O'Fallon Missouri Historical Society

26/07/2023

15/02/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_tQuvDhNm0

Thanks to Jack Ginnever for converting this video to mp4 and posted it on his YouTube channel.

Recorded Saturday, August 5, 2006

22/09/2022

Just like any family pushing 60 years, we are downsizing and making plans for future generations.
On Saturday, October 8th come to the Historical Society Log Cabin Museum where you just might find a treasure or two among the surplus, duplicates, and the “we-just-don’t-know-what-to-do-with” items. We’ll be open and ready to share a basement full of unique treasures and plain old stuff from 9am until 2pm. It’s not really a sale; we just want to share these items and help them find a new home. Any donations to help us with our archiving work will be happily accepted

05/12/2021

https://www.pitmanfuneralhome.com/obituary/Norman-Ochsner

Share memories & support the family

01/08/2021

The first Assumption Church.

01/08/2021

An historic 150 year anniversary (a sesquicentennial) for the Assumption Parish Church and School. Congratulations to the parish for their longstanding part of O'Fallon MO history.

17/03/2021

Story Hour at the O'Fallon library in 1966. Recognize anyone?
Too bad Madelyn wasn't in this picture. She and Mrs. Householder were probably working somewhere else in the library that day. Today Madelyn Bussinger has been laid to rest. She did so much to enrich the lives and brains of the O'Fallon residents who came to the library.

15/03/2021

Madelyn Stroud Bussinger was born in Marble Rock, Iowa on February 19, 1920 to Vern and Mabel Stroud. In 1942, she moved from Blue Earth, Minnesota to O’Fallon with her husband and two young children. They raised four daughters while actively serving their community. Madelyn was a long-time member of the Williams Memorial United Methodist Church, now Cornerstone United Methodist Church. When the O’Fallon branch of the St. Charles County Library opened in 1964, she became its first librarian, holding that position until her retirement as branch manager in 1985. She is preceded in death by her husband Louis, her daughter Janet Gremminger, granddaughter Melanie Landsbaum, sons-in-law Dave Johnson, Kenneth Gremminger, and Chuck Hollandsworth, sister Betty Carpenter, and brothers Dean Stroud, and Harland Stroud. She was also a founding member of the O'Fallon Historical Society.

14/03/2021

There is a saying that when an older person dies a library goes with them. Well, on Saturday morning not only did a library leave us but a librarian many of us grew up with did also. Pat's mom, Madelyn Bussinger (Mrs. Bussinger), left us after 101 years on this earth. As some of you know she was the librarian when the St. Charles County library system started and opened a branch on Main Street O'Fallon in 1964. I don't know about you guys that had to go to the library, but she scared the dickens out of me from time to time but she was so helpful to us kids. I came to love her as my mother-in-law.
Visitation will be at Baue on Wednesday at 10:00 with service at 11:00