LEO BRUMMEL FAMILY

Leo Brummel, the oldest son Henry Brummel a farmer in the Naperville area for many years started his own farming career when he married Gertrude Modaff in 1920 and moved to the Michael Gartner farm on what is now Modaff Road. Later he moved to what was known as the Shimp farm by the Frontonac Elevator and the EJ&E Railroad. During these years he was a dairy farmer. At the time of his death in 1956, the family was living on the Hill farm on Ferry Road. Their six sons, Leo, Nicholas, Henry, Robert, Edwin and Richard farmed with them and are farmers now. Their daughters, Barbara Koreke live in Naperville and Mary Kammes lives in Sycamore. All the years they were dairy farmers, they brought their milk to he Otterpohl Dairy in Naperville.