Nebraska. He attended the rural schools and the Fremont Normal.
On June 30, 1908, in Polk County, he was married to Crystobel Brian, a daughter of Matthew and Anna Laura Harrington Brian. Matthew Brian was born August 30, 1847, in Wisconsin, and died February 3, 1901, at Mountain Grove, Missouri. Anna Brian was born October 18, 1853, at Racine, Wisconsin, and died July 30, 1906, in Columbus, Nebraska. Mrs. Roberts had two sisters and three brothers: Leila Brian Troup, of Kansas City; Pearl B. Fyfe, of Columbus; Bert B., who died February 22, 1915; Vivian, an auctioneer at Columbus; Colonel Adrian Brian, an officer in the United States army at New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Mrs. Roberts taught school and later was manager of a lunch room. Walter Roberts worked as a carpenter, a cement worker, and was engaged in farming in Platte County for several years.
He is a member of the Federated Church, the Masonic Order, the Eastern Star, and is a Democrat. His hobbies are raising chickens and reading.
Patrick Roddy, son of Martin and Catherine Brathana Roddy, was born March 2, 1883, in Ballahadarwn, Ireland, and arrived in Platte County on April 4, 1889, when he and his parents moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother and father, both natives of Ireland, died in Cornlea, Nebraska.
Patrick Roddy had two brothers and five sisters: John, Martin, Mary, Catherine, Helen, Bridget, and Winnie.
He attended the District and Parochial schools near his home and was then engaged in farming.
On November 5, 1902, at St. Louis, Missouri, Patrick Roddy was married to Anna Finan Whalen, the daughter of Patrick and Bridget Kelly Whalen, both natives of Ireland. Anna Finan Roddy had eight sisters, only one of whom is living.
Patrick and Anna Finan Roddy had three children, John, Arthur, and Thomas, all born at St. John's, in the early 1900's. They all received their education at the Sacred Heart School in Cornlea, Nebraska, and are now married and engaged in farming in the Cornlea vicinity.
Patrick Roddy is retired. He is a member of the Sacred Heart Church in Cornlea.
Ole Thorstein Roen, the son of Thorstein Ormestad and Martha O. Brandt Roen, was born at Valders, Norway. From the early days the Roen family had owned a large wooded estate in Norway where they lived and were engaged in farming and lumbering.
Ole received his formal schooling there. In 1866 he came to the United States with two of his sisters, and settled at Decorah, Iowa, where he entered the banking business. Ellen taught music at St. Paul, Minnesota, and his sister, Gro Roen, was married to A. K. Teisburg, a professor of Greek and Latin at Carleton College in Minnesota. This sister witnessed the last Jesse James raid at Northfield, Minnesota, following which Jesse James is said to have crossed the country to Platte County where he sold his horses and boarded the train at Columbus.
Ole T. Roen came to Columbus in 1880, and with Andrew Anderson established a private bank which became the First National Bank in 1882. Mr. Roen remained with this bank until 1908.
In 1882 Ole T. Roen was married to Marion George, the youngest daughter of Frederick and Susan Delphi Peteet George.
Ole T. and Marion George Roen had two sons and three daughters, all of whom attended the Columbus schools. They are Otto S., Eloise, Susan, Paul and Esther. Otto S. Roen was the Superintendent of
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the Columbus Gas Company in 1907 following which he went to California where he was the City Manager at Ontario, South Pasadena and Alhambra.
He was married to Dorothy Harper and they have two sons, Charles Brandt and John Randolph Roen. Eloise was married to Alvin B. Carpenter. They live in Hollywood, California. Their son, Hubbell Carpenter, is an Electrical Engineer in Duluth, Minnesota.
Susan George Roen lives in Los Angeles where she is a past president of the Physical Therapy Society. She is co-author with Charles Leroy Lowman, M.D. of "Underwater Therapy for Poliomyelitis." Paul Roen, a Doctor of Medicine in Los Angeles, is married to Annie Lee Tedder and Esther Roen is married to James Thomas Holmes of Los Angeles.
Mr. Holmes is in the construction business. Among his larger government projects were the building of Camp Roberts in California, installations at Okinawa, and on Eniwetok where, in 1950, an atom bomb proving station was completed.
Ole T. Roen was a member of the Episcopal Church, and in politics was a Republican.
Following several years in California, he died in Los Angeles on July 17, 1935
Mrs. Ole T. Roen, the youngest daughter of Fredrick and Susan Delphi Peteet George was born in Springfield, Illinois, in 1864, and died in Los Angeles, January 4, 1946. Her father, Fredrick George*, the reputed younger son of Sir John Lawrence, was born in England. He came to the United States in the early 1830's to visit cotton plantations in the South.
