Arlo Ranniger - Opperman/Karstens history



Mabel Opperman 1953 Legion Auxillary President


Mabel (Dietz) and Emil Opperman


Emil Opperman WWI

Battle of Wauhatchie - WWI Soldiers
"Umbrella Rock" at Lookout Mountain, Tennessee

??, ??, Herman Opperman, Emil Opperman, Henry Kruse

Emil was father of George, Ivan, Bill & Jane
Henry was grandfather of Tim & Bary Kienast
The Battle of Wauhatchie was fought October 28-29, 1863, in Hamilton and Marion Counties, Tennessee, and Dade County, Georgia, in the American Civil War. A Union force had seized Brown's Ferry on the Tennessee River, opening a supply line to the Union Army in Chattanooga. Confederate forces attempted to dislodge the Union force defending the ferry and again close this supply line but were defeated. Wauhatchie was one of the few night battles of the Civil War.
Virgene (Kruse) Kroeger, daughter of Henry said her dad got overseas during WWI but when he got there the war was over. Henry's children: Virgene Kroeger, Neva Hinners, Genelle Kienast

Emil Opperman - faded & enhanced photo


Emil & Mabel Opperman anniversary