
Anna Marie's Anecdotes
Enter the world of Anna Marie Reifers.
A Teenage Farm Girl from South Dakota who documented her life in a 5 year diary starting on Jan 1st, 1942 at age 14.
Learn who acted up in class, which boys her brothers teased her about and how she and everything around her changed during WWII.
About the Project
I have been the unofficial family historian for about 20 years.
I take every opportunity to collect stories, pictures, and all of the papers that family members don't know what to do with.
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I ended up with boxes of memories that belonged to my Grandma, Anna Marie Ramse nee. Reifers, and her mother, Zella Reifers nee. Daggett.
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I have been sitting on them for a few years an thought that a fun and productive way to read through them, without getting overwhelmed, is to publish each page of Grandma's daily, 5 year, diary.
I'll be adding posts about other pieces of the collection, loosely based on the dates in the diary.
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I am so excited to learn about and share the High School life a war-time farm-girl.
-Lynea Ramse

Anna Marie Reifers
1946
Who, What, & When.
Anna Marie's Life and the People in it.


August 20th, 1888
Hanson, South Dakota
August "Gus" John Reifers born.
The tenth of thirteen children, to Michael Reifers & Dora Steen.
April 14th, 1891
West Fork, Iowa
Margaret "Zella" Mozell Daggett born.
The sixth and final child of "Maggie" Thornberry and sixth child of nine to George Daggett
February 7th, 1912
Emery, South Dakota
August John Reifers and Margaret Mozell Daggett married.
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December 29th, 1927
Farmer, South Dakota
Anna Marie Reifers born.
The seventh of nine children, to "Gus" Reifers and "Zella" Daggett.
