Walter Winter was born January 18, 1904, at Alma, Missouri. He was one
   of nine children born to William John and Elizabeth Anna (Bargfrede) Winter.
     Mathilda (Naasz) Winter was born October 17, 1907, in Logan County, Kansas.
   She was one of seven children born to Andrew and Maria (Schauber) Naasz.
     Walter and Tillie were married October 5, 1925, at the Lutheran Parsonage
   in Kingman, Kansas, by Pastor George Jilg.
     To this union five children were born, three sons and two daughters. One
   son, Orville Lee, died in infancy. Lawrence married Eunice Kahmeyer and had
   four children. Louise Smith had one son, Roger Krause. Leon married Shirley
   Hodson and had five children. Rosalee is married to Melvin Goertzen and
   they have four children.
     Walter and Tillie's children were all baptized and the eldest three were
   confirmed at St. John's Lutheran Church at Nashville, Kansas.
     Walter worked at different jobs; among them were farming, U.S. forestry,
   WPA, and as a plumber at Turon, Kansas. When he suffered a heart attack, 
   they moved to Medicine Lodge, Kansas, and became members of Trinity Lutheran
   Church.
     Walter died February 4, 1972, in the Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital. He
   was laid to rest in the St. John's Lutheran Cemetery at Nashville, Kansas.
     Since November 1991, Tillie has made her home at Hilltop Manor at
   Cunningham, Kansas. Tillie has four children, two daughters-in-law and a
   son-in-law, fourteen grandchildren and twenty-five great grandchildren.
     Walter and Tillie celebrated their forty-fifth wedding anniversary with
   family and friends in October, 1970.
     Tillie celebrated her eighty-fifth birthday October 17, 1992.
                         
  Source:St. John's Lutheran Church Centennial 1893-1993, Nashville, Kansas, pg. 107 
  Submitted by: Lawrence Winter.