The reason why I have so many pictures of the Handlos family is because Tom and Lila let me go through their scrapbooks in 2016.
These are just a sampling of the nearly 400 scans I made from 11 scrapbooks.


Linda Handlos


Gary Handlos MHS 1958 with Tom Handlos


Gary Handlos MHS 1958


Tom Handlos & Cindy Bilsten MHS 1975


Lila & Frank Handlos 1960


Lila (Hargens) Forke

Joe & Cecelia Riesselman - parents of Lila 1966


Albert & Mary (Reitmeier) Handlos 50th - parents of Albert Jr., Frank, Henry & Edward


May 1973 Frank Handlos stuck - If you've never been stuck like this at least once then you've never farmed.


March 1960 blizzard - Linda Handlos


Linda & Gary Handlos


Tom Handlos 1971 Junior High basketball


Gary, Frank, Linda


Gary & Linda


Linda Handlos - first communion


Tom Handlos & Marcus Paes 1975 AFS student from Brazil


Frank & LIla 35th anniversary 1974


Albert, Jr., Frank, Henry, Edward


Tom Handlos mowing grass 1966


Gary Handlos


Lila, Linda, with uncle Albert Handlos, Jr. and cousin Larry Handlos


1972 Tom Handlos & Bruce "Mongoose" Antone wearing one of his many "interesting T shirts."
Long story short, Bruce had his last name legally changed back to his German ancestral name of Anton.


Frank Handlos 1977


Gary Handlos


Tom Handlos May 1957


Tom Handlos 1976


Albert, Frank, Mary, Henry, Albert, Sr., Edward


1975 Tim Kienast, Jim Opperman, Tom Handlos, Jeff Sebring


Tom Handlos & Jon Hass - first communion


1939 payment to Lyden Studio for Frank & Lila's wedding photos


Lila Handlos certificate 1996


Frank Handlos 1956


Tom Handlos 1966


Mike "Chuck" Foley & Tom Handlos 1972


Frank Handlos baler - Jim Mohr on left & Frank on right


Gary Handlos - Prom 1958


Tom Handlos 1983


Tom & Dee Handlos


Steve Schwaller, Tom Handlos, Mark Schwaller


Tom Handlos 1964


Frank Handlos having lunch - 3010 JD tractor 1966

Frank was attempting to smoke bees out of the shed with a torch and one of the burning bees crawled back into the wall which started the fire.
Frank wanted to put chickens in the brooder house.
Merlin Irlbeck on gate.


Page 141 of the Manning Schools history book


Gary Handlos Lincoln No. 2 country school


Back: Louise Mohr, Marjorie Drees
Third: William Bruhn, Lyle Drees, Merlin Drees, Melvin Thielen, Donald Dammann, Allen Mohr
Second: Janice Drees, Gary Handlos, Raymond Thielen, Allen Overgaard?
Front: Marjorie Thielen, Linda Handlos

North wall of Lincoln No. 2 circa 1948