User talk:Johnpulver

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Adelaide Ludcke [3 August 2013]

Hi, my name is Julie Hellebusch and I am very interested in information about Adelaide Ludcke. She was my husband's great aunt and she was a very significant person in his early life. She didn't have children and my husband was her Godchild. We recently moved to Texas and while going through old photos and papers we discovered letters and information about Aunt Addie. We are now more curious than ever about her life. We have a lot of factual details about Addie but we long to know more deeply about her as an individual, a wife, a step-mother.

There is some oral history around Aunt Addie although it is difficult to determine how authentic it is. My husband and his brother remember her but they were both young when she passed away (7 and 14 respectively). My mother-in-law shared some stories with me but none specifically about Aunt Addie's relationships except that she took care of Henry in his final years. I did find a letter to my mother-in-law not too long after Aunt Addie married Henry Ludcke. Addie and Henry were packing up items in their St Peter, MN home to move to San Diego, CA. There was mention in the letter that Henry was boxing and sending his wife's items (crystal and stuff) to his son in Boston -- which Addie was seemingly grateful as it "relieves me of the responsibility". The only other mention of Henry's son was once my mother-in-law told me that Aunt Addie wanted to take a trip (I'm not sure where they were living at the time) and she contacted Henry's son. Aunt Addie wanted his help with caring for Henry while she was away. From what my mother-in-law remembered his son's refusal caused a rift. Aunt Addie told her that she decided to cut Henry's son out of her will because of that incident. This is odd as Henry had a daughter too and she wasn't in the will either. There was never a mention of a daughter so now we're really confused.

After reading your information on Henry I am finding the family oral history a little difficult to accept. Henry worked with his son and then sold his business to pay for his son's Harvard Business degree, WOW. This doesn't sound like a weak father-son relationship, could this oral history be a little skewed? I wonder. Do you know anything of the relationship Aunt Addie had with her step son and step daughter? Was Aunt Addie a welcome addition to the Ludcke family or was there division? We have pictures of Henry and Addie with Henry's sisters Emma (from Seattle) and Ann with her husband Frank. One of the pictures was taken in 1946 at the Del Mar Hotel "where we lived last summer - Jan, Feb, Mar" she writes on the back. They all look to be having a good time and decked out to the nines!

Aunt Addie moved back with Henry to Ft. Mitchell, KY somewhere between 1948 and 1950. Again, oral history informed us that she wanted to be close to her nephew and his wife (my mother and father-in-law, Ida and Lew Hellebusch). While Aunt Addie had other nephew and nieces she was very close to Lew who was the only child of her closest brother George. She trusted Lew and Ida and that couldn't always be said about the other relatives. Of course, I am hearing this from my mother-in-law many years later after the death of her husband who I never knew. Ida and Aunt Addie were very close. She told me Aunt Addie moved back to be close to family. Henry was becoming more and more of a burden as he was losing his memory. He couldn't be left alone. My husband and brother-in-law remembers many times when they would visit how Uncle Henry would say silly things. Jim remembers him looking out the window once and saying, "look Jimmy at all those big men sliding on the there bellies". Jim said when he looked out the window he just saw cars going up and down the Dixie Highway. That's the way Jim and Steve remember Uncle Henry. Although they remember him and Aunt Addie both being very kind and loving toward them.

I am in my early sixties, finally getting around to doing a lot of things I've wanted to do for a long time. This is one of them, researching Aunt Addie's life. Our daughter is her name sake and she's just as adventurous and outrageous as we have come to know Aunt Addie through our family oral history. I hope to leave a much more balanced picture of this gracious lady for my daughter and extended family. Any assistance you could give me would be very much appreciated. Oh, and thanks for this wonderful write up on Uncle Henry, it filled in so many gaps about him and his family--Chester32 08:50, 3 August 2013 (EDT)

Adelaide Braun Ludcke [16 August 2013]

John, could you email me with any information you might have on Adelaide Braun Ludcke. My email is juliemattei.hellebusch@gmail.com. I would really appreciate any rememberance you might have of her. Thanks, Julie--Chester32 12:01, 16 August 2013 (EDT)