1. MATHIAS1 GAPPA was born 1842 in Prussia, and died February 09, 1918, buried in Whittemore Iowa. He married CATHERINE (Katrina) BRASS who was born in 1852 in Dubuque and died February 14, 1919 and is also buried at the Catholic cemetery in Whittemore, Iowa .

Children of MATHIAS GAPPA and CATHERINE BRASS are:

i. ELIZABETH2 GAPPA, b. January 1874; d. January 13, 1891. Buried in Whittemore with her parents.
2. ii. ESADORE GAPPA, b. April 04, 1875; d. June 24, 1944.
3. iii. CATHERINE GAPPA, b. March 06, 1879; d. September 23, 1938.
iv. MAGDALENE GAPPA, b. January 23, 1880; d. September 12, 1882.
4. v. MATHIAS GAPPA, b. October 09, 1880; d. May 21, 1952.
vi. PETER GAPPA, b. March 02, 1883; d. April 27, 1909. Death Certificate states he died on suffocation. Buried in Whittemore Iowa with this parents.
5. vii. JOHN J GAPPA, b. June 26, 1884; d. August 22, 1952.
6. viii. MARY E GAPPA, b. January 07, 1886; d. April 28, 1947.
ix. CLARA GAPPA, b. August 11, 1887; d. February 07, 1892.
7. x. BARBARA MARGARET GAPPA, b. May 30, 1889, Fairville, Iowa; d. April 03, 1947, Palermo, CA.
8. xi. SUSAN M GAPPA, b. September 26, 1891; d. February 02, 1958.
xii. ALICE GAPPA, b. October 29, 1893; d. July 02, 1895.
9. xiii. SADIE I GAPPA, b. May 23, 1895; d. July 13, 1966.
xiv. JOSEPH GAPPA, b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
xv. GEORGE GAPPA, b. Unknown; d. June 25, 1947. Bachelor who lived at International Falls, Minnesota
xvi. MATT SLATTERY GAPPA, b. Unknown; d. Unknown; Adopted child. Ward Gappa's father, Jack states that his parents John and Sarah Gappa raised Matt Slattery. He was an homeless child from Chicago. Grew up to become an attorney in Illinois.

Generation No. 2

2. ESADORE2 GAPPA (MATHIAS1) was born April 04, 1875, and died June 24, 1944. He married MARY GOSHEY Unknown. He farmed South of Emmetsburg, Iowa.

Children of ESADORE GAPPA and MARY GOSHEY are:

i. FRANK3 GAPPA, b. Unknown. Worked at shoe factory in LaCrosse, Wisc.
ii. SADIE GAPPA, b. Unknown. Worked at shoe factory in LaCrosse, Wisc. Married Frank Sullivan. Had 6 sons. Sadie could still be living in the LaCrosse area.

3. CATHERINE2 GAPPA (MATHIAS1) was born March 06, 1879, and died September 23, 1938. She married FRED GREMMELS Unknown.

Children of CATHERINE GAPPA and FRED GREMMELS are:

i. ELLEN3 GREMMELS, b. June 12, 1898; d. June 23, 1974.
ii. EDNA GREMMELS, b. June 03, 1901; d. July 09, 1957.
iii. ALICE GREMMELS, b. April 08, 1903; d. April 10, 1903.
iv. CLARENCE GREMMELS, b. September 20, 1904; d. December 18, 1941.
v. ETHEL GREMMELS, b. October 12, 1906; d. Unknown.
vi. MATHIAS GREMMELS, b. September 10, 1908; d. December 07, 1953.
vii. CATHERINE GREMMELS, b. October 09, 1910; d. November 22, 1975.
viii. FLOYD GREMMELS, b. November 04, 1912; d. January 05, 1960.
ix. GERALDEEN GREMMELS, b. June 11, 1919; d. June 11, 1919.

4. MATHIAS2 GAPPA (MATHIAS1) was born October 09, 1880, and died May 21, 1952. He married ANGELINE MILLER, daughter of Hermann (1854-1930) and Roelfka Miller 1858-1947), born March 10, 1886; Angie died February 24, 1964.

Children of MATHIAS GAPPA and ANGELINE MILLER are:

i. MATHIAS3 (Mickey) GAPPA, b. June 19, 1919; d. January 1990 in auto accident near Ayeshire, Iowa. Married 3 times, had 4 or 5 children. His widow, Ester still owns all of the Matt and Angeline Gappa estate's farmland South of Emmetsburg.
ii. GEORGE GAPPA, b. April 3,1921; d. June 30,1946 in a car accident South of Emmetsburg. Left a young widow, Ilo and an unborn daughter, Dorothy Jean born July 22, 1946.

