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:  Adelheid (Scharna) Steinert (1953); Klaus Steinert (1946);

Katja Melanie Steinert (1992)

Elisabeth and Rolf are partners-in-life.  She teaches several subjects at a German Army

institute in Karlsruhe, Germany, while he, an electrical engineer, designs software for

industrial computer applications.  Irmhild and Ron live near Zurich, Switzerland, where

she is a sales and marketing manager for The Dow Chemical Company, and he is a retired.

U.S. Army officer.  Adelheid and Klaus live in Mannheim, Germany, with daughter, Katja.

Adelheid is a housewife, and Klaus is an economist for the German chemical firm BASF.