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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:44, 5 July 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sa.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: [[MCKEEVER, Susan Marie Graas|Susan Marie Graas MCKEEVER]]/Nancy Welter]]APEL, Susan Marie. (Dubuque, IA, May 15, 1890--Mar. 6, 1950). Susan, daughter of [[APEL, Peter|Peter APEL]], played ragtime piano in various Dubuque bars and background piano for silent movies at the [[ORPHEUM <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">THEATER</del>]]. She married John Jacob Graas, Sr.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sa.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: [[MCKEEVER, Susan Marie Graas|Susan Marie Graas MCKEEVER]]/Nancy Welter]]APEL, Susan Marie. (Dubuque, IA, May 15, 1890--Mar. 6, 1950). Susan, daughter of [[APEL, Peter|Peter APEL]], played ragtime piano in various Dubuque bars and background piano for silent movies at the [[ORPHEUM]]. She married John Jacob Graas, Sr.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Susan&#039;s perfect pitch and her musical talent played significant roles in the lives of her sons. [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]] became one of the most significant French horn musicians of the twentieth century.  When John began formal lessons on the horn, his mother baked two loaves of bread and sent it with him to help pay for his instruction; money was very short. [[DI TELLA, Ferdinand|Ferdinand DI TELLA]] helped to pay for a better French horn for the high school student to replace the one the boy had been using. [[GRAAS, Vincent|Vincent GRAAS]], another son, played all the reed instruments with the Wayne King orchestra for several years and toured with them. He also performed with [[LUKE RITZ AND HIS ORCHESTRA]].  Vincent went on to become an engineer. Both boys received additional musical training in the band sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE BOYS&#039; CLUB]] directed by their mother&#039;s cousin, [[CHEWNING, Vincent|Vincent CHEWNING]].  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Susan&#039;s perfect pitch and her musical talent played significant roles in the lives of her sons. [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]] became one of the most significant French horn musicians of the twentieth century.  When John began formal lessons on the horn, his mother baked two loaves of bread and sent it with him to help pay for his instruction; money was very short. [[DI TELLA, Ferdinand|Ferdinand DI TELLA]] helped to pay for a better French horn for the high school student to replace the one the boy had been using. [[GRAAS, Vincent|Vincent GRAAS]], another son, played all the reed instruments with the Wayne King orchestra for several years and toured with them. He also performed with [[LUKE RITZ AND HIS ORCHESTRA]].  Vincent went on to become an engineer. Both boys received additional musical training in the band sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE BOYS&#039; CLUB]] directed by their mother&#039;s cousin, [[CHEWNING, Vincent|Vincent CHEWNING]].  </div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:46, 3 November 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sa.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: [[MCKEEVER, Susan Marie Graas|Susan Marie Graas MCKEEVER]]/Nancy Welter]]APEL, Susan Marie. (Dubuque, IA, May 15, 1890--Mar. 6, 1950)<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Musician</del>. Susan, daughter of [[APEL, Peter|Peter APEL]], played ragtime piano in various Dubuque bars and background piano for silent movies at the [[ORPHEUM THEATER]]. She married John Jacob Graas, Sr.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sa.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: [[MCKEEVER, Susan Marie Graas|Susan Marie Graas MCKEEVER]]/Nancy Welter]]APEL, Susan Marie. (Dubuque, IA, May 15, 1890--Mar. 6, 1950). Susan, daughter of [[APEL, Peter|Peter APEL]], played ragtime piano in various Dubuque bars and background piano for silent movies at the [[ORPHEUM THEATER]]. She married John Jacob Graas, Sr.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Susan&#039;s perfect pitch and her musical talent played significant roles in the lives of her sons. [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]] became one of the most significant French horn musicians of the twentieth century.  When John began formal lessons on the horn, his mother baked two loaves of bread and sent it with him to help pay for his instruction; money was very short. [[DI TELLA, Ferdinand|Ferdinand DI TELLA]] helped to pay for a better French horn for the high school student to replace the one the boy had been using. [[GRAAS, Vincent|Vincent GRAAS]], another son, played all the reed instruments with the Wayne King orchestra for several years and toured with them. He also performed with [[LUKE RITZ AND HIS ORCHESTRA]].  