KICKOFF OF AIDS LIFECYCLE RIDE BRINGS OUT THE FECHTS

Photograph by Chris Eisenberg
Janne Fecht hands out bagels while Jerry hustles bananas.

Our commitment to the AIDS Lifecycle Bicycle Ride, from San Francisco to Los Angeles each year, begins early. In this case, Janne and I got up at 4:30 am to drive to Manhattan Beach, California to support the riders participating in the A.L.C. "Kickoff Ride" on October 24th. We cut and handed out bagels and bananas. New riders received basic instruction, and there were rides of various lengths for those of differing skills. Our son Brendan led a beginners' ride. He calls his novice riders, his possums.

MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA 1958

Historic postcard collection of The Museum of the San Fernando Valley - Gift of Gerald Fecht August 2009. (click on image to enlarge)

Greg Crites was a boy, when he wrote this postcard. June 25, 1958 from Minot, North Dakota

To: Mrs. W. T. Fecht
17440 Saticoy
Van Nuys, Calif.

Dear Aunt Mildred,
How are you. I am fine. The paper and the post cards _______eled me a lot,
Kenny is working at a store. Mom called just now from the office, and Dad is fine.
Love Gred C. (Crites)

JANNE FECHT AT POLICE MUSEUM

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Janne and her husband Jerry Fecht regularly explore the many things to see in Southern California. Here in July of 2009, she checks out an L.A. Police Department Rescue Unit. This vehicle was more like a tank than a truck.
The Museum was far more interesting than we expected, including two cars used in the huge bank heist of the Bank of America in North Hollywood. Check out the cars on Jerry's Museum of the San Fernando Valley blog
http://museumsanfernandovalley.blogspot.com/

DEATH OF ELIZABETH CRITES FOSTER

We have just learned from Aaron Crites of the death of kinswoman Elizabeth Crites Foster.
Elizabeth, called Hattie when she was young, was the second of two children for to Zella (Fast) and Claude “n: Crites. She was born on the 13th of JUne, 1924 in Minot, Ward County, North Dakota.
Elizabeth was married to Seth Foster, who preceded her in death on the 29th of August, 2000.
The Fosters had two children: James Donald and Sharon.
Elizabeth is related to our family through this lineage:
William Crites, John Crites, Josiah and Mary Ann (Secrist) Crites, John F. and Leona (Weaver) Crites, Claude and Zella (Fast) Crites
Elizabeth died on the 19th of July 2009

CARL FETTERHOFF AND STONEY REECE

Stoney Reese and Carl Fetterhoff 2008 (click on image to enlarge)
Carl Edward Fetterhoff is the great, great grandson of Mary Ann (Secrist) and Josiah Crites. He and his partner Stoney Reese live in Springfield Missouri.

ZACHARY FECHT

Zachary Fecht from a photo posted on Facebook.
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Zachary Fecht's Crites family heritage is:

John Crites, Josiah and Mary Ann (Secrist) Crites, John Franklin and Leona Belle (Weaver) Crites, Mildred Fecht, Robert William Fecht and Ronald Owen Fecht.

North Webster Indiana

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John F. Crites (Frank) visited North Webster, Indiana and while there purchased several postcards never mails (likely kept as
souvenirs.) He inscribed the back of this image:
"You are looking north in this picture. Ida's house (Frank's sister Ida Crites Gawthrop) is one block from the store on the right where it says Groceries - partly hidden by the maple tree. This is the store that I used to work in."
printed by S. B. McQuwn - Monmouth, Ill.
20 Main Street - North Webster, Indiana.