Love - The Odessa Record "By Your Relative"

Odessa Record subscriber Larry Fisher of Spokane continues his series of articles on the history of the Batum/Lauer area where his wife, the former Joyce Kiesz, grew up.

Hi, here I am again.

Christina Yess/Jess Raugust married at age 19, came to America at age 42, retired to Odessa at age 59, died at age 86. She had a child at ages 20, 22. 24, 27, 28, 31, 33, 35, 37, 40, 43. You can see that when she was on the farm at Batum age 42 to 59, she was “no youngster.”

At Batum, the first house Christina had to deal with was constructed by Sam Reimann prior to the time the Raugust family occupied it....