My friend and I talked about the Walther family this am after I told her about the activity on the list about them and the Leslie's. She used to visit the family and ate meals with them. They were neighbors. She remembers that the parents would go into German whenever they didn't want the kids to know what they were discussing. She thinks that there were Walther's here in the area who were not related to each other. I really don't want to do the research as I have enough going on at the moment with my Downey and Badgley lines, but it would be interesting to know just how many Walther lines there were here. My Uncle Lou Reber, Marie Leslie Reber's father-in-law and her husband Tom, got my husband his first good job, working for Moraine Manufacturing which the Walther's owned. It was machining brake drums and we ruined a bath tub on the shaving from his clothes which clung to him even into the tub! My friends whose relative worked there said she ruined her washer doing his laundry because of the shavings. LindaSS **************Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851)

Linda, I wonder if your friend remembers the dining room of the Leslie home on Detzen Ave, across from the old Greencastle Cem where there were painted murals of the ancestral homes in Germany. I haven't been to that cemetery in quite awhile but the house was still standing. It probably was the largest house in Edgemont, at least in the 1930's & 1940's. When Bob and my sister were dating Bob drove a red Chrysler convertible. If I remember correctly, the family only owned Chrysler cars. The Walthers all lived a lavish lifestyle, even during the Depression. Jo My friend and I talked about the Walther family this am after I told her about the activity on the list about them and the Leslie's. She used to visit the family and ate meals with them. They were neighbors. She remembers that the parents would go into German whenever they didn't want the kids to know what they were discussing. She thinks that there were Walther's here in the area who were not related to each other. I really don't want to do the research as I have enough going on at the moment with my Downey and Badgley lines, but it would be interesting to know just how many Walther lines there were here. My Uncle Lou Reber, Marie Leslie Reber's father-in-law and her husband Tom, got my husband his first good job, working for Moraine Manufacturing which the Walther's owned. It was machining brake drums and we ruined a bath tub on the shaving from his clothes which clung to him even into the tub! My friends whose relative worked there said she ruined her washer doing his laundry because of the shavings. LindaSS No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.5/1398 - Release Date: 4/25/2008 2:31 PM