༺✿ڰۣڿ✿༻
KAROLINE EMMA LENNEMANN KORFF
NOVEMBER 1900 - 1973
RUHE IN FRIEDEN
REST IN PEACE
Tuesday, 03/14/2023 | Memories
Thanks to Kurt Hess, K visited the very small cemetery in Gitter, Germany, and discovered the memorials for my Uncle Willi (1923 - 2013) and Aunt Betty (1921 - 2007). Thank you so much!
Sunday, 01/15/2023 | Memories
(From Kurt Hess) Photo Requests for my paternal oma and opa in Gitter, Germany.
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. ❤ ♥ ꧁꧂
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
IN THE QUIET OF THE SEASON ...
MOMENTS OF TRUE PEACE.
IN THE WONDER OF THE SEASON ...
MOMENTS OF PURE JOY.
IN THE TOGETHERNESS OF THE SEASON ...
HEART-WARMING LOVE.
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
Have you ever come on
anything quite like this
extravagant generosity of God?
ROMANS 11:33 The Message
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
MAY ALL GOD'S BEST GIFTS
BE YOURS THIS CHRISTMAS
AND INTO THE NEW YEAR.
Joyfully Yours ― 🅽🅰🅽🅲🆈
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
"Friendship Bow"
Wrapped in love
And tied together
With a friendship bow
❤ ❄ ♥ ღ ♡ ❣ ♦ ࿐ . ✿ ' ✩ ✴ - ! ☮ ❢ 🏵 ❁ & ❀ " 𝄞 ♪ ♬ 𝅘𝅥𝅰 ♫ ☯ ☀ ⁂ ☾ ✮☺✽ X O • ~ ๑ ꕤ ꮺ ಇ ♞ ஐ ಌ : * ۩ @ ★彡 ✞ (∞) 🕊 🕯 ஜ ۞ ♧ ♣
❤ ❄ ♥ ღ ♡ ❣ ♦ ࿐ . ✿ ' ✩ ✴ - ! ☮ ❢ 🏵 ❁ & ❀ " 𝄞 ♪ ♬ 𝅘𝅥𝅰 ♫ ☯ ☀ ⁂ ☾ ✮☺✽ X O • ~ ๑ ꕤ ꮺ ಇ ♞ ஐ ಌ : * ۩ @ ★彡 ✞ (∞) 🕊 🕯 ஜ ۞ ♧ ♣
I am reminded of the deeply touching tokens, notes, and messages which so many of you have sent my oma and myself and I cannot thank you enough for the love and kindness you have shown our whole family.
Christmas is a particularly poignant time for all of us who have lost loved ones. We feel their absence at every familiar turn of the season and remember them in each cherished tradition.
Today, I will savor every moment and bask in the peace, love, and joy of your presence.
Thank You ―
❤ ❄ ♥ ღ ♡ ❣ ♦ ࿐ . ✿ ' ✩ ✴ - ! ☮ ❢ 🏵 ❁ & ❀ " 𝄞 ♪ ♬ 𝅘𝅥𝅰 ♫ ☯ ☀ ⁂ ☾ ✮☺✽ X O • ~ ๑ ꕤ ꮺ ಇ ♞ ஐ ಌ : * ۩ @ ★彡 ✞ (∞) 🕊 🕯 ஜ ۞ ♧ ♣
❤ ❄ ♥ ღ ♡ ❣ ♦ ࿐ . ✿ ' ✩ ✴ - ! ☮ ❢ 🏵 ❁ & ❀ " 𝄞 ♪ ♬ 𝅘𝅥𝅰 ♫ ☯ ☀ ⁂ ☾ ✮☺✽ X O • ~ ๑ ꕤ ꮺ ಇ ♞ ஐ ಌ : * ۩ @ ★彡 ✞ (∞) 🕊 🕯 ஜ ۞ ♧ ♣
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
Thank you ~ with all my heart and soul ~ for visiting, flowering, and sponsoring my oma. I love my oma! ✞ 𝕸𝖆𝖞 𝕲𝖔𝖉 𝖇𝖑𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖐𝖊𝖊𝖕 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖆𝖑𝖜𝖆𝖞𝖘! ✞
Memorial sponsored by "Love, SaffronWings with love for my oma. Thank you for your generosity and kindness. You make me smile! ✞ Må¥ GðÐ ßlꧧ åñÐ kêêþ ¥ðµ ålw奧! ✞
To the grandmother I wish I could have shared more time with, you will always be in my heart!
✞ In Loving Memory of My Paternal Grandmother ✞
❤ My Oma ❤ My Dad Truly Loved and Missed His Mutter ❤
Karoline Emma "Lina" Lennemann Korff
Evangelical Lutheran
Birth circa November 1900 (*exact date unkown)
Death circa 1973 (*before her 73rd birthday)
Aged 72 years
Gitter, Germany
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~~~~~~~~~~~~
Housewife
Widow
Died unexpectedly of uncontrolled high blood pressure (hypertension), at home, alone, after attending a 25th wedding anniversary party
(The celebration was for a lovely couple ― classmates my dad went to school with from first grade to eighth grade)
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Karoline Emma "Lina" Lennemann and Wilhelm Hermann Korff
Married in Gitter, Germany
June 12, 1921 (aged 20 years)
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Lina had two older brothers (names unknown) and one older sister, Anna
(My mom told me she once met one of Lina's brothers on a Sunday afternoon in 1948 (when my mom and dad were dating). Lina was already a widow for many years (with three of her four children still living at home), and one of her brothers brought a friend over to introduce him to Lina. However, Lina was not interested in forming a new relationship after her husband died. Lina was a widow (and single parent) from 1943 or 1944 until her death in 1973.)