5. JOHN J2 GAPPA (MATHIAS1) was born June 26, 1884, and died August 22, 1952 of stomach cancer. He married SARAH MILLER . daughter of Hermann (1854-1930) and Roelfka Miller 1858-1947), born in Grundy County, Iowa on October 21, 1893. Sarah died of stomach cancer on April 27, 1971. Sarah had a twin sister, Reka that died at birth. Sarah married John Gappa 10-4-1911, Sadie Gappa and Matt Slattery were witnesses.
Child of JOHN GAPPA and SARAH MILLER is:

i. JOHN Joseph3 "Jack" GAPPA, b. July 6, 1927; d. Still living. Adopted at Catholic Orphanage in Dubuque Iowa in 1928. Graduated from Emmetsburg High School in 1946. Married LaVon Mary Runnings September 20, 1950. Divorced May 1980. Single at this time. Farming NE of Emmetsburg.

6. MARY E2 GAPPA (MATHIAS1) was born January 07, 1886, and died April 28, 1947. She married (1) DEL TOOLE. She married (2) GEORGE DARROW Unknown.

Child of MARY GAPPA and DEL TOOLE is:

i. PETER3 TOOLE, b. 1904; d. March 12, 1971.

Children of MARY GAPPA and GEORGE DARROW are:

ii. CLARENCE D3 DARROW, b. March 22, 1908; d. August 28, 1957. Was a physician.
iii. LAWRENCE DARROW, b. Private.
iv. FRANK DARROW, b. Private. Died in last few years of a gunshot wound in Tulsa Oklahoma. Was a physician.

7. BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA (MATHIAS1) was born May 30, 1889 in Fairville, Iowa, and died April 03, 1947 in Palermo, CA. She married OLIVER RAYMOND BLIGHTON September 02, 1909 in St. Thomas Church, Emmetsburg, Iowa, son of HIRAM BLIGHTON and MAHOLA FRANKLIN.

Notes for BARBARA MARGARET GAPPA:

THINGS I REMEMBER ABOUT MY MOTHER. BY FLORENCE BLIGHTON LEWIS

She sewed most of our clothes on a treadle sewing machine. She would take coats that someone had gave us and make them over so they would fit us. She made all our clothes, sometimes even our underclothes. I picked up potatoes and bought my first coat when I was seventeen. I would babysat with five kids on this farm and would get paid a quarter and sometimes fifty cents and I would save it up until I got a dollar and that would be enough to buy material to make me a dress. Mom never used a pattern. I would draw her a picture of a dress I saw in the store and she would make it. She even made me beautiful pleated skirts.

She would go and help out women when they had babies. You had to have help because you had to stay in bed for ten days. She always had a kit ready in case she would have to deliver one and she showed us kids how to do it. Guess it came in handy when I was born because my Dad delivered me. Mom had us all at home and she never were in a hospital.

She always made bread and taught me how to do it when I was eleven. She was sick in bed and couldn't do it and we had to make it every other day. She also raised a big garden every summer and we ate out of it and canned for the winter. The worst time was wash day and that was an all day job because we had to heat the water on the range stove after carrying it in from the well and scrub all the clothes on the wash board. Dishtowels had to be boiled and in the summer it really got hot in the kitchen. Later Dad finally got a kerosene stove because there was no electricity in the country. The years pass and I went to work at Hormels and was guaranteed twenty-four dollars a week. Sometimes we made thirty because we worked on production. I was able to buy Mom her first washing machine and we had electricity by then so we even got an electric iron.

When she finally got time to sit down she done a lot of crocheting and embroidery. She was well liked by everyone. She had fifteen brothers and sisters and one adopted brother. She said there was enough of them to have their own parties. She said there would always be a barn dance at some place every Saturday night. They grew up on a farm. She passed away in Oroville, California. Dale was just four months old and I was twenty-two. Richard was only fifteen. Mil and Dad too her by train back to Iowa to be buried. That was what she wanted. I have good memories of my Mom, because she was always there for us.

More About BARBARA MARGARET GAPPA:
Burial: Evergreen Cemetery Emmetsburg, Iowa
Medical Information: Died from a blood clot to the Heart.

Notes for OLIVER RAYMOND BLIGHTON:
(From the pages of The Franklin Book)

Oliver Raymond Blighton, son of Dora Franklin and Hiram Blighton, was born 1888 in a sod hut near Lincoln, Nebraska. His birth name was Michael Oliver, but he always went by the name Oliver. He later took the name Raymond when baptized in the Catholic church. He married Barbara Gappa and they had 8 children: Mildred, Lucille, Gladys, Eugene, Francis, Florence, Marian and Richard.

