Saturday, February 27, 2016

Emil and Rosalia Muench's Photograph Collections:Edward

You'll find pages 1, 2 , 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 in the archives at the right. Some of the photographs on them 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.

I have very little information about Edward Muench, the sixth of the Muench siblings, outside of the details in Reinhold Muench's book, "A Love That Endured". [ISBN 0-9681701-5-3, published in 1999 by Jacquie Bicknell, JCPS Publications, Oliver, BC VOH ITO].


EDWARD FREDERICK, born February 24, 1913, at home on the homestead, about 16 miles southeast of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, in the S.E 1/4 of Section 34, Township 13, Range 11.

Edward 'Ed', Reinhold, and Robert 'Bob' used this horse
trough in the spring of 1927 to go 'boating' on the coulee
on the homestead that drifted full of snow during the
winter. When January chinook winds melted the surface,
only to have it freeze over, the coulee became a skating
rink, until the next snowfall or blizzard arrived.
 
1931 portrait of 18-year-old Edward 'Ed' Muench

Ed was on his way home from work in May, 1933 when he died of massive injuries suffered when a pickup ran a red light at the junction of Francis and Freya, in north Spokane, Washington, and slammed into Ed’s motorcycle. Ed is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Spokane, Washington.

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