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Welcome!!
Thanks for visiting our family web site.
We are Rose and Joe Schlatter -- this is our family website.
We add material to this site from time to time -- come back and visit.
Click on this link for the
Table of Contents
Follow the progress as we build our
new home in Virginia.
Click on the link to watch as we build our new house in Virginia --
the last house we tried to build -- on the Mississippi Gulf Coast -- was lost to
Hurricane Katrina, 29 August 2005, in Waveland, Mississippi.
Our First Grandchild!!!!!
Here he is: Our first grandchild -- Joseph A.
Schlatter, IV; born 29 August 2007, 1400 hrs EDST; 5 pounds, 11 ounces; 18
inches; Fredericksburg, VA, Mary Washington Hospital.
Mother and father: Rebekah (Bekah) Wight Schlatter and
Joseph A. Schlatter, III.
Grandparents: Jean and Dick Wight (Palmyra, VA), and, Rose
and Joe Schlatter (Heathsville, VA)

Four days old, at home, after bath in the kitchen sink
More photos at this
link.

Six-1/2 months -- 21 March 2008
How strange life is: Little Joe was born on 29
August 2007 -- two years to the day that we lost almost everything we owned in
Hurricane Katrina -- 29 August 2005.
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Our Experience with Hurricane Katrina
In January 2005 we
moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast and in late
July 2005 we started construction on our new home.
Click on this
link to follow the progress of the new house. We are acting as our own
general contractor -- this section of our site has photos, explanations, and
details of the new house. On
29 August 2005 -- Hurricane Katrina changed everything. See below.
Hurricane Katrina knocked us down but
not out -- photos and our story here.
On 29 August 2005,
Hurricane Katrina wiped out our plans. We were living in an apartment in
Bay Saint Louis, MS; building a house in Waveland, MS; our personal property was
in a storage facility in Pass Christian, MS.
While most of the attention
to Katrina's destruction was focused on New Orleans, the fact is that the
Mississippi Gulf coast was destroyed by Katrina.
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The towns of
Waveland and Pass Christian simply do not exist anymore -- almost every
structure in these two towns was destroyed -- not just damaged but destroyed
completely.
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Bay Saint Louis was heavily and extensively damaged but,
because it was higher in elevation, Bay Saint Louis was not as totally destroyed
as Waveland and Pass Christian.
We lost almost everything we owned -- we
were able to salvage a bed, a table, six chairs, and our dishes -- everything
else we owned was destroyed.
Follow this link for photos of
what Katrina did to us.
In mid-October we moved back to East
Tennessee 2005 where we stayed while deciding what to do next. |
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Decision: We will not return to the Mississippi Gulf
Coast. As of 20 July 2006, we have sold our lot
in Waveland, Mississippi, and decided that we will not return to the
Mississippi Gulf Coast, except to visit family who are re-building. This was not an easy
decision. We spent 28 years in the Army, moving around the
country and the world. In 1996 we moved to Bristol, TN, where
we lived for eight years before moving to Bay Saint Louis, MS, in
January 2005. We can say without qualification that Bay Saint
Louis was the best place we ever lived and we were totally happy
with our decision to move and settle there.
This decision was not easy -- we made friends on the
Gulf Coast; the lifestyle was comfortable and welcoming; and, we
were building the house we had dreamed of for 20 years or more.
We took a serious financial loss -- insurance paid for our lost
household goods but the building materials and other items we had
purchased for the new home were not covered by builder's risk
insurance (which excludes hurricanes from coverage) and we lost
close to $60,000 of materials we had pre-paid -- that's $60,000 cash
that we cannot recover.
Our decision was based on two concerns: (1)
The Gulf Coast -- even with a maximum effort and all the luck in the
world -- will never again be what it was when we moved there; and,
(2) there is no certainty that another Katrina will not take the
rest of what we have -- and we are too old to start over a second
time.
So -- as of June 2007 we are still living in an
apartment in Knoxville, TN. We have decided to settle either
in coastal northeastern North Carolina, or, in the upper Shenandoah
Valley near New Market, VA. We plan to travel to these areas
several times during the summer of 2007 and look for property. |
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Found a home. This is the
latest installment in the saga of our wanderings after being wiped
out by Hurricane Katrina. After Katrina -- 29 August 2005 --
we moved (fled, actually) to Knoxville, TN, where Joe's parents
lived. Shortly after we arrived in Knoxville, Joe's father had
a stroke and died after a month, in November 2005. A few
