Valeria and the Wolf girls, circa 1940-1941

This is a group photo of my paternal grandmother, Itola F Duwe (nee Wolf) with her mother and sisters. Valeria Miatke (1880-1967), at far left in the photo, was born in rural Shawano County, Wisconsin. She married Albert J. Wolf (1881-1954) in 1902 and the couple had seven daughters. In the photo, I believe they stand in birth order from left to right: Evelyn (1903-1980), Hildegard (1904-1992), Audrey (1906-1975), Ila (1908-1992), Delores (1911-1966), Loraine (1913-?), and my grandmother, Itola (1920-1990).

Valeria and Albert's marriage broke up in the mid-1920s and they were divorced in 1925. Valeria married twice more, to Frank H Bibelhausen (1877-1937) and to Otto Holtz (? -1949). Albert spent the last 12 years of his life as a resident of the Hickory Grove Tuberculosis Sanitorium in West De Pere, Brown County, Wisconsin, dying there in 1954.