Herb and Hattie met as new schoolteachers in the same rural Iowa county

When I was eight years old in the summer of 1961, my family traveled in Europe on the way to spending a year in Israel. (My father, a scientist, would be on sabbatical there.)

In Paris, we visited my mother's glamorous Aunt Hilda, who lived with her second husband, Joseph Liebman, a jeweler, in a grand villa near the Seine in the suburb of Neuilly.  

My most vivid recollection of the house is all of the marble surfaces. Also, the potency of the rum cake served after dinner, which caused me to tip over in my chair. 

Death

Eilert Osmundsen and six male relatives were among 424 passengers on the SS Venetia inbound to New York from Kristiansand, Norway

He died in Brooklyn's Norwegian Hospital from complications of typhoid fever