Perhaps it would help to know how we are related by posting individual Kobler lineage. Here is mine:
Mike Settles -> Lois Steeples Settles -> Marie Kobler Steeples -> Carl Kobler -> John F. Kobler.
Feel free to post a reply showing your own heritage.
My dad was Winnie Kobler,son of Herbert and Carrie Kobler of Corvallis, Oregon. I went up there a lot when I was in high school and not enough when I went to college in McMinnville, Oregon. My first dad (Winnie) died on a B29 bomb run over Tokyo in May of 1945. He was the aircraft commander. His last words were, “bail out”, but the only crew member to do so was Harry Slater, then a wing burned off and they crashed with no other survivors. I referred to my “first” dad because the man that raised me from 3 years old, Al, was my dad also.
Thanks for the story Ken. Do you have information about your grandfather Herbert (or 1st father) that would be good to post on the website?
I appreciate you sharing this on our family website. Everyone thought highly of Winnie. Most of our generation were told about his service and honored him for it. Thanks Ken
Hello everyone. Thanks for the site. Anthony Arden Kobler (1978-) –>Arden Kobler (1947-) –>Raymond Kobler (1913-2006) –> Carl Kobler –> John F. Kobler
Andrea Kobler Taylor-sister of Anthony
Thanks Anthony and Andrea for sharing your lineage. It is really nice to understand the relationships of our Kobler relatives!
Ann Kobler Solomon->Otto Kobler->Carl L. Kobler->JohnF. Kobler
Thanks Ann for everything you have done to help get this website going! I suspect a large part of the content came from you!
Judith Marie Steeples Alston->Hillon David Steeples->Olive Irma Kobler Steeples->Carl Kobler->John F. Kobler
Nice to see you here on the Kobler site Judy! We certainly have lots of Carl Kobler descendants here.
Albert Kevin Kobler -> Carl Davis Kobler -> Albert James Kobler -> John F Kobler
Hi Albert. Glad to see descendants of Albert James. If you have any photos or stories, I would love to post them if you want to email me.
Just as a point of information, I go by my middle name – Kevin – mainly because both of my grandfathers were named Albert as well as first cousin Albert Douglas Hardman. Both Doug and I use our middle names to avoid confusion.
John Frederick Kobler->Carl Davis Kobler->Albert James Kobler->John Ferdinand Kobler
lois Steeples Settles->Marie Kobler Steeples->Carl L Kobler->John F Kobler
Hi Mom. Thanks for your input to the website too!
Pamela (Madden) Werling ->Phyllis Ione Kobler Madden -> Albert James Kobler -> John K Kobler
Hi Pamela. Nice to see another descendant of Albert James. If you have any photos or stories, I would love to post them if you want to email me.
Mindy (Hardman) Loveless -> Albertine LaVergne Kobler Hardman -> Albert James Kobler -> John F. Kobler
Thanks, Mike for putting all this together. What a resource this has become!
Welcome Mindy! Glad you like the website.
Leslie Ann (Deines) Owen >> Lorrayne Kobler Deines> Albert James Kobler -> John F. Kobler
Karla Kathryn (Deines) Johnson, Thomas Carl Deines, and Alan Ruben Deines (deceased) follow this same lineage.
My daughters are Amanda Melissa Owen and Allison Marie Owen. I am married to Kevin Robert Owen.
My mother was married to Ruben (nmn) Deines
Hi Leslie. Thanks for sharing your lineage. Welcome to another descendant of Albert James Kobler.
Love these old photos! Here is who I am: Marcie Settles Fiorentino -> Lois Steeples Settles -> Marie Kobler Steeples -> Carl Kobler -> John F. Kobler
Hi sis. Welcome to the Kobler Ancestry website.
John Frederick Kobler->Carl Davis Kobler Sr.->Albert James Kobler->John Ferdinand Kobler
Hi John. Welcome.
I’m Bob Super. My mother was Maurine Kobler Super, my
grandparents were William and Nellie (Raney) Kobler,
my great-grandparents were John Ferdninand and Mary
Jacobea (Ebnother) Kobler
Hi Bob. Thanks for sharing. Welcome.
Hi,
I’m a Kobler too. My mother was Margaret Kobler Rath, daughter of Albert and Anna Kobler. She married Robert Lewis Rath, and they both grew up and stayed in the Morland/Hill City area. My two brothers, Tim, Philip, and I grew up surrounded by Kobler and Rath families. With such close-knit families, our childhoods were golden. Thanks to all of you for putting up this site and allowing us to stay in touch with our extended families.
Martha Rath Vincent -> Margaret Kobler Rath -> Albert James Kobler -> John Ferdinand Kobler
Hi Martha, nice to see so many descendants of Albert and Anna who are finding the website enjoyable! Thanks for sharing your story. You are welcome for the site. It does seem that Ann’s Facebook group and this website are giving us new ways to stay in touch or in many cases to meet extended family members for the first time.
