Here's a link where you can checkout a 1927 jersey worn by then hoops hot-shot Lucille Schlotterback for the Newhall girls' championship basketball team. It's listed on the University of Iowa's archives site.
According to them..."Lucille Schlotterback, member of the 1927 Newhall girls' high school state championship basketball team was born November 13, 1910, in Newhall, Iowa. She was raised on a farm located near the extended family of Schlotterback cousins in Benton County. She was a sophomore on the Newhall high school basketball team that won the state championship in 1927. Her cousins Luella Gardemann and Melba Gardemann, were forwards on the team. Schlotterback graduated from Newhall High School in 1929."
Read more about it here: www.lib.uiowa.edu/findingaids/Schlotterback.
Lucille Schlotterback is my Grandfather's sister, my Great Aunt. Her parents, Charles H and Anna (Doebel) Schlotterback, had Lucy late in life and both died before she was 10. She lived with her brother Walter and Eliabeth Schlotterback on their farm near Newhall, Iowa until she graduated from High School in 1929. She married Arnold Luwe the same year and soon after they had a daughter by the name of Dolores. There were early problems in her marriage that forced her to divorce Luwe in 1934. However, according to family members, she soon married the love of her life, Donald Struve in 1935. In January of 1938, while living in Benton County, they had a son by the name of Donald R. Struve and in September of 1938 she passed away at the age of 28. Even though Lucille Ann Schlotterback had a short life her memory has inspired our family. Her persistence to achieve her goals and her pursuit to find happiness seems to resinate through my daughters today. Our youngest even went on to win 14 state medals in track. I think Lucy smiles on them.
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