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Leon Strack -Tomball Museum Oral History Project

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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Marvin & Gladys Osgood -Tomball Museum Oral History Project

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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Stephen Hohl – Tomball Museum Oral History Project

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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Mitch Ford – Tomball Museum Oral History Project

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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Nadine Martens Reed – Tomball Museum Oral History Project

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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Hank Weirich – Tomball Museum Oral History Project

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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