To the right is a wedding
picture of Carl Deifel
(1905-1951) and Anna
Elvera McEachran (1914-
1984) taken in 1936. Anna
brings in the Irish-Scot
side of the family.
Anna saw Carl for the
first time when she was
14 years old. She was
in the back yard with a
girlfriend when he came
to her home to visit her
Mom and step-father Paul
Scharfenberg. At the time
the two girls laughed because Carl was wearing Knickers.
Something fashionable in Europe but not the USA.
Eight years after she first meet him, they were married.
She was 22 years old and he was 31 years. The marriage
lasted 15 years when Carl died of a heart attack. Anna
Elvera raised their two daughters alone and then Anna
died at the age of 70 of Non Hodgkins Lymphoma.