BUECHLER, JOHN AND JEANETTE (STURTZ)

John Clemons was born May 19, 1891, at Mineral Ridge, Iowa. He was the third son of seven sons born to George and Minnie (Coe) Buechler. Jeannette Belle Sturtz, was the seventh of eleven children born to William and Rosalie (Davis) Sturtz. She was born on November 20, 1891. John and Jeanette were married at Boone, Iowa on December 2, 1914. They lived on a farm near Mineral Ridge where Dean was born on September 19, 1915 and Dewayne on September 12, 1917. In March 1919, they moved to Nebraska to a ranch on the Middle Loup river four and one-half miles north east of Mullen. On Septem-ber 2, 1919, Irene joined the family and on April 9, 1921, Elthea made her appearance. Cecil was born 1923 and on 1925 another girl Gladys was born. Besides hereford cattle, they raised horses, turkeys, ducks, chickens and pigs sometimes a few sheep. They truck gardened, had good gardens with the sub-irrigation along the river, sold produce in Mullen. The children enjoyed ice-skating in winter and swimming summers. Cecil remembers a crew of men cutting ice ona pond east of the house. They used sharp shod horses to score the ice and pull it up a ramp slide and onto a loading table to be loaded onto wagons and hauled to Mullen to be stored in the ice house, that was in the rear of the Delicatessen, the present Long Pool Hall. The ice was sold from an ice wagon to Mullen customers. Buechlers had an ice house that they kept filled for summer use.

In about 1929, John had a basement dug on property, now where the Mike Brown house is. He had a house moved onto it and rented until the fall of 1930 they moved in for the school year. Johnny Clarence was born on

1930, and the next fall they moved to the Denny Boyer home-stead eight miles north east of Mullen. It joined the river ranch on the south. There they enjoyed Sing-Songs, Ice Cream Socials, Box Suppers and occa-sionally Sunday School and Church too, when a Minister would come from Mullen. It was four miles to the Virginia school. The children rode horseback most of the time. John put a tongue in the old Whippette one year and Dean and Dwayne drove the team of horses with the reins run through the front window. It was nice. Gladys remembers one morning they were riding north and it was so cold they turned around to bo back home and John's “Ted'' horse ran away with she and Irene. Cecil and Elthea were on a bay horse named “Tex''. Elthea was pounding on him shouting “Catch `em, catch `em'' as they toppled off spilling the lunchpail into the snow. The heating stove really felt good when they got home.

Dean rode horseback to Mullen High School, graduating with the class of 1936. Dwayne went to work for Earl Monahan instead, didn't want to ride his horse that far. He joined the Navy and graduated from the Great Lakes Naval Pier, so Jeannette felt he had graduated also.

Minnie June was the only one born in Cherry County, she was born 1932. In 1932 they moved back to town. Ruth was born February 7, 1935. Gladys remembers that Minnie had pneumonia one spring and the older girls had taken Ruth to the river ranch to relieve their Mom of her care and they brought her to town with “Measles''! Dr. Walker had Minnie under a tent and saved her life, and she didn't get the measles that time. Dean and Dewayne batched on the north ranch or on the river wherever they were needed and in summers to help with haying.

In the early forties both places sold and John sold Morman Mineral for several years. All had graduated from High-school by 1952. John and Jeannette sold out and moved to Thedford, Nebraska where they had an antique store until John's death June 4, 1962. Jeannette visited her family and friends until 1977, when she set up house-keeping in Mullen till she passed away February 8, 1981.

Dean married Virginia Johnson Phillip, she had one son, Dick. They had Caroldean, Joe and Linda.

Dewayne married Allegra Simonson, they have three children Gwen, Nancy and Simon.

Irene married Cecil Perrel, they have two children Barbara and Myron.

Elthea married Price Page, they have six boys John, Price Jr., Leroy, Eddie, Mike and Terry.

Cecil married Opal Prindle, they have three children Cecilia, Eddie and Rosalie.

Gladys married Nyle Hodges, they have three children Peggy, Alan, and Nyla.

John married Rose Cook, they have five children Tom, Randy, Julie, Cindy, and Gary.

Minnie married Ray Zeller, they have three children Debbie, Pam and Mike.

Ruth married Lloyd Reynolds, they have four children Vickie, Kathy, Eddie and Tommy.