Grace Heydenreich Heublein Estes
My parents were Emil and Lila (Bradshaw) Heydenreich of Medicine Lodge.
I was born February 21, 1924, the second child from a family of ten children.
I attended school there except the 6th-8th grades. We had moved to a farm
six miles south and I attended a one room school at Sunflower School District
34, then I finished at Medicine Lodge High graduating with the class of 1942.
September 5, 1942 I married Harold John Heublein of Isabel. We were
married at Garden City, Kansas. We made our home with his father, Otto A.
Heublein, and his younger brother Junior and sister Mary Lou. We lived on
the old White place now owned by Don and Mary Poland. November 1943 Harold
was inducted into the Army. After basic training he was sent to England then
to Germany and served with the Third Army inthe 376th Infantry Division,
participating in The Battle of the Bulge.
During the war years I worked at Beech Aircraft in Wichita and in
Washington, D.C. at the Pentagon Building for Army Air Force Headquarters.
When the war was over and after the return of Harold, in April of 1947, we
spent a year in Topeka then returned to Isabel to farm and make our home a
block west of the Methodist Church on the corner of Charles and Nickerson.
We lived there and had good neighbors.
Our son Larry Lee Heublein was born May 10, 1949 and attended all 12
years at Isabel schools. He was the apple of his Grandpa Heublein's eye and
Otto even stopped cussing after Larry was born. He was a kind patient man,
always ready to help anyone. He always so kind and loving to Larry.
In 1968 Harold and I divorced and I moved to Pratt and got a job. In
October of 1972 I married Even B. Estes and moved to Macksville, Kansas
where we still reside.
Source: Isabel, Kansas - The First 100 Years, 1887 - 1987, pg. 73
Submitted by: Grace Heublein Estes