Margaret or Moge, as she was known in high school, was the daughter of Lisle Stephen and Charliene Margaret Briggs Kaffer who married 17 Jun 1915 in Atchison, Atchison, KS. Margaret's siblings were Jeanne and Stephen Charles Kaffer. Moge was a National Honor Society member, Scholarship Club, Vice-Pres. High Senior Class and the Pre-Law Club in high school. She graduated with the January 1934 class of Austin High School, El Paso, TX. Graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Mining Engineering from the Texas College of Mines in El Paso on 3 Jun 1938.
Margaret arrived in New Orleans, LA on board the S.S. Sixaola on 26 Oct 1939 after her departure from Puerto Cortez, Honduras on 23 Oct 1939. Margaret returned from a visit with her father in Honduras. There she met her future husband, Robert Montgomery Reininger, who was working for the same mining company as her father.
Mr and Mrs Stephen L Kaffer of El Paso, TX announce the engagement of their daughter, Margaret Elizabeth, to Robert Montgomery Reininger of San Juancito, Honduras. The romance of the couple started last summer (1939) when Miss Kaffer was in San Jacinto visiting her father, who is the chief engineer of the Rosario Mining Company. The bride-elect, who was reared and educated in El Paso, was graduated from Austin high school and received her degree at the College of Mines in 1938. She was first president of Theta Psi Chapter of Delta Delta Delta sorority, and was prominent in college activities being a member of the Student Government and Gold Diggers. Mr Reininger, formerly of Denver, CO., is the son of the late Mr and Mrs M.A. Reininger, of Denver, CO., and brother of Mrs J.G. Morehouse and brother of Marius D. Reininger, of Denver, and Lee W. Reininger, of San Diego. Mr. Reininger is cashier of the Rosario Mining Company in San Juancito, where the couple will make their home. Miss Kaffer will sail from New Orleans May 8 aboard the S.S. Sixaola and will be met in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, by her father and Mr. Reininger. The ceremony will take place in Tegucigalpa.
El Paso Times (El Paso, TX) - 31 Mar 1940, Sun - p. 13.
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The couple were the parents of two children; Charliene Margaret "Bonnie" and Marlita Reininger who were born in Honduras. In early 1946, Robert was transferred to the New York office of the New York-Honduras Rosario Mining Company. They lived for a time in Franklin Square, Nassau, Long Island, NY where their third and final child, Stephen Lee Reininger, was born on 24 Sep 1949. Lee was named after his uncle, Lee Walter Reininger, who was killed during the Battle of Midway, and his uncle Stephen Charles Kaffer, killed in Germany in 1944. Each of the children graduated from Garden City High School in Garden City, NY.
Margaret arrived in New Orleans, LA on board the S.S. Sixaola on 26 Oct 1939 after her departure from Puerto Cortez, Honduras on 23 Oct 1939. Margaret returned from a visit with her father in Honduras. There she met her future husband, Robert Montgomery Reininger, who was working for the same mining company as her father.
Mr and Mrs Stephen L Kaffer of El Paso, TX announce the engagement of their daughter, Margaret Elizabeth, to Robert Montgomery Reininger of San Juancito, Honduras. The romance of the couple started last summer (1939) when Miss Kaffer was in San Jacinto visiting her father, who is the chief engineer of the Rosario Mining Company. The bride-elect, who was reared and educated in El Paso, was graduated from Austin high school and received her degree at the College of Mines in 1938. She was first president of Theta Psi Chapter of Delta Delta Delta sorority, and was prominent in college activities being a member of the Student Government and Gold Diggers. Mr Reininger, formerly of Denver, CO., is the son of the late Mr and Mrs M.A. Reininger, of Denver, CO., and brother of Mrs J.G. Morehouse and brother of Marius D. Reininger, of Denver, and Lee W. Reininger, of San Diego. Mr. Reininger is cashier of the Rosario Mining Company in San Juancito, where the couple will make their home. Miss Kaffer will sail from New Orleans May 8 aboard the S.S. Sixaola and will be met in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, by her father and Mr. Reininger. The ceremony will take place in Tegucigalpa.
El Paso Times (El Paso, TX) - 31 Mar 1940, Sun - p. 13.
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The couple were the parents of two children; Charliene Margaret "Bonnie" and Marlita Reininger who were born in Honduras. In early 1946, Robert was transferred to the New York office of the New York-Honduras Rosario Mining Company. They lived for a time in Franklin Square, Nassau, Long Island, NY where their third and final child, Stephen Lee Reininger, was born on 24 Sep 1949. Lee was named after his uncle, Lee Walter Reininger, who was killed during the Battle of Midway, and his uncle Stephen Charles Kaffer, killed in Germany in 1944. Each of the children graduated from Garden City High School in Garden City, NY.
