Christian County Illinois to Decatur (step-grandfather)

The Deister family through Brant's step-grandfather Robert Deister, still living at age 98 in 2026. Robert's parents Charles Albert Deister (1904 Christian County Illinois to 1993 Decatur) and Anna Duggan Deister (1903 to 2002) were Catholic; the family is St. Thomas the Apostle parish in Decatur. After Bud Barnes died in 1982, Robert married Brant's grandmother Hope; Hope died in 1991 and is buried with her daughter Jill in Decatur Graceland Cemetery while her first husband Bud is at Iola Cemetery Clay County. A step trunk, not a blood trunk.

Origin region: Christian County, Illinois (German Catholic)