Vincent went on to become an engineer. Both boys received additional musical training in the band sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE BOYS&#039; CLUB]] directed by their mother&#039;s cousin, [[CHEWNING, Vincent|Vincent CHEWNING]].  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Susan&#039;s perfect pitch and her musical talent played significant roles in the lives of her sons. [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]] became one of the most significant French horn musicians of the twentieth century.  When John began formal lessons on the horn, his mother baked two loaves of bread and sent it with him to help pay for his instruction; money was very short. [[DI TELLA, Ferdinand|Ferdinand DI TELLA]] helped to pay for a better French horn for the high school student to replace the one the boy had been using. [[GRAAS, Vincent|Vincent GRAAS]], another son, played all the reed instruments with the Wayne King orchestra for several years and toured with them. He also performed with [[LUKE RITZ AND HIS ORCHESTRA]].  Vincent went on to become an engineer. Both boys received additional musical training in the band sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE BOYS&#039; CLUB]] directed by their mother&#039;s cousin, [[CHEWNING, Vincent|Vincent CHEWNING]].  </div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 04:07, 18 October 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sa.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Susan Graas <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">McKeever</del>/Nancy Welter]]APEL, Susan Marie. (Dubuque, IA, May 15, 1890--Mar. 6, 1950). Musician. Susan, daughter of [[APEL, Peter|Peter APEL]], played ragtime piano in various Dubuque bars and background piano for silent movies at the [[ORPHEUM THEATER]]. She married John Jacob Graas, Sr.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sa.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[MCKEEVER, </ins>Susan <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Marie </ins>Graas<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Susan Marie Graas MCKEEVER]]</ins>/Nancy Welter]]APEL, Susan Marie. (Dubuque, IA, May 15, 1890--Mar. 6, 1950). Musician. Susan, daughter of [[APEL, Peter|Peter APEL]], played ragtime piano in various Dubuque bars and background piano for silent movies at the [[ORPHEUM THEATER]]. She married John Jacob Graas, Sr.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Susan&#039;s perfect pitch and her musical talent played significant roles in the lives of her sons. [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]] became one of the most significant French horn musicians of the twentieth century.  When John began formal lessons on the horn, his mother baked two loaves of bread and sent it with him to help pay for his instruction; money was very short. [[DI TELLA, Ferdinand|Ferdinand DI TELLA]] helped to pay for a better French horn for the high school student to replace the one the boy had been using. [[GRAAS, Vincent|Vincent GRAAS]], another son, played all the reed instruments with the Wayne King orchestra for several years and toured with them. He also performed with [[LUKE RITZ AND HIS ORCHESTRA]].  Vincent went on to become an engineer. Both boys received additional musical training in the band sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE BOYS&#039; CLUB]] directed by their mother&#039;s cousin, [[CHEWNING, Vincent|Vincent CHEWNING]].  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Susan&#039;s perfect pitch and her musical talent played significant roles in the lives of her sons. [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]] became one of the most significant French horn musicians of the twentieth century.  When John began formal lessons on the horn, his mother baked two loaves of bread and sent it with him to help pay for his instruction; money was very short. [[DI TELLA, Ferdinand|Ferdinand DI TELLA]] helped to pay for a better French horn for the high school student to replace the one the boy had been using. [[GRAAS, Vincent|Vincent GRAAS]], another son, played all the reed instruments with the Wayne King orchestra for several years and toured with them. He also performed with [[LUKE RITZ AND HIS ORCHESTRA]].  Vincent went on to become an engineer. Both boys received additional musical training in the band sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE BOYS&#039; CLUB]] directed by their mother&#039;s cousin, [[CHEWNING, Vincent|Vincent CHEWNING]].  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Susan.Marie.Apel.Graas.Crop.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Susan Marie Apel. Photo courtesy: Susan Graas <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">McKeever</del>]]According to [[MCKEEVER, Susan Marie Graas|Susan Marie Graas MCKEEVER]], her grandmother was playing the piano ("Roll Out the Barrell") when she had her fatal stroke. Ironically her son, [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]], died while playing his French horn.