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Grace Piefer Gregorius

March 6, 1922 — November 11, 2014

Grace (Baxa) Piefer-Gregorius, 92, passed into God’s eternal kingdom on Tuesday, November 11, 2014. Grace was born to Frank and Anna (Hynek) Baxa at home on the family farm in Menchalville on March 6, 1922. Not always able to depend on their car, the family often traveled by horse and buggy or horse and sleigh when snow covered the roads. Sometimes their destination was a neighboring farmhouse where a quilting bee was in progress; the women stitched the quilt in one room while the men played cards in another. One of Grace’s chores was gathering the eggs that her mother bartered for groceries. Sometimes Grace would hide an egg under her apron and take it to her grandmother who would cook it as a special treat. Grace and her three younger brothers grew up bilingual, speaking Bohemian and English. At her mother’s insistence, Grace memorized the first grade reader even before she started attending the one-room school house in Menchalville; no doubt that’s where the on-going legacy of valuing an education...
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