BioA: Kademan, Mr./Mrs. Oscar (Gold - 1963)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Kademan, Lindau, Seefluth, Oehler, Uhlig, Anderson

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 10/17/1963

Kademan, Mr./Mrs. Oscar (Gold - 4 OCT 1963)

A large crowd gathered at the Sportsman’s Club Friday evening, Oct. 4, 1963, to help Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Kademan celebrate their Golden Wedding anniversary.  The evening was spent dancing to the music of Slim Lindau and his band.  Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kademan of Colby, the attendants of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Kademan, were present.

The main event of the evening started at 9:45 with two couples imitating the Kademan wedding 50 years ago, Mrs. Marvin (Elaine) Seefluth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Kademan, as the bride, Darrell Kademan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Kademan, as the groom, Mrs. Don Oehler, nee Judy Kademan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Kademan as maid of honor, and Donald Kademan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Kademan as best man.

Mrs. Seefluth wore a navy dress almost identical to her mother’s 50 years ago, and Judy Oehler an almost identical costume of the maid of honor, which was Mrs. Ed Kademan.  The couples marched in to the tune of "On Your Golden Wedding Day."  They performed a wedding ceremony on the stage with Robert Uhlig as the Justice of the Peace.  After the ceremony the wedding march was played and about 20 couples or more, all dressed in costumes from 50 years ago, joined in for the relation dance.

Friends and relatives came from Minneapolis, Sheboygan, Marshfield, Colby, Owen, Abbotsford and Curtiss.

Two beautiful wedding cakes were served, one being made and decorated by Mrs. Anderson of Curtiss.  A delicious lunch was served and many beautiful gifts, cash and cards were received by Mr. and Mrs. Kademan, who were so unexpectedly surprised by the imitated wedding and so many of their friends and relatives in the old fashioned costumes.  This will be an event long remembered and talked about by everyone.

Children of the Kademans are Harvey, David and Leonard, all of Curtiss, and Mrs. Marvin (Elaine) Seefluth of Abbotsford.  One son, Clifford, passed away nine years ago.

They were married Oct. 4, 1913 in Colby.  They farmed all their life on their farm in Green Grove (Clark Co., Wis.), where they still reside.