Emil and Rosalia Muench's Photograph Collections: Ottillie

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 '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.)
 

Ottillie Muench Leeson

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.

See: ALBERT and OTTILLIE LEESON

"Tillie" and Al had three children:

Chester Floyd, October 19, 1931

Mona Inez, November 26, 1932

Carol Elizabeth, February 11, 1936.

1910 ~ 4-year-old Otillie Muench



1927 Muench homestead near Bigford,

Saskatchewan, Canada

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.



1926 Tillie Muench ice skating

on a slough on her parent's Canadian

homestead.

 

Tillie Muench,October 12, 1926, on her

parent's homestead on Canadian prairie 

 

Tillie in her fashionable swimming suit. Ca. 1927



1927 ~ Tillie Muench on Canadian prairie 

 

1927~ Tillie Muench at railroad station in

Coderr, Saskatchewan.

 

Tillie holding her sister, Olga's doll.

ca. 1928-1929



 

1929 Albert Leeson courting Ottillie 'Tillie'

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1930 Tillie Muench Leeson at Chester



Tillie in Canada with a close friend,

before she joined her parents in the United

States; his name is lost to history

 

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



1986, Ottillie 'Tillie' Leeson, 80 years old





Tilllie, Vanda, Emma, and Olga ca. 1966

Also see OTTILLE

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].

Muench Ancestry ~ Leeson Ancestry ~ Vanek Ancestry ~ Gremaux Ancestry .

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Emil and Rosalia Muench's Photograph Collections: Martha

You'll find pages 1, 2  and 3 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.

Of the nine children born to Rosalie and Emil Muench, Martha was the eldest. She emmigrated with her mother who came to Canada to rejoin her husband, Emil when it was safe for him to send for them.

• MARTHA, born October 10,1903 in Zdunskawolla, Russia-Poland (Martha died August 31, 1956 of cancer, in Canada.)
• OTTILIE MUENCH was born May 24, 1906 (died October 15, 1987 in Spokane, Washington). Cremation by Hazen & Jaeger. Interred in Greenwood Cemetery, Spokane, WA. (block Hope)
• RICHARD 'DICK', born April 18, 1908, married Marion Heath (born in 1916), and had three sons, Larry, Alan and Kenneth. Dick died of a heart attack after shoveling snow on January 16, 1954. Marion died of a heart attack 1966. Both are interred in Greenwood Cemetery, Spokane, Washington (block 110)
• WANDA 'VANDA'  born October 11, 1909. Married SLAGLE, had one son, Jim, then divorced. Married JOE FOX, and had Walter, George and Paul. Wanda died 1984 of heart failure.
• ROBERT, born 1911. Married Leola Coltis, and had Lorelie and Stephen. Charles Robert Muench died of Parkinson Disease in 1995.(?) He is interred in Greenwood Cemetery, Spokane, Washington.
• EDWARD FREDERICK, born February 24, 1913, died in Spokane, Washington of injuries suffered in a motorcycle wreck, May, 1933. Buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Spokane, Washington.
• EMMA, born March 19, 1915. Married PAUL STERLING, had daughter, Terrill and son, Carl. Emma died of cancer in 1986 (?)
• REINHOLD AUGUST, born August 5, 1917. Married Bernice    had Garth and Caroline.
• OLGA LYDIA, born June 27, 1920. Married Max Reichel, had Gail, Maxine, Byron, Shelby and Angela. Died and is buried in Trochu, Canada.

Martha and her mother, Rosalie, 1934 

MARTHA married Charlie Divall, March 22, 1924. After he died, she joined Jim Van Ohne in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Jim was born June 6, 1884 in Knoxville, Iowa. Martha moved from Swift Current to northeastern Saskatchewan, then to Coronation, Alberta, and last to Chilliwack, BC, where she died August 31, 1956 of cancer. She had nine children:

• GRACE  MARIE, born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada, March 7, 1925
• AMY IVADELL, born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada, July 23, 1926
• JOHN GORDON, born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada, October 21, 1927
• BELLA EILEEN, born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada, March 17, 1929
• MARY KATHLEEN, born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada, September 30, 1930
• DOROTHY THEODORA, born in Nipiwan, Saskatchewan, Canada, December 31, 1921
• (EMMA) RUTH LOUISE, born in Nipiwan, Saskatchewan, Canada, March 19, 1933. Always called RUTH.
• MONA LOREEN ELLEN, born in Nipiwan, Saskatchewan, Canada, October 17, 1934
• LORETTA, born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, January 2, 1938
• BETTY, born in Barriere Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada, March 3, 1940.




