Category Archives: Stories

Favorite family foods

Posted on June 27, 2011 by robertagoering

originally published in the Goering Gazette, July 1989 The roving reporter asked, “What was your favorite family food that you remember from your growing up years?” Walt:  Diced onion in hamburger Bill: Potato pancakes Joan: Bohne Berogi John: Bohne Berogi … Continue reading →

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Fresh baked bread, jelly, thick cream and…

Posted on June 21, 2011 by robertagoering

One of John’s early memories of his mother is that she fixed him a thick slab of fresh baked bread with jelly and then put thick cream over the top of it. It was sooooo good. In fact, it was … Continue reading →

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Testing the Saints of Eden

Posted on June 19, 2011 by robertagoering

by Dan orginally published in the Goering Gazette, July 1989 It was a beautiful SUN-DAY. Everyone dressed in their ‘Sunday best’, and the church services were probably that of corporate praise in word and song as usual. Everyone had arrived … Continue reading →

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A trip to Chicago in 1945

Posted on June 14, 2011 by robertagoering

by Harry These are my memories of our family trip to Chicago at age 9.  John, Jim and Joan were also on this trip so they might remember or correct my memories if their memories are different.  We were eight: … Continue reading →

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Turkey Creek Township – Freedom creek: its origin and path through our farm giving us many fond experiences

Posted on June 12, 2011 by robertagoering

from the archives of Dan & Grace This is a map of the southeastern corner of Turkey Creek Township. Notes on section 12 (upper right corener): water shed supplies our little creek * s.e. corner – site of Eden Mennonite … Continue reading →

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Shared experiences with Al

Posted on May 25, 2011 by robertagoering

Shared experiences with Al part 1 shared experiences with Al part 2 by Dan Goering Alvin J. Goering was born June 6, 1918, and died September 16, 1939.  When Al was born, he augmented the family size to two boys … Continue reading →

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History repeats itself

Posted on April 25, 2011 by robertagoering

by Bobbie Goering I remember Aunt Della telling a story about how after she and Walt moved to Chicago (@1940), she decided to make bread and used a recipe from Aunt Elva or Aunt Frieda.  Of course, when Aunt Frieda … Continue reading →

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Martha’s driving experiences

Posted on April 16, 2011 by robertagoering

Herb taught me how to drive.  It must have been about in 1940 when he decided on Sunday afternoon that I needed to learn how to drive. So we headed out on a narrow dirt road northeast of Canton. It … Continue reading →

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Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of my aunts….

Posted on April 10, 2011 by robertagoering

by Bobbie Goering The first cookbook I ever read as a novel was Christopher Blake’s Easy Elagance Cookbook. I picked it up as a bargain book somewhere and then was swept away into a strange land where Drunken Pork Loin … Continue reading →

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Another chicken story

Posted on March 28, 2011 by robertagoering

This story is from Grace Goering, the wife of cousin John Goering. When we (Grace and John Goering) were farming in western Kansas, Herb helped us. This day the men had filled the truck with wheat, but they decided to … Continue reading →

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