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FALB FAMILY

PAPERS, 1959-2003
3 linear inches

 

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Please cite materials from this collection as follows:
Falb Family Papers, Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa.

 

Collection Overview

 
Acquisition:
The papers (donor no. 638) were donated by Georgana Falb Foster in 1999 and 2003.
 
 
Access:
The papers are open for research.
 
 
Copyright:
Copyright held by the donor has been transferred to The University of Iowa.
 
 
Photographs:
Slides in Box 1.
 
 
Processed by:

Elizabeth Engel, 2005. [FalbFamily.doc]

 

Biography

Four generations of the Falb family have played girls’ basketball in Iowa. Born in 1903, Myrtle Kerr played basketball in 1922 in Lime Springs, Iowa. Kerr also played baseball at Iowa State College in Ames, Iowa from about 1922 to 1924. Later, she coached basketball at Clermont High School from about 1924 to 1927. Myrtle Kerr married George Falb.

Myrtle Kerr Falb’s daughter, Karolin Falb, was born in 1932 and played basketball in Elgin, Iowa from 1945 to 1949. In 1952, Karolin Falb married Leo Lehman. They raised four daughters, Karalee, Linda, Lee Ann, and Kristine, who all played basketball for Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa in the 1960s and 1970s. Abbie Larson, daughter of Lee Ann Lehman Larson began playing basketball for Valley High School as a freshman in 1999. The niece of Linda Lehman, Kate Cline, also played for Valley High School. Brooke Whichter, daughter of Kristine Lehman Whichter, played basketball for Janesville High School.

A genealogy of the Falb Family follows this finding aid.

Scope and Content Note

The papers date from 1959 to 2003 and measure 3 linear inches. The papers consist of a sports collage made by Myrtle Kerr Falb around 1970, as well as newspaper clippings of the Valley High School’s girls’ basketball team. Also included are some miscellaneous news articles on various members of the Falb family.

Related Collections

Georgana Falb Foster Daughter of Myrtle Kerr Falb who was active in Camp Fire Girls, both as a camper and a camp counselor in the 1940s and 1950s.

Box List

Box 1

  Brooke Whichter basketball materials, 2003
Sports collage, circa 1970
           
  Valley High School, West Des Moines, Iowa  
    Girls’ basketball newspaper clippings      
      1959-1964
1959-1964 (originals)
1998-1999
Abbie Larson (great granddaughter of Myrtle Kerr Falb), 1999
Kate Cline (niece of Linda Lehman Cline), 1997-1999
Lehman family (granddaughters of Myrtle Kerr Falb), 1970-1976
  
    Miscellaneous, 1959-1999      
  Miscellaneous newspaper clippings, 1997-1999  
                           

 

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