Married August 3 and 4, 1973 in St. Louis County, Mo.
John A. Maurer, III and Pamela Anne Siems
John Anthony Maurer, III, b. 1954, St. Louis, Mo.
He married Pamela Anne Siems on August 3 and August 4, 1973 in St. Louis County, Mo.

Their children are:
1. John Anthony Maurer, IV, b. 1977, St. Louis County, Mo.
He married Kasey Barton on May 17, 2002 in Colorado Springs, Co.
They are expecting their first child in late August 2007.

2. Erin Nicole Maurer, b. 1979, St. Louis County, Mo.
She married James Michael Quattromani on December 29,  2001, in St. Louis County, Mo.

3. Michael Warren Maurer, b. 1981, St. Louis County, Mo.
John A. Maurer, III, started working at Ralston Purina in 1977.  His wife Pam Siems had been working
there since 1974 and helped him to get his technician job in the Research Labs.  In 2001, Ralston Purina
Co. merged with Nestle and became Nestle Purina Pet Care Co.  In August 2007, John will be working in
the protein research lab for 30 years.  Pam left Ralston in 1979 after the birth of their second child, Erin.  
She currently works for an accounting firm as an executive assistant to the owner.  He was also a DJ for
KSHE-95 Radio in the 1970's, worked for the St. Louis SouthSide YMCA and  for Alexian Brothers Hospital
in St. Louis.

My brother started making wine, and has bottled three different kinds of white wine.  The last batch they
both picked the grapes at Charleville Vineyard in St. Genevieve.  John bottles his wine under the name of
Chouteau Winery and the labels are designed by their son Michael.

Their first son Johnny A. Maurer, IV (my godson) graduated from Stanford University in June 1999 with a
degree in Music and Computers, where he also recorded some jazz piano.  In May 2006 he received his
Master of Arts in  Geography from the University of Colorado in Boulder.  Johnny met his wife Kasey
Barton at Stanford and they graduated together.  She completed her Doctorate degree in Biology with her
research on plants and their chemical defenses against herbivores in December 2006 from the University
of Colorado in Boulder.  Johnny works full time for the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NISDC) as a
programmer and geographer.  Johnny and Kasey visited me in NYC in 2000 while Kasey was at  
Wesleyan in Connecticut. Johnny Maurer at http://cires.colorado.edu/~maurerj/
and Kasey Barton at http://seedlingscience.org/

Their daughter Erin N. Maurer graduated from Stanford University with her degree in Pre-Medicine.  Erin
met her husband, Jimmy Quattromani, at Stanford University.  He graduated 1.5 years ahead of her.  He
went to Stanford on a ROTC Naval Scholarship and he was sworn into service after graduation.  He
became a Navy Seal, after serving for six years he hopes to be discharged in May 2007 and plans to go to
Law School.  Erin played on the soccer team at Stanford for three years, and for one year at the University
of Hawaii after graduation from Stanford.  She spent one year doing post-grad studies at Hawaii while
Jimmy was stationed there.  Then she went to the University of California at San Diego, while he was
stationed there.  In May 2007 she will graduate with her medical degree and then start her internship.  Erin
visited me, with my brother John, in Yardley, PA in 1998.

