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![Dale Kirmse and Great Grandmother Brunken - 1941](https://pressbooks.pub/app/uploads/sites/4349/2018/09/Dale-Kirmse-and-Great-Grandmother-Brunken-1941_400.jpg)
Who
Left to Right:
- Dale William Kirmse – Me
- Johanna (Plath) Brunken – My Great grandmother
What
![Visiting Great Grandmother Brunken - 1941](https://pressbooks.pub/app/uploads/sites/4349/2018/09/Great-Grandmother-Brunken-1941_400.jpg)
Who
Back Row, Left to Right:
- Carrol Otto Brunken
- Johanna (Plath) Brunken
- Norma Jean Petersen ?
- Hilda Ida (Brunken) Kirmse
- Dale William Kirmse
What
Visiting Johanna (Plath) Brunken, my great grandmother, and relatives in Columbus, Nebraska.
When
November, 1941
Where
Columbus, Nebraska.
Notes
A back story to our visit to Nebraska in November of 1941 is: The Studebaker dealer made an attractive offer to my father on a new car to clear inventory and make room for the next year models. Dad purchased the car and thus we had a new vehicle to travel to Nebraska. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor the week after we got back home and civilian production was converted to support the war effort – the dealer never received 1942 model cars. We did have a reliable car for the war years, but with the rationing of fuel, tires, etc, our family was not able to make another trip to Nebraska.