Catherine Spry

Nancy Lou L Brumfield of San Diego, San Diego County, CA was born on October 13, 1922, and died at age 70 years old on May 20, 1993.

John L Spry of Los Angeles County, California United States was born circa 1915. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John L Spry.

John L Spry of La Mirada, Los Angeles County, CA was born on February 11, 1915, and died at age 88 years old on November 8, 2003.

Anna (Kaluza) Gall was born on October 18, 1885 in Hungary, and died at age 71 years old on September 20, 1957 in Livingston County, Illinois United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Anna (Kaluza) Gall.

John Gall Sr of Streator, LaSalle County, Illinois United States was born on December 1, 1877, and died at age 81 years old on May 6, 1959 in Streator. John Gall was buried at Old St Stephen's Cemetery in Streator.

Lenora, or Peg as most who knew her called her, lived her married life with her husband Robert William Earp (1903-1976) in Wenona, IL. They were married July 2, 1927. As a wedding gift, her sister & my grandmother, Catherine Mary (Soulsby) Gall Brems gave her a beautiful pearled turquoise tea pot with sugar bowl and creamer, which I now have. She was extremely talented; known locally as a author, and a artist. Before she married she was already putting pen to paper, and wrote a column for the Wenona Index called 'Peg Tales' which spoke about her view of family life per the time with a humorous, & relatable edge. It was quite popular at that time. And, although she never was trained in art (mostly paintings and drawings) she was quite well known for her talent, designing their sequencial quilt blocks for a quilt for the event, as well as designing placemats for the restaurants that would feed many attending the event from out of town. The placemats had a map of the area, and were designed to aide the out-of-towners in getting around for the event. Our family still holds 2 of those placemats. She was also well known for her artwork (drawings) which she did for a family history book called, 'Old Sandy Remembers. 2 of the 4 full page sketches she'd done for the book are hanging in the Wenona Bond Public Library to this day, along with 2 other paintings she'd done. Although she never had children of her own, she was extremely family-oriented, and many of her ideas came from her own life. She had a very old photo of her mother Mary Reid (McDonald) Soulsby taken when she was about 20 years old. Peg did a oil painting of that photo, approx same size as original photo, which is lovely. Our family has this painting as well. In 1964, she also painted 'Tea Time' in which she included the tea set her sister had given her as a wedding gift, and which I have (along with tea set). My parents had both the painting, and the tea set since my grandmother & her sister passed, but they'd never realized that the tea set they had of her's was same one in painting. When it was passed to me, I realized this while gazing over what had been passed down to me now. So exciting! Other art she'd done and our family holds are a lithograph she'd done called 'Receet for Warshin Cloes', and a beautiful charcoal pastel landscape painting which includes a wonderful triple arched stone bridge. I'm sure that bridge must have been somewhere in Illinois, but I've yet to locate it. She was very giving, by nature, and headed nearly every blood drive in that area right up until a few years of her passing. I am her grand niece, and sadly, I never knew her while she was alive. In researching our family history, I've gotten to know my ancestors, & feel anchored to them, with so much respect for them, and their stories.