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 -- you're welcome to visit any time.

PLEASE READ THIS. On some pages of this website, if you click on a link, you will get a "404 Broken Link" or a "This page does not exist" error -- here is an explanation for that. This website was made using the old Microsoft Front Page website editor, which was discontinued in 2003. Front Page required that each web host install "Front Page Extensions" on their site. When FP was discontinued, all web hosting services eventually removed the FP extensions from their servers. As a result, some of the pages on this website are not identical -- vestiges of the original site include navigation bars at top, bottom, and side of some pages and the bars are not all identical. Some pages do not have the same tan background as this page. I worked for several weeks in 2021 trying to make each page identical and finally gave up. Microsoft Front Page was an excellent program that made it possible for novices (me) to make fairly complicated websites that work well and looked good. I guess that did not fit with the web hosting industry who wants to force users to pay their exorbitant fees to have one of their specialists do for you what you could do for yourself. Fortunately I kept my original Front Page disk and I install the application on any computer I own. From time to time, I open Front Page, check for broken links, and do my best to repair the errors on this site. Thanks for visiting and thanks for you patience. (Joe, May 2025)

We add new information to this website from time to time, not on any regular schedule

Change catches up with us all.

In Summer 2025, we realized that in our early 80's, we needed to move from rural Northumberland County VA to be closer to our children and grandchildren in Northern Virginia. Rose's doctors all were in Richmond, two hours away, and the house and property, while very comfortable, were becoming more and more challenging to maintain. Rose had slowly curtailed her volunteer activities with museum, church, and quilters. Joe had been on the County Electoral Board and an EMT with MidCounty Vol Rescue Squad where he had been Captain for four years. We both were tired; Joe was searching for a replacement on the Electoral Board and he had stopped running rescue calls because of his own health. On Labor Day 2024 while talking with a neighbor couple about our situation, they stated they wanted to buy our home as a place for her parents. We decided on terms of the sale and closed the sale in mid-May 2025. We started moving in late March 2025 and were moved by the first of May. We are now in a 2-BR, 2-bath apartment in Northern Virginia, about 10 minutes away from our son, daughter-in-law, and grandsons, and, about 30-40 minutes away from our daughter in DC.

Photos of August 21, 2017 solar eclipse

The August 21, 2017 solar eclipse was clearly visible from our home in Northumberland County, VA. Here are three photos.

Photos of our grandchildren -- removed

We have two grandsons. As of September 2016, I have removed from this site all identifying data for them including photos.

Sorry I have to do this as I'm really proud of them, however, there are too many sick weirdoes out there who prey on little kids.

Finished and moved in -- July 2008!!

Follow the progress as we build our new home in Virginia.

UPDATE: As of March 2025, we sold our home to our next-door neighbors; her parents are moving in. We moved to a small 2-bedroom apartment in Northern Virginia. Over the past months we have learned how to "downsize". The hardest part of moving was leaving our friends and the volunteer work we did at church, quilting guild, museum, rescue squad, county electoral board, county Democratic Party, and other great organizations. June 1, 2025.

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 that house. We were 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.

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.
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. A few weeks after moving back to Knoxville, Joe's fathere died. A few months later, his mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and she died in March 2007. In November 0227, we moved the Northumberland County, VA, where the Potomac Rivere joins the Chesapeake Bay.

In Memoriam:
Ernest E. Golden, Sr.
1908-1966

Rose's father died in February 1966 from injuries suffered in an automobile accident; Rose and Joe were married five months later.

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:
Annie Lee Richardson Schlatter
1924 - 2007

Joe's 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

Joe's father, Joseph A. Schlatter, Sr., died on 29 November 2005. He was 90; he 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. Joe and his mother were at his side. Here is his obituary.

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