Lina was the youngest of four siblings
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Born, lived, died, and buried in Gitter, Germany
Picturesque country village on the hill, next to the "autobahn", with quaint cottages, charming homes, tall church, two story school house, beautiful gasthaus (inn) with dance hall, baker, butcher, grocery store (general store), plant farms, blacksmith, cemetery, main street, residential roads, dirt roads / forest paths (farm paths)
Two German plant farmers, "Bruer" and "Koch", harvested potatoes and sugar beets
Townspeople raised pigs, chickens, and rabbits in private stalls, coops, and cages
Grocery store, operated by "Frau Blanke", extended shopping credit to residents
Gasthaus (inn), privately owned by "Himmstadt", was the entertainment venue
Fußball (soccer) was the most popular sport, and team uniforms were green and white
"Dr. Time" did sports physical exams, and he was the primary care doctor
Population was approximately 400 people in this attractive town
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An inscribed plate was on display in my grandparent's old duplex:
"Unser täglich Brot gib uns heute."
After their deaths, I was given this treasured keepsake
"Give us this day our daily bread" (Matthew 6:11)
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~~~~~~~~~~~~
"God's Word is our great heritage
and shall be ours forever.
To spread its light from age to age
shall be our chief endeavor.
Through life it guides our way.
In death it is our stay.
Lord, grant, while worlds endure,
we keep its teaching pure
throughout all generations."
~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise ― then you will discover the fullness of your life."
~ Grandchild, Nancy ~
My name, Nancy, is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Nancy is "He (God) has favored me".
•●•~~~~•●•~~~~•●•~~~~•●• ஜ ۩ ✞ ۩ ஜ •●•~~~~•●•~~~~•●•~~~~•●•
My grandmother (my oma) was 29 when my dad was born in 1930.
After my dad married and moved out of his childhood home, and started a family of his own in 1949, he visited his mother (my oma) with his firstborn child (my oldest sister), almost every Sunday (unless he had a soccer match ― first division league), until he immigrated (to Canada) in 1954.
My oma visited the United States and stayed with us for almost five months, from August 1967 into January 1968, when we were living in our fancy new house on the hill in El Cerrito, California.
I was 2 years old and I know my oma brought me a doll from Germany. She watched "Romper Room" with me on the television in the downstairs family room. She pushed me on a swing set. We visited Arlington Park in El Cerrito. We visited Tilden Regional Park in the Berkeley Hills. We went to San Francisco Bay, Fisherman's Wharf, Pier 39, Golden Gate Park, Ocean Beach, and the San Francisco Zoo. We visited the California State Capitol building in Sacramento which serves as both a museum and the state's working seat of government. My dad took my oma to South Lake Tahoe, Nevada so she could try her luck gambling on the slot machines and playing keno (my dad's lucky numbers were 7, 17, 27, and 37). My dad also took my oma to the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany ― the German Embassy in San Francisco ― so she could extend her stay with us.
We celebrated many special days together, wonderful holidays, family traditions, and the beautiful changing of the seasons between summer, fall, and winter: She met my oldest sister's boyfriend (the boyfriend who many years later bacame my sister's fiancé, husband, father of her two sons, and grandfather of her three grandsons); we celebrated Labor Day weekend, all American-style; my other sister's first day of kindergarten at the age of 4; my only brother's first day of 3rd grade at the age of 8; my oldest sister's first day of school at University of California, Berkeley at the age of 18; Halloween and my sister's 5th birthday; my oma's 67th birthday; Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Eve 1967; and, New Year's Day 1968. My oma even met a neighbor ("Mr. Reinecker" or "Mr. Reichert"), a widower who emigrated from Germany in 1928, who spoke the High German dialect with her; they enjoyed many breakfasts together.
Her time with us was precious, and my dad was very happy to see his mother again for the first time in over 13 years since emigrating twice: once to Canada in 1954, and then to the United States in 1963.
My oma was a strong woman with rich brown-black hair and rare, smokey grey eyes.
Her specialty food dish was Eintopf, a traditional type of German stew which can consist of a great number of different ingredients. My dad told me all the neighborhood children, teens, and young adults liked going to "Lina's house" to visit, play, and feast.
She knitted socks for her immediate family. She also had an old antique treadle sewing machine in her home ― possibly inherited from her mother ― but, to my knowledge, she did not sew.
(My dad was 43 when his mother (my oma) died at 72 years old in 1973.)
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"If Roses Grow In Heaven"
If roses grow in heaven,
Lord please pick a bunch for me,
Place them in my Grandmother's arms
and tell her they're from me.
Tell her I love her and miss her,
and when she turns to smile,
place a kiss upon her cheek
and hold her for awhile.
Because remembering her is easy,
I do it every day,
but there's an ache within my heart
that will never go away.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lina
November Child
Strength
Friendship
Who first comes to this world below
With brisk November's Autumn glow,
Should prize the topaz's amber hue,
Emblem of friends and lovers true.
