Mettlach, Church, Snow

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We usually leave for home before it gets too cold in Europe, but it happened that we were in Mettlach during a snow fall in early December one year. On Sunday December the 4th, 1988, a couple dozen people gathered at the Post Restaurant in Mettlach, Germany, for the 49th wedding anniversary of Cousin Hugo and Maria, and Cousin Fina and Köbus. Unbeknownst to the other couple, they were married on the very same day in 1939, just as the war was starting. Due to the war and stays in various prisoner-of-war camps, several years passed before they could celebrate the occasion together.

This year Köbus had been in the hospital for about a week, so Josef went to the hospital and checked him out for a couple of hours for the party. We were glad we had extended our visit to Mettlach for this special day in 1988. Cousin Fina died in 1989, just before their 50th anniversary.
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And it really did snow while we were in Mettlach that year.