The Grobbel Family Home Page

The Grobbel Family Home Page

	We live in Sterling Heights, which is a suburb north of Detroit, Michigan. I am recently retired from General Motors and Kathy works in the office at Jeannette Junior High School. Erin is working as a sales associate at Kohl's, while Phillip is an 11th grade student at Stevenson Senior High School. Below are links that reflect some of our interests.
From left to right: Erin, Mike, Kathy and Phillip (1999 photo)

Mike	MY RESUME GENEALOGY The Grobbel Family Story Read a short summary of the Grobbel Family History. Spend some time visiting my "Family Tree Maker User Home Page", which is an on-line repository for much of my Grobbel family genealogy information and photos. I've created some web pages which allow you to quickly find any one of the 5,331 individuals in my Grobbel Family database (as of 02 Dec 2001), and then determine that person's ancestors, spouse(s) and descendants. The descendants of Anthony B. Grobbel (1890-1940) held a reunion on July 13-15, 2001. The Minick/Heath/Reed Family Reunion was held on Aug. 3 & 4, 2002 The Descendants of Josef Kunath (1822-1898) - an outline descendant tree showing some of his descendants (I need some help to bring this tree up to date!) Monica Grobbel & Victor Burcar's Wedding, 13 Sept 1952 A Grobbel "Full House" - three Marks and a pair of Jacobs The Grobbel Roots in the Sauerland region of Germany Phillip and I traveled to Germany where we visited the birthplaces of our Grobbel ancestors and much more........ (pages 1 & 7 updated on 26 Nov 2002) Family Military Service WW I "War Letters" - transcripts of letters written in North Russia during WW I by Clement Grobbel, Cpl 339th Inf., US Army (Polar Bears) "Polar Bear Memorial Association" home page WW II "Local Couple Has 5 Sons in the Service", The Weekly Review, Warren Twp., Mich., 13 Nov 1942 (Part 1) "Local Couple Has 5 Sons in the Service" (Part 2) USS Davenport (PF-69) - a web page I created that contains historical information and photos of the ship & crew that included Vincent Grobbel, BM1/c USCG USS LST-847 - "NavSource Online" web page with historical information about the ship that Robert C. Grobbel, S1/c USN, served on in 1945-6; includes the ship's photo that he mailed home on 31 Aug 1945 USS Moberly (PF-63) - "NavSource Online" web page with historical information about the ship that "Shorty" Moscone, USCG, served on in WW II; in the early hours of 6 May 1945, the Moberly helped sink the U-853 near Cape Cod, MA "War Letters" - transcripts of letters written by Vincent, Alton & Robert Grobbel to their parents in 1943-6 (under construction) Post-WW II "Youngest of Nine Sons to Enter Service Dating to World War I - Father in Polar Bear Division", undated local newspaper clipping from Nov. 1954 about Sylvester Grobbel entering the US Army GROBBEL Links GROBBELs in the Newspapers GROBBEL MEATS - E.W. Grobbel Sons, Inc. Since 188 3, America's Oldest Corned Beef Specialists "GROBBEL" (3.65 MB MP3 file, 3:53 length) - an experimental/post rock music composition by the Swedish group RobbFritt (I don't know why they gave it this title, but I have sent them an e-mail to try and find out!) PHOTOGRAPHY and the INTERNET View the web page I created for the "Polar Bear Memorial Association" and follow the links to see some of the photos I took at recent ceremonies for "Detroit's Own Polar Bears" Remember September 11th Photographs that I took during July, 2000. I found this fabulous web site that captures the crumbling architecture of Detroit AUTOMOBILES A shameless plug for my former employer (and the source of my pension)
Kathy	My Recent Birthday Utica Community Schools Freecell Solitaire
Erin	Donny Osmond John Edward Crossing Over 93.1 DRQ
Phillip	The Evola Viols Skateboarding White Water Rafting Dark Age of Camelot

"..... how can you have any pudding, if you don't eat your meat ?"

Mike Grobbel mvgrobbel@prodigy.net
Created: 29 Dec. 1999; Last revised: 24 Dec 2002
URL for this page is: http://pages.prodigy.net/mvgrobbel/index.html