My oma was born in November 1900.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Doxology
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host:
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~
KAROLINE EMMA LENNEMANN KORFF
NOVEMBER 1900 - 1973
RUHE IN FRIEDEN
REST IN PEACE
Tuesday, 03/14/2023 | Memories
Thanks to Kurt Hess, K visited the very small cemetery in Gitter, Germany, and discovered the memorials for my Uncle Willi (1923 - 2013) and Aunt Betty (1921 - 2007). Thank you so much!
Sunday, 01/15/2023 | Memories
(From Kurt Hess) Photo Requests for my paternal oma and opa in Gitter, Germany.
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. ❤ ♥ ꧁꧂
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
IN THE QUIET OF THE SEASON ...
MOMENTS OF TRUE PEACE.
IN THE WONDER OF THE SEASON ...
MOMENTS OF PURE JOY.
IN THE TOGETHERNESS OF THE SEASON ...
HEART-WARMING LOVE.
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
Have you ever come on
anything quite like this
extravagant generosity of God?
ROMANS 11:33 The Message
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
MAY ALL GOD'S BEST GIFTS
BE YOURS THIS CHRISTMAS
AND INTO THE NEW YEAR.
Joyfully Yours ― 🅽🅰🅽🅲🆈
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
"Friendship Bow"
Wrapped in love
And tied together
With a friendship bow
❤ ❄ ♥ ღ ♡ ❣ ♦ ࿐ . ✿ ' ✩ ✴ - ! ☮ ❢ 🏵 ❁ & ❀ " 𝄞 ♪ ♬ 𝅘𝅥𝅰 ♫ ☯ ☀ ⁂ ☾ ✮☺✽ X O • ~ ๑ ꕤ ꮺ ಇ ♞ ஐ ಌ : * ۩ @ ★彡 ✞ (∞) 🕊 🕯 ஜ ۞ ♧ ♣
❤ ❄ ♥ ღ ♡ ❣ ♦ ࿐ . ✿ ' ✩ ✴ - ! ☮ ❢ 🏵 ❁ & ❀ " 𝄞 ♪ ♬ 𝅘𝅥𝅰 ♫ ☯ ☀ ⁂ ☾ ✮☺✽ X O • ~ ๑ ꕤ ꮺ ಇ ♞ ஐ ಌ : * ۩ @ ★彡 ✞ (∞) 🕊 🕯 ஜ ۞ ♧ ♣
I am reminded of the deeply touching tokens, notes, and messages which so many of you have sent my oma and myself and I cannot thank you enough for the love and kindness you have shown our whole family.
Christmas is a particularly poignant time for all of us who have lost loved ones. We feel their absence at every familiar turn of the season and remember them in each cherished tradition.
Today, I will savor every moment and bask in the peace, love, and joy of your presence.
Thank You ―
❤ ❄ ♥ ღ ♡ ❣ ♦ ࿐ . ✿ ' ✩ ✴ - ! ☮ ❢ 🏵 ❁ & ❀ " 𝄞 ♪ ♬ 𝅘𝅥𝅰 ♫ ☯ ☀ ⁂ ☾ ✮☺✽ X O • ~ ๑ ꕤ ꮺ ಇ ♞ ஐ ಌ : * ۩ @ ★彡 ✞ (∞) 🕊 🕯 ஜ ۞ ♧ ♣
❤ ❄ ♥ ღ ♡ ❣ ♦ ࿐ . ✿ ' ✩ ✴ - ! ☮ ❢ 🏵 ❁ & ❀ " 𝄞 ♪ ♬ 𝅘𝅥𝅰 ♫ ☯ ☀ ⁂ ☾ ✮☺✽ X O • ~ ๑ ꕤ ꮺ ಇ ♞ ஐ ಌ : * ۩ @ ★彡 ✞ (∞) 🕊 🕯 ஜ ۞ ♧ ♣
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
Thank you ~ with all my heart and soul ~ for visiting, flowering, and sponsoring my oma. I love my oma! ✞ 𝕸𝖆𝖞 𝕲𝖔𝖉 𝖇𝖑𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖐𝖊𝖊𝖕 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖆𝖑𝖜𝖆𝖞𝖘! ✞
Memorial sponsored by "Love, SaffronWings with love for my oma. Thank you for your generosity and kindness. You make me smile! ✞ Må¥ GðÐ ßlꧧ åñÐ kêêþ ¥ðµ ålw奧! ✞
To the grandmother I wish I could have shared more time with, you will always be in my heart!
✞ In Loving Memory of My Paternal Grandmother ✞
❤ My Oma ❤ My Dad Truly Loved and Missed His Mutter ❤
Karoline Emma "Lina" Lennemann Korff
Evangelical Lutheran
Birth circa November 1900 (*exact date unkown)
Death circa 1973 (*before her 73rd birthday)
Aged 72 years
Gitter, Germany
~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Housewife
Widow
Died unexpectedly of uncontrolled high blood pressure (hypertension), at home, alone, after attending a 25th wedding anniversary party
(The celebration was for a lovely couple ― classmates my dad went to school with from first grade to eighth grade)
~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Karoline Emma "Lina" Lennemann and Wilhelm Hermann Korff
Married in Gitter, Germany
June 12, 1921 (aged 20 years)
~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lina had two older brothers (names unknown) and one older sister, Anna
(My mom told me she once met one of Lina's brothers on a Sunday afternoon in 1948 (when my mom and dad were dating). Lina was already a widow for many years (with three of her four children still living at home), and one of her brothers brought a friend over to introduce him to Lina. However, Lina was not interested in forming a new relationship after her husband died. Lina was a widow (and single parent) from 1943 or 1944 until her death in 1973.)