Margaret or Moge, as she was known in high school, was the daughter of Lisle Stephen and Charliene Margaret Briggs Kaffer who married 17 Jun 1915 in Atchison, Atchison, KS. Margaret's siblings were Jeanne and Stephen Charles Kaffer. Moge was a National Honor Society member, Scholarship Club, Vice-Pres. High Senior Class and the Pre-Law Club in high school. She graduated with the January 1934 class of Austin High School, El Paso, TX. Graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Mining Engineering from the Texas College of Mines in El Paso on 3 Jun 1938.
Margaret arrived in New Orleans, LA on board the S.S. Sixaola on 26 Oct 1939 after her departure from Puerto Cortez, Honduras on 23 Oct 1939. Margaret returned from a visit with her father in Honduras. There she met her future husband, Robert Montgomery Reininger, who was working for the same mining company as her father.
Mr and Mrs Stephen L Kaffer of El Paso, TX announce the engagement of their daughter, Margaret Elizabeth, to Robert Montgomery Reininger of San Juancito, Honduras. The romance of the couple started last summer (1939) when Miss Kaffer was in San Jacinto visiting her father, who is the chief engineer of the Rosario Mining Company. The bride-elect, who was reared and educated in El Paso, was graduated from Austin high school and received her degree at the College of Mines in 1938. She was first president of Theta Psi Chapter of Delta Delta Delta sorority, and was prominent in college activities being a member of the Student Government and Gold Diggers. Mr Reininger, formerly of Denver, CO., is the son of the late Mr and Mrs M.A. Reininger, of Denver, CO., and brother of Mrs J.G. Morehouse and brother of Marius D. Reininger, of Denver, and Lee W. Reininger, of San Diego. Mr. Reininger is cashier of the Rosario Mining Company in San Juancito, where the couple will make their home. Miss Kaffer will sail from New Orleans May 8 aboard the S.S. Sixaola and will be met in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, by her father and Mr. Reininger. The ceremony will take place in Tegucigalpa.
El Paso Times (El Paso, TX) - 31 Mar 1940, Sun - p. 13.
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The couple were the parents of two children; Charliene Margaret "Bonnie" and Marlita Reininger who were born in Honduras. In early 1946, Robert was transferred to the New York office of the New York-Honduras Rosario Mining Company. They lived for a time in Franklin Square, Nassau, Long Island, NY where their third and final child, Stephen Lee Reininger, was born on 24 Sep 1949. Lee was named after his uncle, Lee Walter Reininger, who was killed during the Battle of Midway, and his uncle Stephen Charles Kaffer, killed in Germany in 1944. Each of the children graduated from Garden City High School in Garden City, NY.
Margaret arrived in New Orleans, LA on board the S.S. Sixaola on 26 Oct 1939 after her departure from Puerto Cortez, Honduras on 23 Oct 1939. Margaret returned from a visit with her father in Honduras. There she met her future husband, Robert Montgomery Reininger, who was working for the same mining company as her father.
Mr and Mrs Stephen L Kaffer of El Paso, TX announce the engagement of their daughter, Margaret Elizabeth, to Robert Montgomery Reininger of San Juancito, Honduras. The romance of the couple started last summer (1939) when Miss Kaffer was in San Jacinto visiting her father, who is the chief engineer of the Rosario Mining Company. The bride-elect, who was reared and educated in El Paso, was graduated from Austin high school and received her degree at the College of Mines in 1938. She was first president of Theta Psi Chapter of Delta Delta Delta sorority, and was prominent in college activities being a member of the Student Government and Gold Diggers. Mr Reininger, formerly of Denver, CO., is the son of the late Mr and Mrs M.A. Reininger, of Denver, CO., and brother of Mrs J.G. Morehouse and brother of Marius D. Reininger, of Denver, and Lee W. Reininger, of San Diego. Mr. Reininger is cashier of the Rosario Mining Company in San Juancito, where the couple will make their home. Miss Kaffer will sail from New Orleans May 8 aboard the S.S. Sixaola and will be met in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, by her father and Mr. Reininger. The ceremony will take place in Tegucigalpa.
El Paso Times (El Paso, TX) - 31 Mar 1940, Sun - p. 13.
Excerpts from original article edited for content.
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The couple were the parents of two children; Charliene Margaret "Bonnie" and Marlita Reininger who were born in Honduras. In early 1946, Robert was transferred to the New York office of the New York-Honduras Rosario Mining Company. They lived for a time in Franklin Square, Nassau, Long Island, NY where their third and final child, Stephen Lee Reininger, was born on 24 Sep 1949. Lee was named after his uncle, Lee Walter Reininger, who was killed during the Battle of Midway, and his uncle Stephen Charles Kaffer, killed in Germany in 1944. Each of the children graduated from Garden City High School in Garden City, NY.
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