Thursday July 14th

Hugo Notheisen
Dorothy Notheisen

Richard  16 yrs
George   15 yrs
John       14 yrs

In the initial phases of planning this trip next to visiting our own folks was the compelling urge to locate one Hugo Notheisen. I have know Hugo over a period of roughly twenty or twenty five years. We originally got together when we both sang in the Church Choir and Maenercher at Holy Trinity our German Parish Church and he also sang in the first base section w/me. Hugo has what is known as a 'Green Thumb' and at the time was living around Upham's Corner. He received permission to farm an underdeveloped plot of land handy to the house and the vegetables he planted always seemed to come thru I remember particularly the Kolrabbi's that he raised w/abandon  and anybody who visited him always left w/an armful of vegetables. Hugo married an Irisher who had gone to Holy Trinity School as did the rest of us. Well Hugo wasn't getting getting along too well in Boston so he had an opportunity to go as a partner in a chicken -raising ranch in Maine. From that time on he seemed to go in obscurity but his memory lingered on. The venture was not a success and then Hugo really started running into trouble w/a Capital "T". Things went from bad to worse until the war came along and he got the chance to work in a shipyard where he started to