General Notes

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2  PLAC 186
2  SOUR S332582
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4  TEXT Date of Import: 14 Jan 2004


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Source of information:

"The Way We Were" written by Luella M Schwalen (dau of William Klein)
"The Klein Family", by Pat Wiff (chapter 4, pages 186-191)

The following is from the booklet, The Anthes Family, by David Anthes, published in 1981 pg 89
   Marion Lewis Klein was born January 28, 1901 in Vinton, Iowa. He married Elizabeth Johnson. Elizabeth Johnson was born in 1926 and died in 1956. Once child was born of the marriage, Lloyd Klein. Marion married Elvine Markelvitz in Los Angeles, CA
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The following is from the Book  "Harvesting The RIce  (Reiss) Crop" by Pat Wiff  pg 342-343

MARION KLEIN

By Elizabeth Canfield.

Marion was born at Vinton, Iowa, 28 January 1901 and was moved with the rest of his brothers and sisters to the Garrison farm in 1902. He attended the country school that was just beside the farm. In 1910 the family moved to Bellevue after the house burned and Dad built Uncle John Reiss's house.

We walked to town school that September in 1910, On the first day, and sat at the edge of town. Both of us ware crying because we could not find the school house.

I remember the Mississippi River at Bellevue where we played, swam and skated. Marion nearly drowned one day while swimming with Allen Butler, Sherm, Fred and Walt, who revived him. He played with Floyd Dagatz and Oliver Mertz, neighbor boys. We had to chase the cows home over the bluff north of Bellevue-they fed during the day back of the bluff where we had the picnic in 1913.

The boys, Sherm and Marion, caught rides on the freight train which ran through our yard. Once they didn't come home at night and shooed up about 2 a.m. the next morning. The freight had not slowed down and they couldn't jump off.  Consequently they had to ride 8 miles past our house.

We moved to Ellsworth in the spring of 1915 and Marion went to Ellsworth school through the 8th and 9th grade. He started his sophomore year and got into a disagreement with Miss Byrnes and was expelled. He then went to Montana with Leon Smith and worked on a farm milking cows and feeding horses. Then they went on to California where Marion joined the Navy and traveled to China. This was during the World War I era. He saw cholera victims falling dead on the streets. The American Navy ships ware quarantined for 3 months one winter in the harbor of Vladivostok.

While in China he purchased a set of dishes and yards of pink satin and apricot colored satin and 15 yards of white shantung silk and tablecloths highly embroidered and mailed them for a few cents. The box came as a Christmas present in 1920. When the packaged reached the U.S. the customs officials sent Mother a bill for $25 in duties, We argued whether to pay it but didn't know what was in the package so we sent the $25. Marion was horrified when he finally heard the story. Alice and Bess each had a dress for graduation from the satin and the dishes are at Luella's.

Out of the Navy again, he went to Los Angeles and slept on park benches one winter. He could not find work and couldn't find work.. Finally he said he walked by a house being built, picked up a hammer and started to work. The boss came by and said, "If you are a carpenter, keep on working." He asked for scrap lumber, bagged it and sold the sacks for $1 apiece for evening fuel. Then he went into the pine woods and picked up pine cones. All this time he was looking for a triangular lot of land where 3 roads or so would meet. Finally he located such a site and promptly bought it. He poured cement, put in electricity and connected himself to the water system and put up a tiny building. The next winter he was inside instead of on a park bench.

He knew the sailors and went to the harbor where the banana boats came in, stopped men unloading bananas and every so often got a free bunch. These he hung in front of his little store. He said most of the Mexicans lived on bread and bananas so he soon had a thriving business.

Dad and Mom went to California for the winter and Dad built a little house behind the store one winter.

Marion married Betty Johnson in 1927 and Lloyd was born about 1927. They drove a little coupe to Ellsworth in 1935 at threshing time. There are pictures included of their return trip. Lloyd was 7 or 8 years old and brought copies, miniatures of the U.S. Navy ships in the harbor at L. A. Lloyd graduated and Marion's store. He had a head clerk and left him operating the store, trusting him completely.

He and betty attended square dances twice a week. She had 100 different dress outfits. She was not too well and developed cancer of the hip which caused her death in 1956. Lloyd was killed the next year in a car accident. He drove a little Porsche and a 5611i which was running away from the police ran through a stop light and right over the little car.

Marion was alone until he met Elvine Frankovich and married her. She was also a square dancer. She and Marion purchased a house in Pacoima and represented the L. A. group at a square dance meeting in St. Paul in 1968. Marion and Elvine and her mother visited in Ellsworth shortly after they were married. They had a very nice trailer house on this trip and we all went down to Vinton, Iowa, that October for a family get together.

Marion received $35,000 insurance from Lloyd and spent most of it on a mining project which failed. He always trusted his partners and they did away with his money but in it all he kept his hone free and clear of debt. Elvine's mother (exactly Marion's age) lived with them and took care of Marion who had veins stripped and artificial ones transplanted and also by-pass work to his heart. He grew worse and Elvine took care of him during the day and worked at night as a registered nurse at a big hospital where Marion stayed at the termination of his life. He had a stroke and passed away. He was a very kind man.

He loved to go to Las Vegas and gamble. Many times he played either black jack or other card games. He enjoyed every minute.

We hunted turtle eggs and chased Blue Racers together.

Marion Klein, 81
Marion L. Klein, a one-time resident
of Ellsworth, son of Mr. and
Mrs Anna Klein, died Sunday, May
15, at the age of 81 years. His home
was in Pacoima, Calif.
    He leaves to mourn his death, his
wife, Elvine; one brother, Sherman
Klein; sisters Elizabeth Canfield, Alice
Wiff of Martell, Luella Schwalen of
Salem, Ore., Mildred Gilbertson of
Beldenville; sisters-in-law, Eunice
Klein and Ruth Klein, and nieces and
nephews. He was buried on Tuesday, May 17 in
Inglewood Park.