Jenny (?)

b. 22 October 1896, d. 11 September 2000
  • Jenny (?) was born on 22 October 1896 in Oklahoma Territory.
  • She married Edwin Diefenthaler, son of John Diefenthaler and Louise Schmidt, in 1918.
  • Jenny (?) became a widow at the July 1968 death of her husband Edwin Diefenthaler.
  • Jenny (?) died on 11 September 2000 at age 103.
  • She was interred at Schleswig Cemetery, Manitowoc County, Oklahoma Territory.
  • Jenny [Diefenthaler] has lived in the same house in Kiel for 74 years. When she and her husband built the house, they were isolated. Jenny has watched the town grow up around her. She was born on October 22, 1896 in Oklahoma's Indian Territory. She married Edwin Diefenthaler in 1918. After World War I, they moved to Kiel. Of their four children, the twins were in World War II where one died in a German prisoner of war camp. A daughter died of cancer and Edwin died in the 1960s. Jenny boasts that she has never smoked, danced, played cards, or driven a car, and that she hardly ever watches TV, but life has still been fun. [From "The Centenarian Spirit in Wisconsin," interviews produced by the Wisconsin Bureau on Aging and Long Term Care Resources.]
  • Last Edited: 16 Mar 2010

Family: Edwin Diefenthaler b. July 1893, d. July 1968