Family: Gerald Frederick Kercher / Frances Elizabeth Koepfgen (F9601)

• Father | Male Gerald Frederick Kercher

  
  

  Born	9 Jan 1924	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Died	21 Aug 2011	Quaker Hill, New London County, Connecticut
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  Married	19 Dec 1945  [1]	New York City, New York County, New York  [1]
  Father	Erwin W. Kercher | F9567 Group Sheet
  Mother	Amanda Lillian Muck | F9567 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Frances Elizabeth Koepfgen

  
  

  Born	23 May 1925	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Died	4 Feb 1993	Waterford, New London County, Connecticut
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• Notes

  Married: Shown in the Texas Birth Index, on the birth records for her sons, Philip and Andrew, as Frances KEFGEN. The 1946 Issue of the Striffler Benkelman Broadcast, (Volume 9), when reporting their marriage, instead lists her as Frances KOEPFGEN. The 1960 issue of the same periodical, dated September 5, 1960, reported that "The five children of Major and Mrs. Gerald Kercher of Newburg, N.Y. were baptized in the E.U.B. Church in Cass City on July 10. Their grandmother was Amanda Muck."

  
  

• Sources

  [S595] Striffler-Benkelman Broadcast, (Family Publication, published sporadically to record family milestones in connection with the annual Striffler-Benkelman Family Reunions, with Vol. 1, Number 1, published Sept. 7, 1936. Issues on file at the Rawson Memorial Library in Cass City, Michigan include Vol. 5 (1941), Vol. 7 (1944) and Volumes 8 (1945) through Vol. 28 (1968). Issues published from 1961 through 1964 were not assigned volume numbers, and 1963 appears to be missing. Xeroxes of the existing issues were also made by Melinda McLemore Strong in 2007. According to a article published by the Cass City Chronicle on August 6, 1981, commemorating the Fiftieth and Final Striffler-Benkelman Reunion, the final issue of the STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST appears to have been Volume 28, published in 1968.), Volume 9., September 2, 1946. (Reliability: 3).