Father Befort grew up in Schoenchen, Kansas. He was ordained in 1969 into the Capuchin Order. He served St. Catherine Catholic Church in Catharine, Kansas, and St. Joseph Catholic Church in Hays, Kansas.
His Volga German ancestors come from the colony of Ober-Monjou.
Lisa Jesse Armetta was born in 1960. Her ancestors settled in the Volga German colony of Schwed. She is an alto with the Brussels (Belgium) Light Opera Company.
Stephen Anthony Appelhans, son of Mr. & Mrs. John Appelhans, was born 27 December 1905 in Pfeifer, Kansas. He grew up in Spearville, Kansas. At the age of 14 he entered the Seminary of the Society of the Divine Word in Chicago. On 5 May 1932, he was ordained into the priesthood in the Seminary Chapel and was assigned to New Guinea as a missionary. Due to his work among the natives of New Guinea, he was designated by Pope Pius XII on 8 July 1948 as the Vicar Apostolic of Eastern New Guinea. He was ordained as Titular Bishop of Catula on 30 November 1948.
Born 28 December 1939 in Russell, Kansas, Philip Anschutz traces his Volga German ancestry to the colony of Nieder-Monjou. His father was Fred Anschutz. The family moved from Russell to Hays to Wichita where Phil graduated from high school. He graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in finance.
An American entrepreneur, Anschutz made his initial fortune in farming and ranching, oil, railroads, and telecommunications. He has also ventured into music and sports entertainment. Anschutz Entertainment Group owns (or has owned) the following sports fanchises:
Cristina Elisabet Fernández Wilhelm is the daughter of Eduardo Fernández Fernández and Ofelia Esther Wilhelm Pulidio. Cristina was born on 19 February 1953 in La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, and was the wife of Néstor Kirchner, President of Argentina from 2004-2007. Cristina was elected to succeed him and was inagurated on 10 December 2007. She was elected to a second term in 2011. She was term-limited out of office on 10 December 2015.
James Edward "Jim" Geringer was born 24 April 1944 in Wheatland, Wyoming. He served as the 30th Governor of Wyoming from 1995 to 2003.
His father, Gottlieb Geringer, was from the Volga German colony of Lauwe and his mother, Edla Malin (née Johnson), was of Swedish descent.
Many Volga German families setled in Olympia, resettling from other parts of the Pacific Northwest.
Berthoud was originally settled by miners involved in the Colorado Gold Rush in the early 1860s. Farmers arrived shortly thereafter, and irrigation enabled the agricultural economy to flourish.
Volga German families settled in and around Berthoud.
Historically, Ober-Klingen (and its neighboring Nieder-Klingen) were located in the Kurpfalz (Electorate of the Pfalz) until 1803. For a brief time, they belonged to the Landgrafschaft of Hessen-Darmstadt, but were split in 1806 with Ober-Klingen staying with Hessen-Darmstadt and Nieder-Klingen coming under territories controlled by the Lords of Löwenstein-Wertheim.
Today, Ober-Klingen is administratively part of the municipality of Otzberg.
Church:
Kirchstraße 7
64853 Otzberg/Lengfeld
Johann Heinrich Weber was born 26 February 1749 in Oberklingen, the son of Johann Heinrich Weber and his wife Anna Catharina.
Johann Heinrich travelled to Russia as a single man, and appears on the same ship and and transport as his cousin Anna Maria Weber, daughter of Johann Heinrich Weber of Oberklingen and Elisabeth Christina Sophia Kroh of König.
Anna Maria travelled to Russia along with her first husband Johann Heinrich Röttger and their children. Johann Heinrich Röttger died during the trip, and Anna Maria married Michael Heimbüchner. They settled in Frank.