Olga, on the left with her sister, Martha on the right of her son John, with five of his eight sisters. 1946



Martha and Olga with their dad, Emil Muench and four of his granchildren. 1955 

 

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].

Martha and her children

 

Martha Duvall's childen

Muench Ancestry ~ Leeson Ancestry ~ Vanek Ancestry ~ Gremaux Ancestry .

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Emil and Rosalia Muench's Photograph Collections: Emil & Rosalie

You'll find pages 1 and 2 in the archives. 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.

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].

Muench Ancestry ~ Leeson Ancestry ~ Vanek Ancestry ~ Gremaux Ancestry .







1927 A neighboring homestead on the

Canadia prairie near Bigford, Saskatchewan,

 Canada where Emil Muench homesteaded

For more of the Muench homestead pictures  see: http://emilmuenchancestry.blogspot.com/2016/02/emil-and-rosalia-muenchs-photograph_22.html . 





1924-26: Emil Muench on their homestead

28 miles southeast of Swift Current,in

Sascachewan, Canada

Emil at the homestead, with their

sons in the background

 

1934: Martha with her mother,

Rosalie Muench

1938: The Muench family, Rosalie and Emil in

front and Emma, Reinhold and Olga in back 

Rosalie and Emil ~ 1940s at Trochu

Rosalie and Emil Muench ca 1940-s

Emil Muench at their place near
Trochu, Alberta, Canada

 1941: A visit from Julia Kuen at

Muench home near Trochu

Front: Emil, granddaughter,

Bella, Julia, and Rosalie

Rosalie Muench, Trochu, Alberta,

Canada

Emil and Rosalie moved from Abbottsford
to Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.

Rosaiie and Emil with their unwed

daughter, Emma, who came to live

and care for her aging parents

Rosalie and Emil at their place
in 1944 in Abbotsford, British Columbia

Emma amd her mother, Rosalie,

ca. 1946

Emil and Rosalie Muench family get to gether

when Robert, Richard and Ottillie visit in 1847

Ca. 1940s: Rosalie Muench

 

1947 Christmas Day, Rosalie and

Emil Muench

Rosaliae Muench recovering from

a stroke

Rosalie Muench at home

recovering from a stroke



60-year old Emil Muench

building their house

Emil Muench family together for mother's

funeral in 1948. Front: Bob, Emil, Dick,

Reinhold Center: Emma and Vanda. Back:

Martha and Tillie

Rosalie Muench's headstone
1879-1948

Rosalie Muench Funeral 1948

Emil Muench

Emil Muench with his second wife.

The marriage didn't last very long

Emil Muench 1966 at RR station

1966: Emil Muench ready for

a ride

Emil Muench tending his roses in

1966

 

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Emil and Rosalia Muench's Photograph Collections: Muench Homestead ~ Page 2

You'll find page 1 in the archives. 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.

These pictures about Emil and Rosalia's homestead on the prairies mostly show only part of the land and what remains of the buildings and shelterbelt. Their son, Reinhold Muench's book, "The Love That Endured" shows their life in intimate detail. [ISBN 0-9681701-5-3, published in 1999 by Jacquie Bicknell, JCPS Publications, Oliver, BC VOH ITO]



Braddock, Saskatchewan - the nearest railhead where

farmers hauled grain to be shipped

 

Farm bldgs on Muench homestead

 

In 2002, the Muench homestead was Abe Ginter's place.

Abe Ginter and the Muench's granddaughter, Mona Leeson Vanek

in 2002 when she and her husband, Art, visited the place of her

mother's childhood.

 

The land with shelter belt trees and Emil's barn in the distance.

Emil Muench's barn & shelterbelt on homestead in Saskatchewan,

S.E 1/4 of Section 34, Township 13, Range 11, photographed by

Art & Mona Vanek, August 2002. Referred to in Chapter 16 of

"The Love That Endured," written by Reinhold Muench, 1999



Stoney ground dotted with "cow pies" like those the Muench

children gathered to fuel the stove their mother cooked the

familie's meals on

 

The remains in 2002 of the big barn Emil constructed of

cement he created by hand, stirring the mixture using a

shovel and a wooden board.



Art and Mona Vanek by the cement wall remains of Emil Muench's

huge barn. It became a landmark, and in 2002 it remained so

 

The shelterbelt of seedling trees Emil planted so carefully.

It became the Muench children's daily chore to bucket water

from a neaby slough so they'd grow

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