Walther League brought Adam and Clara together and provided the basis for
   their courting activities. They were married by the Rev. P.G. Krause in
   Nashville on August 5, 1934.
     Adam was born near Lowry, South Dakota, on July 1, 1908. He was the
   eldest son of Adam and Christina (Stadel) Naasz. Adam had two brothers,
   Gustav and Otto, and one sister, Bertha.
     His mother died in 1919 and his father married a widow, Dorothea Mindt,
   with four children.
     Adam's three stepbrothers were Walter, Arnold and Oscar and his stepsister
   was Lorene. One half brother, Richard, was born before the family moved
   near Penalosa in 1923.
     The family of nine children soon moved northeast of Nashville so they
   could be closer to st. John's Lutheran Church where the services were still
   conducted in German.
     Adam was confirmed in Java, South Dakota, on July 9, 1922. A half sister,
   Anna Marie, was born, bringing the family to an even dozen in number.
     Friedrich and Louise Laverentz Dicke's third child was named Clara Helene
   Hulda. She was born May 27, 1912, in Nashville. The other children were Henry,
   Katie, Edna, and Alvin. Clara was confirmed at St. John's on April 5, 1925.
   All five children and their parents celebrated their fiftieth wedding
   anniversary.
     Both Clara and Adam loved music and played various musical instruments when
   they were young. They sang in the choir at St. John's for many years and were
   active in all church activities as long as their health permitted.
     Their son, Donald Adam, was born in the Nashville Hospital on November 27,
   1935. On April 10, 1949, Donald was confirmed by the Rev. Herman Seyfert at
   St. John's. He attended the Lutheran school and the public schools in Nashville
   and graduated in 1954. On August 27, 1961, Donald married Alice Eileen Barnes
   in Kingman. He has been employed by Eaton Corporation (formerly Cessna) in
   Hutchinson since 1959.
     Adam and Clara farmed south of Nashville until 1954 when they moved to a
   farm near Calista. In 1971, they retired and moved to Medicine Lodge. Clara
   died on February 26, 1990, and is buried in the Lutheran Cemetery south of
   Nashville. Adam moved to South Hutchinson in October 1991. Clara and Adam
   celebrated their fifty-fifth wedding anniversary with family members at their
   home in Medicine Lodge in 1989.
                       
  Source:St. John's Lutheran Church Centennial 1893-1993, Nashville, Kansas, pg. 76 
  Submitted by: Eileen Barnes Naasz