Their youngest, Michael Warren Maurer graduated from the University of Missouri (Mizzou) at Columbia in
May 2005 with a BA in Computer Science and a BA in Graphic Design.  He now lives in Los Angeles.  After
graduation from Mizzou Mike worked, starting in May 2005, for Team One (a brand architect agency) in LA.  
Now in February 2007 he works for Chiat Day an ad agency in LA.  He has his design work at
MikeMaurerDesign.Com
My brother, John A. Maurer, III, follows the family
tradition in making and bottling his own line of
Riesling under the Chouteau Winery Label
Front row my sister-in-law Pam Siems Maurer, my niece Erin Maurer Quattromani, my nephews
wife Kasey Barton  Maurer; back row my nephew Michael Warren Maurer, my brother John A.
Maurer, III, my nieces husband James Quattromani, my nephew John A. Maurer, IV. in Dec. 2006
Mikey (19 months), Erin (3 y/o), Johnny (6 y/o) on my
brotherJohn's birthday, St. Patty's Day 1983
Ralston-Purina Company
Sources say that a 26-page diary of the famed Exorcism of movie lore,  was found in the
Alexian Brothers Hospital on South Broadway in St. Louis. The old psychiatric wing of
the hospital was being torn down in 1978 and workmen were sent in to remove furniture
from that part of the building. One of these men found the document in a desk drawer of a
locked room and he gave it to his supervisors, who in turn passed it on to hospital
administrators. It was eventually identified as the work of Rev. Raymond Bishop, S.J., a
priest who had participated in the exorcism.  The hospital was founded in 1869. A rather
large addition to the building (illustrated on some of the oldest hospital stationery) was
completed in 1874 and the original mansion became the "Insane Department." Their
records indicated that the Brothers who organized it called the special department
"Misericordia Institute." This is believed to have been the first psychiatric division in any
general hospital in St. Louis.
In 1851, the first YMCA in this country was started in Boston. Two
years later the St. Louis YMCA was founded in the Second Baptist
Church, as noted by the Missouri Republic on October 20, 1853, “It
is our privilege to record the beginnings of an enterprise, which
contains in it the germs of more good to St. Louis than any
undertaking which has ever been entered upon here.” In 2003, the
YMCA celebrated 150 years of service to the Greater St. Louis
community.

The South Side YMCA was called the German Branch from 1879 to
1908 and operated from several locations before the present
building on Grand was constructed in 1936 from funds raised in the
1924 capital campaign. The national YMCA Indian Guides program
originated at the South Side YMCA in 1926.
Maurer
The Ralston Purina Company, based in St.
Louis, Missouri, was a major American
corporation best known for its production and
marketing of animal feeds. It traced its roots
back to 1894, when founder William H.
Danforth began producing feed for various
farm animals under the name Purina Mills.
Later in 1902 he merged with Health guru and
visionary Webster Edgerly, founder of
Ralstonism, who was at the time producing
breakfast cereals to form the "Ralston-Purina
Company".

The animal feed business became the
subject of a takeover bid by Swiss-based
Nestlé, whose "Friskies" brand was the other
leading brand of pet food in the U.S. This bid
was eventually accepted in 2001. Several
brands of pet food (e.g., "Meow Mix") had to be
divested separately to meet antitrust
concerns. Purina brands are now made and
marketed by a division of Nestlé (Nestlé
Purina PetCare) which is still headquartered
in St. Louis. The work of developing
manufactured diets for pets involves animal
testing, thereby introducing controversy.

The company was famed for its
"checkerboard" trademark.  Its headquarters
was called Checkerboard Square.
KSHE is a rock & roll radio station
licensed to Crestwood, Missouri
which serves the St. Louis, Missouri
area. KSHE is located at 94.7 MHz
and currently uses the slogan "KSHE
95, Real Rock Radio". The station
mascot is a sunglass wearing pig
named Sweet Meat, a likeness of
which originally appeared on the
Blodwyn Pig LP, "A Head Rings Out".
Like the pig pictured on the lp cover,
Sweet Meat first appeared with a joint
in his mouth. This "controversial"
detail disappeared in the early '80s.
KSHE, one of the oldest continually
operating rock stations in the country,
will be celebrating its 40th birthday in
November, 2007.
Wedding Day 1973 and 25th Wedding Anniversary 1998
John A Maurer, Jr.; John A, Maurer, III; and John A. Maurer, IV 1998
Siems
North German: patronymic from Siem.
Siemer
German: from the Germanic personal name Siegmar,
composed of the elements sigi ‘victory’ + mari, meri
‘famous’.
Seim
1.        German: metonymic occupational name for a
beekeeper, from Middle High German seim ‘honey’.
2.        Norwegian: habitational name from any of ten or
more farms so named, notably on the west coast of
Norway, named with Old Norse Sæheimr, a compound of
sær ‘sea’ + heimr ‘home’, ‘farmstead’.
Siems
John and Pam both
attended and graduated
from Mehlville High School