Franklin Luther Eby and Nettie RAchael Groendycke were married August 24, 
  1918, at the home of Nettie's parents, Robert and Bell Groendycke. They had
  grown up in Medicine Lodge except for Nettie's first twelve years on a farm
  near Gerlane. Their families came to Kansas in the previous generation - 
  Franklin's from Pennsylvania and Illinois, Nettie's from Iowa and Missouri.
     Five children were born - Virginia, Jean, Isobel, Jim, and Kathy. We all
  started school in the same old building where parents and one grandparent, 
  Minnie Eby, had attended. Virginia was the first graduate of Medicine Lodge
  High school whose parents both graduated from the same hometown school.
     We lived over twenty years on Cedar Street in a small house on fourteen
  acres of orchard, farmland, and a garden which gave Dad much pleasure; he
  took pride in always furnishing ripe tomatoes for the annual Foruth of July
  picnic! In a house where there was not enough space, and never much money,
  there ws always an abundance of love and happiness. We have remained close
  throughout the years, no matter how widely separated geographically.
     Dad operated a cleaning shop next to the clothing store of his father, L.A.
  Eby, when we were young. Later he worked in various state and county offices
  until retirement in 1965.
     In 1941, after Jean's marriage to Dale Keith, the rest of the family moved
  to California where Virginia was working, but after one year they decided
  that some Kansans don't transplant easily and returned. In 1942. Virginia
  married Jim Palotay.
     During World War II, the sons-in-law were in the Army Air Corps, the girls
  came home and the first granddaughter, Janis Keith, was born December 26, 1942.
  The boys returned safely; then followed a happy period with the entire family
  under one roof in a big old house on Walnut Street, which was removed later
  when the new grade school was built. Then we scattered - the Palotays to
  Manhattan, where Jim was in the KSU Veterinary School, and the Keiths to
  Wichita.
     Mom became librarian in 1953, with Isobel as volunteer helper; both are
  affectionately remembered by the patrons of the Lincoln Library. Old library
  and librarian were retired at the same time, sadly making way for the new.
     Jim married Marian Moyers; they have two children, Doug and Laurel. Kathy
  married John Stephenson; they ahve three children, Mark, Bob, and Candy; Mark
  has two sons, J.J. and Tony; Bob also has two sons, Billy and Clinton. Virginia
  has two children, Jim and Maren. Janis Keith Mackinnon has two boys, Chris and
  David.
     One of the high points of our parents' later years was their Golden Wedding
  in 1968, with the entire family present.
     Dad's death in 1972 and Mom's in 1972 were soon followed by that of Isobel,
  who had spent her entire life with her parents and found it hard to adjust to
  life without them. Her help made it possible for them to spend their last days
  together and still in their home.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 165 
     Submitted by: Virginia Palotay and Jean Keith