months later Joe's mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
She lived for seven months and died in March 2007. We then set
about cleaning and renovating her house and settling her estate.
By the first of June 2007 the house was sold and the estate was in
probate -- we then started looking for place to settle.
In the fall of 2007 we decided to
settle on the Virginia Northern Neck. We purchased a lot
between the villages of Heathsville and Burgess, Virginia, and
rented a house in Wicomico Church, VA. As of the end of
December 2007, we are working with a builder to develop a house plan
and we hope to start building in March 2008.
Update: April 2008: We
are moving right along with construction on our new home on the
Virginia Northern Neck. Click on
this link to
follow our progress.
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In Memoriam:
Annie Lee Richardson Schlatter
1924 - 2007
My mother died on 18 March 2007 after battling pancreatic cancer
for seven months. She was diagnosed with cancer in August 2006; by January
2007 the disease had spread to her lungs and liver and throughout her abdomen.
In Memoriam:
Joseph A. Schlatter, Sr.
1915-2005
My father, Joseph A. Schlatter, Sr., died on 29 November
2005. He was 90. Dad suffered a stroke on/about 5-6 November; he
lost the use of his right arm and leg and the effects of the stroke
progressed for three weeks. He died in his sleep early on the morning
of 29 November. My mother and I were at his side. Here is his
obituary.
In Memoriam:
Zelma Cobb Golden
1914-2003
Rose's mother died on 23 October 2003 after a
three-year-long battle with Alzheimer's and the effects of diabetes and
colon cancer.
In Memoriam:
Ernest E. Golden, Sr.
1908-1966
Rose's father died in February 1966 from
injuries suffered in an automobile accident.
Our 2005 Christmas
greetings.
Virus warnings
You may have
received spam e-mail from an e-mail address ending in @schlatter.org. Beginning
March 7, 2003, I have received complaints from people I do not know who report receiving
porn solicitations and other spam with the return address of (something) @ schlatter.org.
I do not and have never sent spam e-mail of any kind.
You are receiving this e-mail because of a virus
contamination on someone else's computer. Certain viruses invade the address book in Microsoft Outlook or Outlook
Express and send spam to addresses in the address book, using one or more of the addresses
in the address book as the return address.
Thus, if you have received spam e-mail
from @schlatter.org, that mail did not originate from me -- it came from someone who has a
virus and who has my name in their address book. I have virus protection on my
incoming and outgoing e-mail and I scan my computer daily for new viruses. My
machine is clean -- someone else's is not and that's where the spam is originating.
Furthermore, we DO NOT USE schlatter.org to send messages -- our schlatter.org
e-mail accounts are catch-all accounts that
forward mail to our local ISP -- we do not
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Check out Joe's home page,
or,
check out what Joe is reading these days.
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Read these books -- they are important
Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith
and Threatens America, by Randall Balmer.
This is an important book. Blamer is an evangelical Christian
and a historian of the Christian faith. For several years he
was in the inner circles of the "religious right" until he realized
that the goals of the "religious right" had nothing to do with the
gospel of Jesus and everything to do with political power.
The Radical Center: The Future of American
Politics, by Ted
Halstead and Michael Lind. This is a
revolutionary book that every citizen needs to read. Lind and
Halstead argue that "Our nation's politics are dominated by two
feuding dinosaurs that have outlived the world in which they
involved." The authors describe the three revolutions that
have occurred in the U.S. and then detail how conditions now demand
a fourth revolution. Read this book and its companion The
Real State of the Union.
The Real State of the Union, edited by Ted Halstead, President, New
America Foundation. This book is a collection of 32 thoughtful, reasoned
essays by talented and capable people. The essays address every facet of
life in America today. Taking its title from the President's annual speech
to Congress, the book starts by pointing out that the Presidential "State of the
Union" message has gone from being a real assessment of the state of the union
to being an hour-long photo-op -- and both parties are guilty of trivializing
the SOTU speech. The book's tone is set in the second essay by Ted
Halstead in which he points out that there have been three major "social
contracts" in our history -- and a fourth may be in the making. This essay
alone is worth the price of the book. These essays do not bash right or
left, do not call anyone names, and are not partisan. You really need to
read this book -- it is important. |

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