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Susan.Marie.Apel.Graas.Crop.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Susan Marie Apel. Photo courtesy: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[MCKEEVER, </ins>Susan <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Marie </ins>Graas<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Susan Marie Graas MCKEEVER]]</ins>]]According to [[MCKEEVER, Susan Marie Graas|Susan Marie Graas MCKEEVER]], her grandmother was playing the piano ("Roll Out the Barrell") when she had her fatal stroke. Ironically her son, [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]], died while playing his French horn.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Musician]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Musician]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:49, 18 October 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sa.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Susan Graas McKeever/Nancy Welter]]APEL, Susan Marie. (Dubuque, IA, May 15, 1890--Mar. 6, 1950). Musician. Susan, daughter of [[APEL, Peter|Peter APEL]], played ragtime piano in various Dubuque bars and background piano for silent movies at the [[ORPHEUM THEATER]]. She married John Jacob Graas, Sr.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sa.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Susan Graas McKeever/Nancy Welter]]APEL, Susan Marie. (Dubuque, IA, May 15, 1890--Mar. 6, 1950). Musician. Susan, daughter of [[APEL, Peter|Peter APEL]], played ragtime piano in various Dubuque bars and background piano for silent movies at the [[ORPHEUM THEATER]]. She married John Jacob Graas, Sr.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Susan's perfect pitch and her musical talent played significant roles in the lives of her sons. [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]] became one of the most significant French horn musicians of the twentieth century.  When John began formal lessons on the horn, his mother baked two loaves of bread and sent it with him to help pay for his instruction; money was very short. [[DI TELLA, Ferdinand|Ferdinand DI TELLA]] helped to pay for a better French horn for the high school student to replace the one the boy had been using. Vincent <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Graas</del>, another son, played all the reed instruments with the Wayne King orchestra for several years and toured with them. He also performed with [[LUKE RITZ AND HIS ORCHESTRA]].  Vincent went on to become an engineer. Both boys received additional musical training in the band sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE BOYS' CLUB]] directed by their mother's cousin, [[CHEWNING, Vincent|Vincent CHEWNING]].  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Susan's perfect pitch and her musical talent played significant roles in the lives of her sons. [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]] became one of the most significant French horn musicians of the twentieth century.  When John began formal lessons on the horn, his mother baked two loaves of bread and sent it with him to help pay for his instruction; money was very short. [[DI TELLA, Ferdinand|Ferdinand DI TELLA]] helped to pay for a better French horn for the high school student to replace the one the boy had been using. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[GRAAS, </ins>Vincent<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Vincent GRAAS]]</ins>, another son, played all the reed instruments with the Wayne King orchestra for several years and toured with them. He also performed with [[LUKE RITZ AND HIS ORCHESTRA]].  Vincent went on to become an engineer. Both boys received additional musical training in the band sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE BOYS' CLUB]] directed by their mother's cousin, [[CHEWNING, Vincent|Vincent CHEWNING]].  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Susan.Marie.Apel.Graas.Crop.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Susan Marie Apel. Photo courtesy: Susan Graas McKeever]]According to [[MCKEEVER, Susan Marie Graas|Susan Marie Graas MCKEEVER]], her grandmother was playing the piano (&quot;Roll Out the Barrell&quot;) when she had her fatal stroke. Ironically her son, [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]], died while playing his French horn.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Susan.Marie.Apel.Graas.Crop.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Susan Marie Apel. Photo courtesy: Susan Graas McKeever]]According to [[MCKEEVER, Susan Marie Graas|Susan Marie Graas MCKEEVER]], her grandmother was playing the piano (&quot;Roll Out the Barrell&quot;) when she had her fatal stroke. Ironically her son, [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]], died while playing his French horn.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Musician]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Musician]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=APEL,_Susan_Marie&diff=51994&oldid=prev 2011-10-13T04:31:18Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 04:31, 13 October 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sa.