The Dietzens

 

A photograph of Margaret Louise Dietzen (center, back row) and her family, 1933. Two years after this photograph was taken, Margaret married Chester T. Raymo.

Margaret's parents were Mary Katherine Dowling (1889-1961) and Leonard Phillip Dietzen (1886-1935). Mary was of Irish ancestry, and Leonard was the son of German immigrant parents.

Mary and Leonard Dietzen had nine children, including eight daughters, of which Margaret was the eldest, and lived across the street from the Raymo family on East Ninth Street in Chattanooga.

Grandma's House

Charlotte A. Raymo with her maternal grandmother, Josephine (Greusel) Merrow (aged 72)

1933

Graduation Day

Chester T. Raymo (aged 24) on his graduation day from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, 1933. He is accompanied by his sweetheart from across the street in Chattanooga, Margaret L. Dietzen (aged 20).

After scanning this negative, I found online a terrific digital archive of University of Tennessee yearbooks. Here I found the yearbook pages of all three of the Raymo brothers.

Arthur J. Raymo, graduated 1930

Chester T. Raymo, graduated 1933

Roger D. Raymo, graduated 1934