Elden about 1937.







Elden at Whitefish in 1990.







Alvina, Gary, Earl, Elden summer of 1945 at Wathena, KS.





Alvina, Gary (age_3), Earl (age_4), Ray (9_months) in the Spring of 1947 at Ludell, before the house was remodeled.





Elden, after a baptism at Ludell in 1952.






Step-grandfather Henry Bernhardt, Ray, Earl, Gary, and our grandmother Mollie Bernhardt.  Our grandfather Jacob Wooster died in 1918 from Spanish influenza.



Elden with his class at St. Matthews Lutheran School in Westfield, TX in 1941.  Elden school here during his vicarage year.



Class at Concordia Seminary in Springfield, IL.





Concordia Seminary students working at the poor farm.



Concordia Seminary Choir at Trinity Lutheran Church in Springfield, IL.




The chapel at Concordia Seminary.




Mealtime at Concordia Seminary.





Snow monument built by seminary students.  Elden is on the top left..


Confirmation class at Immanuel Lutheran Church at Ludell, KS in 1947.





Elden and Harvey Niermeir, a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church on their way to the LCMS church convention at Houston, TX in July 1953




Alvina, Elden and some grandchildren in 1985.




Alvina, Elden and some grandchildren at Glacier National Park in 1985.





Elden, Alvina and their friends the Kehrets at Marshalltown, IA in 1940.





Elden, Alvina, Dorothy and Don Bernhardt at Big Springs, KS in 1942.







Elden and Alvina at Redemeer Lutheran Church in Marshalltown, IA in 1940.





Elden holding Earl in the summer/early fall of 1943.







Elden at Springfield, IL.






Elden at the farm at Moorefield in 1929, age 16.





Elden at the farm at Moorefield in 1936.






Elden at the farm at Freedom, NE in 1917, age 4.






Elden in front of the statue of Luther at Concordia Seminary, Springfield, IL.





Inst5llation of a missionary at the Lutheran church at Oberlin, KS.



Elden's family at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Frazee, MN in 1958.





Elden painting houses one summer at Springfield, IL.







Elden and family at Lake Atwood, KS in 1947.





Elden and family on trip to California in 1958.





Elden's family at the Dekes in the summer 1958.





Ray, Elden. Earl and Gary At Ludell in summer 1949.







Frazee 1956, Gary 12, Helen 8, Ray 10, Earl 13, Elden 42, Alvina 43.

The house at Ludell, KS next to Immanuel Lutheran Church..





Elden in the church office at Frazee, MN in about 1970.





Summer 1950 in Kansas, Alvina and Helen are to the right.





Martens & Wenzels at Hinkley, MN in summer 1952.





The Lutheran congregration at Ludell, at the public school for a gathering in 1948.







RL Sam Bernhardt, Elden, Gary in Army uniform, Lydia Bernhardt (Alvina's sister), Alvina, Helen.





Elden in the early 1970's.





Sam & Lydia Bernhardt, Alvina and Elden in 1985.






Elden at school near Moorefield farm in the 7th grade.






Agnes Martens, daughter of Gus Martens, visiting Elden at the seminary in Springfield, IL.



Elden's children with the Deke's in 1948.





Vacation Bible School at the church at Clearwater, NE in the summer of 1956.





Wathena, KS 1945 Alvina, Grandma Martens, Earl, Gary, Ellenor Mollhoff, Wayne, Sharon