JANNE FECHT IN REFLECTION

Janne Fecht 2009 (click on image to enlarge)
Janne Fecht is the wife of Gerald Fecht, and the mother of Brendan Patrick and Damon Carlyle Fecht. She is a huge sports fan and follows her Lakers and Dodgers passionately. Janne is a partner in the CPA firm Weir and Fecht in Woodland Hills, California.

BRENDAN FECHT VISITS RIVER LA FECHT

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In 2003, Brendan Patrick Fecht, great, great grandson of Margaret (Bost) and Jacob Fecht, visited the land of our ancestors. He was invited to Europe by a friend who works for the new European Union. The capital of modern Europe is in the ancient city of Strasbourg Alsace, France. It was from Strasbourg that the emperor Charlemagne ruled. His sons established the modern nations of Europe.
Brendan had the wonderful opportunity to visit La Fecht. Here he stands on the bridge leading into the modern city of Colmar, within a short distance from the camp of Julius Caesar.
The great cathedral of Strasbourg, one of the most beautiful in Europe, was once a place of excited debates on religion. Aristocrats had some choice in their religious preferences, but peasants were alloted to Catholics and Lutherans, based on the choice of their "masters." A Lutheran theologian named Fecht, published a thesis at the cathedral of Strasbourg in the late 1500s.
There is a Rue de La Fecht in Strasbourg today. Brendan says that Alsace has incredible food!

A CANDLE FOR SAINT ANTHONY

Photo by Brendan Fecht - 2008 (click on image to enlarge)

Brendan Patrick Fecht's grandmother Katherine Shreves was among the first students to graduate from the Julliard School of Music in New York City. Students would often use Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan as a place to meet, especially in the winter when they could be warm inside.
Brendan spent last week in New York City. He took time out to visit Saint Patrick's and naturally because he is the great grandson of Elizabeth Ann Walsh Fecht, he lighted a candle at the shrine of Saint Anthony of Padua.

Jimmy Fecht (Brendan's uncle) was a Marine in WWII. He brought his little sister Genevieve a little locket, inlayed with mother of pearl. It was her pride and joy. One day. while cutting through a field of newly cut corn stocks, Genevieve lost her lock. Overwhelmed, Gen and his little brother Jerry knelt at the edge of field and asked Saint Anthony, patron saint of lost things, to help them find the locket. When Genevieve stood up, there on a fence wire was the locket. She'll be pleased to know that the center candle in Brendan's photograph got lighted for us all.

FECHTS COMPLETE CALIFORNIA'S AIDS LIFECYCLE RIDE

Brendan Patrick Fecht enters the finish of California's AIDS Lifecyle Ride on June 7, 2008. He, with the flowered helmet in the form of the AIDS ribbon, was among 2,500 riders who made the San Francisco to Los Angeles ride. (click on picture to enlarge)
Jerry Fecht walks toward the stage at the conclusion of the AIDS Lifecycle Ride. He was among 600 "Roadies" who did the camp work to support the moving city of cyclists. Jerry's job was working in the Camp Store, where he recruited riders and roadies for next year's ride.

CHECK OUT BRENDAN PATRICK FECHT's ADVENTURES

Check out the life and times of Brendan Patrick Fecht. He's training for the big AIDS Life Cycle Bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles these days. This year his dad, Jerry Fecht will be going along on the Ride as a "roadie" to help out in the camp store. If you want to know anything about bicycles, the California coast, the Hollywood scene, check out his website at:
http://brendanpatrick.com/

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