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- BIOGRAPHY: Janice Huber Stangl, Sterling Virginia Ancestral German villages: Alf Elft, Arzis, Borodino, Jargara, Neu Elft and Neu Sarata, Neu Beresina, Bessarabia; Glückstal and Kassel (Glückstal District); and Nesselrode/Birsula
In June 1898, one hundred years ago, my great grandfather and his family immigrated to the United States. Jacob Huber was the youngest child of Christian Huber and Friederick Kaul, who were born in Germany and colonists in Glückstal. He married Rosina Ritter, daughter of Georg Friedrich Ritter and Rosina Barbara (Maier) of Glückstal. Jacob and Rosina were born in Glückstal, as was my grandfather, Jacob J. Huber. Jacob J. Huber married Magdalena Hoff, born near Tripp, South Dakota, to Jacob H. Hoff of Kassel and Magdalena Ladner of Glückstal. My father, Edward, is the third child of Jacob and Magdalena Huber. Edward Huber married Lydia Haberer. She is the daughter of Christian and Barbara (Seefried) Haberer, who were born in Neu-Beresina and Nesselrode. Her grandparents were residents of Alt and Neu Elft [Seefried], Arcis, [Kruckenberg], Friedenstal, Krasna [Froemmerich] and Borodino [Haberer].
I am the oldest child of Edward and Lydia Huber. I attended Bowdle, South Dakota, schools for 12 years before attending Northern State Teachers College in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where I earned an associates degree in childhood education. I married Thomas Stangl of Java, South Dakota, on June 15, 1958. This trip is our 40th anniversary celebration. We have three children and two grandchildren.
I taught full time, part time and privately (piano lessons) until I retired recently. When Tom and I retired, our long time dream of being able to travel became a reality. We usually travel several months a year.
When we are home, our avocation of genealogical research keeps us busy. We are blessed in having an LDS family history center nearby. We often spend several days a week reading and extracting records from films of various German-Russian church records. We also go into the National Archives in Washington, DC to read films of passenger arrivals and census records.
Recently we also have been researching the 1939-1945 resettlement [naturalization] records of ethnic Germans from Russia and Rumania in the Berlin Document Center films at Archives II in Maryland. I look forward to our trip to the Homeland where I hope to place 10 small crosses in the Glückstal cemetery where my great grandfather Jacob Huber had 10 children buried.
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