Monthly Archives: December 2012

Greetings from Southern California and Happy Holidays! You will find Richard’s and Emiko’s holiday message and some choice photos of events at: Happy Holidays – 2003 Happy Holidays [..]

Since our Mausoleum has been essentially restored, it is appropriate that we now rename this site as the Ernst Showengerdt Family Mausoleum Preservation Society. A new challenge is now before [..]

New front door installed: Photos by Ruth Schreiner  

A major event in 2001 was the marriage of Richard’s and Emiko’s daughter, Maria Tomiko Schowengerdt, to Dr. Otto-Georg Richter in December 2001; they now reside in Adendorf, [..]

Ernst Jacob Schowengerd (“t” was added in the U.S.A.) was born in Lienen near Munster, Germany, in 1824.  His mother was Anna Maria Rahen and his father was [..]