This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BRAUNSCHNEIDER, GISSENER, LIMBER, PETTIT, SCHMIDT, SCHULTE, WINTERHALTER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/3123.1.1 Message Board Post: Alfred Ferdinand WINTERHALTER was born 3 July 1896, 6th Ward, Grand Rapids, Mich., the son of Charles W. WINTERHALTER and Emelia GISSENER. He married 1st, Henrietta SCHULTE, who died. They had one daughter, Katherine WINTERHALTER, who was adopted by a family member after Henrietta's death and is now Katherine BRAUNSCHNEIDER. Katherine never married. She was a nun at one point and very gifted in music. He married 2nd, Leona Maria SCHMIDT. They had one daughter, Alice Louise WINTERHALTER. Alice married Andrew LIMBER and they had five children. Al and Leone were my gr-uncle and aunt. They raised my mother, Virginia Elizabeth PETTIT, when she was orphaned. Virginia's mother, Erna, was Leone's sister. I always considered Al and Leone to be my grandparents and I currently live in their old home. Al died 31 May 1979, Grand Rapids, MI, and Leone died 25 Dec. 1982, Grand Rapids, MI. I know that Al had several brothers and a sister, Sophie, who lived in California. I nev! er knew any of them. Al, Henrietta and Leona, Charles and Emelia, are all buried in Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Grand Rapids. Mike Cronk Grand Rapids, MI