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Susan Graas McKeever/Nancy Welter]]APEL, Susan Marie. (Dubuque, IA, May 15, 1890--Mar. 6, 1950). Musician. Susan, daughter of [[APEL, Peter|Peter APEL]], played ragtime piano in various Dubuque bars and background piano for silent movies at the [[ORPHEUM THEATER]].  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sa.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Susan Graas McKeever/Nancy Welter]]APEL, Susan Marie. (Dubuque, IA, May 15, 1890--Mar. 6, 1950). Musician. Susan, daughter of [[APEL, Peter|Peter APEL]], played ragtime piano in various Dubuque bars and background piano for silent movies at the [[ORPHEUM THEATER]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. She married John Jacob Graas, Sr</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Susan&#039;s perfect pitch and her musical talent played significant roles in the lives of her sons. [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]] became one of the most significant French horn musicians of the twentieth century.  When John began formal lessons on the horn, his mother baked two loaves of bread and sent it with him to help pay for his instruction; money was very short. [[DI TELLA, Ferdinand|Ferdinand DI TELLA]] helped to pay for a better French horn for the high school student to replace the one the boy had been using. Vincent Graas, another son, played all the reed instruments with the Wayne King orchestra for several years and toured with them. He also performed with [[LUKE RITZ AND HIS ORCHESTRA]].  Vincent went on to become an engineer. Both boys received additional musical training in the band sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE BOYS&#039; CLUB]] directed by their mother&#039;s cousin, [[CHEWNING, Vincent|Vincent CHEWNING]].  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Susan&#039;s perfect pitch and her musical talent played significant roles in the lives of her sons. [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]] became one of the most significant French horn musicians of the twentieth century.  When John began formal lessons on the horn, his mother baked two loaves of bread and sent it with him to help pay for his instruction; money was very short. [[DI TELLA, Ferdinand|Ferdinand DI TELLA]] helped to pay for a better French horn for the high school student to replace the one the boy had been using. Vincent Graas, another son, played all the reed instruments with the Wayne King orchestra for several years and toured with them. He also performed with [[LUKE RITZ AND HIS ORCHESTRA]].  Vincent went on to become an engineer. Both boys received additional musical training in the band sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE BOYS&#039; CLUB]] directed by their mother&#039;s cousin, [[CHEWNING, Vincent|Vincent CHEWNING]].  </div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=APEL,_Susan_Marie&diff=51993&oldid=prev 2011-10-13T04:27:26Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 04:27, 13 October 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sa.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Susan Graas McKeever/Nancy Welter]]APEL, Susan Marie. (Dubuque, IA, May 15, 1890--Mar. 6, 1950). Musician. Susan, daughter of [[APEL, Peter|Peter APEL]], played ragtime piano in various Dubuque bars and background piano for silent movies at the [[ORPHEUM THEATER]].  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sa.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Susan Graas McKeever/Nancy Welter]]APEL, Susan Marie. (Dubuque, IA, May 15, 1890--Mar. 6, 1950). Musician. Susan, daughter of [[APEL, Peter|Peter APEL]], played ragtime piano in various Dubuque bars and background piano for silent movies at the [[ORPHEUM THEATER]].  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Susan's perfect pitch and her musical talent played significant roles in the lives of her sons. [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]] became one of the most significant French horn musicians of the twentieth century.  When John began formal lessons on the horn, his mother baked two loaves of bread and sent it with him to help pay for his instruction; money was very short. [[DI TELLA, Ferdinand|Ferdinand DI TELLA]] helped to pay for a better French horn for the high school student to replace the one the boy had been using. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Vince </del>Graas, another son, played all the reed instruments with the Wayne King orchestra for several years and toured with them. He went on to become an engineer. Both boys received additional musical training in the band sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE BOYS' CLUB]] directed by their mother's cousin, [[CHEWNING, Vincent|Vincent CHEWNING]].  