| PETER COLEBANK, father of JAMES COALBANK, father of JAMES D COLEBANK, father of L S Colebank, father of SUSIE OLIVE COLEBANK ROXIN |
| Herman Roxin wedding picture (1928) age 27 |
A young Olive Colebank
| Olive Colebank Roxin wedding picture - age 25 |
The beer truck Herman drove in the 1930s
Roxin Implement in Nicollet
| Olive on the south side of the L S Colebank home on Adams St. NE in Madelia, Minnesota |
| The newly built Roxin home on Main Street in Nicollet in 1961. |
Olive, always stylish.
| Olive flanked by her sister-in-law Linda and brother Lester Colebank and Lester and Linda's daughter Vickie at the Roxin home in June, 1968. |
| Olive outside her parent's home in Madelia. |
| Roxins build a new home (click to enlarge) |
| Herman and Olive on their 50th wedding anniversary in 1978 |
| Herman Roxin Obituary (click to enlarge) |
| Olive Roxin Obituary (click to enlarge) |
| Golden Wedding Anniversary (click to enlarge) |
| Susie Olive Colebank was born to L S and Martha Jane McIndoo Colebank on a farm near Madelia, Minnesota on January 31, 1903. She attended the rural one-room school in District #4 west of Madelia until age 13. Her parents then moved into the town of Madelia in 1916. She continued her schooling in Madelia and graduated from high school there. Susie (known as Olive) was a local news reporter for the Madelia Times through her high school years and thereafter learned and worked as a linotype operator. Olive learned to play the home pump organ at an early age. She learned the tune “Red Wing” at the age of 5. Someone had to pump the pedals for her while she played. Her dad, who also played the organ, showed her off at every opportunity. The men who heard her would often give her a nickel, equivalent to about 50 cents today. Olive was the organist in the Madelia Church of Christ during her high school years and seven years thereafter. Herman Carl Roxin was born to John and Elizabeth Wieg Roxin near Welcome, Minnesota on August 15, 1901. Both his parents were born in Germany. Herman was raised at Odin, Minnesota where his father was section boss on the railroad. When Herman was 12 his parents moved to a farm near Butterfield where he continued his education through the 8t grade. From age 16 he supported himself working in the harvest fields of the Dakotas and with day labor jobs wherever he could find work. In 1924 he went to work for Priest Farm Produce Co. in St. James, Minnesota. Olive and Herman were married in Truman, Minnesota on June 16, 1928. In 1931 Herman went to work for a produce company in Mankato, Minnesota. In 1933 he bought his own truck and trailer and did long-distance hauling. In 1939 he bought the International Harvester dealership in Nicollet, Minnesota and later acquired the Pontiac automobile dealership. Olive was his bookkeeper and secretary. The couple had no children. Herman retired in 1957 in Nicollet. His hobbies were hunting, fishing, gardening and woodworking. Olive’s were stamp collecting, reading and playing the piano. I (nephew Warren) loved to hear Aunt Olive play ragtime tunes on the piano. Olive became afflicted with leukemia about 1974 and 6 years later died in the hospital at New Ulm, Minnesota on January 6, 1980. Herman died the same year on July 28, 1980 on his way home from visiting Olive’s sister Bernice and husband Ray Roof on their farm near Fertile, Minnesota. Olive and Herman are buried in the Mt. Hope Cemetery in St. James, Minnesota. |