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In addition, my great-uncle Klaus lived here.
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Leonie Rolinck, Architectural Digest, 9 May 2026
Fifty-six years ago, York’s great-uncles and great-grandfather immigrated from Mexico to Temple, got jobs and a house and documentation for their family, then returned to Aguascalientes on Christmas Day with a U-Haul.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 8 May 2026
Algarvio told Fox News Digital it was donated by a man named Will Rueter, who inherited it from his great-uncle Georg Rueter.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2026
Preston’s maternal great-uncle, a merchant seaman during World War II, collected African art, and it was all passed on to his mother and then to him.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 23 Apr. 2026
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Leonie Rolinck, Architectural Digest, 9 May 2026
Fifty-six years ago, York’s great-uncles and great-grandfather immigrated from Mexico to Temple, got jobs and a house and documentation for their family, then returned to Aguascalientes on Christmas Day with a U-Haul.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 8 May 2026
Algarvio told Fox News Digital it was donated by a man named Will Rueter, who inherited it from his great-uncle Georg Rueter.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2026
Preston’s maternal great-uncle, a merchant seaman during World War II, collected African art, and it was all passed on to his mother and then to him.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 23 Apr. 2026
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“Great-uncle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/great-uncle. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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