Clifford Allen "Ted" Groendycke, son of Arthur Tipton and Emma Blanche
  Talbott, was born January 6, 1899, near Gerlane, Barber County, Kansas.
  He grew up on the farm with a sister, Muriel Holmes, and four brothers:
  G.M., Len, Ralph and Jay. He attended Sunflower school and Medicine
  Lodge, and later classes at Manhattan.
     Ruth Iverna Stout, daughter of Wilsey Edmond and Ora (Landreth) Stout,
  was born October 29, 1901, in Medicine Lodge. She had a brother, Paul.
  She attended Medicine Lodge schools and graduated in 1919 from Barber
  County High School. She attended Emporia State Teachers College and taught
  fifth grade one year and second grade three years in the Medicine Lodge
  public school.
     Ted Groendycke and Ruth Stout were married August 21, 1923, in Medicine
  Lodge. They lived in Wellington, where he was a railroad brakeman, then
  returned to Medicine Lodge and went into farming. He served a short time
  in SATC at the end of WWI.
     This union was blessed with three children. Guilford Dean was born 
  November 22, 1924. He married Jean Wise in 1944. Dean was a pilot of a P47
  in the U.S. Army Air Force, was commissioned 2nd Lt. in 1944. He was shot
  down February 4, 1945, while returning from a bomber mission over Brenner
  Pass, Italy. He is buried in the U.S. Cemetery near Florence, Italy.
     Jack Donald was born February 20, 1928. He married Betty Louis Martin.
  They have five daughters: Kathy Martin Yancy, Linda Elain Wheeler, Lissa
  Ruth Frederick, Krissie Moyers and Kelly Dene Lemon.
     Emma Jean was born September 17, 1929. She died in 1939 after a year of
  illness with endocarditis. Her heart problems could now be remedied because
  of medical research, but the knowledge came too late for Emma Jean.
     Ted and Ruth farmed until 1947, when they moved to Medicine Lodge. They
  bought a cleaning shop on South Main which they operated until Ted's
  retirement. Ruth was an expert seamstress, and she continued this in her
  home for several years.
     Ted died May 25, 1974. Ruth now resides at Indian Hills Lodge and keeps
  in touch with her son, grandchildren, and great grandchildren: James
  Jackson and Jennifer Tenille Wheeler, Lance Allen and Mary Michelle 
  Frederick, Nicholas Lemon and Brigette Susan Moyer.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 208 
     Submitted by: Ruth Groendycke