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Susan's perfect pitch and her musical talent played significant roles in the lives of her sons. [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]] became one of the most significant French horn musicians of the twentieth century.  When John began formal lessons on the horn, his mother baked two loaves of bread and sent it with him to help pay for his instruction; money was very short. [[DI TELLA, Ferdinand|Ferdinand DI TELLA]] helped to pay for a better French horn for the high school student to replace the one the boy had been using. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Vincent </ins>Graas, another son, played all the reed instruments with the Wayne King orchestra for several years and toured with them. He <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">also performed with [[LUKE RITZ AND HIS ORCHESTRA]].  Vincent </ins>went on to become an engineer. Both boys received additional musical training in the band sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE BOYS' CLUB]] directed by their mother's cousin, [[CHEWNING, Vincent|Vincent CHEWNING]].  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Susan.Marie.Apel.Graas.Crop.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Susan Marie Apel. Photo courtesy: Susan Graas McKeever]]According to [[MCKEEVER, Susan Marie Graas|Susan Marie Graas MCKEEVER]], her grandmother was playing the piano (&quot;Roll Out the Barrell&quot;) when she had her fatal stroke. Ironically her son, [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]], died while playing his French horn.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Susan.Marie.Apel.Graas.Crop.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Susan Marie Apel. Photo courtesy: Susan Graas McKeever]]According to [[MCKEEVER, Susan Marie Graas|Susan Marie Graas MCKEEVER]], her grandmother was playing the piano (&quot;Roll Out the Barrell&quot;) when she had her fatal stroke. Ironically her son, [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]], died while playing his French horn.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Musician]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Musician]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=APEL,_Susan_Marie&diff=50205&oldid=prev 2011-09-21T21:59:14Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:59, 21 September 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l3">Line 3:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Susan&#039;s perfect pitch and her musical talent played significant roles in the lives of her sons. [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]] became one of the most significant French horn musicians of the twentieth century.  When John began formal lessons on the horn, his mother baked two loaves of bread and sent it with him to help pay for his instruction; money was very short. [[DI TELLA, Ferdinand|Ferdinand DI TELLA]] helped to pay for a better French horn for the high school student to replace the one the boy had been using. Vince Graas, another son, played all the reed instruments with the Wayne King orchestra for several years and toured with them. He went on to become an engineer. Both boys received additional musical training in the band sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE BOYS&#039; CLUB]] directed by their mother&#039;s cousin, [[CHEWNING, Vincent|Vincent CHEWNING]].  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Susan&#039;s perfect pitch and her musical talent played significant roles in the lives of her sons. [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]] became one of the most significant French horn musicians of the twentieth century.  When John began formal lessons on the horn, his mother baked two loaves of bread and sent it with him to help pay for his instruction; money was very short. [[DI TELLA, Ferdinand|Ferdinand DI TELLA]] helped to pay for a better French horn for the high school student to replace the one the boy had been using. Vince Graas, another son, played all the reed instruments with the Wayne King orchestra for several years and toured with them. He went on to become an engineer. Both boys received additional musical training in the band sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE BOYS&#039; CLUB]] directed by their mother&#039;s cousin, [[CHEWNING, Vincent|Vincent CHEWNING]].  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Susan.Marie.Apel.Graas.Crop.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Susan Marie Apel. Photo courtesy: Susan Graas McKeever]]According to [[MCKEEVER, Susan Marie Graas|Susan Marie Graas MCKEEVER]], her grandmother was playing the piano ("Roll Out the Barrell") when she had her fatal stroke. Ironically her son, John, died while playing his French horn.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Susan.Marie.Apel.Graas.Crop.