Kurt

Biography

Timeline

1. 1957

   Building the family’s first home

   Built their first home and lived there thirteen years. Iris says the whole family really grew up there.

   Iris's Chapter

2. While the family lived in the 4th Street Court house

   Kurt joins the family

   Kurt was born during the family’s residence in the house built in 1957; the actual birthplace is not stated.

   Iris's Chapter

Stories mentioning Kurt

• A Good Life in the Homes We SharedIris recalls marrying Bill on September 11, 1948, and beginning married life in cramped shared quarters during a postwar housing shortage. Their next home was a fifty-five-dollar-a-month upstairs apartment in Moline, where Daddy brought the kids for Monday-night wrestling, potato chips, and Pepsi. They bought a small East Moline house where Linda, Beth, Jeffrey, and Laurie were born, then built a home on 4th Street Court in 1957, where Kurt joined the family and the children grew up. Iris traces later homes in Roscoe, a northern summer place, the sale of their house in The Ledges, a newly built Arizona home, and their move to a three-level Rockton home in spring 2000, calling it a good life.

Referenced in

• Iris's Chapter — MARRIED LIFE