Please e-mail your memories of good times with Josephine to fochtmann@ideateam.com, for possible inclusion here.

From her grandson, Jim Asbury:

I remember when I was about 10 years old we made a trip to St. Louis Arch. Ma Ma and Aunt Gert came with us. We had a great day going to the top of the Arch and looking around the area. The most vivid memory I have of the trip was when we first got there. I ran to meet Ma Ma and give her a hug. I hugged Aunt Gert thinking she was my grandmother. That was the first time I realized how much the two of them looked alike.

The other memories were when Doc was alive. Every time we visited MaMa and Uncle Doc we had an adventure. I took on some glass in the knee sliding into the gravel driveway behind the Bann's Dairy Queen across the street. Uncle Doc had to put stitches in my knee. Tommy ran into the planter on the side of the O'Fallon house and broke his glasses and Doc had to put stitches near his eye.

The first tarantula that I ever saw was in Ma Ma's backyard in New Baden. We had crawled into the bushes chasing a baseball and I was staring at a huge spider.

From Mildred (Fochtmann) Mueller, Mary Lou (Asbury) Fochtmann's sister-in-law:

Don't know if Mary knows that her Mom was my 4H or Girl Scout leader for a while when I was young. She did the sewing segment. We made a square tablecloth that we did some embroidery on. I'm sure she was a busy lady.