How a Facebook Group Helped me Learn about My Grandfather

 

My paternal grandfather, Steve Orshoski (second man from the right) was baptized as an adult on May 17, 1931 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Sandusky, Ohio. A genealogist who follows an Erie County Genealogy Facebook Page shared this picture with me. Grandpa Steve was raised Catholic, and then converted to the Lutheran Church.  I suspect my great grandma Lena Yeager,or perhaps his wife, Emma Yeager Orshoski, persuaded Grandpa Steve to change faiths, so that the family would all be of same religion.

In 1944, three of Steve and Emma Orshoski's sons, as well as cousin Rolland Orshoski were confirmed at Trinity Lutheran. Someone in their class once told me that the Bay Bridge residents attended classes at the Bay Bridge town hall as mission from Trinity Lutheran.

 Seated in front: Elmer Wahl, Wayne Orshoski, Joyce Galloway, Betty Martin, Rev. John Braun, Joyce Gardner, Nancy Klafter, Donald Orshoski, and Rolland Orshoski. In the back row: Norm Oeder, Richard Quinn, Marilyn Martin, Albert Oeder, Paul R. Orshoski, Stan Perry and Curtis Miller. 

Many of our Orshoski ancestors have strong ties to Trinity Lutheran Church!