The first photo was taken of Ben's family in 1948 - standing are Roland, Bob, and Ruth.
Front row are Ben, Charlotte and Marie.
Second photo is of Ben and Marie taken on their 50th wedding anniversary in 1977.
Ben and Marie had four children - here they are pictured with their spouses in order of birth.
First is Bob and Bev Kleinschmidt taken in 1998.
Second is Roland and Betty Kleinschmidt taken in 1979.
Third is Ruth (Kleinschmidt) and husband Don Nelson taken in 1996.
Last is Charlotte (Kleinschmidt) and husband Jack O'Dea taken in 1992.
First is a photo of Ben celebrating his 85th birthday in 1995 with his kids - from left to right - Ruth,
Roland, Marie, Ben, Bob, and Charlotte.
Second photo is of Ben and Marie celebrating their 70th wedding anniversay in 1997.
Last is a family portrait of Ruth Nelson and Collens (Lyle) Wakefield sitting. (He is the father of her 5 kids).
Their five kids are standing - from left - Darrel, Twyla, Collens, Linda and Aron. (taken in 1997)
After Ben "retired" from his farm in South Dakota, he sold it to his son Roland and moved to Nebraska.
There he kept on farming but eventually in the 1990's moved back to South Dakota, bought a small place
half way between Pierre and Blunt - and still kept on faming - until at last he finally retired for real and
moved to Blunt.
The first is a photo of his last house - in Blunt - where he lived until he died in February of 2002 .
Second is Ben celebrating his 90th birthday at the Blunt Senior Center in 2000.
Last is Marie and Roland at the lunch held at the Blunt Senior Center after Ben's funeral on March 1, 2002.
First is a photo of Ruth Nelson, her son Collens Wakefield, his daughter Shasta Wirsbinski and her
twins - Lauren and Collens taken in 2002.
Second is a photo taken in July of 2002 of Roland and Betty with their children Cindy, Lee and Ginger.
Last is Roland and Betty at their 50th wedding anniversary on 9-07-2002.
This is photo of Bob's family taken May 27, 2006, (Bev's memorial) - Carie is missing - otherwise they are all there.
Bob is in front holding Bev's Photo.
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