A photograph with a list of names on it back. Can I identify these people?

It is a small photo, measuring about 3 7/8 inches long by 2 3/4 wide. Four of the people are holding long sticks- perhaps fishing poles? One man is also holding a bucket.

On the back is the following list, divided by a short line, corresponding to the back row and front row:

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Glenn Zellmer

Adolph Werth

Esther R. Zellmer

Carrie Quiram

Walter Richter

Gladys Richter

Mrs. Emma Gerhke

Herman Gerhke

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Art Zellmer

Mrs. A. Amalia Werth

Rennie Zellmer

Mrs. Art (Esther) Zellmer

Zellmer-Richter family photo.

Back side of photo.

I searched on Ancestry Public Family Trees for a Walter Richter who was married to a Gladys. Four individuals came up, with the first two the same person. That Walter Gustav Richter (1911-1991) was married to Gladys Emma Ruth Zellmer (1916-2016). The couple lived in Le Sueur County, Minnesota. Walter and Gladys have a tombstone in Sakatah Cemetery in Waterville, Le Sueur County, Minnesota. The stone does not have the year of Gladys's death inscribed on it, but other family trees indicate she died in 2016.

Art and Esther Zellmer in the front row are Gladys's parents Arthur Frederick Zellmer (1886-1965) and Esther Laura (Roemhildt) Zellmer (1892-1956).

Glenn Aaron Zellmer (1902-1954) at the far left in the back row is that couple's son and Walter's sister Esther (Richter) Zellmer is Glenn's wife Esther Louise Ottilie (Richter) (Zellmer) Dvoracek (1913-2010).  She was married again after Glenn's death. 

Walter and Esther's parents were August George Richter and Emma Therese Amanda Krueger (1884-1978). August died in 1932, and Emma was then married to Herman Julius Gehrke (1884-1958) Herman is buried in Saint John Lutheran Church in Montgomery, Le Sueur County, Minnesota, as is his Emma, whose is buried in the Richter plot. 

The Mrs. A. Amelia Werth is apparently the woman whose Findagrave entry in Saint Peters Lutheran Church in Elysian, Le Sueur County, Minnesota currently reads as "Emella Lpuise Preuss Werth" but is actually Emilia Louise (Preuss) Werth (1877-1967). Her husband was John Adolph Werth (1873-1963) is buried there as well.

I was unable to identify Carrie Quiram and I am uncertain as to the spelling of the surname.

Complicated family history in one photo!

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