Lina was the youngest of four siblings
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~~~~~~~~~~~~
Born, lived, died, and buried in Gitter, Germany
Picturesque country village on the hill, next to the "autobahn", with quaint cottages, charming homes, tall church, two story school house, beautiful gasthaus (inn) with dance hall, baker, butcher, grocery store (general store), plant farms, blacksmith, cemetery, main street, residential roads, dirt roads / forest paths (farm paths)
Two German plant farmers, "Bruer" and "Koch", harvested potatoes and sugar beets
Townspeople raised pigs, chickens, and rabbits in private stalls, coops, and cages
Grocery store, operated by "Frau Blanke", extended shopping credit to residents
Gasthaus (inn), privately owned by "Himmstadt", was the entertainment venue
Fußball (soccer) was the most popular sport, and team uniforms were green and white
"Dr. Time" did sports physical exams, and he was the primary care doctor
Population was approximately 400 people in this attractive town
~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~
An inscribed plate was on display in my grandparent's old duplex:
"Unser täglich Brot gib uns heute."
After their deaths, I was given this treasured keepsake
"Give us this day our daily bread" (Matthew 6:11)
~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~
"God's Word is our great heritage
and shall be ours forever.
To spread its light from age to age
shall be our chief endeavor.
Through life it guides our way.
In death it is our stay.
Lord, grant, while worlds endure,
we keep its teaching pure
throughout all generations."
~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise ― then you will discover the fullness of your life."
~ Grandchild, Nancy ~
My name, Nancy, is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Nancy is "He (God) has favored me".
•●•~~~~•●•~~~~•●•~~~~•●• ஜ ۩ ✞ ۩ ஜ •●•~~~~•●•~~~~•●•~~~~•●•
My grandmother (my oma) was 29 when my dad was born in 1930.
After my dad married and moved out of his childhood home, and started a family of his own in 1949, he visited his mother (my oma) with his firstborn child (my oldest sister), almost every Sunday (unless he had a soccer match ― first division league), until he immigrated (to Canada) in 1954.
My oma visited the United States and stayed with us for almost five months, from August 1967 into January 1968, when we were living in our fancy new house on the hill in El Cerrito, California.
I was 2 years old and I know my oma brought me a doll from Germany. She watched "Romper Room" with me on the television in the downstairs family room. She pushed me on a swing set. We visited Arlington Park in El Cerrito. We visited Tilden Regional Park in the Berkeley Hills. We went to San Francisco Bay, Fisherman's Wharf, Pier 39, Golden Gate Park, Ocean Beach, and the San Francisco Zoo. We visited the California State Capitol building in Sacramento which serves as both a museum and the state's working seat of government. My dad took my oma to South Lake Tahoe, Nevada so she could try her luck gambling on the slot machines and playing keno (my dad's lucky numbers were 7, 17, 27, and 37). My dad also took my oma to the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany ― the German Embassy in San Francisco ― so she could extend her stay with us.
We celebrated many special days together, wonderful holidays, family traditions, and the beautiful changing of the seasons between summer, fall, and winter: She met my oldest sister's boyfriend (the boyfriend who many years later bacame my sister's fiancé, husband, father of her two sons, and grandfather of her three grandsons); we celebrated Labor Day weekend, all American-style; my other sister's first day of kindergarten at the age of 4; my only brother's first day of 3rd grade at the age of 8; my oldest sister's first day of school at University of California, Berkeley at the age of 18; Halloween and my sister's 5th birthday; my oma's 67th birthday; Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Eve 1967; and, New Year's Day 1968. My oma even met a neighbor ("Mr. Reinecker" or "Mr. Reichert"), a widower who emigrated from Germany in 1928, who spoke the High German dialect with her; they enjoyed many breakfasts together.
Her time with us was precious, and my dad was very happy to see his mother again for the first time in over 13 years since emigrating twice: once to Canada in 1954, and then to the United States in 1963.
My oma was a strong woman with rich brown-black hair and rare, smokey grey eyes.
Her specialty food dish was Eintopf, a traditional type of German stew which can consist of a great number of different ingredients. My dad told me all the neighborhood children, teens, and young adults liked going to "Lina's house" to visit, play, and feast.
She knitted socks for her immediate family. She also had an old antique treadle sewing machine in her home ― possibly inherited from her mother ― but, to my knowledge, she did not sew.
(My dad was 43 when his mother (my oma) died at 72 years old in 1973.)
~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~
"If Roses Grow In Heaven"
If roses grow in heaven,
Lord please pick a bunch for me,
Place them in my Grandmother's arms
and tell her they're from me.
Tell her I love her and miss her,
and when she turns to smile,
place a kiss upon her cheek
and hold her for awhile.
Because remembering her is easy,
I do it every day,
but there's an ache within my heart
that will never go away.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lina
November Child
Strength
Friendship
Who first comes to this world below
With brisk November's Autumn glow,
Should prize the topaz's amber hue,
Emblem of friends and lovers true.
