Thanks again for a very interesting series of articles! The summer that your folks had visited Lemon Grove was the time I headed for my first teaching job in California...probably arriving in Phoenix and then in Lemon Grove (a busy time for the generous hosts!) with my dad a month or so after their return to Hammond. I've forwarded the article to Judy Helbing, who'll probably have some memories of the trip... Of great interest was the Saberniak article, since I found no Raymond Peters in my database and now recall my mother's telling me that Agnes Peters (a Lauerman/Gard descendant) had an illegitimate child before her marriage to Florian Saberniak, obviously this Raymond, whom I've now entered as the son of Agnes and an unknown "spouse," although that wasn't really the case. It may be that Florian adopted Raymond, who kept the Peters name, but in any case, it would be pretty obvious that Florian would have taken the child in... I am estimating his birth year (on the basis of having two children old enough to travel from Houston in the summer months, surely a grueling journey, since a/c cars were still an expensive option) as 1930, assuming marriage about 1951, with the sons following, possibly in 1952 and 1953...making the youngest four years old. Does that sound reasonable to you? I'm copying this article and snail-mailing it to Helen Halton, who would be a first cousin, the daughter of the late Margaret Peters Felicichia (great friend of my mother's and even closer to the late Marjorie Lauerman Gaskell before Margaret moved to Delaware to live with her daughter). Since I've been in contact with Helen on a more recent basis than her sister Catherine (as Mrs. Kasper, mentioned in another article from you, also about a vacation trip), I feel that I might get a response more quickly...Catherine has had a lot of health problems, according to Marjorie, although we've always been the best of friends...I took her to my senior prom! It would be nice to know something about this otherwise "lost" cousin, and since Raymond, if still alive, would be my contemporary, I doubt there is any emotional baggage that might interfere with learning just what had happened. At the time, such things were hushed up, of course, but they happened often enough... I'm intrigued by the Stanley Lauerman/Geneva Pearman wedding, as I had data for a marriage to Lucille with children coming at a year that would be rather close to what would surely be the first marriage (she was just out of high school); if you find any articles about Stanley or his parents (Anthony J. Lauerman), by all means let me know! Love, Paul