Now lets go back to the Kennedy era in time.
The Kennedy’s went for vacation on an island. My Dad was just as good because he rented a house on an island for 3 wks.
One thing that we notice right away we had to row across to the island. Well if its good enough for Kennedy’s its good enough for Kleibers. (more…)
Edited: December 28th, 2007
Mom was in the hospital for an operation on her thyroid gland.
Dad, Peg and I, were almost starved to death while she was in the hospital, he was in the “let’s make dinner in the blender” stage. YUCK!
He put eggs, catsup, vegetables and all kinds of stuff in it that I don’t even remember and no way were we going to drink that stuff, we were young but not that stupid. (more…)
Edited: November 29th, 2007
My name is Margaret Ann Kleiber I’m the oldest of three children of Charles and Loretta Kleiber. In 1960 my brother Chuckie J Kleiber was born. Our Dad on my brother’s first Christmaas said there will be no hanging of stockings, no Santa Clause, no Easter Bunny, no Halloween just here and now. (more…)
Edited: November 28th, 2007
Camp Dearborn-oh does that take me back in time. We were living on Sherwood ct, in Dearborn, when Major Hubbard decided to buy land and make a park for all the people of Dearborn to enjoy.
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Edited: October 28th, 2007
I am the only one alive from our family that knows how the Trenton house came into being. . Perry Place is the name of the street in Wyandotte that our Grandparents the Graf live at. The house was a two story home with a front porch across the front of the house. The front door was in the middle of the porch and when you went in you were in a small living room. (more…)
Edited: September 28th, 2007
Each week usually meant a visit to Trenton. The adults would play cards upstairs while the kids played in the basement. Mark and Peg used to pick on me because I was the youngest and they were older and bigger than I was. We would get in all kinds of things in that basement in Trenton while they were all upstairs playing cards. Uncle Harry and Grandma Graf were still alive and dad would go over there too and play cards.
Edited: June 29th, 2007
I remember being at Hudson’s with Mom and Peg (we lived on Sherwood court at that time before Charlie was born,I was only 4 or 5 at the time) (more…)
Edited: April 29th, 2007
We went to a wedding reception,think it was in Wyandotte.
Dad of course got drunk as usual, he usually took home a couple of glasses when he drank but this time since he paid for a gift for the happy couple he decides that he is taking home a chair and yes he did take it out of there, don’t know how but he did.
It was raining on the way home and mom is trying to tell him how to go and he tells her that he knows a short cut and to shut up.
We take this short cut and get stuck in the mud from all the rain, not knowing where the hell we are or at least I didn’t because you could not see for the rain again.
Next day they come back for the car and it was stuck right in the middle of a baseball field.
Dad’s short cut, he didn’t know where he was either.
Edited: November 11th, 2006
One year we vacationed on an island that was far removed from civilization. We had to row a boat over to get there or to go to a store, don’t know where Dad found that fantasy island, the only fun thing in that town when you were on dry land was the snake pit.
We had an aluminum boat to row back and forth to get the suitcases and any groceries over there,of course we kids thought it was cool. (more…)
Edited: September 29th, 2006
On one of our weekends with the kleibers Grandpa Kleiber was telling me about working at Fords and how he met Henry Ford Sr. for the first time. I loved his stories about working at Ford Motor co. There was one story that chill me down to my bones. (more…)
Edited: July 29th, 2006