My oma was born in November 1900.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Doxology
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host:
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~
༺✿ڰۣڿ✿༻
KAROLINE EMMA LENNEMANN KORFF
NOVEMBER 1900 - 1973
RUHE IN FRIEDEN
REST IN PEACE
Tuesday, 03/14/2023 | Memories
Thanks to Kurt Hess, K visited the very small cemetery in Gitter, Germany, and discovered the memorials for my Uncle Willi (1923 - 2013) and Aunt Betty (1921 - 2007). Thank you so much!
Sunday, 01/15/2023 | Memories
(From Kurt Hess) Photo Requests for my paternal oma and opa in Gitter, Germany.
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. ❤ ♥ ꧁꧂
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
IN THE QUIET OF THE SEASON ...
MOMENTS OF TRUE PEACE.
IN THE WONDER OF THE SEASON ...
MOMENTS OF PURE JOY.
IN THE TOGETHERNESS OF THE SEASON ...
HEART-WARMING LOVE.
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
Have you ever come on
anything quite like this
extravagant generosity of God?
ROMANS 11:33 The Message
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
MAY ALL GOD'S BEST GIFTS
BE YOURS THIS CHRISTMAS
AND INTO THE NEW YEAR.
Joyfully Yours ― 🅽🅰🅽🅲🆈
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
"Friendship Bow"
Wrapped in love
And tied together
With a friendship bow
❤ ❄ ♥ ღ ♡ ❣ ♦ ࿐ . ✿ ' ✩ ✴ - ! ☮ ❢ 🏵 ❁ & ❀ " 𝄞 ♪ ♬ 𝅘𝅥𝅰 ♫ ☯ ☀ ⁂ ☾ ✮☺✽ X O • ~ ๑ ꕤ ꮺ ಇ ♞ ஐ ಌ : * ۩ @ ★彡 ✞ (∞) 🕊 🕯 ஜ ۞ ♧ ♣
❤ ❄ ♥ ღ ♡ ❣ ♦ ࿐ . ✿ ' ✩ ✴ - ! ☮ ❢ 🏵 ❁ & ❀ " 𝄞 ♪ ♬ 𝅘𝅥𝅰 ♫ ☯ ☀ ⁂ ☾ ✮☺✽ X O • ~ ๑ ꕤ ꮺ ಇ ♞ ஐ ಌ : * ۩ @ ★彡 ✞ (∞) 🕊 🕯 ஜ ۞ ♧ ♣
I am reminded of the deeply touching tokens, notes, and messages which so many of you have sent my oma and myself and I cannot thank you enough for the love and kindness you have shown our whole family.
Christmas is a particularly poignant time for all of us who have lost loved ones. We feel their absence at every familiar turn of the season and remember them in each cherished tradition.
Today, I will savor every moment and bask in the peace, love, and joy of your presence.
Thank You ―
❤ ❄ ♥ ღ ♡ ❣ ♦ ࿐ . ✿ ' ✩ ✴ - ! ☮ ❢ 🏵 ❁ & ❀ " 𝄞 ♪ ♬ 𝅘𝅥𝅰 ♫ ☯ ☀ ⁂ ☾ ✮☺✽ X O • ~ ๑ ꕤ ꮺ ಇ ♞ ஐ ಌ : * ۩ @ ★彡 ✞ (∞) 🕊 🕯 ஜ ۞ ♧ ♣
❤ ❄ ♥ ღ ♡ ❣ ♦ ࿐ . ✿ ' ✩ ✴ - ! ☮ ❢ 🏵 ❁ & ❀ " 𝄞 ♪ ♬ 𝅘𝅥𝅰 ♫ ☯ ☀ ⁂ ☾ ✮☺✽ X O • ~ ๑ ꕤ ꮺ ಇ ♞ ஐ ಌ : * ۩ @ ★彡 ✞ (∞) 🕊 🕯 ஜ ۞ ♧ ♣
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
Thank you ~ with all my heart and soul ~ for visiting, flowering, and sponsoring my oma. I love my oma! ✞ 𝕸𝖆𝖞 𝕲𝖔𝖉 𝖇𝖑𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖐𝖊𝖊𝖕 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖆𝖑𝖜𝖆𝖞𝖘! ✞
Memorial sponsored by "Love, SaffronWings with love for my oma. Thank you for your generosity and kindness. You make me smile! ✞ Må¥ GðÐ ßlꧧ åñÐ kêêþ ¥ðµ ålw奧! ✞
To the grandmother I wish I could have shared more time with, you will always be in my heart!
✞ In Loving Memory of My Paternal Grandmother ✞
❤ My Oma ❤ My Dad Truly Loved and Missed His Mutter ❤
Karoline Emma "Lina" Lennemann Korff
Evangelical Lutheran
Birth circa November 1900 (*exact date unkown)
Death circa 1973 (*before her 73rd birthday)
Aged 72 years
Gitter, Germany
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Housewife
Widow
Died unexpectedly of uncontrolled high blood pressure (hypertension), at home, alone, after attending a 25th wedding anniversary party
(The celebration was for a lovely couple ― classmates my dad went to school with from first grade to eighth grade)
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Karoline Emma "Lina" Lennemann and Wilhelm Hermann Korff
Married in Gitter, Germany
June 12, 1921 (aged 20 years)
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Lina had two older brothers (names unknown) and one older sister, Anna
(My mom told me she once met one of Lina's brothers on a Sunday afternoon in 1948 (when my mom and dad were dating). Lina was already a widow for many years (with three of her four children still living at home), and one of her brothers brought a friend over to introduce him to Lina. However, Lina was not interested in forming a new relationship after her husband died. Lina was a widow (and single parent) from 1943 or 1944 until her death in 1973.)
