When my maternal grandmother, who died around 1990, lived in the Philadelphia (PA) Protestant Home, the Home had a German church service each Sunday and a weekly German hymn-sing.
My paternal Great X 5 grandfather immigrated from Germany and settled in Lancaster Co. PA, where he died in 1790. That line moved west with the country - Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, finally Oregon. My paternal grandmother’s parents both came over from Germany in mid-19th century and took the Oregon Trail as far as Durkee, OR, where the 2 branches of my family joined.