Gladys (Blighton) Freshour, daughter of Dora Franklin and Hiram Blighton, shares some memories:

"Oliver and Barbara lived on a farm near Cylinder, Iowa. We went to Cylinder School. It was a sad day when our baby brother , Francis died with diphtheria. After that we moved to a farm nine miles from Emmetsburg, Iowa. That is where Florence was born. We lived there when the big tornado hit. We were lucky, but our neighbors lost everything. It tore the house right in half. A kitchen chair held some of the house off of Kitty's mother and it blew Kitty out into the pasture. Oliver sold that farm and we moved to Grandmeadow near Uncle Chuck. Oliver worked a farm for another man and drove stock truck. The older girls did most of the farm work while Dad drove the truck. Later we moved to Hollandale, Minnesota. We worked in the onion and potato fields. We were living in Hollandale when the depression hit. Mildred and Lucille went to Dubuque, Iowa to work and I stayed behind to help Dad in the fields. Dad always said the Lord will provide, He may be a little slow at times. Oliver and Barbara moved to Alberta Lea. Dad became very ill and we almost lost him. His appendicitis burst and he developed gangrene. Eugene was only sixteen; he had to go to work for WPA until Dad was well and could go back to work. In World War II, Oliver, Eugene and Earl Wooton worked for the defense projects in Hutchinson, Kansas and Oklahoma. Oliver and Barbara loved to dance. At the time they had a lot of house dances. Oliver had a goods voice . Every Christmas Eve we sat around the Christmas Tree and sang Christmas Carols, then go to midnight mass. He also liked to sing other songs at different times and dance to them for us kids. In the summer of 1922 Uncle Glen and Aunt Marie came to visit Aunt Bertha. I remember going to all the Lakes up North. Clarence Arbogast (We called him "Cap") was there, and later he came to Lodi (California) to visit in the 50's and the younger kids remember her too. Oliver died in 1965 at the age of 77. Barbara died in 1947 at the age of 57".

Conflict of Birth Date. Book of The Descendants of Peter Franklin List Birth Date as August 27, 1888

THINGS I REMEMBER ABOUT DAD. BY FLORENCE BLIGHTON LEWIS

There were times when he would have to hitch hike into town, which was eight miles away, to get groceries and kerosene for the lamps because the truck wouldn't start. This one time he got a ride with this guy and he was driving too fast and he rolled the car and the only thing that kept them from getting hurt was the ditches were full of snow and I guess the car landed on it's wheels and Dad got out and told the guy he would walk the rest of the way. Us kids would sit in the window Watching for him to come across the field of snow. He would have a gunnysack with as many groceries as he could carry and the littler can of kerosene in the other hand. Didn't seem like much but Mom always knew how to cook and stretch the food.

Dad and Uncle Chuck tilled the fields for a while. That was to drain the water from them if we got too much rain. Mostly they sold vegetables like cabbage, potatoes, onions and etc. They had some customers every year and sold to some colleges too. So every summer us kids would work in the fields. Uncle Chuck and Aunt Annie would come up and bring there kids, Curly, Stub, Bette and Dort. But Dort was only about two then. We would have to sleep cross ways in the beds so we would have enough room for everyone to sleep. We would get to go to the free show one night a week. They were outside. Gene had bought his first car 1927 Model T. They didn't go very fast but you got where you wanted to go. So along with the hard work and weeding onions and picking up potatoes was hard, we had some good times too.

I remember that we would get to go to Uncle Chuck's sometimes to Iowa. Dad would pick us up at school and we would have blankets and pillows in the car until there was hardly any room to sit. That was a long trip in those days because the cars would only go about forty miles an hour. We would always have a lot of fun. Aunt Annie would line up all the chairs and play train with us. Of course Uncle Chuck and Dad would go up to the bar and visit with their friends. This one time Annie told Chuck to bring a roast home for Sunday dinner and when they came home that night, I can still hear, Annie asked if he brought the roast and he said yeah ( He said the dog got the meat but here's the bone). They had left the roast in the truck while they were in the bar and a dog got in there and ate the meat and had left the bone. At that time there were only Gene, Mary Rich and I at home. The three older girls were married.

Times were hard but we always seemed to have something to eat. Always had a big garden in the summer and canned out of it for the winter. We all were healthy.