Lina was the youngest of four siblings
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Born, lived, died, and buried in Gitter, Germany
Picturesque country village on the hill, next to the "autobahn", with quaint cottages, charming homes, tall church, two story school house, beautiful gasthaus (inn) with dance hall, baker, butcher, grocery store (general store), plant farms, blacksmith, cemetery, main street, residential roads, dirt roads / forest paths (farm paths)
Two German plant farmers, "Bruer" and "Koch", harvested potatoes and sugar beets
Townspeople raised pigs, chickens, and rabbits in private stalls, coops, and cages
Grocery store, operated by "Frau Blanke", extended shopping credit to residents
Gasthaus (inn), privately owned by "Himmstadt", was the entertainment venue
Fußball (soccer) was the most popular sport, and team uniforms were green and white
"Dr. Time" did sports physical exams, and he was the primary care doctor
Population was approximately 400 people in this attractive town
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An inscribed plate was on display in my grandparent's old duplex:
"Unser täglich Brot gib uns heute."
After their deaths, I was given this treasured keepsake
"Give us this day our daily bread" (Matthew 6:11)
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"God's Word is our great heritage
and shall be ours forever.
To spread its light from age to age
shall be our chief endeavor.
Through life it guides our way.
In death it is our stay.
Lord, grant, while worlds endure,
we keep its teaching pure
throughout all generations."
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"Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise ― then you will discover the fullness of your life."
~ Grandchild, Nancy ~
My name, Nancy, is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Nancy is "He (God) has favored me".
•●•~~~~•●•~~~~•●•~~~~•●• ஜ ۩ ✞ ۩ ஜ •●•~~~~•●•~~~~•●•~~~~•●•
My grandmother (my oma) was 29 when my dad was born in 1930.
After my dad married and moved out of his childhood home, and started a family of his own in 1949, he visited his mother (my oma) with his firstborn child (my oldest sister), almost every Sunday (unless he had a soccer match ― first division league), until he immigrated (to Canada) in 1954.
My oma visited the United States and stayed with us for almost five months, from August 1967 into January 1968, when we were living in our fancy new house on the hill in El Cerrito, California.
I was 2 years old and I know my oma brought me a doll from Germany. She watched "Romper Room" with me on the television in the downstairs family room. She pushed me on a swing set. We visited Arlington Park in El Cerrito. We visited Tilden Regional Park in the Berkeley Hills. We went to San Francisco Bay, Fisherman's Wharf, Pier 39, Golden Gate Park, Ocean Beach, and the San Francisco Zoo. We visited the California State Capitol building in Sacramento which serves as both a museum and the state's working seat of government. My dad took my oma to South Lake Tahoe, Nevada so she could try her luck gambling on the slot machines and playing keno (my dad's lucky numbers were 7, 17, 27, and 37). My dad also took my oma to the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany ― the German Embassy in San Francisco ― so she could extend her stay with us.
We celebrated many special days together, wonderful holidays, family traditions, and the beautiful changing of the seasons between summer, fall, and winter: She met my oldest sister's boyfriend (the boyfriend who many years later bacame my sister's fiancé, husband, father of her two sons, and grandfather of her three grandsons); we celebrated Labor Day weekend, all American-style; my other sister's first day of kindergarten at the age of 4; my only brother's first day of 3rd grade at the age of 8; my oldest sister's first day of school at University of California, Berkeley at the age of 18; Halloween and my sister's 5th birthday; my oma's 67th birthday; Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Eve 1967; and, New Year's Day 1968. My oma even met a neighbor ("Mr. Reinecker" or "Mr. Reichert"), a widower who emigrated from Germany in 1928, who spoke the High German dialect with her; they enjoyed many breakfasts together.
Her time with us was precious, and my dad was very happy to see his mother again for the first time in over 13 years since emigrating twice: once to Canada in 1954, and then to the United States in 1963.
My oma was a strong woman with rich brown-black hair and rare, smokey grey eyes.
Her specialty food dish was Eintopf, a traditional type of German stew which can consist of a great number of different ingredients. My dad told me all the neighborhood children, teens, and young adults liked going to "Lina's house" to visit, play, and feast.
She knitted socks for her immediate family. She also had an old antique treadle sewing machine in her home ― possibly inherited from her mother ― but, to my knowledge, she did not sew.
(My dad was 43 when his mother (my oma) died at 72 years old in 1973.)
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"If Roses Grow In Heaven"
If roses grow in heaven,
Lord please pick a bunch for me,
Place them in my Grandmother's arms
and tell her they're from me.
Tell her I love her and miss her,
and when she turns to smile,
place a kiss upon her cheek
and hold her for awhile.
Because remembering her is easy,
I do it every day,
but there's an ache within my heart
that will never go away.
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Lina
November Child
Strength
Friendship
Who first comes to this world below
With brisk November's Autumn glow,
Should prize the topaz's amber hue,
Emblem of friends and lovers true.
