Person:Lenna Reber (1)

Lenna Kate (Grandmother Paulsen) had a large, beautiful vegetable and flower garden. Dorothy Paulsen would remember Grandmother Paulsen out in the garden, and that she would always have dirt on her hands from gardening. Lena had asthma.

Grace Paulsen remembered that her mother's mother (Rebecca Kunes) died when her daughter (Lenna Kate) was only an infant. Grandpa Reber (Theodore Reber) left Lenna (his only living child) with his mother, Mary Ann Askey Reber (who had raised 6 children.) "Uncle Irv the youngest was just a few years older than my mother and was more like a brother to her."

Helen Motzer/Joslyn remembered that Lenna was an infant when her mother died. She was raised by her Reber grandparents (Mary Ann Askey and Samuel Reber). They would chew up crackers and feed them to her. Helen also remembers that Lenna and Berthel didn't get along. Lenna was 17 when she married Bertel. She was taken with the handsome foreigner.

1. ↑ Dick Paulsen & Grace Paulsen & family oral histories. Paulsen Family History.