More About OLIVER RAYMOND BLIGHTON:
Burial: Evergreen Cemetery Emmetsburg, Iowa
Medical Information: Died from an enlarged Heart.
Occupation: Farmer

Marriage Notes for BARBARA GAPPA and OLIVER BLIGHTON:,br> Married at Saint Thomas Church in Emmetsburg, Iowa

Children of BARBARA GAPPA and OLIVER BLIGHTON are:

10. i. MILDRED EVELYN3 BLIGHTON, b. March 29, 1910, Emmetsburg, Iowa; d. March 22, 1979, Lodi, SanJoaquin co., CA.
11. ii. LUCILLE CATHERINE BLIGHTON, b. May 19, 1911, Emmetsburg, Iowa; d. June 10, 1984, Modesto, San Joaquin Co., CA.
12. iii. EUGENE VERNON BLIGHTON, b. October 27, 1919, Cylinder, IA; d. July 1981, Lockeford, CA.
iv. FRANCIS GERALD BLIGHTON, b. April 20, 1922, Cylinder, IA; d. November 18, 1923, Cylinder, IA.

Notes for FRANCIS GERALD BLIGHTON:
Burial: Buried with his parents
Cause of Death: Diphtheria

13. v. RICHARD HAROLD BLIGHTON, b. October 24, 1931, Hollandale, MN; d. February 03, 1998, Lodi, CA.
14. vi. FLORENCE MARGARET BLIGHTON, b. Private, Emmetsburg, Iowa.
15. vii. GLADYS MARIE BLIGHTON, b. Private, Emmetsburg, Iowa.
16. viii. MARION ELAINE "MARY" BLIGHTON, b. Private, Grand Meadow, MN.

8. SUSAN M2 GAPPA (MATHIAS1) was born September 26, 1891, and died February 02, 1958. She married OSCAR ROOT Unknown.

Children of SUSAN GAPPA and OSCAR ROOT are:

i. KATHLEEN3 ROOT, b. Private.
ii. EUGENE V ROOT, b. Private.
Was a professional golfer in California
iii. FLORENCE ROOT, b. Private.

9. SADIE I2 GAPPA (MATHIAS1) was born May 23, 1895, and died July 13, 1966. She married FRANK FUHRMAN Unknown. Frank Furman ran a clothing store in Dubuque, Iowa.

Children of SADIE GAPPA and FRANK FUHRMAN are:

i. JEANNE3 FUHRMAN, b. June 04, 1926; d. February 03, 1962.
ii. HELEN FUHRMAN, b. Private.
iii. FRANK P FUHRMAN, b. Private. Ran his father's clothing store
iv. ROBERT FUHRMAN, b. Private. Is a mechanical engineer for John Deere in Dubuque, Iowa.

Generation No. 3

10. MILDRED EVELYN3 BLIGHTON (BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born March 29, 1910 in Emmetsburg, Iowa, and died March 22, 1979 in Lodi, SanJoaquin co., CA. She married FLOYD OLDS September 18, 1930 in Austin, MN.

More About MILDRED EVELYN BLIGHTON:
Burial: Crypts- Pine St. Cemetery- Lodi, CA
Cause of Death: Heart attack and Asthma
Medical Information: Heart Problems and Asthma

More About FLOYD OLDS:
Burial: Crypts- Pine St. Cemetery- Lodi, CA

Child of MILDRED BLIGHTON and FLOYD OLDS is:

17. i. ROBERT4 OLDS, b. Private.

11. LUCILLE CATHERINE3 BLIGHTON (BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born May 19, 1911 in Emmetsburg, Iowa, and died June 10, 1984 in Modesto, San Joaquin Co., CA. She married EARL ARTHUR WOOTEN Unknown.

More About LUCILLE CATHERINE BLIGHTON:
Burial: Cherokee Memorial Cemetery

Children of LUCILLE BLIGHTON and EARL WOOTEN are:

18. i. LOIS JOY4 WOOTEN, b. Unknown.
19. ii. NANCY KAY WOOTEN, b. Unknown.

12. EUGENE VERNON3 BLIGHTON (BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born October 27, 1919 in Cylinder, IA, and died July 1981 in Lockeford, CA. He married BETTE DOLAN Unknown.

Notes for EUGENE VERNON BLIGHTON:

He had 3 Heart Attacks over a period of 10 years.

More About EUGENE VERNON BLIGHTON:
Burial: Cherokee Memorial Cemetery, Lodi, CA
Cause of Death: Heart Attack

Children of EUGENE BLIGHTON and BETTE DOLAN are:

i. RONALD4 BLIGHTON.
20. ii. THOMAS BLIGHTON, b. Unknown.
21. iii. TIMOTHY BLIGHTON, b. Unknown.
22. iv. BARBARA BLIGHTON, b. Unknown.

