Swivel Hips

Here are Don and the women in his life. If you add his four granddaughters, you’ve got a real harem. It’s ironic when you realize that he came from a family of five sons, and that his father came from a family of seven Sons (and three girls). This seems like a genetic foul up.

Don was the athlete of our family. He particularly liked football, but played basketball because he thought it would help him with movements on the football field. A column in the Ashland Press referred to him as “swivel hips” Geisert when he played football for Northland.
Don was a long time student at Northland because he interrupted his studies several times to work for the Chun King company in Duluth to earn money to return to college. Perseverance paid off eventually when he earned an education degree with biology major. Despite his Interest in pursuing a teaching career, he returned to Chun King, married Bernice Wallin, fathered these beautiful girls, and moved from Duluth to Jackson, Ohio and then back to Duluth. Maybe the old diagnosis of heart problems caught up with him because he suffered from congestive heart failure the last years of his life. Additional health problems contributed to his death in1993.
I’d like to mention something about Don’s interest in holidays. Any holiday, of course, was an excuse for him to exercise his culinary skills. Christmas, however, was something else. For many years he
played Santa Claus to many children in the Duluth area taking time away from his own family festivities. This holiday tradition of his became well known enough that he was interviewed on Duluth T.V.. We have a picture of him, all decked out in his Santa Claus costume, hair and beard
authentically powdered, that we put out each Christmas.
The girls in the picture are lined up chronologically: Lynne, Michelle,
Terry, Sharyl, and our God child, Andrea. One granddaughter, Heather,
belongs to Lynne, and three call Terry mother, Courtney, Kaitlyn, and
Chandler.