Quincy, IL – A western Illinois couple recently celebrated the birth of their 100th grandchild.
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Leo and Ruth Zanger of Quincy have 53 grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. The birth of great-grandson Jaxton Leo on April 8 made the number 100.
Leo Zanger tells The Quincy Herald-Whig (http://bit.ly/1G76kb1 ) that “the good Lord has just kept sending them.” He says his family “could start our own town.” Ruth Zanger says “there’s always room for one more.”
The Zangers have been married 59 years and have 12 children. The youngest, 31-year-old Joe, was already an uncle 10 times when he was born.
Most of the family lives in the Quincy area. When they get together they rent a church hall and it takes 50 pounds of ham or ten turkeys to feed everyone.
Nisht kein neias.
I know many people in our community with over 100 grandchildren.
Watch the L-rd have more of these stories in Israel. We are all having a dozen by the bozzen,
And the big story here is?
dos iz nisht ah peleh by unzerer.
Mazel Tov…may they all grow up to be from the Chasidei Oomos H’Olam!
He must be Jewish
KNH for inzir mentshin many people can say they have over 100 offspring.
the story here is that also many frum people who are afraid to have many kids since it is very expensive should learn from these people not to worry. G-d give kids and He gives parnossah to the parents since it is His desire that we also be fruitful and multiply especially after the holocaust has robbed us of so very many.
B’H
kein yirbu
Many of us were taught not to show off and flaunt our children/grandchildren. Reading the comments here, I guess these posters didn’t go to the same yeshiva. There are many reasons not to do this, first being, there are childless couples reading this who don’t even have 1 child or grandchild, older singles, etc… Unfortunately nothing in life is certain, we saw the horrible tragedy in Brooklyn a couple of months back where in the blink of an eye an entire beautiful frum family was wiped out on shabbos. Nothing is certain or guaranteed.
Let’s be a little modest.