born ~ 1912 July 15 ~ ~ ~ town of Lima, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, United States
died ~ 2007 September 13 ~ ~ ~ Comfort House, McAllen, Texas, United States
buried ~ in Valley Memorial Gardens - McAllen, Texas
father ~ Frank Merget born 28 April 1875 - died 29 November 1952
mother ~ Margaret Walter Merget born 9 November 1877 - died 6 October 1967
siblings ~ Marcella Merget born 1 November 1905 - died 18 July 1961
siblings ~ Rufine Merget Hulee born 26 February 1914 - died 2000
siblings ~ Colette Merget Scharenbroch born 6 March 1918 - - died 7 November 2018
siblings ~ Arnold Merget - born 6 October 1909 - died 23 October 1909
married ~ Arthur R. Mittelstaedt born 22 January 1914 - died 23 August 1974
children
Richard Mittelstaedt born 17 December 1943 - died 17 December 1943
Gerard E. Mittelstaedt born 27 January 1948 -
Ann R. Mittelstaedt born 3 October 1951 -
Gelane M. Merget was born in the family home in the town of Lima, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, United States.
She lived on the family farm until she was married.
Gelane went a teachers college and began teaching in a rural elementary school in Sheboygan County
She married Arthur R. Mittelstaedt shortly after World War II started, and while Art was in Officer Candidate School.
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After the war he Went back to teaching and also finished his Bachelors degree. He went on to earn a Masters Degree in Education from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The day after the degree was conferred he was recalled (into the US Air Force, as the Army Air Corps became its own branch of the military) for service in the Korean conflict. Again he was involved with military education.
After the Korean conflict was essentially over he elected to stay in the USAF as an active reservist rather than return to civilian life. In 1954 he was assigned to Madrid, Spain to establish schools for the military dependents at 3 USAF bases there, in Madrid, Sevilla and in Zaragoza. That was completed and he was transfered to Ramstein, Germany for 54 months to solve a problem with the dependent schools there and next was transferred to Bitburg, Germany. When the 3 year tour of duty in Europe was finished he was transfered to Lackland AFB, Headquarters for much of the USAF education. After 5 years there, in 1963 he transfered to Greenville AFB in Greenville, Mississippi. That base had the Firefighters school, the Personnel school and the Medics school. The base closed in a major military downsizing only 15 months of being assigned there and the next (and last) assignment was to Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Art retired in March 1966 soon after he recived the ROPA (Reserve) rank of Lt. Colonel.
The family moved to McAllen, Texas in September 1966
Her husband Arthur R. Mittelstaedt died in July 1974.
Gelane lived on 33 years after Art died. She was very active in Church work in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in McAllen, Texas. She was also an active member of the quilting club and was a very active gardener. (Art often said that you could take the girl off the farm but you could not take the farm out of the girl.)
Circumstances of death ~ heart failure
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