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Susan Marie Apel. Photo courtesy: Susan Graas McKeever]]According to [[MCKEEVER, Susan Marie Graas|Susan Marie Graas MCKEEVER]], her grandmother was playing the piano ("Roll Out the Barrell") when she had her fatal stroke. Ironically her son<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, [[GRAAS</ins>, John<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|John GRAAS]]</ins>, died while playing his French horn.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Musician]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Musician]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=APEL,_Susan_Marie&diff=50204&oldid=prev 2011-09-21T21:58:34Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:58, 21 September 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l3">Line 3:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Susan&#039;s perfect pitch and her musical talent played significant roles in the lives of her sons. [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]] became one of the most significant French horn musicians of the twentieth century.  When John began formal lessons on the horn, his mother baked two loaves of bread and sent it with him to help pay for his instruction; money was very short. [[DI TELLA, Ferdinand|Ferdinand DI TELLA]] helped to pay for a better French horn for the high school student to replace the one the boy had been using. Vince Graas, another son, played all the reed instruments with the Wayne King orchestra for several years and toured with them. He went on to become an engineer. Both boys received additional musical training in the band sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE BOYS&#039; CLUB]] directed by their mother&#039;s cousin, [[CHEWNING, Vincent|Vincent CHEWNING]].  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Susan&#039;s perfect pitch and her musical talent played significant roles in the lives of her sons. [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]] became one of the most significant French horn musicians of the twentieth century.  When John began formal lessons on the horn, his mother baked two loaves of bread and sent it with him to help pay for his instruction; money was very short. [[DI TELLA, Ferdinand|Ferdinand DI TELLA]] helped to pay for a better French horn for the high school student to replace the one the boy had been using. Vince Graas, another son, played all the reed instruments with the Wayne King orchestra for several years and toured with them. He went on to become an engineer. Both boys received additional musical training in the band sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE BOYS&#039; CLUB]] directed by their mother&#039;s cousin, [[CHEWNING, Vincent|Vincent CHEWNING]].  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Susan.Marie.Apel.Graas.Crop.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Susan Graas McKeever]]According to [[MCKEEVER, Susan Marie Graas|Susan Marie Graas MCKEEVER]], her grandmother was playing the piano ("Roll Out the Barrell") when she had her fatal stroke. Ironically her son, John, died while playing his French horn.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Susan.Marie.Apel.Graas.Crop.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Susan Marie Apel. </ins>Photo courtesy: Susan Graas McKeever]]According to [[MCKEEVER, Susan Marie Graas|Susan Marie Graas MCKEEVER]], her grandmother was playing the piano ("Roll Out the Barrell") when she had her fatal stroke. Ironically her son, John, died while playing his French horn.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Musician]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Musician]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:57, 21 September 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l3">Line 3:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Susan&#039;s perfect pitch and her musical talent played significant roles in the lives of her sons. [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]] became one of the most significant French horn musicians of the twentieth century.  When John began formal lessons on the horn, his mother baked two loaves of bread and sent it with him to help pay for his instruction; money was very short. [[DI TELLA, Ferdinand|Ferdinand DI TELLA]] helped to pay for a better French horn for the high school student to replace the one the boy had been using. Vince Graas, another son, played all the reed instruments with the Wayne King orchestra for several years and toured with them. He went on to become an engineer. Both boys received additional musical training in the band sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE BOYS&#039; CLUB]] directed by their mother&#039;s cousin, [[CHEWNING, Vincent|Vincent CHEWNING]].  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Susan&#039;s perfect pitch and her musical talent played significant roles in the lives of her sons. [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]] became one of the most significant French horn musicians of the twentieth century.  