Alan's Parents and Siblings



Alan's Parents on their Wedding Day - 3 May 1939

Ferdinand Otto Thiese & Gertrude L. L. Borcherding

Trinity Lutheran Church, Guttenberg, Iowa, May 3, 1939

L-R: Hulda Thiese Fischer, groom’s cousin; Harold Borcherding, bride’s brother; Gertrude & Ferdinand; Lillian Andregg and Herbert Borcherding, bride’s brother



Ferdinand Otto Thiese – born December 22, 1914 & died December 24, 1999. Buried at Ceres Cemetery near Guttenberg, Iowa. Obituary



Gertrude L. L. Borcherding – born October 2, 1917 near Osterdock & died April 16, 2000. Buried at Ceres Cemetery.



This picture was most likely taken in 1953.
Standing: David LeRoy and Alan Frederick Ernst


Seated: Vivian Lillian, Angela Marlene, John Paul and Thelma Jean

Alan with his Siblings and Parents - Picture taken in
1973

This is the Thiese Farm as it appeared in May of 1972.  I
was home on leave from the U.S. Navy.