[or-roots] Walch-Pickler Connection

[bfain at thegrid.net]

Hi Oregon listers.
Does anyone know of the Walch family in the Gresjam/Portland area.  I found 
Herman Heinrick Walch was the son of Lorenz Walch and Maria Both and brother 
to Joseph, Willaim, Rosa, Paulina, August.  Herman Walch was married to my 
great aunt Emma O. Pickler who was my grandfather, Claude Leroy Pickler's 
sister.  Emma taught in the public school system in the late 1920 and early 
1930.  She married Herman H, Walch in 1927 and they lived at 1197 E. Yamhill 
in 1930.

Herman's sister, Paulina Walch was married to George Leo Biel and they had 
five children, George Lawrence, Robert, Margaret, and Paulina.  They were 
all born in Gresham.

I am trying to find if any desendant of the Walchs and Biel still live in 
the Gresham/Portland area so I can make contact.  I am trying to locate 
where my great Aunt's final resting place is located.  I can't find her in 
Gresham so she may be ocated in one of the many cemetery in Portland.  I am 
thinkning it might be the Rose City Cemetery because that is where her 
mother, Ella Pickler was laid to rest

Babe Fain