Outagamie County, WI - "Dale Woman Recalls Local History"
          
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   Subject: newspaper article "Dale Woman Recalls Local History"
   Submitted by: county coordinator 
   EMAIL: jmmarasch@aol.com
   Date Submitted: 15 March 2000
          
   Source: New London Press newspaper article from Bicentennial issue, undated.
   
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              Dale Woman Recalls Local History
             Mrs. Oscar Roesler probably knows more than most people about the history of Dale.
        Everyone in Dale calls her Gramma Gen and most of them are related to her.
        Gramma Jen is 82 years old.  She lives in the same house her family moved into when she was two
   years old.
        She hasn't always lived there.  After her marriage she moved to Stephensville with her husband.  They
   ran the Dooley Cheese Factory for ten years, sold it for ten years, then bought it back again.
        When Gramma Gen's mother was ill, she went back to Dale to take care of her.  It was 1947.
        She remembers when passenger trains stopped in Dale four times a day.
        "That's the only way we got anywhere, on that passenger train," She said.  "To go to Appleton you
   went to Neenah by train, then by streetcar to Appleton."
                     Both of Gramma Gen's children were born in the house in Dale.
            "The doctor and his wife came to the house," she said.  "We didn't go to the hospital then."
                     Today both children and their families live in Dale.
   
   Picture caption: The late Oscar Roesler, center, and friends posed for this picture long ago in Dale. Roesler's
   wife, Gramma Gen, still lives in Dale.