https://youtu.be/9lLnLFJMerQ In this 3rd video of our 2024 oral history series Kyle Stallones interviews Leon Strack, a long time descendant of the Strack family. Leon traces his family roots back to 1873 and includes rememberances of the Hildebrandt, Brautigam, Senger and Wied families going back four generations. Leon also discusses family life in the early […]
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https://youtu.be/bOoETYqwLn8 Kyle Stallones from the Tomball Museum Center interviews Marvin and Gladys (nee Metzler) Osgood on life in Tomball during the “dairy” years from around 1946 to 1976. Marvin recalls the days in Cypress growing up and helping his family in the twice-a-day, seven-days-a-week job of operating a dairy farm (not to mention a 1,000+
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https://youtu.be/bi6BwCtF4aE Kyle Stallones at the Tomball Museum Center interviews Stephen Hohl on March 8, 2024. Stephen’s father and grandfather owned and operated Hohl Motors from 1920 to 1968. Relive with Stephen his father’s exploits during WWII, the invasion of Normandy as a young Lt. JG commanding a landing craft, tales of the Hohl and Brown
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Kyle Stallones interviews Mitch Ford, a longtime resident of Tomball since 1963. Mitch’s immediate family, Millard Ford Jr. and Millard Ford Sr. founded and operated Ford’s Chevy Service for many years in downtown Tomball and then on old FM149 before retiring in 1973. Kyle explores life in Tomball during those years, including discussions about the
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Kyle Stallones interviews Nadine Martens Reed whose father, Leonard, operated one of the largest poultry and egg farms in the Tomball area on a 354 acre ranch. For over 50 years Leonard’s country eggs were sold to many grocery stores, convenience stores and restaurants around Tomball as well as the Houston area. Nadine relives the
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End of School Program Several years ago, our granddaughter Katie invited us to come to Austin for her graduation from kindergarten. She attended a parochial school, and the exercise was held in the church sanctuary. The theme was “Going to the Circus.” The large class was divided into groups of four or five, and each
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Click the Button below for Excerpt from Cobb’s Creek in the Early Days of the Old Powder Mill By John W. Eckfeldt – Available on Smithsonian Internet Archive Early Days of the old Power Mill
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Kyle Stallones opens the Tomball Museum Center 2024 Oral History Project with an interview of Hank Weirich, a 5th generation Tomball resident and descendent of Christian Weirich who was born in Germany in 1824. Hank relates colorful stories of the Weirich, Bode, Winkle and Caulking families through the evolving Tomball years, detailing life in the
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Kip Coe, of the Tomball Coe family group, is interviewed by Kyle Stallones for the Tomball Museum Center Oral History Project on June 8, 2023. Kip describes at length the early days of growing up in Tomball, his love of gardening and Tomball history as well as sugar cane harvesting, land development, saw mills, cattle
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Museum History PhotosThe First one is Kate,13 and Margaret (sisters) spinning wool on Contemporary wheels. 1976The second one is Carlos Swoke, 8, and his brother Tony, 12 viewing a handmade Santa and Reindeer at the Griffin Memorial House. 1969.
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