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(Tivel) Kowalski  April 9, 1878----January 9, 1974   My Father,
Hans Tivel, was born in Viljandi, Estonia April 9th, 1878. His
Father's name was Henri Tivel, and his Mother was Rita Karu. (My
sister, Marguerite, was named for her.) Henri Tivel was a stage
coach driver and the family lived above the station. Dad was a
very young child at the time and he remembered riding high up on
the coach with his father on many trips, and he described the
sensation of traveling at such a height. The coach line serviced
the public much on the order of the Greyhound bus lines today.
New drivers would be exchanged at stations and would continue on
with the passengers. Fresh horses would replace fatigued
animals. When Dad's mother died, Ella Marie was sent to live
with a relative. Eventually his father remarried, and there were
four more children--all boys. The names of Dad's half brothers
were John, J