By Ricky Rieckert
As we enter a new week, I hope everyone enjoyed Thanksgiving Day, and any extra, time with family and friends.
Last week when writing about The First Presbyterian Church, we had a small glitch: It was organized in 1858, not 1958.
On the First United Methodist Church, I would really love to see all of the black on the flagstone, outside walls, carefully cleaned up, and removed to make the outside look sharp.
The Church ran to the Fox Street, side.
It was a beautiful Church inside.
I did some service work there a few times, through the years.
The last time in the Church, they were down to five to six parishioners a woman at the Church told me. She said they were closing the Church. Very sad. The Children Center will remain open.
I received some fan mail this last week from Wally Hammond’s niece. She said he was her uncle, no name though.
He either lived on the Northwest corner of Liberty Street and N. Farnsworth Avenue, or in one of the white side-by-side duplexes, on the Northeast side of Liberty and Farnsworth.
My grandma and grandpa, Mary and George Stumpenhorst, lost their farm in Nebraska, during the depression, and came to Aurora. My mom was three years old. They moved into the far east duplex.
In later years, my mom, the youngest, and my two uncles went to St. Therese School and Church.
My uncles, Bob and Jim, went to Marmion Military, my mom, Yvonne, went to Madonna High School.
My Grandparents later moved East from there, on Liberty. The house was east from Vermont Avenue, behind St. Therese Church.
My grandma lived up above the Bread Box in her later years.
Hope you liked the addition of my family in the area, you must have known them.
Next week, when I read all the fan mail for Main Hatters, on the Northeast corner of Broadway (Rt.25) and Main Street (E. Galena Boulevard), I will write about it.
Then, I’ll get back to Fox Street, going downtown.
Have a nice week, and stay warm.