In that day it was customary among the better families to finish off the education of their children with a world tour, and upon their return home they were expected to marry and settle down. At Washington, Georgia, Fredrick George met and married Susan Delphi Peteet, the daughter of Chenoweth and Martha Evans Peteet.
According to tradition the feeling ran high in the South against the British for many years following the Revolutionary War. So after their marriage the Georges spent time travelling in England and France before settling at Guelph, Ontario, where Mr. George and Sir John McKenzie were premiers in railroad development. Fredrick George was also interested in establishing a series of grain mills there.
He moved to Springfield, Illinois, before the Civil War.
Fredrick and Susan Delphi Peteet George had six daughters and two sons, Martha, Lucy, Fredrick, Jr., Charlotte, Charles, Susan, Maude and Marion George. All the children except Marion were born before the family came to Springfield. In 1866 they moved to Clarks, Nebraska, where together with the Mitchell Hulst and Morse families they started an early settlement. And Fredrick George established a grain mill there.
Four of the George daughters married men who were well known in Columbus. They were Lucy, Susan, Maude and Marion George. Lucy was married to Mr. Latham and after his death was married to George Hulst. Susan was married to Doctor D.. T. Martyn, Sr. Maude George was married to Doctor E. L. Siggins, a partner of Doctor Martyn, in 1880 and Marion married Ole T. Roen in 1882. Charlotte George was married to Edward Merritt, an editor of the Omaha World Herald, and Martha George was married to George Phillips, of Iowa, and after his death she carried on his business.
Doctor Paul Brandt Roen, the son of Ole Thorstein and Marion George Roen, was born in Columbus, Nebraska. His father, the first of the Roen family in Platte County, located at Columbus in 1880. Paul received his early education in the Columbus grade schools. He was graduated from the Columbus High School in 1908, and the University of Nebraska with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1912. Following that he was enrolled at the University of California College of Medicine where he received a Doctor of Medicine Degree in 1914. He served an internship at the Los Angeles County Hospital and took post graduate work in medicine both in the United States and in Europe.
He has practiced in Los Angeles since 1915 except for the periods of time that he spent in the United States Armed Forces. In World War I he was commissioned a First Lieutenant in the United States Army Medical Corps, and served with the 26th Division in Paris and at other points in France where he was with the First Army in the second battle of the Marne, Saint Mihiel and the Meuse Argonne.
In World War II Doctor Roen was a senior medical officer from 1942 to January 10, 1946. During that time he was commissioned a captain in the United States Navy Medical Reserve, and served a year with the United States Marines.
He was twice married. His first wife was Erna Lucas McDonnell, the daughter of a former mayor of the Philippine Islands. The children of this marriage are: John Brandt Roen, born March 19, 1932, and Charlotte Petete Roen, born March 17, 1935. In the early 1940's Doctor Roen was married to Annie Lee Tedder of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. They have a son, James Paul Elliott Roen, born September 6, 1944.
Annie Lee Tedder Roen received her formal education in Virginia, at Gulfport, Mississippi, and was graduated from the Sophie New Comb College in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Doctor Roen, a specialist in internal medicine, is on the Staff of the Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital. He has not only attained a high place in his profession in Los Angeles, but has won national recognition in medicine. He is a fellow of the College of Physicians, a Diplomate of the National Board of Medicine, and a Diplomate of the Board of Internal Medicine. He also has affiliations with several outstanding societies in the United States, including: The American Heart Association; The American Gastroenterological Association; The American Geriatric Society; The American Society for the Study of Arteriosclerosis, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Doctor Roen is a member of the American Medical Association, and in California, a member of the California State and the Los Angeles County Medical Associations and the Hollywood Academy of Medicine. He is the head of the Department of Clinical Medicine and Experimental Research in Arteriosclerosis established in 1949 at the Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital.
He is a member of the Nu Sigma Nu Medical Fraternity and the Delta Tau Delta Social Fraternity. He belongs to the Hollywood Kiwanis Club, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and one of the Board of Directors of the Greater Hollywood Taxpayers' Association. Doctor Roen is a member of the Episcopal Church.
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Noyes C. Rogers, the son of F. F. and Josephine Barcourt Rogers, was born at Minden, Nebraska, June 19, 1904. His father, a farmer, was born at Seward, Nebraska, July 10, 1878. His mother was born in Illinois, July 11, 1881. His grandfather was a banker. Noyes has one brother and three sisters: Judith, William, Betty, and Janet.