My oma was born in November 1900.
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The Doxology
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host:
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
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KAROLINE EMMA LENNEMANN KORFF
NOVEMBER 1900 - 1973
RUHE IN FRIEDEN
REST IN PEACE
Tuesday, 03/14/2023 | Memories
Thanks to Kurt Hess, K visited the very small cemetery in Gitter, Germany, and discovered the memorials for my Uncle Willi (1923 - 2013) and Aunt Betty (1921 - 2007). Thank you so much!
Sunday, 01/15/2023 | Memories
(From Kurt Hess) Photo Requests for my paternal oma and opa in Gitter, Germany.
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. ❤ ♥ ꧁꧂
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IN THE QUIET OF THE SEASON ...
MOMENTS OF TRUE PEACE.
IN THE WONDER OF THE SEASON ...
MOMENTS OF PURE JOY.
IN THE TOGETHERNESS OF THE SEASON ...
HEART-WARMING LOVE.
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Have you ever come on
anything quite like this
extravagant generosity of God?
ROMANS 11:33 The Message
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MAY ALL GOD'S BEST GIFTS
BE YOURS THIS CHRISTMAS
AND INTO THE NEW YEAR.
Joyfully Yours ― 🅽🅰🅽🅲🆈
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"Friendship Bow"
Wrapped in love
And tied together
With a friendship bow
❤ ❄ ♥ ღ ♡ ❣ ♦ ࿐ . ✿ ' ✩ ✴ - ! ☮ ❢ 🏵 ❁ & ❀ " 𝄞 ♪ ♬ 𝅘𝅥𝅰 ♫ ☯ ☀ ⁂ ☾ ✮☺✽ X O • ~ ๑ ꕤ ꮺ ಇ ♞ ஐ ಌ : * ۩ @ ★彡 ✞ (∞) 🕊 🕯 ஜ ۞ ♧ ♣
❤ ❄ ♥ ღ ♡ ❣ ♦ ࿐ . ✿ ' ✩ ✴ - ! ☮ ❢ 🏵 ❁ & ❀ " 𝄞 ♪ ♬ 𝅘𝅥𝅰 ♫ ☯ ☀ ⁂ ☾ ✮☺✽ X O • ~ ๑ ꕤ ꮺ ಇ ♞ ஐ ಌ : * ۩ @ ★彡 ✞ (∞) 🕊 🕯 ஜ ۞ ♧ ♣
I am reminded of the deeply touching tokens, notes, and messages which so many of you have sent my oma and myself and I cannot thank you enough for the love and kindness you have shown our whole family.
Christmas is a particularly poignant time for all of us who have lost loved ones. We feel their absence at every familiar turn of the season and remember them in each cherished tradition.
Today, I will savor every moment and bask in the peace, love, and joy of your presence.
Thank You ―
❤ ❄ ♥ ღ ♡ ❣ ♦ ࿐ . ✿ ' ✩ ✴ - ! ☮ ❢ 🏵 ❁ & ❀ " 𝄞 ♪ ♬ 𝅘𝅥𝅰 ♫ ☯ ☀ ⁂ ☾ ✮☺✽ X O • ~ ๑ ꕤ ꮺ ಇ ♞ ஐ ಌ : * ۩ @ ★彡 ✞ (∞) 🕊 🕯 ஜ ۞ ♧ ♣
❤ ❄ ♥ ღ ♡ ❣ ♦ ࿐ . ✿ ' ✩ ✴ - ! ☮ ❢ 🏵 ❁ & ❀ " 𝄞 ♪ ♬ 𝅘𝅥𝅰 ♫ ☯ ☀ ⁂ ☾ ✮☺✽ X O • ~ ๑ ꕤ ꮺ ಇ ♞ ஐ ಌ : * ۩ @ ★彡 ✞ (∞) 🕊 🕯 ஜ ۞ ♧ ♣
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Thank you ~ with all my heart and soul ~ for visiting, flowering, and sponsoring my oma. I love my oma! ✞ 𝕸𝖆𝖞 𝕲𝖔𝖉 𝖇𝖑𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖐𝖊𝖊𝖕 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖆𝖑𝖜𝖆𝖞𝖘! ✞
Memorial sponsored by "Love, SaffronWings with love for my oma. Thank you for your generosity and kindness. You make me smile! ✞ Må¥ GðÐ ßlꧧ åñÐ kêêþ ¥ðµ ålw奧! ✞
To the grandmother I wish I could have shared more time with, you will always be in my heart!
✞ In Loving Memory of My Paternal Grandmother ✞
❤ My Oma ❤ My Dad Truly Loved and Missed His Mutter ❤
Karoline Emma "Lina" Lennemann Korff
Evangelical Lutheran
Birth circa November 1900 (*exact date unkown)
Death circa 1973 (*before her 73rd birthday)
Aged 72 years
Gitter, Germany
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Housewife
Widow
Died unexpectedly of uncontrolled high blood pressure (hypertension), at home, alone, after attending a 25th wedding anniversary party
(The celebration was for a lovely couple ― classmates my dad went to school with from first grade to eighth grade)
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Karoline Emma "Lina" Lennemann and Wilhelm Hermann Korff
Married in Gitter, Germany
June 12, 1921 (aged 20 years)
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Lina had two older brothers (names unknown) and one older sister, Anna
(My mom told me she once met one of Lina's brothers on a Sunday afternoon in 1948 (when my mom and dad were dating). Lina was already a widow for many years (with three of her four children still living at home), and one of her brothers brought a friend over to introduce him to Lina. However, Lina was not interested in forming a new relationship after her husband died. Lina was a widow (and single parent) from 1943 or 1944 until her death in 1973.)