13. RICHARD HAROLD3 BLIGHTON (BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born October 24, 1931 in Hollandale, MN, and died February 03, 1998 in Lodi, CA. He married MARY ELIZABETH NEDROW June 01, 1952 in Reno, NV, daughter of MARK NEDROW and BLANCHE MCBATH.

More About RICHARD HAROLD BLIGHTON:
Occupation: Truck Driver - bricklayer

Children of RICHARD BLIGHTON and MARY NEDROW are:

23. i. JACQUELINE LEE4 BLIGHTON, b. Private, San Joaquin Co., French Camp, Ca.
24. ii. RICHARD ALLEN BLIGHTON, b. Private, French Camp, San Joaquin Co., CA.
25. iii. BUDDY EUGENE BLIGHTON, b. Private.
26. iv. MARGARET MARIE "PEGGY" BLIGHTON, b. Private, Lodi, San Joaquin Co., CA.

14. FLORENCE MARGARET3 BLIGHTON (BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born Private in Emmetsburg, Iowa. She married GERALD E. LEWIS September 01, 1944, son of GARETT LEWIS and ELLEN HOLZ.

Notes for FLORENCE MARGARET BLIGHTON:

HOW WE ALL ENDED UP IN CALIFORNIA. BY FLORENCE BLIGHTON LEWIS

Dad, Art, Jiggs and Gene left Austin Minnesota in November, 1944 to come to California to work on defense. They drove Art's gravel truck and towed Gene's because we were still in the middle of World War II and gas was rationed and they didn't give you much. Don't know how much they allowed for trucks but I know we were allowed three gallons a week for the car. Anyway they ended up in Blythe, California. They hauled rock to build battleships or something. Had to back up this long ramp to a boxcar and then dump it into the car. One night Dad was driving Gene's truck on the night shift and he went up the ramp to fast and couldn't get stopped in time and part of the truck went into the car and he bit his pipe into (always had it in his mouth) and all he had left was the stem in his mouth and he was running around trying to find the other half. They got the truck out and it wasn't hurt and there laid Dad's other half of his pipe on the rocks in the car. I moved in with Mom and stayed with her until December and I left Austin with Jiggs and Grandma Barton. She was going to Los Angeles by train to, I went that far with her and I got a ride from there to Brawly with some relatives of hers. From there I had to take a bus to Blythe. It was nighttime and the border patrol were taking Mexicans off the bus and there I was all alone and was the first time that I had been farther than Iowa. Bus got into Blythe at two in the morning and I started for the hotel where Dad and them were suppose to be and I discovered there were three Mexicans behind me so I turned around and went to the hotel closes to me and got a room and locked the doors. I didn't sleep. I asked the guy in the hotel how I could find the guys with the gravel trucks and he said they all left for San Bernardino this morning and about that time I heard Art's truck going down the street, so I knew he was still there. Finally Jiggs heard that I was still in the lobby so he finally got there. We never had no Mexicans in Minnesota, I guess that is why they scared me so bad.

Mom and Rich and Mary, Glad and Dee, Lou and Lois came out in January on the train. We had three houses close toge5her all that were made of adobe blocks. They were finished which was good because we all had sold all of our furniture except like blankets, dishes and etc. We left Blythe in March. Art and Lou stayed behind because Art was hauling lettuce. It got so hot that Art had taken the windshield out of the truck and hauled ice in the cab to try and stay cool. Gene had went by bus back to Austin to marry Bette and had left his truck for us. The gas rationing had ended so we could get gas. There was Mom, Dad, Rich, Mary, Glad, Dee and me and Jiggs. Dad done most of the driving and he wasn't the best driver around and we came through the Grapevine and it was only two lanes at that time and seem like the dual wheels on the truck were hanging over the edge most of the time. Most of us had to ride in the back of the truck and we got to Bakersfield it was hot and being in that steel bed on the truck didn't help.

I remember when we got up into the grape country and the grapes were all pruned, Dad said look at all those stumps, I don't know why they don't clear that land and grow something on that good land. We had never seen grapes growing like that. Soon find out in the fall what they were.

