Parents: Clem and Anna (Schelle)

Children of Clem and Anna are: Frank Joseph  married Regina ROEDER;   Victoria Clementina  never married;    Lawrence John  married Ida HATTING;
Paul Ambrose  ;   * Albert Theodore   married Anna BLACK;   Leona Josephine   married Joe VOSS;   Raymond Clement ;   Marie Catherine   married Herman HATTING;   Frances Ann   married Lawrence NANNEMAN;   Henry Edward  married Katherine (Katie) THELEN

Lawrence and Ida Hatting -Stallman

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Lawrence and Ida (seated) witnesses:       and Leona Stallman

Children:  Hilda,  Marvin,  Lorraine,   Clarence
 

Lawrence John Stallman was born June 12, 1904, at Iona, Murray County, Minn. to Clemens Anton and Mary Schelle Stallman. He moved to to a farm in Lyman County, SD, near Reliance with his parents in 1910. For a  period of about five years, the family lived at White Lake and Plankinton as they moved with  Clem  on his Rawleigh Products routes. Lawrence  attended North Cooper School, south of the family farm through the eighth grade. Then went to work to help supplement the family (which had grown to 10 children) income. As was the norm, as soon as the child was old enough to work out, they did. He worked for others in the Reliance area until he was old enough to go east to work in Iowa and Minnesota

May 26, 1931, Lawrence married Ida Theresa HATTING at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Reliance. Ida was  born Nov. 25, 1905 at Spelle, Germany to Bernard and Anna AHUS Hatting. She came to the US in 1925 and lived in the home of her uncle, Henry Hatting Sr,  at Ashton, Lyon County, Iowa.

They farmed northeast of Reliance for two years before moving to a farm in the Ashton/Melvin, Iowa area. (There is an anecdote in his brother Frank's story concerning a moonshine still that was confiscated from that farm.)  There, they farmed until 1957 then moved to a farm near Currie, Minn. and farmed there 10 years before retiring and moving to 500 NW 4th St., Fulda, Minn.

From my standpoint, Lawrence was always the quiet, easy-going teddy bear kind of man while Ida was definitely the disciplinarian. She wasn't very big, but I always understood that she was in control. Kind of a little spitfire, if you will. I loved to go to their house. I thought they were the rich relatives. Everything was just so prim and proper; no nonsense there, no sir. After moving into Fulda into their new home Ida still had a garden and kept her home spic and span. Once when we were visiting a nasty, dirty old fly got in the house. As soon as that thing landed (on the ceiling) she either swatted it, or had someone tall swat it. Once the dastardly deed was done, she got out her cleaning cloth and a chair and climbed up on it to wipe the fly splatters off!  That was Aunt Ida. She had a very heavy German accent that she never lost, nor did her brother Herman who married Lawrence's sister Marie.

She liked to set a pretty table ... a proper table. We often laugh about the time she had everything just right and it was time to take our places. Uncle Lawrence stood there (waiting for orders?) as she directed us to our chair, then told him to go sit at his place. He just looked at her funny and asked, "Do I have a place?" She told him where it was and finally we all sat in our places.  We also will never forget the time she and our son Bill got to teasing each other with newly mown grass and we don't know who started it, but she was cramming grass down the seat of his pants and he was cramming it down the front of her dress. So unlike Aunt Ida, or so we thought. Maybe there was this wild and crazy woman inside her and she just decided to let us see her. It makes a very good memory of her for us. Bill used to speak of her often.

Ida started having complications with the circulation in her legs in 1982 and endured a very lengthy stay in the hospital at Rochester then was transferred to Worthington. After a year of hospitalization she returned to her home in a wheelchair. Marvin, also in a wheelchair, lived with his parents. In 1984, Lawrence and Ida attended the 50th wedding anniversary open house for Joe and Leona Voss.  He underwent prostrate surgery then was put into a nursing home in Sibley, Iowa, then in Slayton, Minn. where he passed away May 7, 1985.

My records stop in 1985. I have much work to do!  Ida and Marvin have since passed away. All three are buried in the Catholic cemetery at Ashton.