Susanne Keller
The author, Susanne Keller, is the daughter of Mary and Bill Oehler, fourth and third generation members, respectfully, of the family’s history book. She had always enjoyed listening to her parents share stories of their childhoods in the village of Minier in central Illinois. The two were born only a month apart and spent all their growing-up years there. All of their family members going back generations to their immigration from Germany had lived only in that village or in nearby Danvers...

