{"id":1223,"date":"2008-08-31T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/family-events-week-of-september-1-to-september-7\/"},"modified":"2013-07-11T18:03:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T23:03:01","slug":"family-events-week-of-september-1-to-september-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/family-events-week-of-september-1-to-september-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Events &#8211; Week of September 1 to September 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/images\/family.JPG\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Taking a cue from Thomas MacEntee&#8217;s &#8220;On This Day&#8221; posts at his blog <a href=\"http:\/\/destinationaustinfamily.blogspot.com\/\">Destination: Austin Family<\/a>, I am starting a regular post called &#8220;Family Events.&#8221;\u00a0 Instead of doing this for each day like Thomas does, I am going to post on Sunday&#8217;s for the upcoming week.\u00a0 So, here&#8217;s the debut of &#8220;Family Events!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Robert Anthony Briedis<\/strong> &#8211; My &#8220;uncle&#8221; Bob and my dad were first cousins and grew up together like brothers.\u00a0 He was born on 6 August 1952 to Robert Anthony Dombrowski and Florence June McMahon.\u00a0 He was later adopted by his mom&#8217;s second husband, Vilhelms Briedis.\u00a0 Although Bob moved to southern California about ten or so years after I was born, we were very close.\u00a0 I spent several vacations in California.\u00a0 The last time I saw his was at my wedding five years ago.\u00a0 He passed away on <strong>2 September 2007<\/strong> of pancreatic cancer; he was 55-years-young.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clara Hilda ROTTMAN &amp; Carl SLENTZ<\/strong> &#8211; Clara, my first cousin twice removed, married Carl on <strong>3 September 1934<\/strong> in Ohio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>George STOFFEL<\/strong> &#8211; My great-granduncle, George, was born on 1 October 1901 in Illinois.\u00a0 George was my great-grandmother&#8217;s brother.\u00a0 He died on <strong>3 September 1978<\/strong> in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mildred Dolores MILLER Hicks<\/strong> &#8211; 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