Photos, letters and artifacts belonging to the Ready family
Ready Small Album
Above is the small photo album cover. This album appears to have belonged to Marie and she collected the photos in it before she and Lyle were married in 1946. Most of the photos it contains are friend from the Evangelical Campgrounds in Lomira, Wisconsin, which she attended every year, and where she met Lyle. She may have been given this photo album by Lyle, his mother Elnora, or his sister Edna.
Ready Large Photo Album
There are several photos and newspaper clippings that she placed between the pages of the album in the 1970’s and after. But no further photos were lovingly affixed to its pages with black corner holders.
Ready Portraits
A collection of portraits that are framed or are too large to fit into the photo albums.
Click on any portrait to see the full size image.
Ready Portraits
George Flora and Nettie Phoebe Ready and Children.
Left to right top row: Harry Ready, Emmert Archie Ready, Eddie Carl Ready, Alvin Lue Ready
Row 2: Ethel Marcella Ready Kramer, Emma Jane Ready Bohringer, Glee Alice Clifton
Row 1: Nettie Phoebe Cook Ready and George Flora Ready
Photo taken by Rays Photography, La Cross, Wisconsin in 1938. The house is George's house in Bagley, Wisconsin. It burned at some time after this photo was taken.
Elnora Kramer Ready Schwert
Elnora Julia (Kramer) Ready was born on September 1, 1899 in Eastman to Constance Eli (C. Eli/Eli C.)and Ottelia (Ottellie) Weniger Kramer. She passed away on October 25, 1973.
Elnora attended the Gays Mills Normal School. After graduating from High School, she taught at Sioux Coulee, Tully School at Fairview and at Doll School (Lower Wauzeka Ridge).
On March 1, 1923 she married Alvin Lue Ready, the son of George and Nettie (Cook) Ready. Together they had three children:
Lyle Frederic/Marie Zech
Edna Mae/ Willard Moeller
Cecil Alvin/Rebecca Sells
Lily P Trueb (1887-1945) and Paul Zech ( 1887–1956) wedding photo 1917. Their children were:
Esther Lilly Zech Grotophorst 1918–2001
Arthur Carl Zech 1919–1994
Ruth L. Zech Johnson 1921–1996
Marie Augusta Zech Ready 1922–2000
Alfred Zech 1926–1962
Marie told me that her mother had scoliosis and although it was treated when she was young, the treatment didn't help, and that she died of complications of scoliosis. She said her mother was bent nearly double at the end of her life and that her heart was "crushed" by that.
Miscellaneous photos and artifacts.
