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Michael L. Wiest:
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1. Title: Harold M Wiest.FTW - Media: Other - Text: Date of Import: Jan 24, 2002

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He was known as a very successful farmer in the San Joaquin Valley of California. First he began farming near Johnstown, Colorado (Weld County) and in 1935 moved with his wife and two children to Fresno County, California (Reedley area). There he and his wife, Katherine (Buxman) Wiest bought a 20 acre farm, planted with Thompson seedless grapes (for raison making) on East Springfield Ave., where he farmed while also working out for wages. In 1943 they bought a 60 acre farm (mostly open land, but planted with 8 acres of peaches) on Dinuba and Porter Avenues, east of reedley, next to Smith Mountain. There he established a large dairy farm (milking up to 140 cows) and (with Darnell) marketed bottled, pasteurized milk under the lable, "Wiest-Darnell Dairy" to retail outlets in Reedley, Dinuba, and Orange Cove. Later the dairy was gradually converted to a peach and nectarine farm, and later he marketed his fruit to Los Angeles and San Francisco under the label, "WWW" for William Walter Wiest. In his last years of
work he was a much valued employee of George Brothers of Sultana where he worked as an intermediary (farmer relations expert) between this large grower/packer company and many fruit individual farmers. The following quoted comments about William W. Wiest were written Sept. 4, 1992 in a letter by his son, William M. to his own children, Bill
III, Suzanne, and Cynthia--all grandchildren of W.W.Wiest. "It's times like this when a person really wants to be close to loved ones. I so much valued the talking times with each of you recently. All of us knew Grandpa was dying and yet, after the fact, it's been harder for me than I expected. I've had a lot of tears of sadness following his death; I guess it's the realization that never again on earth will I get to hear his voice, feel his embrace, and talk to him. But I comfort myself in the knowledge that he had a very long and good life (with much evidence of his whole family's love for him), and that he is now at peace. His death reminds us that we are all heading that way too someday--we hope following a life as rich in love and personal fullfillment as his was." "Grandpa was really a very special and loving man and his caring for all
of us in the family was boundless. He was also one of the unique ones in his generation in seeing that family should be defined very broadly to include all people everywhere. He and I were different in many ways (aren't we all?) yet we always loved and respected each other very deeply. I've learned so much of great value from him in my life, and I
hope we can all carry on his beautiful way of living--his optimism, cheerful and encouraging spirit, compassion, generosity, faith, and genuine concern for the well-being of others. There's so much more to say, but for now I'm needing to be brief." He died at 8:30 p.m. on Friday evening, August 21, 1992, in the Pleasant View Manor in Reedley, having
spent the last hours of his life in the loving presence of his wife, Katherine, and his oldest daughter, Adena. I (Bill M.) boarded a plane in Portland at 8:15 p.m. and learned of his death on arriving in Berkeley to spend the night with niece, Vivian and her husband, Pat McCarthy."

William heiratete Buxman, Katherine Elizabeth am 18 Aug 1929 in Johnstown, Weld County, Colorado, USA. Katherine (Tochter von Buxmann, Karl Adolf und Weber, Maria) wurde geboren am 10 Mrz 1909 in Windsor, Weld County, Colorado, USA; gestorben am 19 Mai 2002 in Reedley, Fresno County, California, USA; wurde beigesetzt in Reedley Cemetery, Reedley, Fresno County, California, USA. [Familienblatt] [Familientafel]

Adena heiratete Warkentin, Aaron James am 24 Jun 1949 in Reedley, Fresno County, California, USA. Aaron wurde geboren am 13 Aug 1930 in ,,, USA; gestorben am 9 Mai 2014 in ,, California, USA; wurde beigesetzt in Mill Valley, Marin County, California, USA. [Familienblatt] [Familientafel]

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Fred Wiest:
[Harold M Wiest.FTW]
WILLIAM MARVIN WIEST PH.D. was born on May 8, 1933 in Loveland, Colorado,and was raised in Reedley, California. He is a college professor and apsychologist. Willia m has a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and biology from TaborCollege in Hillsboro, K ansas, and graduated surnrna cum laude in 1955; a Master of Arts degreein psychology fro m the University of Kansas in 1957; and a Ph.D. in psychology in 1962from the Universit y of California, Berkeley. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and SigmaXi, and has been the project Coordinator of World Health Organization (WHO),performing multinational res earch on new methods of contraception for men.
William has received many honors and awards including: the SloanFoundation Faculty Research Fellowship in 1972-73, and National Science FoundationFaculty Science Fellowship in 1975-76. He has also been published in severalpsychological journals. William's current research aftempts to extend the experimentaland theoretical analy sis of social behavior to complex human social behavior in naturalisticfield settings. I n the laffer context, he is studying human attitudes and behavior withrespect to sexuality, to f amily planning (deciding on a preferred family size), to factorsdetermining the acceptabi lity of different contraceptives, and to general issues of personalhealth risk management . Another line of research recently undertaken concerns identifying socialpsychological and personal history predictors of the decision to immigrate to Germany bymembers of the ethnic German population in the former Soviet Union.
William's hobbies include singing choral music, gardening,traveling, photography, genealogy research, and skin diving.
THELMA LEE BARTEL WIEST was born on March 30, 1936 in Cordell,Oklahoma, and was raised in Dinuba, California. She is a maternal-child registerednurse. William and Thelma were married on August 18, 1955.
My own family research (William Marvin Wiest) indicates thatour Wiest forebears left for Russia in about 1830 from somewhere in southern Germany perhaps nearGermerscheim in Rheinland-Pfalz, or from Wuerttemberg They were among thoseresponding to an earlier invitation by Catherine the Great, Czarina of Russia,for Germans and other western Europeans to settle in Russia. My grandfather,Friedrich Karl Wiest cam e to the United States (Colorado) in 1908 from one of severalhundred German settlements in Russia and Ukraine. The village he left fromwas Friedrichsfeld, near Stavropol in the North Caucasus of Russia, though he had beenborn in the German village of Rohrbach near Odessa, Ukraine. One sister,Elizabeth Wiest Croissant a lso emigrated to North America; she and her family settled in anarea near Medicine Hat, Albeita. Most of my grandfather Wiest's brothers and sisters(Konrad, Wilhelm, Jakob, Edward, Katerina, and Filbiena) stayed in Russia.
Unfortunately, during the early period of the Stalin regime,our family in North America lost all contact with our family in Russia. In 1928,my grandfather was a sked by his brothers and sisters there to not send letters orpackages; such communication from abroad created political troubles for them. Sixty yearslater, in 1988, I ha d the good fortune of finding our remaining Wiest family in Russiaand Kazakhstan. You may know that almost all ethnic Germans in Russia and Ukrainewere exiled from their homes in 1941, and sent to forced labor camps inSiberia and in central Asia. How any of them managed to survive is a marvelous story initself. For now I'l l say that I've discovered many of my Wiest relatives (firstcousins of my father, and their offspring) scattered widely over the former Soviet Union,from Khabarovsk to Moscow and from Murmansk to Tashkent. Now there is a great movementby many of them who hope to be able to resettle in Germany as 'Aussiedler."
TAKE FROM: The Wiest Family Who's Who in America c1994 FamilyArchive Press, L.L. C. Phoenix, AR.[Harold M Wiest 2.FTW]

William heiratete Bartel, Thelma Lee am 18 Aug 1955 in Dinuba, Tulare County, California, USA. Thelma (Tochter von Bartel, William Allen und Just, Pauline) wurde geboren am 30 Mrz 1936 in Cordell, Washita County, Oklahoma, USA; und gestorben. [Familienblatt] [Familientafel]

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