Ken Tollas Jr

  • Margie wrote a new post 8 years, 6 months ago

    Arthur Henry & Jennie Augusta (Bennett) Barker

    My maternal grandparents, Arthur & Jennie, married 19 March 1905; he was 23, she 20. My Mother, Lena Mae Barker was their second child born 29 September 1907 at […]

  • Margie wrote a new post 8 years, 7 months ago

    In the late 1800’s several of our Loraff, Reischke, Schultz, Tollas ancestors emigrated from the Prussian Province of Pommern located on the southern border of the Baltic Sea to Berrien County, Michigan, USA. Po […]

  • Margie wrote a new post 8 years, 7 months ago

    Our First Homeplace – Margie (Tollas) Bernard“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.” -Helen KellerWhenever I get a whiff of boxwood, daf […]

  • Margie wrote a new post 8 years, 8 months ago

    My father, Alfred Ewald Richard Tollas was born 26 March 1904 in St. Joseph, Berrien County, Michigan to William & Hulda (Schultz) Tollas.

    William was twenty when his parents,  Albert and Albertina ‘T […]

  • Margie wrote a new post 8 years, 8 months ago

     Bernard-Tollas Family Tree launched ~ U. S. Naval Station Chapel Washington, D.C.This was the neutral site for our American Melting Pot Lutheran~Jewish marriage. Although our marriage ended due to ‘unhappy […]