Star Trek Klingon artwork by Gennie Summers Today is Free Comic Book Day. Of the 273,201 individuals logged in my Reunion file, containing all the people I’ve connected to my children, there is one comic book artist who stands out. I never met Gennie Summers, but she was my fifth cousin once removed. Our nearest common ancestors were Matthias Hollopeter and Barbara (Rusz) Hollopeter, who were our immigrant ancestors; they arrived in the American colonies about 1754. Ethel Genevieve “Gennie” Summers was born in 1924 in Nebraska, the only child of Alvin Dale Summers and Ethel Mae (Smith) Summers. In 1930, Gennie was living with her parents in Crescent, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Her father was a farmer. The 1940 census located Gennie residing in her parents’ home in West Benson, Douglas County, Nebraska. She was a senior in high school. Gennie’s father died in 1986, at the age of ninety years. Her mother passed away in 1995, when she was ninety-two years old. When Gennie pa...