This photo from the Historical Society archives features a Valentine’s Party that was hosted by the Fieldhouse family at their farmhouse on Roosevelt Road in 1913.
The Fieldhouse family was said to run a truck farm west of DesPlaines (presently part of Waldheim Cemetery). Bertha Fieldhouse Hitchcock, in the top row, would later become a local teacher.
Top row: Esther Nessel, Helen Fieldhouse, Ardyth Toneges, Clara Berliner, Margaret Krieger, Bertha Fieldhouse, Elsie Panzer, Hannah Miltz. Middle row: Lavine Anderson, Julia Berliner, Minnie Knickereim, Mildred Kozich, Gretchen Enold. Bottom row: Lilia Butler, Frieda Schultz, Grace Martin, Alice Dunn, Gertrude Small.