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He received his early education in the Minden schools, then attended Culver Military Academy, at Culver, Indiana, and the University of Nebraska, in Lincoln.
He was a resident of Minden, Nebraska, until 1924, and then moved to Lincoln, where he lived for eleven years. From 1935 to 1943, he was in Omaha. He had been in the automobile business for several years prior to his coming to Columbus, September 1, 1943. At that time he established the Rogers Motor Company at 1370 Twenty-third Avenue, and later expanded his business to include the Rogers Farm Implement Company at 1365 Twenty-fourth Avenue.
On November 23, 1929, at David City, Nebraska, Noyes Rogers married Kathryn Becker, the daughter of R. W. and Lillian Etting Becker. Noyes and Kathryn Becker Rogers have one daughter and one son: Janet was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, attended Kramer High School, and was graduated in the class of 1949 and attended Monticello at Alton, Illinois. Noyes William was born in Omaha, October 21, 1939, and attended the Columbus schools.
Noyes C. Rogers is active in community affairs. He is a member of the B.P.O.E. (Elks), the A.F.&A.M., the Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Motor Dealers Association, the Wayside Country Club, and, in politics, is a Republican.
Mr. and Mrs. Noyes C. Rogers are members of the Federated Church, and Mr. Rogers has served as president of the church.
Carl Rohde, the son of Louis and Artemise Lyssmann Rohde, was born in Hanover, Germany, March 30, 1856. His father was born in Hanover, December 15, 1793, and participated in the Battle of Waterloo, under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and afterwards, in Paris. He died in Hanover, in 1869. His mother died there in 1889.
Carl immigrated to the United States in 1873, and went to Rock Island, Illinois, to visit a sister who had preceded him to this country. His first work was on a farm near Rock Island, where he received a salary of eight dollars per month and his board. From 1874-1878; he worked in a brewery in Rock Island, and for a brief time at a lumber yard. He then went to Texas, where he spent six months, then returned to Hanover, Germany, for two years.
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In 1880, he came back to the United States, and settled in Nebraska, at Tecumseh, in Johnson County, where he engaged in farming for four years. He next went to Jackson, Minnesota, where he lived for two years. In the spring of 1886, he returned to Nebraska, and spent two years at Auburn. In 1888, he came to Columbus, and engaged in the retail liquor business for four years.
On April 29, 1890, in Columbus, he married Marguerite Mack, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Mack, of Atchison, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Rohde had four children: Carl G., born July 23, 1892; Ernestine Louise; Frank G., born May 4, 1896; and Agnes. Ernestine and Agnes were graduated from the Columbus High School and the Columbus Business College. Ernestine is at South Bend, Indiana, and Agnes is at Seattle, Washington. Carl, Jr., was graduated from the Columbus High School in 1911, and from the University of Nebraska in 1914. He was married to Greta Mace, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Mace.
After Carl and Marguerite Mack Rohde were married, they lived on the Rohde farm, northeast of Columbus, where the Columbus Power House now stands. In the early 1890's, they returned to Columbus, and Mr. Rohde again went into the retail liquor business. He remained in that work until 1907, when he retired for a year. In 1908, he accepted the appointment as secretary of the Sons of Herman, and remained in that work until his death in the early 1930's.
Mr. Rohde, Sr., was a member of the Sons of Herman, the Knights of Pythias and the Columbus Maennerchor Society. He was a charter member of the Trinity Lutheran Church, in Columbus.
Carl Rohde, Jr., engaged in farming, was a superintendent of schools, and later was the Secretary of the Sons of Herman Lodge.
Carl and Greta Mace Rohde had three sons: George, Robert and Paul. George and Robert Rohde are field representatives for the Schneider Electric Company of Omaha. George is married to Betty Mae Cooney. They have two children: Mary Lynn born August 10, 1943, and Bruce born December 17, 1948.
Paul Rohde is a master sergeant in the United States Army, stationed at Tokyo, Japan. He is married to
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Grace Thorton, and they have a son, Paul Donald, born February 6, 1949. Paul also has two other sons, Michael F. born September 2, 1943, and James W. born November 30, 1946.
Doctor Frank George Rohde, son of Carl, Sr., and Marguerite Mack Rohde, was born in Columbus, Nebraska, May 4, 1896, and died there December 14, 1948. He was the grandson of George Mack, of Atchison, Kansas, who was a co-owner with J. H. Kersenbrock of the Columbus Brewery, from 1889 to 1895. Frank had one brother, Carl, Jr., of Columbus, and two sisters, Ernestine of South Bend, Indiana, and Agnes, of Seattle, Washington.
