Hacken & Galka Families

Bob Hacken, son of Nephi R. Hacken and grandson of Carolina [Galka] Hachen: in 2006 with his wife Justine ("Kitsie") [Parker] Hacken.

The two brothers, Dick (left) and Bob (right) around 1950.

This is the kind of picture you don't want your friends to see... playing clowns on Dick's 8th birthday in 1953.

Camping in the backyard in 1956.  From the left: Sue, Bob, Carolyn, Dick, Joan.

Leola Hacken's sister, Cleone Ogilvie, and both families in Liberty Park, Salt Lake City.  Bob is on the back row on the left, Dick on the right between Grandpa and Grandma Jones. 

Early 1970s: Bob and Kitsie with a couple of their children (Zsana standing, J.D. in arms).

While seeing the sights with Dick in 1990, Bob and Kitsie cruise along the Rhine River.

In 1992 near Sacramento, the family got together with children and grandchildren.  Bob and Kitsie are on the left side near the front (look for pink, red and yellow).

Children and a couple of spouses, late 20th century.

Bob and Kitsie at Mount Rainier, late 20th century.

Bob and Kitsie at a Hacken-Galka reunion near St. Gilgen, Austria, in 2006.

In 2006, Bob has a chat with one of Marianne's Siegmund relatives in Creglingen, Germany (outside the world's most deluxe Thimble Museum)!

Bob and Dick inside the greenhouse (Orangerie) at Weikersheim Palace in 2006.

Bob looking very Freudian in July of 2008.

During an extended Nepal trek in 2010, Bob and Kitsie made it to the basecamp of Mount Everest.

In 2013 Bob and Dick visited Casablanca, Rabat, Fez and Tangier in Morocco.

We stayed at the Palais Faraj in Fez, with a view across the Medina.

In April of 2014 we were in Havana, here sitting on the Malecón (seawall).

Bob loves old cars, and Havan is a mecca for dated American classics.

The sculptures and decorated benches of José Fuster's neighborhood of Jaimanitas (a suburb of Havana) were  colorful and fun.

Standing in front of aspen trees behind his home in Utah.

Dick at 6 weeks old in the arms of his mother, Leola [Jones] Hacken.

Four months of age, in a photo made in Sacramento for the grandparents back in Utah.

This picture, from 1946, is the only time Dick ever smiled with a military uniform on.  And the only time he knows when he had a military uniform on (except in Boy Scouts, perhaps).

What cruel things parents do for the sake of a memorable picture.  You can see the fear on Dick's face.

Dick had lots of curls on top right up until he went bald.

Life was good in the 1950s, certainly better than his parents' growing up in the depression.  Still, this shirt was homemade by Dick's mom. 

This is not the kind of picture you want to show your friends: Bob and Dick on July 28, 1953, dressed as clowns.

From left to right: Sue, Bob, Carolyn, Dick and Joan.  The 5 Hacken children.

In Salt Lake City's Liberty Park, in 1959.  Dick is on the back row towards the right, between Grandpa and Grandma Jones.

On the track team, Dick did the "High" Jump (5' 10") and the Long Jump (21' 6"). He was also on the wrestling team and Sacramento All-City linebacker in football.

In August of 1963, after graduating from Encina High School, seemed like a good time to grow a beard.

In 1965, preaching to the fields of Fürstenried, a suburb of Munich that  now of mostly apartments as far as the eye can see.

Dick overseeing his holdings at Nymphenburg Palace in Munich.

In 1969: Sara holding firstborn son Douglas James Hacken, who died of meningitis at the age of almost 3.

From left, Dick and Sara's children, Kristin and Lisa and Sue [Hacken] Thornton's son Christian.

Preparing to leave Davis, California, site of graduate school at UCD, to take a teaching position in German at Oregon State University.  Lisa at the left and young Michael in Sara's arms.

In Lawrence, Kansas, where Dick was teaching at the University of Kansas.  From left: Kristin, Sara, Lisa, Michael, Dick.  Juliana was about 2; I doubt she took the picture.

At this point employed at BYU in Provo, Utah and married to Marianne Siegmund.  From left: Lisa, Michael, Juliana and Dick.

Dick and Marianne visiting the country Marianne had moved from 43 years earlier.

Seeing the sights of Montmartre with son Michael in 1999 after meetings in Germany and meeting Scheffler relatives for the first time.

A Remembrance of Times Past, in Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Celebrating Dick's 50th birthday by pixelating in Yellowstone and the Tetons, and being very happy.  (Marianne had spent her 50th in Paris).

Thanks to my daughter Kristin during a visit in Connecticut and New York.

Welcoming Galsan to Salt Lake City in 2006, where Dick hosted him before he (Galsan) gave a reading.

Dick and Marianne in 2007 with (back row) Mike and Tiffani (Mike's wife) and Lisa (who married David Catmull in November of that year), and in front Juliana. Juliana is now married to Moätaz ("Mizo") Zezo, and Kristin (not shown here) is married to Mikle South.

During a visit to Morocco (which a DNA tests tells us is an ancestral home) with brother Bob.

A memorable springtime journey through Northern Morocco's green fields (no, not desert).  Dick then delivered a keynote address at an international conference in Tangier.

Or more accurately in Jaimanitas, José Fuster's suburban home, which he has decorated with his distinctive and colorful Gaudie-sque masonry and tilework. (Along with the rest of the neighborhood known as Fusterlandia.)

Two brothers on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure to a beautiful but neglected Caribbean paradise.

History was made here, in a bad way.  A few months after this picture was taken, though, diplomatic relations between Cuba and the USA began to improve, thanks to President Obama and Raúl Castro.

Some of Dick's children and some of their spouses and in-laws and children. Unfortunately, some are missing from the photo; but you get the "picture."

Here's a shot of Joan at the Salt Lake Airport, taken so long ago that the commercial airliner behind her had propellers.

Together in a little red wagon at 2700 Northrop Avenue in suburban Sacramento, even before many other houses had sprung up.

Here Mom (Leola) holds Joanie upside down just for fun in the front yard.

Joan is the one in the sun on the far right, smiling to beat the band.

Joan is in the middle of the front row among her cousins, fifth from left.  

At the gathering, with her children spread throughout the picture, Joan is on the far left (white blouse and darker vest).

A portrait of Joan and her family on the occasion of a daughter's wedding reception.  

In November of 2007, Joan joined the festivities when Lisa Hacken married David Catmull in Oakland, California.

Sue is in the shadows on the left.

Sue is in the front row, sixth from left, cocking her head to one side.

In the mid-1970s, approximately, two of Dick's daughters, Kristin and Lisa, played with Sue's son, Christian (right).

Christian at age 11.

In this picture, Sue is in the back row, just right of center, behind her mother, Leola Jones Hacken, and between two nieces.

Carolyn, the youngest child, was named after her paternal grandmother, Carolina [Galka] Hacken.

Since Carolyn was born in 1955, she was quite young in 1956, huddled here between her two older brothers.

Carolyn was so shy at the reunion in Liberty Park (Salt Lake City), that she faced away from the camera in her mother's arms (right right)..

Carolyn died in 1983, but in this 1992 picture her husband Richard Dean is in the second row, right of center (blue shirt), and her son Robert Dean is on the far right (red shirt).

In a closeup from the previous picture, this is Robert Dean, Carolyn and Richard's son, in 1992.

Robert Dean now has a family of his own and works at Sierra College in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.