Charlotte Alvina Stomberg
Charlotte Alvina Stomberg was born on 14 May 1916 at home (old house) – Arthur Twp – Traverse County – RR Graceville, Minnesota as the first child of (Linus) Alvin Stomberg and Ada Emerentia Brahee. She had five siblings, namely: Edith Emerentia, (Anna) Mildred, Adolph Albin, Hildur Eleanor, and Eldor Alvin. She died on 15 May 1998 at daughter, Alice’s home – RR Smithton, Missouri. When she was 22, she married Paul Joseph Wiese, son of Albert Michael Wiese and Louise Ernistina Greulke Wiese, on 18 January 1939 in Trinity First Evangelical Lutheran Church – 1115 E. 19th Street Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Charlotte Alvina Stomberg was baptized on 11 June 1916 in Siloah Church. She was confirmed on 18 June 1933 in Siloah Church. She was buried on 18 May 1998 in Flat Creek Baptist Cemetery – RR Smithton Missouri.
Paul Joseph Wiese
Paul Joseph Wiese was born on 15 July 1909 as the sixth child of Albert Michael Wiese and Louise Ernistina Greulke Wiese in Gorman Township, Otterville County, Minnesota (at home). He had nine siblings, namely: Alma Mathilda, Otto Bruno, Alfred Johann, Herman Theodore, Theodore Roman, Martha Louise, Amanda Elizabeth Henrietta, Emanual Albert Friedrick, and Adelbert Elmo. He died on 24 October 2010 in Fair View Nursing Home, Sedalia, Missouri. When he was 29, he married Charlotte Alvina Stomberg, daughter of (Linus) Alvin Stomberg and Ada Emerentia Brahee, on 18 January 1939 in Trinity First Evangelical Lutheran Church – 1115 E. 19th St. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Paul Joseph Wiese was buried in Flat Creek Baptist Cemetery – RR Smithton Missouri.
Paul Joseph Wiese and Charlotte Alvina Stomberg had the following children:
- Alice Ida Wiese was born on 06 August 1939 in Swedish Hospital, Hennepin County, Minneapolis, Minnesota. She married Forest Andrew Franklin Allen on 04 October 1959 in Grace Lutheran Church, Aurora, Missouri.
- Lester Wayne Wiese Sr. was born on 26 February 1941. He died on 21 March 2007 in VA Hospital in Biloxi, Mississippi. He married Bernice Elizabeth Waldrop on 09 November 1963 in Charleston, South Carolina.
- Arlys Ruth Wiese was born on 04 February 1946 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She married Ronald Eugene Gilson on 13 September 1964 in Trinity Lutheran Church, Springfield, Missouri.
- Laura Violet Wiese was born on 31 May 1947 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She married William (Bill) Leslie Hamelau on 08 December 2009 in Charleston, South Carolina.
Early Years
1920s Charlotte & Edith Stomberg
The earliest photo we have of Mom – Charlotte – and her sister Edith.
It was taken in the late 1910s or early 1920s
Charlotte Alvina Stomberg DOB May 14, 1916
Edith Emerentia Stomberg DOB Feb 15. 1918
Post card from Fifi (Vivian Stomberg) to Charlotte Stomberg in 1930s
It reads:
Hello (illegible), Thanks for the card. But wish you’d written more. That was only a tease and what’s all this about one way? What’s on Sat nite? Am sorry but I won’t be home for another week. Am having a wonderful vacation. And do I enjoy my daily swims. Doncha wish you was here with me?Am busy haying and mite finish this PM. Spent Weds PM in Spooner and Sun will see Lake of the Woods. I can’t write about everything but will tell you all about it when I see you and then you can tell me what’s on your mind! So long and later luff. Fifi
On the side:
Oh yes, I did see a deer. And a 4 legged one at that!
Confirmation photo of Edith and Charlotte Stomberg
They are shown here in 1933 at Siloah Church in Minnesota where they grew up.
Charlotte and Edith went to high school in Morris and this is their graduation photo from 1936. Edith is the first in second row and Charlotte is next to last in last row. They stayed at the school and lived in dorms. One can see more about the school as well as photos of siblings under Ada and Alvin Stomberg’s Story – School Days.
Portrait of Stomberg Family 1938, Hildur (13), Charlotte (22), Millie (17), and Edith (20), Ada (51), Eldor (10), and Alvin (58)
Mom (Charlotte) was on vacation and at home in June 1938. She said she “thinks it was a Saturday because she remembers they had all washed and curled their hair. So, at noon, my dad announced we could go and have our family picture taken. We each had one ‘good’ dress, so changed and about 1 pm we went to have our picture taken. Boy, were we dressed up!
After the photo was taken Alvin suggested ice cream cones. Sent Eldor to different places to check out where we could get a3-dip cone. A 3-dip cone was made for two dips side by side and the third dip on top. Millie said she was confirmed 7/17/37 and mom (Ada) made her dress. In 1938 she made a bolero to wear with it. The photo was taken at Nelson Studio in Wheaton.”
Marriage
18 January 1939
Charlotte (Stomberg) Wiese and Paul Wiese
Trinity First Ev. Lutheran Church Minneapolis, Minnesota
Most photos of Charlotte prior to her marriage will be found under Alvin and Ada Stomberg. After her marriage most photos of Charlotte are found under Charlotte Stomberg Wiese.
