Legacy

Many Deatschs have been gardeners. And in gardens all over Iowa and around the US grows a yellow bean called "Mollie beans". The seeds are dried and saved from year to year and handed down to other family members. Amelia and her parents were gardeners. They sold their excess produce. And from their garden came the beans we continue to raise to this day. Aunt Connie and Catherine Simon both shared Mollie beans with me. And my husband has planted them in his gardens and flower beds. When I attended the Mellecker reunions with my Father, there were dishes of cooked Mollie beans on the dinner table and there were sacks of them available for anyone to take home for later meals or to dry and use as seeds. Wouldn't the Brockmans be pleased to know that so many years after thir deaths this legacy would remain. Great Aunt Mollie is buried at St. Stanislaus Cemetery, (near Hills, IA) with her parents. Her sister Christina, was Josephine Birrer Deatsch's Mother.