When John began formal lessons on the horn, his mother baked two loaves of bread and sent it with him to help pay for his instruction; money was very short. [[DI TELLA, Ferdinand|Ferdinand DI TELLA]] helped to pay for a better French horn for the high school student to replace the one the boy had been using. Vince Graas, another son, played all the reed instruments with the Wayne King orchestra for several years and toured with them. He went on to become an engineer. Both boys received additional musical training in the band sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE BOYS&#039; CLUB]] directed by their mother&#039;s cousin, [[CHEWNING, Vincent|Vincent CHEWNING]].  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>According to [[MCKEEVER, Susan Marie Graas|Susan Marie Graas MCKEEVER]], her grandmother was playing the piano ("Roll Out the Barrell") when she had her fatal stroke. Ironically her son, John, died while playing his French horn.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Image:Susan.Marie.Apel.Graas.Crop.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Susan Graas McKeever]]</ins>According to [[MCKEEVER, Susan Marie Graas|Susan Marie Graas MCKEEVER]], her grandmother was playing the piano ("Roll Out the Barrell") when she had her fatal stroke. Ironically her son, John, died while playing his French horn.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Musician]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Musician]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:06, 19 July 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sa.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Susan Graas McKeever/Nancy Welter]]APEL, Susan Marie. (Dubuque, IA, May 15, 1890--Mar. 6, 1950). Musician. Susan, daughter of [[APEL, Peter|Peter APEL]], played ragtime piano in various Dubuque bars and background piano for silent movies at the [[ORPHEUM THEATER]].  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:sa.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Susan Graas McKeever/Nancy Welter]]APEL, Susan Marie. (Dubuque, IA, May 15, 1890--Mar. 6, 1950). Musician. Susan, daughter of [[APEL, Peter|Peter APEL]], played ragtime piano in various Dubuque bars and background piano for silent movies at the [[ORPHEUM THEATER]].  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Susan's perfect pitch and her musical talent played significant roles in the lives of her sons. [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]] became one of the most significant French horn musicians of the twentieth century.  When John began formal lessons on the horn, his mother baked two loaves of bread and sent it with him to help pay for his instruction; money was very short. [[DI TELLA, Ferdinand|Ferdinand DI TELLA]] helped to pay for a better French horn for the high school student to replace the one the boy had been using. Vince Graas, another son, played all the reed instruments with the Wayne King orchestra for several years and toured with them. He went on to become an engineer. Both boys received additional musical training in the band sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE BOYS' CLUB]] directed by their mother's cousin, Vincent <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Chewning</del>.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Susan's perfect pitch and her musical talent played significant roles in the lives of her sons. [[GRAAS, John|John GRAAS]] became one of the most significant French horn musicians of the twentieth century.  When John began formal lessons on the horn, his mother baked two loaves of bread and sent it with him to help pay for his instruction; money was very short. [[DI TELLA, Ferdinand|Ferdinand DI TELLA]] helped to pay for a better French horn for the high school student to replace the one the boy had been using. Vince Graas, another son, played all the reed instruments with the Wayne King orchestra for several years and toured with them. He went on to become an engineer. Both boys received additional musical training in the band sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE BOYS' CLUB]] directed by their mother's cousin<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, [[CHEWNING</ins>, Vincent<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Vincent CHEWNING]]</ins>.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>According to [[MCKEEVER, Susan Marie Graas|Susan Marie Graas MCKEEVER]], her grandmother was playing the piano (&quot;Roll Out the Barrell&quot;) when she had her fatal stroke. Ironically her son, John, died while playing his French horn.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>According to [[MCKEEVER, Susan Marie Graas|Susan Marie Graas MCKEEVER]], her grandmother was playing the piano (&quot;Roll Out the Barrell&quot;) when she had her fatal stroke. Ironically her son, John, died while playing his French horn.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Musician]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Musician]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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