For the Rapids City Times

AUBURNDALE – Descendents of the Michael and Bartl Strigel families held a reunion on July 21 at the Auburndale Lion’s park and shelter house. Rita Wiesman, Marshfield, sole surviving child and Agnes Strigel, the sole surviving spouse of a child, attended the reunion. Both now live in Marshfield. Deceased family members include Louise Bock, Mary Held, Doris Henson, Louis Strigel, Fred Strigel, Jeanette Strigel, Agnes Holland, Dorothy Davidson, Edmund Strigel, Cecilia Puskarich, Clare Thome, Gertrude Mancl, Paul Strigel, and Victor Strigel.

Approximately 105 people attended – primarily from throughout Wisconsin. Linda Mancl of the Gertrude (Virgil) Mancl family traveled from Georgia. Nine family members came from Minnesota.