REFLECTIONS OF A LIFE WELL LIVED

About the Book

Florence Lietha Schultz died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease on January 17, 1999 at the age of eighty seven, almost three weeks from the death of her husband Gilbert Schultz who died December 21, 1998 at the age of eighty eight. Their interment is at Resurrection Cemetery, Mendota Heights, Minnesota. Children: Mary Ann Schultz Horton, John Gilbert Schultz, Suzanne Kathleen Schultz (deceased), Joan Marie Schultz Nordstrom and Ruth Ann Schultz Oberg. Grandchildren: Christopher Schultz, Andy Schultz, Ryan Schultz, Scott Nordstrom, Alicia Horton, Jennifer Nordstrom, Mark Horton and Nathaniel (Nate) Oberg. Great Grandson: Zachary Roger Schultz.

About the Author

Florence Elsbeth Lietha was born on the family homesteaded farm in Clear Lake, Minnesota on July 7, 1912 to Swiss and Swedish immigrants John and Olga Lietha. John emigrated from Switzerland at the age of fourteen with his parents Martin and Agnes Lietha on July 4, 1876. They settled in Haven Township on the Elk River and Martin worked as a harness maker, raising horses and outfitting westward settlers and servicing in-bound wagon trains from the Dakotas. John did much of the work on the farm. Florence was the third daughter of nine children: Agnes, John, Nellie, Louis, Arthur, Florence, Frances, Carl (Daniel) and Harold. The following nineteen journals are a lifelong collection of her writings touching on her rural farm upbringing and big city life experiences in Minneapolis, Minnesota.