Dear sister-in-law and children,
For the first we must tell you that 
the pictures pleased us and that we
got them, we were glad for them,
All of you look good on them
but your father at that time already
was not well, for he looks like it,
Dear sister-in-law, we are sorry
that you had to give up your father
already, for he could have lived a
long time yet, for he was just
fifty years old, but his time of
life was not destined to be longer,
and now find yourselves in it all
and be glad he has rest. He would
have been with you longer so gladly

Hermine Blumenberg Nordsemmen

He would have gladly stayed with you
longer, but the dear Lord
preferred to have him
otherwise He would not have called
him awy yet, not every person is
to be fortunate, so He sends
each person something, we, too, have
had all kinds of things
in these years we had two girls
that died for us 
and now we have a 
little boy since Agust 10
and he seems to be well on the way
so we are hopeful that we will
keep him and we are so happy about it
in other respects it is going well
with us. The oldest daughter will
be 21 in March and will soon be
engaged, she is a cook in the hotel,
her fiance is a waiter. Hermine