High Altar 1940. Below Wedding of Jim and Rita Youker 1947.
(My Grandparents)
(My Grandparents)
German Immigrant ancestor: Joseph Steinebach
Son of Phoebe Ebare. Gordon Yeomans. Grandma Rita's Uncle.
St. Mary's as it appears today.
Original Statues. Many were in storage up until about 2006.
Statue of Our Lady has been upfront from the beginning.
Parish cemetery. MANY ancestors and relation buried here.
Collage: Then and Now
Church Bell: Michael. Note name of Joseph Steinebach.
Our Dominican Sisters who were with us from the beginning teaching in the school. 6 to 8 Sisters living in the convent at one time. Last sisters to leave us were Sister Dorena Gonzalez and Sister Geneva Marie Schaub (Below) a few years ago for retirement at the Mother House.
While many girls from Hannah entered various religious orders as Nuns, we had one man, Father Albin Gietzen who came from St. Mary's. He was even Hannah's parish priest from 1993 to 2001. Ordained in 1956 by Cardinal Mooney in Detroit. Passed away, Sept. 2017. Buried in parish cemetery.
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