Gilbert Kahmeyer was born in Hampton, Nebraska, one of eight children of
  Ernest Kahmeyer and Mary Nunnenkamp, who moved from Hampton, Nebraska to 
  Marion County, Kansas, to Nashville in 1913. Gilbert was baptized and in
  1922 was confirmed in St. John's.
    He married Erna Martha Bruns January 20, 1934, in Nashville, Kansas, at
  the home of Pastor Krause with brother Walter Kahmeyer and Lavina Engelhardt
  as witnesses.
    He farmed several area farms, maintained roads for the county and worked at
  Kahmeyer Service Station before retiring.
    Erna Martha Bruns was born in rural Concordia, one of four children of
  Theodore Burns and Matilda Dittmer of the Concordia and Ernestville, Missouri
  area. She grew up on a farm, attending grade school and high school in
  Concordia. She received her teaching certificate from Central Missouri State
  Teacher's College, Warrensburg. She taught school at Lone Elm, Missouri, two
  years before hearing from a friend of a school in Nashville. The friend was
  the niece of Otto Borgelt in Zenda and a member of St. John's. Erna traveled
  by train to Wichita after being hired by the Lutheran School where she
  taught the next two years until she married Gilbert Kahmeyer. School regulations
  did not permit married women to teach, so she resigned.
    They had one daughter, Judy Ann Kahmeyer, born November 30, 1944. Judy was
  baptized at St. John's and attended the Lutheran School from 1951 to 1957. She
  was confirmed at Behlehem Lutheran Church in Warrensburg in 1959. Judy married
  Richard Lohe January 6, 1964. They had two children. Robert Leon was born
  October 5, 1964, and Stephen Christopher, August 25, 1968.
    Erna Bruns Kahmeyer Foster resides in Concordia, Missouri, where she is a 
  member of St. Paul's Lutheran in Concordia. Gilbert Kahmeyer lives in Nashville
  and is a lifetime member of St. John's Lutheran
                  
  Source:St. John's Lutheran Church Centennial 1893-1993, Nashville, Kansas, pg. 47 
  Submitted by: Judy Kahmeyer Lohe