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Katherine Margarete Maun
1898 — 1985
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A very sober confirmation class
From left to right: Frieda Buehler, Hilda Starkebaum, Katherine Margarete Maun, and Hilda Nolte.
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Three sisters share a good story
From left to right: Katharine Margarete (Maun) Fiegenbaum, Anna L. (Maun) Scott, Clara Maria (Maun) Ahman.
A good, from-deep-inside-you-laugh is the most iconic image possible of Katie Fiegenbaum.
The three sisters are visiting in Katie's garden on the farm in Lafayette County, Missouri. The property is now part of the Maple Leaf Lake Conservation Area.
The brick building in the background was Grandma's henhouse. The inhabitants were an excitable bunch. They would rush up to you impatient to be fed, immediately have second thoughts and just as excitedly beat a hasty retreat. They could be vicious to each other in their competiton for the cracked corn and table scraps.
Further back in the photo, on the left, is Grandpa's gray machine shed. It sheltered some of the larger farm equipment, but more important for the grandkids was the miles-long workbench covered with all sorts of tools and screws and nuts and bolts and who-knows-what.
Sneaking in from the right margin of the photograph is a small portion of the barn, home from time to time to skittish cows and to sows with piglets. There were bins with shelled corn (good ammunition for a slingshot) and a loft with bales of hay.
To the left of the barn, directly behind Clara Maria, was a small pond. The surface of the vegetation-clogged water was always below ground level. I suppose it was meant to refresh the livestock, but the grandkids knew it primarily as the home of countless frogs, who were hard to distinguish from the green goopy stuff until they leapt out into deeper water as you passed by.