Here are a few pictures from our wedding on Oct 27.  The top picture should go down in history.  Its a rare shot of Aunt Betty and I on the dance floor.  We managed to get through it without any damage.  Aunt Betty subsituted for my mom and Lisa's Aunt Judy substituted for hers.  We also managed to pull one on Lisa's father.  As they were finishing their father/daughter dance, we had the band start up 'The Twist'.  In his younger days he enjoyed that, and he didn't miss a beat.  The other picture is Kirk (Jessica's husband), Carrie and Russell (Christy's boyfriend). 

Everyone else is doing well ...Riley is running Jess and Kirk wild (Jess now thinks her middle name is 'Get Down'.  Stacy and Brett are doing well.  Carrie started a new job doing drug rehab in Champaign and Christy is finishing up at Kendall. 

We're having Christmas Eve this year, and going to Indiana on the Saturday after Christmas to see Lisa's family. They all live near Kentland, which is pretty much in the middle of nowhere.  We hope everyone has a great Christmas and a great 2013.

Some good news - Sept 21

Here is the latest picture of Riley ..she'll be 19 months old on the 27th.  Shes doing great and for sure has the heitzefeitz gene ...following in the footsteps of Kurt, Christy, and Andrew.  She's a bundle of energy and a lot of fun and doing a great job running her parents ragged. 

Now for some more news ..I'll be taking the big step next month (on the 27th) and changing my income tax status.  We met back in April and things have been going well and we decided to make it permanent.  Lisa is from Lombard, and actually lives about 3 blocks from the place on Woodrow.   Needless to say I'm thrilled.  We'll be getting married on the 27th at the American Legion Hall in Carol Stream.  Its at 6:00 on the 27th.  If anyone is going to be in town, it would be great to see you.  After the wedding we'll be going to Padre Island since the owners meeting is that week. 

Here is a picture of us taken a couple of weeks ago.  She has 2 sons ages 28 and 25 and a daughter (named Jessica) who is 21.  She works as a physical therapist in a nursing home and of course is a Sox fan.  Her dad lives in Indiana in a suburb of the middle of nowhere, and more relatives than I can count. 

Everyone else is doing well, Christy should be finishing up at Kendall in December and were all looking forward to seeing whats next for her.  Check out her web site at 'simplyplated.tumblr.com' when you have a chance.  The mayor was visiting her school a while back and Christy had a chance to meet him and her picture was on the Kendall web site ..she said it was because she was the only student shorter than him so and they wanted him to look taller.

I hope everyone is doing well ....and hint hint ..it would be great to see some more postings on here.

York High School yearbook

This is half of the sophomore class of York High School in 1946. Mary Ann is seated in the second row and sixth from the left. Notice how all the girls are wearing skirts and many have "bobby sox" and penny loafers. The boys all have collared shirts. Styles were different then. One lady who saw the pictures also noted the pompadore hair styles.

This is half of the junior class of 1946. Carl is the fifth from the left on the back row. His hair style took hours (according to Mary Ann) to achieve just the right flip. She loved to tease him about that. I like the divide between him and the girls. Was that back row guys the gang of five or six that might have been involved in the Glenbard bleacher episode? Of course the guys on the front row have on white sox with their penny loafers, too..

These pictures were posted on the Ancestry website from the Y's Tales from 1946. There is a list of all the students on the picture online. Ancestry also has an index of the birth certificates for both. It is amazing what is flying around in cyber space.

Here is the latest picture of Riley. Shes just a little over 9 months old now (Dec 8). She is doing well and there are lots more pictures on Facebook on Jessicas page and some on mine. One funny thing happened the other day. Riley was having trouble sleeping and they decided to let her cry it out so they wouldnt have to put her in the closet (like some people I know). She got quiet after about a half hour. When they went to check on her she was standing up in her crib holding on the bars sleeping. She is almost ready to start walking now. Once she's standing she can let go for a little while.

Willowbrook/York 50th reunion for class of 1961

Touring the two schools was a high point of the weekend. The Willowbrook principal spent two hours telling us what a "state of the art" building we had enjoyed. The update that was done 45 years after we attended, mostly met new building codes such as wider stairways and upgraded technology. Do you believe we were able to learn anything without the use of a computer!!? The painting on the wall in the huge gym I think is new. I remember many basketball games enjoyed on the balcony of this gym with the pep band that my friends played in. I even sang a solo of the "Star Spangled Banner" at the beginning of one game. I had notes because I was so afraid I would forget the words! I don't think I used them though.

This is the new track that was added. Mary Ann would be pleased to see that they had the records for girl's athletic achievements hung up as well as the boys. The low ceilinged old track was in the basement and now has been converted to a weight room that far surpasses any that the YMCA or Bally's has. There is room in here for a running long jump as well as a pole vault.

This is by far may favorite room--the choir room. It even has a plaque to honor the first choir director who was so great at mentoring students and helping to create first rate choirs. They were able to keep the skylights in the room also.

I do not know why the picture flipped, but I can't figure out how to rotate it in the program. This is York and it was great to see how the update to it tried to maintain the older feel of the original architecture.

They kept the wonderful ornate ceiling outside the auditorium.

This area used to be an outside courtyard. I remember running across on cold, snowy days from one side to the other. Now they have it covered and it is an open courtyard that allows light into the rooms, but keeps students protected from the weather.

In one of the halls they had a couple cars that were decorated in the style of the plaster cows (Chicago), guitars (Cleveland), etc. There also was a couch that had been turned on one end with the bottom exposed and pieces from the reconstruction of the school placed inside. The front had been painted to look like skyscrapers. Interesting....

It was fun to see old friends. Jan on the left I did not know well, but Marsha Vanmatre Brigham was my roommate at Northern for the first semester of my freshman year. She quit to go to work to earn money so she could get married the next summer.

This is Marion Wolf Washer, the daughter of Elise and Emil Wolf who were good friends of my parents. It was good to see her after more than 50 years.

There sure were a lot of old people there, but we all had a good time. :-D

Carl and Maria Moeck's Cemetery Marker

View looking southwest from the headstone.

View looking northwest from the headstone.

The headstone for their grave is in the area labeled Garden of Devotion. It is very close to the road and across from the Hipp0ch Chapel in Chapel Hill Gardens West which is by Roosevelt Road and Route 83 in Oakbrook Terrace. The office further labeled their plot as 102 c 3&4, but we sure did not see any numbers or letters.

Riley - 4 months old

Here is Riley at 4 months old. Jessica posted many more pictures on her blog - jessatate.blogspot.com. There are also a lot of pictures on her Facebook page. I had to post a couple of them here because they were just so cute. The one of her with the spoon was her first taste of rice cereal. I think she is keeping with the family tradition - I'll bet her plate was Grandpa Moeck clean.