You'll find pages 1, 2 , 3 and 4 in the archives at the right. Some of the photographs shown below were in Ottillie "Tillie" Leeson's estate, and others were copied from collections shared by her siblings and nieces and nephews who lived in Canada.
Ottillie had a home wedding in Emil & Rosalie's house at Chester, Washington on November 23, 1929 when she married Albert Edward Leeson. Tillie descended the stairs dressed in oyster-white calf-length dress beaded with tiny pearls and rhinestone scrolls around skirt, white floor length veil crowned with wax-petaled orange blossoms headband.
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Ottillie 'Tillie' Muench, born May 24, 1906 in Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada, was the second child of Emil Muench and Rosalie Marion (Herr) Muench. She moved with parents to Bigford, Saskatchewan, Canada when four years old (1910)
Their children:
- Martha, October 11, 1904
- Ottillie, May 24, 1906
- Richard, April 18, 1908
- Wanda, October 10, 1909
- Robert Charlie, April 19, 1911
- Edward Fredrick, February 24, 1913
- Emma, March 19, 1915
- Reinhold, August 5, 1917
- Olga, June 27, 1920
Moved with parents to Bigford, Saskatchewan, Canada when four years old (1910)
In 1928 moved with parents to the United States of America, to a ranch at Chester, Washington (just south of Spokane.)
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| Ottillie Muench Leeson |
"Tillie" and Al had three children:
Chester Floyd, October 19, 1931
Mona Inez, November 26, 1932
Carol Elizabeth, February 11, 1936.
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| 1910 ~ 4-year-old Otillie Muench |
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1927 Muench homestead near Bigford,
Saskatchewan, Canada
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Fourteen year old Tillie Muench skating
in 1920 on the slough that was between their house and the schoolhouse where the children attended grades 1-8 |
When Tillie first left home, in her teens, she was employed as a housekeeper, which included board and room. It was there she saw her first bathtub. While working as a housekeeper for a doctor, Tillie acquired a good bit of medical knowledge which helped her all through her life.
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1926 Tillie Muench ice skating
on a slough on her parent's Canadian
homestead.
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Tillie Muench,October 12, 1926, on her
parent's homestead on Canadian prairie
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Tillie in her fashionable swimming suit. Ca. 1927
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| 1927 ~ Tillie Muench on Canadian prairie |
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1927~ Tillie Muench at railroad station in
Coderr, Saskatchewan.
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Tillie holding her sister, Olga's doll.
ca. 1928-1929
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| 1929 Albert Leeson courting Ottillie 'Tillie' |
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| 1930 Tillie Muench Leeson at Chester |
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Tillie in Canada with a close friend,
before she joined her parents in the United
States; his name is lost to history
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Tillie's 75th birthday surprise party. at a park near
her home in Spokane, Washington. L-R: Paul and Emma
Sterling, Olga and Max Reichel (behind Tillie) Lee and Bob
Muench, and Reinhold and Bernice Muench. 1981
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| 1986, Ottillie 'Tillie' Leeson, 80 years old |
When Arthur Frank Vanek and Mona Inez Leeson wed on August 31, 1949 they linked the following family trees, [Maternal ~ Muench and Leeson] [Paternal ~ Vanek and Gremaux].
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