Family Treasures - Aunt Alma

 
Aunt Alma came to our family treasures get-together armed with kitchen tools and a very precious prayer book that belonged to her dad, Albert Elling.

Aunt Alma stated that in the last year of his life, her dad expressed a desire to go to the German church service and my dad, Rudy, said he would take him. The program from that service is shown in the top photo above and it was tucked into the prayer book. It appears to be the last service of the year, and perhaps Christmas.

  
 She told how her dad was always reluctant to learn English, but her mother Ida, who had gone through third grade, taught herself English using the Toledo Blade. Grandpa Elling liked to go to the German church services. He used his German prayer book, shown in the second photo above, faithfully. 

  
 We didn't get to talk much about the kitchen tools, but now as I look at the photo, I wonder what the first tool on the left is! Any guesses?

The post originally appeared on the Elling Family News blog on June 11, 2011.