Alpha Aichele was born in a sod house on the outskirts of Hurdsfield, North Dakota. She was the second oldest of eight living children of Fred Ludwig Aichele of Friedenstal, Bessarabia, Russia, and Martha Buchmiller of Chernigov (or Hermansburg), Russia. The Aicheles were part of the German Russian migration from Bessarabia to North & South Dakota, Nebraska, and Colorado that started in the 1880s and continued until the Communists cracked down on the prosperous ethnic Germans in the breadbasket of Russia.
Alpha's family moved to Oregon after suffering hail, grasshopper infestations, and drought in North Dakota in about 1920. They lived in Freewater for a number of years and then went back to North Dakota for one very harsh winter. They returned to Oregon in May 1926. Alpha graduated from 8th grade and married Howard Elgin Coffman in Walla Walla on January 2, 1935. They had two daughters, Jane Laurine Coffman Hoag and Jo Ann Coffman Culbertson Ryan. Alpha was the pillar of her family. She was a homemaker, cooked for many hired farm hands, and worked in Weston cannery as a fruit packer. She had a strong German work ethic and was a caring person with deep love for her family, church, and the less fortunate.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her brothers Soloman, Karl, Victor, and Fred. She preceded the deaths of her husband Elgin, sisters Hannah and Ida, brother Andrew, and a granddaughter Hannah Campos
Alpha's family moved to Oregon after suffering hail, grasshopper infestations, and drought in North Dakota in about 1920. They lived in Freewater for a number of years and then went back to North Dakota for one very harsh winter. They returned to Oregon in May 1926. Alpha graduated from 8th grade and married Howard Elgin Coffman in Walla Walla on January 2, 1935. They had two daughters, Jane Laurine Coffman Hoag and Jo Ann Coffman Culbertson Ryan. Alpha was the pillar of her family. She was a homemaker, cooked for many hired farm hands, and worked in Weston cannery as a fruit packer. She had a strong German work ethic and was a caring person with deep love for her family, church, and the less fortunate.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her brothers Soloman, Karl, Victor, and Fred. She preceded the deaths of her husband Elgin, sisters Hannah and Ida, brother Andrew, and a granddaughter Hannah Campos
Alpha Aichele was born in a sod house on the outskirts of Hurdsfield, North Dakota. She was the second oldest of eight living children of Fred Ludwig Aichele of Friedenstal, Bessarabia, Russia, and Martha Buchmiller of Chernigov (or Hermansburg), Russia. The Aicheles were part of the German Russian migration from Bessarabia to North & South Dakota, Nebraska, and Colorado that started in the 1880s and continued until the Communists cracked down on the prosperous ethnic Germans in the breadbasket of Russia.
Alpha's family moved to Oregon after suffering hail, grasshopper infestations, and drought in North Dakota in about 1920. They lived in Freewater for a number of years and then went back to North Dakota for one very harsh winter. They returned to Oregon in May 1926. Alpha graduated from 8th grade and married Howard Elgin Coffman in Walla Walla on January 2, 1935. They had two daughters, Jane Laurine Coffman Hoag and Jo Ann Coffman Culbertson Ryan. Alpha was the pillar of her family. She was a homemaker, cooked for many hired farm hands, and worked in Weston cannery as a fruit packer. She had a strong German work ethic and was a caring person with deep love for her family, church, and the less fortunate.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her brothers Soloman, Karl, Victor, and Fred. She preceded the deaths of her husband Elgin, sisters Hannah and Ida, brother Andrew, and a granddaughter Hannah Campos
Alpha's family moved to Oregon after suffering hail, grasshopper infestations, and drought in North Dakota in about 1920. They lived in Freewater for a number of years and then went back to North Dakota for one very harsh winter. They returned to Oregon in May 1926. Alpha graduated from 8th grade and married Howard Elgin Coffman in Walla Walla on January 2, 1935. They had two daughters, Jane Laurine Coffman Hoag and Jo Ann Coffman Culbertson Ryan. Alpha was the pillar of her family. She was a homemaker, cooked for many hired farm hands, and worked in Weston cannery as a fruit packer. She had a strong German work ethic and was a caring person with deep love for her family, church, and the less fortunate.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her brothers Soloman, Karl, Victor, and Fred. She preceded the deaths of her husband Elgin, sisters Hannah and Ida, brother Andrew, and a granddaughter Hannah Campos
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Alpha A.
1914-1990
H. Elgin
1913-2007
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