Confirmation 1918 Blooming Grove M.E. Church. Material: paper. Size: 8" x 10" black and white photograph; Reverend W. E. Mahle and his confirmation class of 1918 at the Blooming Grove M. E. Church; Rev. Mahle seated at the center of 2 rows of 13 young men (3) and women (10); boys dressed in suits and ties, the women in white dresses; identified: Back Row, L-R: Ruth Gear (Mrs. Owen Webster); Herbert Gutknecht; Hazel Reinhardt (Mrs. Hazel Derrine?, then Mrs. Hazel Hoffman, Chicago; Roy Sutter (married Matuse or Matrice Mattson who died, he married Gertrude ?, also died and Sutter married a third time and he died in 1972); Armanda Minske (Mrs. Eric Stein); (Dr.) Rudolph Wilkowske, became blind; and Lucille Karsten (Mrs. Irving Schaumkessel); front row, L-R: Alice Baumgarten (Mrs. Reese Shanks); Jessie Karsten, (Mrs. Roy Ebling); Grace Sutter, Reverend W. E. Mahle; Ruth Gutknecht; Alice Wilkowske (later Mrs. Sam Trammel) died in 1970; and Esther Gear (Mrs. George McCarthy). Photographed by Kopman.
