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she said. “Sara’s upbringing was totally different than mine. She’s 15 years younger than I am.”

That one-room schoolhouse, the Spooner School, was built in 1895, also by Fred Schultz, who was born in Germany before coming to America with his family as a young child. Stanley and his siblings attended the school before Karen and her sisters did.

In 1963, the school was moved from the corner of CTH O and U in the town of Stettin to Marathon Park in Wausau, where it is known as the Little Red School House.

Stanley and Velma have had several other big anniversary parties in their lives, going back to their 25th in 1975. Their 70th anniversary party had to be cancelled due to COVID, but the family has been planning this latest one for about a year, Karen said.

“My dad kept saying ‘It’s too soon, it’s too soon, we don’t know if we’ll be here,’” she said back in April. “About two weeks ago, he started to get excited about it.”

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