My Aunt Jo, age 96, and I enjoy a good laugh together. Walking on the uneven ground of the
Arrow Rock (Missouri) cemetery, she used a cane to aid her balance. When her daughter Gayle wanted to take a photo of us, Aunt Jo said, "Here, take this cane. . .I don't want to look old in the
picture!" We searched and found the gravestone of her grandmother and my great-grandmother, Mary Hetzar Mallmann, who died in the early 1900s. Our grandmother would be awe-struck
at the growing number of descendants from the baby son who was born after the death of her
husband, Nicholas. My grandfather, William Peter Mallman (the family dropped the extra n), has numerous great-grandchildren, and great-great grandchildren in the Midwest and South.
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