Karen Wilson Allen Reeves -> Grace Marie Lawson Wilson -> Maria Regina Rohner -> Maria Bertha Kobler (Sister to John F. Kobler) -> Joseph Johann Kobler (1805-1873) -> Jakob “Jokelis” Kobler (1770-1848).
Just got back from a visit to Montlingen, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Hi Karen,
I just read your message. I would be very interested also in hearing about your branch of the Koblers! I am so glad you joined us!
Karen,
Welcome to the Kobler website. It is nice to hear from another Kobler descendant. I would love to get more information from you about your branch of the Kobler Family tree!
Hope you enjoyed the trip to Montlingen.
I’m Margaret Kobler Mars Sirolly, daughter of Paul Lee Kobler Mars and Jane Ann Akers Mars. Paul was the son of Fred Kobler, son of John and Mary Kobler, and Edna Pearl Hatcher Kobler. Great to find this website! I have 2 children, Jessica Sirolly and Matthew Sirolly and 3 grandchildren, Madeline Goodwin, Liam (William) Goodwin and Nate (Nathaniel) Goodwin.
Hi. I am Margaret Kobler Mars Sirolly. My father was Paul Lee Kobler Mars, the son of Fred Kobler and his wife Edna Pearl Hatcher Kobler. Fred, of course, was the son of John F Kobler and Mary Kobler. My father Paul married Jane Ann Akers Mars,who was my mother. at the chapel at the Annapolis Naval Academy in Maryland. I was born on August 8, 1944 in Grand Junction Colorado. My mother moved with me as a baby to join my father in Beaufort, So Carolina where he was stationed as a navy pilot during WWII. He was killed there following the end of the war in the crash of the plane he was piloting. He was flying his last hours prior to discharge and had been accepted to Harvard Law School. Sadly my mother brought me to the beach to wave goodbye as this plane flew over the beach out to the Atlantic. The plane crashed before her eyes (and mine tho I don’t remember) at the end of the beach and burst into flame. She told me that many of the pilots being discharged merely filled in their flight hours on the paperwork, but that my father wanted to actually fly those hours. I visited Beaufort in 2012 looking for the off base home they had had and any other information I could gather. There was no information about that crash in old newspaper articles, but I was directed to an old realtor who had been a boy during the war. He told me that he remembered playing on the wreck of an airplane on a beach on the Paris Island marine corp base. I did go to that beach. It was the most likely scenario of that crash.
Welcome to the Kobler website Margaret. Thanks for the interesting story about your father! The information here is rather sparse about Paul Lee Kobler Mars. Let me know if you have more information or photos that I could post.
So good to hear from you! One of the cousins was asking about Fred and Paul Lee today! Ann Kobler Solomon. Do you have a picture of Frederick Paul Kobler as an adult to share?
Yes I do! Can you give me an email address where it can be sent?
Hi and thank you both for your responses.Sorry I’ve taken so long to respond! This is the first time since April I’ve looked back at your wonderful website. I’ll see if I can send some photos. My information about Paul and Fred is sparse.Paul’s mother, Edna Hatcher Mars moved with her father,William Ernest Hatcher,and her stepmother, Jessie Blanche Hatcher to Grand Junction, Colorado when Paul was a year old. That would be somewhat over a year after Fred’s death. Apparently William Hatcher had asthma that they hoped would improve in Colorado. So he lived for sometime with his mother and grandparents, In Grand Junction, Edna met and married Charles Mars and they had one child together, Phyllis, a half sister to Paul. Eight years her senior,he was according to her a terrific big brother. While he was in the Navy Air Corp,training in Texas etc,, he wrote her many letters and sent her small gifts,a bracelet, a necklace, etc. Actually he seems to have been quite a letter writer. While married to my mother, Jane, he also wrote to my mother’s mother, his mother-in-law, regularly. He was a graduate of the University of Utah majoring in history. Both a football player and an excellent student, my mother said that in high school he often helped his friends with their homework. My mother knew of him when they were both in high school in Grand Junction, but he was ahead of her there and they didn’t start dating until later when she was at Mesa College.She left the University of Washington,where she had transferred , to marry him with the warning from her own mother that he might not return from the war. My mother always described Paul as warm, communicative, affectionate and friendly.
Thanks for the very interesting details of Paul’s life and individual characteristics! It is always nice to learn more about our Kobler relatives and ancestors!
I have several photos I can email to you for posting to the website if you like:. One of Fred and Edna, several of Paul and of Paul and my mother Jane. Is there an email address where I can send the photos?
Karen Wilson Allen Reeves -> Grace Marie Lawson Wilson -> Maria Regina Rohner -> Maria Bertha Kobler (Sister to John F. Kobler) -> Joseph Johann Kobler (1805-1873) -> Jakob “Jokelis” Kobler (1770-1848).
My mother, Grace Marie Lawson Wilson, passed away on January 13, 2021, in Burlington, Kansas, at the age of 100 years. She was the granddaughter of Maria Bertha Kobler (sister to John F. Kobler).
Karen