Tag: #Rickel

Excerpt; Rickel Family

Time with the Rickel family (my mother Gretchen’s ancestry). This is an excerpt from a writing I stumbled across. It sounds very much like what I’ve heard about my Grandfather Armin’s father. His father, H.W. Rickel was the first known German of this family branch to come and settle in America in the late 1800’s.…

Mine to Hold — A Collection of Verses Created by Gretchen Rickel Wolf in 2004 — Compiled by Elsa Wolf in 2018 At an advanced age of ninety-two, my mother could no longer see well enough to read or write due to complications connected to Macular Degeneration that began in 1994. She could recite the…