LYDIA SCHROEDER

1915-1995

Lydia Schroeder was born in the town of Engadine in the year 1915. She had two brothers whose names were Albert and Rudolf and she had four sisters whose names were Bertha, Olga, Martha and Tilly. In the morning Lydia got all bundled up for her journey to school. She went to school in a two room elementary school house. When Lydia was in fifth grade, the American president was a named Coolidge. When Lydia was a child she did lots of farm chores such as milking the cows, slaughtering the pigs, and all for no money, because back then people didn't have much money. Back then when Lydia was a child they wore dresses with long black socks. The classes she took in school were reading, writing, math, and history. Out of those classes her favorite one was reading.

As Lydia got older she needed a paying job so she went to work in a restaurant. She worked in the Engadine School cafeteria for twenty-five years. Her biggest historic event was crossing the Mackinac Bridge when it first opened. In her spare time she liked to sew.

She got married when she was sixteen or seventeen to Bernard Schroeder in 1934 in Engadine. They were married until Bernard died. They had two children, Ralph and Cornelia, and five grand children, Dale, Melanie, Jody and Tommy. She died in 1995.

By Skylar Oullette

Fifth Grade

Engadine Elementary School

Thanks to my Great Grandma and Grandpa, Almeda and Henry, Lydia's brother and sister-in-law, for giving me information about Lydia.