WIEGARDT FAMILY

by E. Y. Wiegardt

Entry F448 from the History of Hooker County Nebraska
with permission of the Hooker County Historical Society

The Wiegardt children 1923, Harriett, Lois, Dale,
Yale Wiegardt home (now Mrs Ina Hodges home)

(Lois, Harriet, Dale, Yale, Billy and Jon)

Dale and Yale (the twins), identical to the
point no one could tell us apart and called us
Wig and Wag, as then they knew they need
not identify exactly, were little mischief
makers even to the point of bringing their
horse into the kitchen one very stormy winter
night when Bill and Zoe were away. Mom
tying one of us to each post of the clothes line
to keep us apart while she did her work. Dale,
a student, and Yale, a "cowboy" both were
sent off to Hastings College in 1933, as Dale
had received a scholarship from there.

Depression in '33-'34, the twins left Has-
tings and Dale found work promptly with the
Ralson Purina Company in Denver, Colo.
Retired from R.P. after 34 years, but contin-
ued working at the Wolgren Company in
Denver until 1982. Yale returned to the
University of Nebraska, at Lincoln in 1937
and when graduated went to work with Aetna
Casualty and Surety Company and spent the
next 37 years in the Bond Dept. and retired
in 1976. Both served Uncle Sam from 1942 to
1945, Dale in the Air Force, Yale in Artillery.

Dale never married. Yale met Irene
(Reshetar) in Minneapolis, Minn. in '41 and
they married at Ft. Sill, Okla. in 1942 and had
2 daughters, Pamela and Beth Anne. Pam,
not married, settled in Richmond, Va. Beth
(Garges), husband Fred, and 2 children Chris
and Eric live in Charlotte, N.C. where Irene
and Yale settled in 1957.

Lois in Calif, moving from Denver in 1979
with 3 children Dan, Martha, and Jeanne.
Beth Harriet in Glenfield, N.Y. with husband
John and 4 children Bill, Charity, Penny, and
Jim and 7 grandchildren.

Jon, a bachelor and quite a musician still
lives in Denver.

Dale died in November 1986 and was loved
by all who knew him.

Mullen was, in the middle 20's, known for
its twins in a town of only 500 and received
quite a write-up in the Omaha World Herald
on the 7 sets of twins in Mullen. Even twin
calves were born at the Wiegardts in 1924.