Bio: Liebzeit, Clara (90th Birthday - 1977)

Contact: Betty Comstock

Email: comstock@stateline-isp.com

Source: "Reineking Family Scrapbooks" provided by Gail Reineking Jaeger.

Surnames: Liebzeit, Braun, Learman, Zeigler

Note on the clipping indicates the children with Mrs. Liebzeit are Jim Zeigler's children

"I haven't been on the sick list for most of my life," Mrs. Clara Liebzeit, 309 Andrews Ave., Greenwood, said just after she celebrated her 90th birthday. And obviously so, for besides a brief case of flu and arthritis, Mrs. Liebzeit has lived a generally healthy life.

But there was one unhealthy time for Mrs. Liebzeit. Two years ago she fell and broke her hip. She then spent two months in the hospital and 11 months at Memorial Home. Thinking she would never walk again. Mrs. Liebzeit began to adjust. Now with the help of a walker, she travels whenever possible. "I learned how to go on again," she said.

That's just what she seems to have done. She cleans and cooks every day. Other daily activities include reading the daily paper and watching her daily TV programs. Writing letters to either her 17 grandchildren or 18 great-grandchildren is also one of her hobbies. "I correspond with quite a few. They write and I answer. It's one of my oldest pastimes,' said Mrs. Liebzeit.

Mrs. Liebzeit, the former Clara Braun was born on June 12, 1887 in the Town of Reesburg, ten miles north of Greenwood. She lived there until her marriage to Albert Liebzeit in 1910. They lived near Sheboygan until 1912, when they moved to a farm northwest of Greenwood. She lived there until 1951 when she bought a home in Greenwood. Her husband died in 1946.

Her children are Harry, Clarence, Norman and Arvin and Mrs. Elmer Learman, all of Greenwood. One daughter passed away in 1971.

Throughout her ninety years, Mrs. Liebzeit said she has never really lived each year the same. "We live according to the times," she said. "We didn't live any better years ago, but we did live up to the Bible more then," she added.