Milestone

10 March 1909

My Father, Bernard Joseph Deatsch was born this day. The 4th generation in the United States. He died September 2005. Two of his Grandfathers had lived to be over 100 years old, and we had hoped he would remain in good mind, body and spirit and pass that milestones, but it was not to be. The third son of George & Josephine (Birrer) Deatsch, he grew up on small farms near Riverside (Washington County), Iowa. He attended Catholic schools, the first in his family to complete High School. He was an honest, good, hard working man. He loved the land, farming, tending a garden, trimming a hedge, mowing the lawn. He was married for 41 years, dying 28 years after his wife- on the same day in late September. He raised two daughters. He loved to read and work crossword puzzles. R.I.P.