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THE RICKER FAMILY

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Charles Herbert Ricker, son of Thomas Jefferson & Dorcas A (Sherburne) Ricker, was born in 1871 in Otsego, Wright County, MN. Dorcas died from TB in Otsego. Charles married Eunice Holt (1873-1913), to this union was born Earl Kenneth Ricker in April, 1900. The family later moved to Park Rapids, Eunice died from complications of floating kidney surgery in Mpls in 1913. Charles then married Elsie Melvina Clark (1879-1963).

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Earl & Charles Ricker, about 1910

 Earl is 6-10 years old in the above photo. Inside the building is a woman and a man, there is a red cross sign in the doorway. I would be interested to know if there was an epademic going on about this time, or if this was the sanitarium? Charles had been in and out of the Puposky Sanitarium from time to time and died there from TB in 1954.

Leon Ricker	Geraldine (Hanson) & Leon Ricker
Dean Ricker 1939	Dean Ricker, age 24
Doris Ricker 1945

Earl Ricker married Pearl Broadbent (1906-2007), they raised their children in Arago and Park Rapids. See the Broadbent Family page for more information on Pearl:

• 1. Leon Ricker (1925-2011) married Geraldine Hanson from Park Rapids area. They had three children, all born in the twin cities, but settled on a farm in Todd County, MN: Malcolm, Julieanne, and Doug.
• 2. Dean Ricker b-1925 settled in Peterson, Iowa. He married Reva Kincaid and had 4 girls: Marcia, Debbie, Donna, and Karen. Reva died, Dean remarried to Cleta, they had a son John.
• 3. Doris Ricker married Ralph Kirsch. Ralphs parents lived in the area after Ralph was in the service from WW2. Ralph had been building resort Cabins for his parents. Alfred and Bertha and his sister Cordelia which he had bought some land on Potato lake. His friends he had made were Leon and Dean Ricker, and helped build some cabins. This is how he met Doris. and later married soon after she graduated from Park Rapids school. They settled in Circle Pines and raised 8 childen there Ralph and Doris are buried at St. Josephe Catholic Cem. in Lino Lakes

About my dad Ralph Kirsch how he met Doris Ricker. when he was out of the service, he thought of a good opportunity for his parents to have a consistant income. he had bought this land and home on somewhat Potato lake. the home is still there and the cabins. it is some kind of outlet from the lake. My mother showed it to me about 8 years ago. its by a small bridge on a maine road. and you can see the cabins which are painted white. the home is across a dirt road and it was yellow I think one story. My dad was a bit dissapointed after he married, His parents sold the home and cabins and the Kirsch family moved to Park Rapids in town. Cordelia, which was my dads sister had went out with Gene Hanson who was Leon Ricker's brother-in-law, but then Cordelia was sent to a convent school of some sort, then she went to Rochester MN and became a nurse. She had married William Lerman and she now lives in West Concord, MN which is close to Roochester. Cordelia is still living there. Cordelia is in the Park Rapids year books as well as Doris Ricker- her sister-in-law.

Submitted by Barbara Day