We ended up in Thornton, California and with the war still on there was no houses to rent so we had to move into the Government Camp. We had one room tin huts. The manager finally moved our whole family down to an area they had used for an isolation place but they didn't need that anymore. Art and Lou and Lois came up in April and soon Danny came. Mary had met him in Blythe. She was sixteen and he was seventeen. A couple of months later they ran off to Tahoe and got married. They were seventeen and eighteen the. Gene and Bette came out from Minnesota. We played a lot of poker in those days for entertainment. So we all worked in the fields that year. I was pregnant with Gary and Lou found out she was pregnant with Nancy. She couldn't believe it because Lois was15. A year later Bette got pregnant and wanted to go back to Minnesota. So Gene sold his truck and they went back there. In the meantime we had got us a Graham Paige car and Dad had got a 29 Chevy Pickup. Gene and Bette and Ronnie came back to Thornton. Mom, Dad, Gene, Bette , me and Jiggs (by this time I had Dale) decided to move to Oroville to pick olives.

The guys picked olives ands we stayed home and took care of the kids. Dale was only 2 months old. We were still having a hard time finding a place to rent but Gene and Bette and me and Jiggs found this two room place so we rented it together. I wasn't suppose to have any kids and it was alright for Bette to have Ronnie. The landlord said she would allow one kid. So I had to leave Gary with Mom (they had a two room place in Palermo) and Bette and I would bring the buggy in and take Ron out and put him back on the porch for fresh air and then we would bring the buggy in and take Ron out and put Dale in it and put him out for air. One day we wanted to go for a ride so we wrapped them both in the same blanket and the old girl caught us and made us move. So Jiggs and I and the boys moved in with Mom and Dad and Bette and Gene pitched a tent out in the yard.

Mom died there in the house. Bette ran to the store and called the doc but it was to late by the time he got there. Of course, they couldn't have done anything because it was a blood clot in the heart. Mil and Floyd had moved to California shortly before Mom died. Mil had asthma real bad and they thought she would be better here. Mil and Dad took Mom back to Emmetsburg to be buried. That's what she wanted. They had their plots back there and Francis is buried there.

Finally the war was over in August and there finally was places to rent because the people who worked in the defense plants had gone back to their states. We all moved back to Thornton after Mom died. Jiggs went to work at the Thornton Cannery and we got a cannery cabin and I went to work in the cannery because you both had to work to live there. Dee babysat for me for awhile and she was only eleven and Gary was nineteen months and Dale was seven months. Soon we got a three room cabin there. We moved back to Minnesota when the boys were four and five. Judy was born there. Moved back to California two years later and lived on Forrest St. in Lodi, California. Jiggs had a hard time finding steady work and things were rough for awhile, but my family helped us out and the Don Watson got him a job at Bills Furniture and we moved to Stockton. Dan and Gene went to work at California Junk. Danny built up the Lodi Door and Metal. When he died the boys took it over then ended up selling it. Gene and Bette moved back to Minnesota when Ronnie was about three and Gene opened up his own Junk Yard. When the twins were five they came back to California. Art kept trucking, finally had got a semi-dump truck and hauled a lot of gravel making driveways. His old truck had burned up when he was hauling hay from Galt to Thornton.

Gladys stayed on at the cannery until she met Ed and they moved to the house on Stockton Street forty-one years.

Jiggs went from Bills Furniture to Sears and worked there for a few years and from there he worked for Danny at the door place. He worked for Stockton Elevators for ten years and Claude C Woods for nine years. He had a truck wreck March 8, 1979 and never went back to work because of his asthma.

We lived on Mettler Road for eighteen years.

I want to add a little foot note that I heard my mother say: I cried because I had no shoes and then I saw a man who had no feet.

Children of FLORENCE BLIGHTON and GERALD LEWIS are:

27. i. GARY4 LEWIS, b. Private, Lodi, San Joaquin Co., CA.
28. ii. DALE LEWIS, b. Private, Lodi, San Joaquin Co., CA.
29. iii. JUDY DIANNE LEWIS, b. Private, Albert Lee, Minnesota.
30. iv. VICKIE LEWIS, b. Private, Lodi, San Joaquin Co., CA.

15. GLADYS MARIE3 BLIGHTON (BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born Private in Emmetsburg, Iowa. She married (1) EDWARD FRESHOUR Unknown. She married (2) CLARENCE HILLSON Unknown.

Child of GLADYS BLIGHTON and EDWARD FRESHOUR is:

31. i. JAMES4 FRESHOUR, b. Private.

Child of GLADYS BLIGHTON and CLARENCE HILLSON is:

32. ii. DOLORES JEAN4 HILSON, b. Private.

16. MARION ELAINE "MARY"3 BLIGHTON (BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born Private in Grand Meadow, MN. She married DAN ANDERSON Unknown.

