Fred Dicke was born October 4, 1876; Louise Katherine (Laverentz) Dicke
 was born April 28, 1883. Both were born at Hanover, Kansas, of German
 descent. They wre married in 1901 and resided in Washington County, Kansas,
 coming to farm near Nashville in 1906.
   They had five children. Henry (1901-1975) married Martha Westerman
 (December 1985). Their children were twins Lloyd, Medicine Lodge; Floyd,
 San Antonio, Texas; and Leroy (December 1979). Luella Dicke Hargett,
 Medicine Lodge, had twins Larry, Salina, and Harry, Medicine Lodge. Katie
 Dicke Buss (1903-December 1989) married Louis (December 11, 1989); her
 children were Elmer, Omaha, Nebraska, and Loretta Bauman, Topeka. Clara
 Dicke Naasz (1912-February 1990), Adam, son, Donald, both of Hutchinson.
 Edna Dicke OPitz (1916) married Alfred, Mountain Home, Arkansas; her
 children were Carol Malcolm, Hutchinson; Glenda Austin, Searcy, Arkansas;
 and Phyllis Goss, Mountain Home, Arkansas. Alvin (1919) married Elizabeth
 (Helmke) Dicke; their children were Marlyn Dicke, Nixa, Missouri; and Mary 
 Ann Kerr, Wichita, Kansas.
   Fred Dicke died February 23, 1961, just four days after they and the
 family celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. Louise died August 3, 1968.
 They are buried in the Lutheran Cemetery, Nashville, Kansas.
   They were members of the St. John's Lutheran Church and saw many changes
 in their lifetimes, not only in the church, but in the community as well,
 from horse-and-buggy days to cars, horses to tractors, candles to electricity,
 etc.
   Fred Dicke was quite an evergreen lover, as were his neighbors Herman
 Lampe and William Hensiek. They were instrumental in getting the evergreens
 planted at the present church location as well as trees on their own farms.
 They would go to the hills of Medicine Lodge with a team of horses and wagon
 and bring back trees to plant.
   They retired in 1952 and lived in Nashville.
   Louise Dicke was a member of the Ladies aid and did a lot of quilting and
 baking. Fred was an Elder of the church for some years. They had a lot of
 company in their younger days and it is too bad this hasn't carried over to
 the present time as a neighbor hardly knows a neighbor now.
                  
  Source:St. John's Lutheran Church Centennial 1893-1994, Nashville, Kansas, pg.29  
  Submitted by: Elizabeth Dicke