Westphalen, Roberts 'For Peetz Sake' Parade Marshalls

This year’s 2022 For Peetz Sake Day Parade Marshalls are Milly (Ross) Westphalen and Maria (Puelzl) Roberts. Both have had professional careers teaching children and both have found what our Peetz community has to offer.

Milly was raised and graduated in the Peetz community. She enrolled at Colorado State in Greeley in 1953 and earned her bachelor’s degree. Her first teaching job was in Henderson, NV. During one of her summer vacations at Peetz, she met Vernon Westphalen from Lorenzo. She and Vernon were married in Las Vegas in 1959. They lived in Peetz while Vernon farmed. Later...