Russell R. Tiedemann

Russell was a first cousin of mine. His father (my Uncle Ed) was one of my dad's older brothers. My dad was Herb Tiedemann and they were all originally from Neptune, NJ. (There were 5 boys and one girl in the family.) Russell was one of my absolutely favorite cousins. He was born the same year that I was (1956) and also our cousin Teri, and cousin Garry (both from Neptune.) When my husband attended grad school in Seattle in 1983, I had the chance to reconnect with Uncle Ed and Aunt Margaret,...

Todd, Amy & Holly,

Although I have never met you, I have known your dad for many years. I was working at Kolstrand when your dad started there and we worked together until the company split and he stayed with Kolstrand and I was with the spin off company called MDI. In the later years we shop at least weekly at Sam's so we often chatted there over the years.

I don't know if you ever saw your dad in any of his Halloween costumes but they were great. The incredible...