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Tag: Clabe and Leora Wilson

June 27, 2024June 27, 2024joynealkidney

Cheerful Four O’Clocks

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Did Any of the Wilson Brothers Have Children?

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An Inheritance of the Most Holy

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Rusty the Pet Squirrel is on the Cover of Leora’s Dexter Stories. What else?

December 22, 2023November 16, 2023joynealkidney

Gold Star Families Comfort One Another

November 4, 2023November 4, 2023joynealkidney

The Leora Stories at the Perry Public Library on November 11

August 7, 2023August 7, 2023joynealkidney

“What Leora Never Knew” Needs a Subtitle

April 18, 2023April 20, 2023joynealkidney

Pvt. D.S. Wilson, U.S. Army, Squadron D, Iowa State Teacher’s College – 1943

April 1, 2023April 1, 2023joynealkidney

My Very First Blog Post was April 2, 2015

January 30, 2023January 18, 2026joynealkidney

Georgia Wilson’s House at Panora Still Stands

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023joynealkidney

Free Leora eBooks Through Saturday

October 28, 2022December 15, 2022joynealkidney

Book Talk in Guthrie Center November 1

October 5, 2022October 21, 2022joynealkidney

The Thornton W. Burgess “Mother Westwind” Stories

July 6, 2022July 7, 2022joynealkidney

Grandmother Goff Visits the Wilsons at Minburn, Iowa

December 31, 2021July 23, 2023joynealkidney

A Child’s 100-Year-Old Bowback Chair from Sunday School

December 28, 2021December 26, 2024joynealkidney

Why 1846 was an “Astonishing and Decisive” Year

December 24, 2021December 23, 2025joynealkidney

Bacon and Eggs for Christmas Dinner 1945

September 8, 2021June 27, 2022joynealkidney

Kansas City Quartermaster Depot

June 16, 2021September 21, 2022joynealkidney

Leora’s Dexter Stories: The Scarcity Years of the Great Depression – List of Chapters

May 31, 2021January 29, 2025joynealkidney

Memorial Day in Our Cemeteries Around the World

May 29, 2021May 26, 2025joynealkidney

Leora Wilson, Poppy Lady

May 24, 2021January 26, 2024joynealkidney

Danny Wilson: How Can You be Sure He’s Really Buried There?

January 3, 2021December 13, 2023joynealkidney

The Minburn Farm in Winter

December 28, 2020December 28, 2020joynealkidney

Clabe and Leora Wilson, the end of 1945

September 21, 2020February 11, 2021joynealkidney

Wilson Siblings 1927 and 1938

July 31, 2020September 12, 2023joynealkidney

The Snyder-Wilson Connection: WWII and Today

May 18, 2020March 29, 2023joynealkidney

Violet Hill Cemetery, Perry, Iowa

May 15, 2020June 20, 2020joynealkidney

Clabe and Leora: Spring 1945

April 17, 2020February 10, 2021joynealkidney

The pandemic dominates our lives, and calls to mind my grandmother’s survival a century ago

December 30, 2019January 3, 2025joynealkidney

Clabe and Leora Wilson: New Year 1945

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