Frank attended the Columbus schools and was graduated from the Columbus High School in 1915, and from the Creighton University Dental College in 1918, with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. He was affiliated with the Sigma Delta Dental Fraternity.
He established his dental practice in Columbus, where he practiced for thirty years, from 19191949.
During World War I, in 1918, Doctor Rohde enlisted in the United States armed forces and shortly thereafter the war was terminated.
On December 27, 1919, he was married to Verona Wishover, daughter of J. G. and Olga Ristou Wishover, of Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. Rohde has one sister, Edith,, Mrs. G. F. Mills, of Chicago. Verona Wishover Rohde was born in Chicago and was graduated from the Maywood High School there. She spent some years abroad with her parents, and then attended the Royal Academy. Later, she was enrolled at the American Conservatory of Music, in Chicago.
Frank and Verona Rohde had two sons and one daughter: Frank Rohde, Jr., born January 24, 1924; John Rohde, born January 30, 1931, in Columbus, attended the Columbus schools and was graduated from Kramer High School in 1949. He then attended the University of Nebraska and was a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. Margaret Ann, born February 26, 1922, is deceased.
Frank Rohde was prominent in civic, fraternal, and social affairs, and had served at various times as a director of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Board of Education, a director of the Lions Club, and a member of the Community Chest Board. For several years, up to 1948, he was a director of the Columbus Land Loan and Business Association. He was a member of the Izaak Walton League, the B.P.O.E., and a past Exalted Ruler of the Columbus Lodge. He held memberships in the F.O.E., the A.F.&A.M., the Sons of Herman and the Knights of Pythias. He was affiliated with the Columbus Dental Society and the North Nebraska District Dental Association, of which he was past president.
For his outstanding work in the dental profession, he received national recognition, when, on September 8, 1940, a fellowship in the American College of Dentists was conferred on him at a meeting of that organization in Cleveland, Ohio.
He was a member and past president of the Wayside Country Club, and besides golf, hunting and fishing were his hobbies. Mr. and Mrs. Rohde were charter members of the Dinner Bridge Club, which was organized in 1924, and were prominent in Columbus music circles. Mrs. Rohde served on the Friends of Music board of directors from 1947 to 1950. Doctor Rohde possessed a fine tenor voice, and was active in many home talent plays and musicales. While a member of the Columbus Quartet with Carroll D. Evans, Jr., Phil R. Hockenberger, and Dick Purnell, they sang for radio.
Doctor Frank G. Rohde was a former member of the Grace Episcopal Church choir. He was affiliated with the Trinity Lutheran Church, of Columbus.
Frank George Rohde, Jr., son of Doctor Frank G. and Verona Wishover Rohde, was born in Columbus, Nebraska, January 24, 1924. He has one brother, Jack. Frank, Jr., attended the Columbus public schools and was graduated from Kramer High School. Following his graduation, he attended Pasadena Junior College, in Pasadena, California, for one year. He then attended Doane College, at Crete, Nebraska, for one year. Following this, he served in the United States armed forces, and after his discharge was graduated from the University of Nebraska, where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
During World War II, while in military service, he served with the United States Army Air Corps as a pilot of a B-17, and was in active service in the European Theatre of Operations, stationed in England. He was commissioned a first lieutenant.
In 1948-1949, he was associated with the Ford Motor Company in Omaha, Nebraska.
Lester L. Rohner, known as "Pat," an insurance executive of the United Finance Company, was born in Nance County, Nebraska, May 22, 1904. He was the son of Jacob B. and Emma Gelston Rohner.
His father was born in Sioux City, Iowa, April 6, 1865, and his mother was born in Elk City, Nebraska, on June 11, 1870, and died at Blair, Nebraska, on February 2, 1944. One brother, Ralph, died in 1896.
L. L. Rohner's maternal grandfather was George Wells Gelston, who was associated with the early progress of transportation in Nebraska. It was largely through his efforts that the first stage coach line in the State was established in 1862, between Bellevue Station, in Sarpy County, and Lone Tree Station, in Merrick County.
"Pat" Rohner attended school at Fullerton, Nebraska, and remained there until 1924, when he came to Columbus.
On June 5, 1926, at Glenwood, Iowa, he married Blen Dena Zeller, daughter of Fred and Ida Lemmerman Zeller, of Columbus. L. L. and Blen Zeller Rohner have one daughter, Betty Lou, a graduate of Kramer High School. Betty married Chester Cowan on August 31, 1941. They have one daughter, Karen Lynn, born September 1, 1948. They live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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