This photo shows Aurelia “Ora” (Brust) and George Lucke with their four children (left to right) Edgar, Milton, Bruce and Lucille. Ora’s life was taken in October of 1918 by the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919. She’s buried at the Haxtun Cemetery.
George married Annette Bright Seine in August of 1919. As of 1930, George, with wife Annette, was still farming in Haxtun, and George’s older widowed brother Henry, who operated a produce company at the time, was living with them.
George and Annette divorced in April of 1934, and by 1935 George had moved to Denver, where he was employed by the Kindel Bedding Company on South Bannock. In February of 1937, George married Julia Helen Brownyard in Denver. In the 1940 Denver City Directory George’s occupation is given as truck driver, and in 1948, at the age of 68, he was listed as an engineer. Maybe his experience operating a steam tractor carried over to operating a train engine!
George died on October 20, 1961, at the age of 81 and is buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in Wheatridge.
REFERENCES:
- Colorado County Marriages & State Index, 1862 – 2000 (www.ancestry.com)
- Colorado Divorce Index, 1851 – 1985 (www.ancestry.com)
- Find a Grave at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111655144/george-carl-lucke
- Rogers Family Tree (www.ancestry.com)
- 1930 U.S. Census (www.ancestry.com)
- 1935, 1940 and 1948 Denver City Directories (www.ancestry.com)