Lina was the youngest of four siblings
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Born, lived, died, and buried in Gitter, Germany
Picturesque country village on the hill, next to the "autobahn", with quaint cottages, charming homes, tall church, two story school house, beautiful gasthaus (inn) with dance hall, baker, butcher, grocery store (general store), plant farms, blacksmith, cemetery, main street, residential roads, dirt roads / forest paths (farm paths)
Two German plant farmers, "Bruer" and "Koch", harvested potatoes and sugar beets
Townspeople raised pigs, chickens, and rabbits in private stalls, coops, and cages
Grocery store, operated by "Frau Blanke", extended shopping credit to residents
Gasthaus (inn), privately owned by "Himmstadt", was the entertainment venue
Fußball (soccer) was the most popular sport, and team uniforms were green and white
"Dr. Time" did sports physical exams, and he was the primary care doctor
Population was approximately 400 people in this attractive town
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An inscribed plate was on display in my grandparent's old duplex:
"Unser täglich Brot gib uns heute."
After their deaths, I was given this treasured keepsake
"Give us this day our daily bread" (Matthew 6:11)
~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~
"God's Word is our great heritage
and shall be ours forever.
To spread its light from age to age
shall be our chief endeavor.
Through life it guides our way.
In death it is our stay.
Lord, grant, while worlds endure,
we keep its teaching pure
throughout all generations."
~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise ― then you will discover the fullness of your life."
~ Grandchild, Nancy ~
My name, Nancy, is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Nancy is "He (God) has favored me".
•●•~~~~•●•~~~~•●•~~~~•●• ஜ ۩ ✞ ۩ ஜ •●•~~~~•●•~~~~•●•~~~~•●•
My grandmother (my oma) was 29 when my dad was born in 1930.
After my dad married and moved out of his childhood home, and started a family of his own in 1949, he visited his mother (my oma) with his firstborn child (my oldest sister), almost every Sunday (unless he had a soccer match ― first division league), until he immigrated (to Canada) in 1954.
My oma visited the United States and stayed with us for almost five months, from August 1967 into January 1968, when we were living in our fancy new house on the hill in El Cerrito, California.
I was 2 years old and I know my oma brought me a doll from Germany. She watched "Romper Room" with me on the television in the downstairs family room. She pushed me on a swing set. We visited Arlington Park in El Cerrito. We visited Tilden Regional Park in the Berkeley Hills. We went to San Francisco Bay, Fisherman's Wharf, Pier 39, Golden Gate Park, Ocean Beach, and the San Francisco Zoo. We visited the California State Capitol building in Sacramento which serves as both a museum and the state's working seat of government. My dad took my oma to South Lake Tahoe, Nevada so she could try her luck gambling on the slot machines and playing keno (my dad's lucky numbers were 7, 17, 27, and 37). My dad also took my oma to the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany ― the German Embassy in San Francisco ― so she could extend her stay with us.
We celebrated many special days together, wonderful holidays, family traditions, and the beautiful changing of the seasons between summer, fall, and winter: She met my oldest sister's boyfriend (the boyfriend who many years later bacame my sister's fiancé, husband, father of her two sons, and grandfather of her three grandsons); we celebrated Labor Day weekend, all American-style; my other sister's first day of kindergarten at the age of 4; my only brother's first day of 3rd grade at the age of 8; my oldest sister's first day of school at University of California, Berkeley at the age of 18; Halloween and my sister's 5th birthday; my oma's 67th birthday; Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Eve 1967; and, New Year's Day 1968. My oma even met a neighbor ("Mr. Reinecker" or "Mr. Reichert"), a widower who emigrated from Germany in 1928, who spoke the High German dialect with her; they enjoyed many breakfasts together.
Her time with us was precious, and my dad was very happy to see his mother again for the first time in over 13 years since emigrating twice: once to Canada in 1954, and then to the United States in 1963.
My oma was a strong woman with rich brown-black hair and rare, smokey grey eyes.
Her specialty food dish was Eintopf, a traditional type of German stew which can consist of a great number of different ingredients. My dad told me all the neighborhood children, teens, and young adults liked going to "Lina's house" to visit, play, and feast.
She knitted socks for her immediate family. She also had an old antique treadle sewing machine in her home ― possibly inherited from her mother ― but, to my knowledge, she did not sew.
(My dad was 43 when his mother (my oma) died at 72 years old in 1973.)
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"If Roses Grow In Heaven"
If roses grow in heaven,
Lord please pick a bunch for me,
Place them in my Grandmother's arms
and tell her they're from me.
Tell her I love her and miss her,
and when she turns to smile,
place a kiss upon her cheek
and hold her for awhile.
Because remembering her is easy,
I do it every day,
but there's an ache within my heart
that will never go away.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lina
November Child
Strength
Friendship
Who first comes to this world below
With brisk November's Autumn glow,
Should prize the topaz's amber hue,
Emblem of friends and lovers true.
My oma was born in November 1900.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Doxology
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host:
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
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