Tom & Bertha Kinman celebrating their golden wedding anniversary.
Tom
Kinman was a banker in Sisseton, South Dakota, a small town with primarily
Native Americans and German immigrants as potential depositors; an interpreter
with German language fluency was needed if he was to reach out to at least
a portion of the ethnicities around him. When a young lady named Bertha
Matz applied for the job, serendipity set in; the interpreter became his
wife and the mother of their five children - the eldest of which was a
daughter they named Vada Margaret.