Alvin Winter was born May 8, 1925, at Medicine Lodge Township, Barber 
   County. He was one of nine children, five sons and four daughters, born
   to William Winter and Elizabeth Anna (Bargfrede) Winter. He was baptized
   May 17, 1925, by the Reverend F.C. Duecker and confirmed by the Reverend
   P.G. Krause at St. John's Lutheran Church in Nashville, Kansas.
     He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II from February 1944 
   through April 1946, serving aboard the battleship USS California BB-44.
   After returning, he worked for Santa Fe Trail Transportaion and Continental
   Trailways in Wichita, Kansas, before being called back to the U.S. Navy
   for the Korean Conflict, this time serving aboard a carrier, the USS Bon
   Homme Richard CV-31 from January 1951 through September 1952.
     In Wichita, in 1946, he joined Trinity Lutheran Church where he met
   Florence Meyer through the Walter League group there. That year the league
   performed a Christmas pageant in which Florence portrayed Mary and Alvin 
   portrayed Joseph, and it so happened that on November 16, 1947, they were
   married at her home church, St. John's Lutheran Church at Lincoln, Kansas,
   where Florence was baptized and confirmed. They wre active in several church
   activities, ie., LLL, Walther League, Sunday School teachers and choirs. He
   has been active in SPEBSQSA (the Society of Barbershop Quartet Singing in
   America) since 1968 doing Chorus and Quartet events in the Central States
   District.  
     They had two children, Rodney Alan and Craig Darr. Rod was born September
   18, 1948, and was married to Rae Antoinette Hawks of Topeka, Kansas. They
   have two children, a daughter, Heather Domini, born June 27, 1974, in Phoenix,
   Arizona, and an adopted daughter, Clare Christine, born in California in 1970.
   Craig was married to Ann Christine Harris of Hays, Kansas. They had two
   children, Phoebe Gabrielle in 1981 and West Carl in 1982, both of whom died
   at birth. His adopted daughter, Phoebe Dawn, was born March 2, 1984, in
   Wichita, Kansas, and lives with her adopted family, Mike and Ann Fell, in
   Winfield, Kansas.
     Rod lives in Auburn Hills, Michigan, and has been with the Boeing Company
   for about fifteen years. He is presently on assignment as a Boeing represent-
   ative for the Detroit area. Craig received his masters degree at Fort Hays
   State College and worked for the U.S. Agriculture Department in Alma, Meade
   and Elkhart, Kansas, area before going to work for Boeing Industrial
   Engineering. He died January 19, 1985, of a brain tumor.
     After returning from the Korean Conflict in 1952, Alvin worked for the
   Boeing Company in various management and other positions. He retired from
   Boeing Computer Services Division in 1987 after spending thirty-five years
   with them.
     Alvin and Florence lived in Wichita, Kansas, during that time except for
   a few years on assignment with Boeing Launch Systems Branch located in
   Huntsville, Alabama, and Slidell and New Orleans, Louisiana, where NASA and
   its major contractors were making the initial preparations for the eventual
   Apollo moon landing. They returned to the Wichita area for health reasons in
   1965. They have relocated their home to Douglass, Kansas.
                         
  Source:St. John's Lutheran Church Centennial 1893-1993, Nashville, Kansas, pg. 106 
  Submitted by: Alvin Winter