The Family in Europe

Mannheim, Germany  (1999)

Left, Front to Rear:      Elisabeth Scharna (1952); Rolf Thurner (1956)

Center, Front to Rear:  Ronald Alan Karpinski (1947); Irmhild (Scharna) Karpinski (1956)

Right, Front to Rear:    Katja Melanie Steinert (1992); Adelheid (Scharna) Steinert (1953);

Klaus Steinert (1946)

Elisabeth and Rolf are partners-in-life and have lived together for many years.  She teaches English at a German Army

institute in Karlsruhe, Germany, while he, an electrical engineer, designs software for industrial computer applications.

Irmhild and Ron married in 1990 and live near Zurich, Switzerland, where she is a marketing product manager for The

Dow Chemical Company, and he is a retired U.S. Army officer.  Adelheid and Klaus married in 1986 and have lived for

many years in Mannheim, Germany, with their daughter, Katja.  Adelheid is a clothing designer currently remaining at

home as a housewife, and Klaus recently retired as an economist with the large German chemical firm BASF.