More About MARION ELAINE "MARY" BLIGHTON:
Occupation: Co-Owned Lodi and Metal in Lodi, CA

More About DAN ANDERSON:
Occupation: Co-Owned Lodi Door and Metal in Lodi, CA

Children of MARION BLIGHTON and DAN ANDERSON are:

33. i. DAN4 ANDERSON, b. Private.
34. ii. LARRY ANDERSON, b. Private, Lodi, San Joaquin Co., CA.

17. Ward John(4) Gappa (JOHN Joseph3 "Jack" GAPPA, JOHN J2 GAPPA (MATHIAS1) was born September 19, 1951. He married Janis Marie Pierson from Fort Dodge, Iowa on November 18, 1973, divorced June, 1986. He married Pamela Ann Siefert Gappa on December 24, 1987.

Notes of Ward Gappa: Graduated from Emmetsburg High School, 1970; Iowa State University, 1974; John Deere farm equipment dealer in Fort Dodge, Iowa 1982-1984. Now residing in Scottsdale Arizona since 1986. Sales Manager, Hospital Alliances-Managed Care with Laboratory Corporation of America since October 1986.

Children of Ward John Gappa and Janis Marie Pierson are:

i. Chadwick John (5) Gappa, b. January 2, 1983. Attends Fort Dodge High School, Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Generation No. 4

18. ROBERT4 OLDS (MILDRED EVELYN3 BLIGHTON, BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born Private. He married MARY ANN KLINESMITH Unknown.

Children of ROBERT OLDS and MARY KLINESMITH are:

i. ROBERT5 OLDS, b. Unknown.
ii. STEPHEN OLDS, b. Unknown.
iii. JAMES OLDS, b. Unknown.
iv. PATRICIA OLDS, b. Unknown.

19. LOIS JOY4 WOOTEN (LUCILLE CATHERINE3 BLIGHTON, BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born Unknown. She married MAX SCHLABS August 13, 1950.

Children of LOIS WOOTEN and MAX SCHLABS are:

i. THOMAS5 SCHLABS.
ii. LOUANN SCHLABS.
iii. ROSE SCHLABS.
iv. MERRY SCHLABS.

20. NANCY KAY4 WOOTEN (LUCILLE CATHERINE3 BLIGHTON, BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born Unknown. She married (1) HAROLD SWENSON Unknown. She married (2) ROY LORATELLI Unknown.

Children of NANCY WOOTEN and HAROLD SWENSON are:

i. GINA5 SWENSON.
ii. TINA SWENSON.
iii. RENA SWENSON, b. Unknown.

21. THOMAS4 BLIGHTON (EUGENE VERNON3, BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born Unknown. He married CINDY Unknown.

More About THOMAS BLIGHTON:
Comments 1: Twin of Timothy Blighton

Child of THOMAS BLIGHTON and CINDY is:

i. ERIC5 BLIGHTON, b. Unknown.

22. TIMOTHY4 BLIGHTON (EUGENE VERNON3, BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born Unknown. He married LYNN Unknown.

More About TIMOTHY BLIGHTON:
Comments 1: Twin of Thomas Blighton

Child of TIMOTHY BLIGHTON and LYNN is:

i. TRAVIS5 BLIGHTON, b. Unknown.

23. BARBARA4 BLIGHTON (EUGENE VERNON3, BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born Unknown. She married TIMOTHY WHITAMORE Unknown.

Children of BARBARA BLIGHTON and TIMOTHY WHITAMORE are:

i. CHRISTOPHER5 WHITAMORE, b. Unknown.
ii. KEVIN WHITAMORE, b. Unknown.

24. JACQUELINE LEE4 BLIGHTON (RICHARD HAROLD3, BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born Private in San Joaquin Co., French Camp, Ca. She married (1) GARY LEE COY April 07, 1966 in Carson City, NV. She married (2) JOSEPH ANTHONY FORSYTHE August 07, 1988 in Reno, NV.

Children of JACQUELINE BLIGHTON and GARY COY are:

i. JAMIE LEE5 COY, b. Private, San Joaquin Co., French Camp, CA.
ii. KRISTINA ELIZABETH COY, b. Private, San Joaquin Lodi, CA.

Child of JACQUELINE BLIGHTON and JOSEPH FORSYTHE is:

iii. JOSEPH ANTHONY5 FORSYTHE, JR, b. Private; Stepchild.
iv. Michael Anthony Forsythe, b. Private; Stepchild.

25. RICHARD ALLEN4 BLIGHTON (RICHARD HAROLD3, BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born Private in French Camp, San Joaquin Co., CA. He married (1) LADONNA JEAN PAGE Unknown. He married (2) JENNIFER MITTELSTEADT Unknown.

