This photo maybe from circa 1930-40s.
"Grandma Grotluschen" ( mother of Mini Grotluschen- Dietz, mother of Lawrence Dietz) standing wuth Lawrences wife Virginia Dietz ( maiden name Walters). Lawrence and Virginia's daughter, Janice Lou Dietz was about 1-2 years old in the set of photos from this trip ( Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska signs appear in same set of photos of this trip, obviously a trip from Ohio to Midwest to visit family).
Wife of Charles Dietz. Her parents immigrate from Germany. She had other family known to have been living in Iowa, near 1940s . (*Relatives named Ben , Dorothy)
The 1930's were a decade of severe stress: the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the rise of Nazism. But it was also the end of Prohibition, the beginning of the change of land management (poor farm ...