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FRED AND HILDA JAKOBER Fred Jakober Hilda Jakober Fred was born October 1, 1913 near Hosmer to Jacob and Katherina (Vilhauer) Jakober. Jacob was born in Russia May 20, 1877 and died February 22, 1947. Katherina died July 7, 1926 leaving a family of eleven children. Their names are Bertha, Arthur, Reinhold, Jacob, Julius, Christ, Edward, Fred, Samuel, Milbert and Katie. Hilda was born July 13, 1915 near Eureka to Conrad and Eva (Dewald) Schnabel. Conrad was born November 26, 1885 at Tripp, South Dakota and died November 2, 1963. Eva was born April 6, 1889 in Russia and lives at the Lutheran Home. Hilda's brothers and sisters are: Otellia Merkel, Benjamin, Emma Denning, Marie Jakober, Edwin, Adolph, Reinhold, Rudolph, Arthur, and Adeline Pfeifle. Fred and Hilda were married December 13, 1936 by Rev. R. Knaus in a country church near Eureka. Hilda tells the story of their struggles in their early married life. In the dirty thirties, there were only dust storms, no rain for months. It was very hard to get started farming. There were very few jobs and they had no money; but they had four cows and a pony and some chickens. Fred went to work for the neighbors helping with the crops and making hay. There was little feed, and they didn't have horses or machines to put up feed. Fred and Hilda moved in with Dave and Emma Jakober for the winter months where Fred helped Dave with the farm work. In the spring of 1938, they again rented a small farm but still were not able to put in a crop. Their first child, Ramona, was born March 5, 1938. They had to move around a lot because they could not afford to buy, and someone would always buy the rented farm out from under them. In 1946, they decided to give up trying to farm and moved to Eureka. They bought a home on Third and I Street. Fred started working for Jacob Schock doing blacksmith work for two years. He was then hired as Chief of Police of Eureka. Things started looking up. They had two more children, Estella, born December 6, 1940, and Steve, born at Aberdeen, July 5, 1950. Fred worked as Chief of Police from 1948 to 1963. They bought the shoe shop in 1964. Hilda started work in 1956 as a nurses aid at the Lutheran Home. Fred retired in 1978 and died April 8, 1981. Hilda continues to work and live in Eureka. Ramona Goglin Eschen has one son, Jim Goglin, born in 1958. He married Tammie Heinrich in 1978 and has two children, Terakay, born January 14, 1980, and Eldon, born July 11, 1982. Estella is married to George Knapp, has one daughter, Debbie Beckner born February 24, 1959, and two sons, David born February 15, 1961, and Jeffrey born November 15, 1965. They also have three grandchildren, Amanda and Jeremy Bechner and Wayne Knapp. Steve was married to Ronda Sampo in 1983. He has three children, Scott born October 2, 1972, Jodi Lee born September 11, 1976, and Tyle Evan born April 1, 1984, and one stepdaughter, Amber.
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1913 - 1981 (67 years)