After Marriage – Early Years
If you would like to know more about Paul’s family see Laura Wiese Hamelau’s story. She will give a short history of the Wiese family. They came from Germany and settled in Minnesota.
1953 160-acre farm near Herman Minnesota Grandpa Stomberg gave Mom.
I remember taking lunch out to the men who were working in the fields. The evening meal was called supper and lunch was a heavy snack in between the regular meals. The house was very small for a family with four children. We had a kitchen, living room and one bedroom with two double beds. Mom and Dad slept in one and Arlys and Alice slept in the other. Lester and I slept on two couches in the living room during the winter. I remember Mom and Dad sitting at the head of the room listening to the radio and reading while we looked at magazines before going to sleep.
I will always remember the ads such as ‘Call for Philip Morris’, and ‘From the land of sky-blue waters, Hamms Beer’. I can still hear them in my head. Lester slept on the porch in summer. Later Mom and Dad bought a trailer which we girls slept in.
We had a long driveway to the south and woods to the north. Arlys and I played many games in the woods. We tied off the trees for rooms and made mud pies in our kitchen. We even had an old car in our garage.
It was here we bought our first refrigerator. Prior to the refrigerator we kept dairy products in the basement which was off the kitchen.
You can barely see the windmill to the right of the house. It is between the house and the barns. Mom’s vegetable garden was to the south.
1955 Lester’s Confirmation Invitation
In 1955 we (Paul, Charlotte, Alice, Lester, Arlys, and Laura) moved from Minnesota to Arkansas. After that wasn’t what mom and daddy were looking for, they tried Missouri and bought a small farm outside of Aurora. Arlys and I went to Takin School, a country school about a mile or two from our farm. I was in the third grade and Arlys was in the fourth. Alice and Lester went to Aurora High.
Norma and Earnest Walker were our closest neighbors and were the nicest neighbors anyone could wish for. Alice and Lester stayed with them after our house burned in 1957, finishing the year at Aurora High with Alice graduating in 1957. We (Paul, Charlotte, Arlys and Laura) moved to Billings, Missouri where Arlys and I went to school. Lester later joined us for the last two years of high school. Alice joined us for a short while before she moved to Kansas City. In Billings we had a 160-acre farm but we did not farm it like we did in Minnesota.
Alice worked at TWA (Trans World Airlines) in Kansas City when she got married. Forest had gone to automatic transmission school in Kansas City and started work at a garage. They got married in Oct 1959 and bought the first automatic transmission shop in December. He was like a big brother to Arlys and I. We loved him and loved his teasing. I am not sure when this started but we knew he liked peanut butter fudge and gooseberry pie and we would make those for him often.
Arlys and I went to school in Freistatt, Missouri for a year about this time. Freistatt was close to Aurora and within walking distance of Forest’s family home. We would walk out to see them and they were the nicest we could ever ask for. Carl would get calves or dogs or anything up for our inspection and Bertha would feed us until we couldn’t eat another thing.
They were the best and we loved them unconditionally. I still do to this day even though I am sorry to say they have all passed away.
Later Years
We stayed in touch with Norma and Earnest and were invited to their 25th Anniversary Celebration. They did not have children and Norma worked in town while Earnest farmed. Arlys and I would go to their home for any reason and I thought it was always so clean and organized. Ours was not with six people living together.
In 1971 or 1972, our family went to Arkansas for a get together. It was part-way between Lester and the rest of us. Alice and Forest had Deanna and Brenda and were living in Missouri. Arlys and Ron had Antya as their first child and were also in Missouri. Lester had his children but I am not sure if they were with us in Arkansas. I graduated college but may not have yet gotten my Master’s. I am not sure where I was living. Mom and Dad were probably in Arkansas. The two photos above are of the time we were together.
Mom's Death and Dad's Later Years
Mom got sick shortly after her 80th birthday with colon cancer. Later she stayed with Alice and Forest, and I came down from Kansas City during the week and on the weekends.
Some memories from Alice are:
March 28, 1998 – Brenda, Laura & I on mom’s bed. Laura giving mom a manicure and pedicure.
Easter, 1998 – Lester, Les, Jr. and family visited along with Eldor and Cleo. All of us playing Rummikub that weekend.
March 29, 1998 – Deanna bringing her colt, Charm, to see mom.
April 5, 1998 – Mom insisting on taking us to lunch at LaMaire’s after church. Antya and her family were there also.
April 17, 1998 – Forest taking mom and Millie for a ride to see the cows and calves. Mom always enjoyed seeing the new calves.
April 26, 1998 – Making home made ice cream, which mom loved.
Laura coming most Tuesdays and Thursdays and weekends.
Visits from her sisters, Hildur and Cleo, Millie and daughter Karol, brother Eldor and Cleo. There were others but I cannot remember everyone.
Arlys and Laura and I being here for Mother’s Day.
May 9, 1998 – Mom wanted to sit in her recliner but she was so weak. Forest lifted her at waist and she put her right hand on Forest’s shoulder. Someone joked about her dancing with Forest. She made a wise crack saying, ‘don’t you wish you were’.
She died May 15, the day after her birthday, in 1998.