Children of RICHARD BLIGHTON and LADONNA PAGE are:

i. JEFFREY ALLEN5 BLIGHTON, b. Private.
ii. GINA MARIE BLIGHTON, b. Private.

Child of RICHARD BLIGHTON and JENNIFER MITTELSTEADT is:

iii. BRANDY5 HENNE, b. Private, Lodi, San Joaquin Co., CA; Stepchild; m. BRANDON ESSARY, Unknown.

26. BUDDY EUGENE4 BLIGHTON (RICHARD HAROLD3, BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born Private. He married (1) SHARON OAKS April 12, 1988. He married (2) TAMMY WARD Unknown.

Children of BUDDY BLIGHTON and SHARON OAKS are:

i. JESSICA MARIE5 BLIGHTON, b. Private.
ii. RICHARD DEAN BLIGHTON, b. Private.

Notes for RICHARD DEAN BLIGHTON:
Born on Grandpa Richards' 60th Birthday

Child of BUDDY BLIGHTON and TAMMY WARD is:

iii. KELSEY MARIE5 BLIGHTON, b. Private.

27. MARGARET MARIE "PEGGY"4 BLIGHTON (RICHARD HAROLD3, BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born Private in Lodi, San Joaquin Co., CA. She married DOUGLAS JAMES KIRKLE June 21, 1975 in Woodbridge San Joaquin Co., CA, son of JERALD KIRKLE and VIRGINIA JEAN.

Children of MARGARET BLIGHTON and DOUGLAS KIRKLE are: i. KIMBERLY MARIE5 KIRKLE, b. Private, Lodi, San Joaquin Co., Ca.
ii. KATIE JEAN KIRKLE, b. Private, Lodi San Joaquin Co., CA.

28. GARY4 LEWIS (FLORENCE MARGARET3 BLIGHTON, BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born Private in Lodi, San Joaquin Co., CA. He married (1) SANDY MINDT Unknown in Lodi, CA. He married (2) SHARON DEUTSCHER Unknown.

More About GARY LEWIS:
Occupation: Mechanic and Landscaper

Child of GARY LEWIS and SANDY MINDT is:

i. MICHAEL5 LEWIS, b. Unknown.

Child of GARY LEWIS and SHARON DEUTSCHER is:

ii. LISA MARIE5 LEWIS, b. Unknown.

29. DALE4 LEWIS (FLORENCE MARGARET3 BLIGHTON, BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born Private in Lodi, San Joaquin Co., CA. He married (1) CAROL PIPPETT October 16, 1983 in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. He married (2) EDWINA BEZUG Unknown.

More About DALE LEWIS:
Occupation: Mechanic and works at a Winery

Child of DALE LEWIS and EDWINA BEZUG is:

i. CARMEN5 LEWIS.

30. JUDY DIANNE4 LEWIS (FLORENCE MARGARET3 BLIGHTON, BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born Private in Albert Lee, Minnesota. She married (1) ROBERT GLENN TENNIES April 13, 1985 in Lodi, CA, son of GLENN TENNIES and MARYANN CROOKS. She married (2) STEVEN SHUMATE Unknown.

Notes for JUDY DIANNE LEWIS:

My Grandma Blighton died before I was born. My Grandpa Blighton was a soft-spoken man who loved to see his grandchildren visit him. When he lived in a little house in Woodbridge is when I remember him the most and he stayed with us when he was sick.

More About JUDY DIANNE LEWIS:
Occupation: Works in a Bank

More About ROBERT GLENN TENNIES:
Occupation: Truck Driver

Notes for STEVEN SHUMATE:
Steve died at the age of 28 in a motorcycle accident.

Child of JUDY LEWIS and ROBERT TENNIES is:

i. TYLER ROBERT5 TENNIES, b. Private, Sacramento, CA.

Children of JUDY LEWIS and STEVEN SHUMATE are:

ii. JASON CHARLES5 SHUMATE, b. Private, Lodi, CA.
iii. PHILLIP RYAN SHUMATE, b. Private, Lodi, CA.

31. VICKIE4 LEWIS (FLORENCE MARGARET3 BLIGHTON, BARBARA MARGARET2 GAPPA, MATHIAS1) was born Private in Lodi, San Joaquin Co., CA. She married NICK NIMMO March 31, 1990 in Lodi, CA.

More About VICKIE LEWIS:

Occupation: Bookkeeper

More About NICK NIMMO:
Occupation: Owns his own Hay hauling and Sales Business

Child of VICKIE LEWIS and NICK NIMMO is: