Wilhelm “William” and Martha (Cordes) Kirmse – Family
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![Ella Anna Paulina Kirmse Ella Anna Paulina Kirmse](https://pressbooks.pub/app/uploads/sites/4087/2019/02/20150422_Donna2_IMG_1107.jpg)
![Source: Ella Anna Paulina (Kirmse) Krueger shared this photograph December 30, 2003. Source: Ella Anna Paulina (Kirmse) Krueger shared this photograph December 30, 2003.](https://pressbooks.pub/app/uploads/sites/4087/2019/02/20150422_Donna2_IMG_1106.jpg)
Who
Ella Anna Paulina Kirmse is the daughter of Martha Margaretha and William Kirmse.
What
Ella Anna Paulina Kirmse confirmation portrait. However, there was a snow storm the night before what was to be her confirmation.
![Ella - Taken in her garden Ella - Taken in her garden](https://pressbooks.pub/app/uploads/sites/4087/2019/02/20150422_Donna2_IMG_1471.jpg)
![Ella's notes - Was to be my conformation Day but snow storm left roads closed - taken in my garden, north fence. Confirmed two weeks later. Ella's notes - Was to be my conformation Day but snow storm left roads closed - taken in my garden, north fence. Confirmed two weeks later.](https://pressbooks.pub/app/uploads/sites/4087/2019/02/20150422_Donna2_IMG_1469.jpg)
![Ella and her two sisters sitting on a snow drift Ella and her two sisters sitting on a snow drift](https://pressbooks.pub/app/uploads/sites/4087/2019/02/20150422_Donna2_IMG_1481.jpg)
![Ella two weeks later Ella two weeks later](https://pressbooks.pub/app/uploads/sites/4087/2019/02/20150422_Donna2_IMG_1475.jpg)
When
12 April 1931
Where
Alva, Oklahoma
![Confirmation Record, Zion Lutheran Church, Alva, Oklahoma Confirmation Record, Zion Lutheran Church, Alva, Oklahoma](https://pressbooks.pub/app/uploads/sites/4087/2019/02/20031229_Zion_Church_confirmation_DSCN5245.jpg)
Notes
- Scanned from Zion Lutheran Church Records, December, 2003.