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Rudy Schindler was the sixth child of Ferdinand Schindler and Elizabeth Latzel.  He was born on February 2, 1898 south of Ewing in Holt County.  Faye Agatha Torpy, daughter of James Torpy and Bertha Jackson, was born September 18, 1902 at Randolph, Iowa.  She lost her mother when she was three and her father at the age of 11.  Ella and John McCluskey took care of her and her sister, Mildred.  When Faye was in the fourth or fifth grad, she and her sister, moved to Omaha and lived in St Peter’s Hall and went to St Mary’s High School.  After graduation, Faye went to the University of Omaha and St Mary’s College.  She received her teaching certificate in 1924.  She taught in Omaha for two years.  In the summer months she often visited in Elgin.  Rudy and Faye were married August 17, 1926 in Omaha and made their home on a farm west of Elgin.  They had three daughters:  Rudina Marie was born on November 8, 1927.  She married Alvin Tupa, two children.  Later she married Howard Mickelson who had two children.  They had one son.  Grace Delima was born January 25, 1930, married Richard White, one daughter.  Grace married Steven Roberts, he died, she married R W McDowell.  They had four children.  Mary Ellen, third daughter, born June 6, 1933, married H M McGee, one daughter.  Rudy and Faye moved to Denver in 1972.  He died there on May 19, 1976.

Source Unknown: Originally submitted for this website in Mar 2008