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Tag: Guthrie Center Iowa

September 2, 2022September 26, 2022joynealkidney

Did “close application to work and studies” cause the death of Georgia Goff, age 28?

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Gardens in the Family

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Omar Shearer, the First of Our Own Boys to Give His Life, July 30, 1918

May 20, 2022May 20, 2022joynealkidney

Tiny Tintypes

April 23, 2022March 19, 2023joynealkidney

I See Guthrie Center First!

March 12, 2022March 12, 2022joynealkidney

What do you think?

February 26, 2022February 26, 2022joynealkidney

Smallpox! 100 Years Ago

January 17, 2022April 14, 2024joynealkidney

Leora Wilson’s Date Bread Recipe – 1955

November 8, 2021January 25, 2023joynealkidney

Grandma Leora’s Seven Younger Brothers

November 1, 2021October 25, 2021joynealkidney

Striped Brown Taffeta Dress

October 16, 2021January 7, 2023joynealkidney

Leora Attends Mrs. Connrardy’s Sewing College–1910

September 24, 2021May 14, 2022joynealkidney

Gold Star Mothers

August 25, 2021November 27, 2021joynealkidney

Panther Corner

June 14, 2021June 27, 2022joynealkidney

Flag Day

May 29, 2021May 26, 2025joynealkidney

Leora Wilson, Poppy Lady

May 25, 2021January 7, 2023joynealkidney

Hubert Caloud, Site Superintendent with the American Battle Monuments Commission

May 7, 2021April 23, 2023joynealkidney

Clabe Drives to Omaha, Mother’s Day 1946

April 24, 2021April 12, 2023joynealkidney

I See Guthrie Center First – a Poem

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021joynealkidney

More Our American Stories: The Periwinkle Quilt

February 22, 2021May 8, 2021joynealkidney

Iowa Native Hubert Caloud, Superintendent of the Oise-Aisne American Cemetery in France

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021joynealkidney

Grandma Leora’s Home in Guthrie Center

February 10, 2021February 10, 2021joynealkidney

Homesick – 1921 (poem)

February 8, 2021February 6, 2021joynealkidney

Parrish Cafe, Guthrie Center, Iowa, 1937

February 1, 2021February 1, 2021joynealkidney

Odd Fellows Lodge by Bryon Weesner, Dexter Historian

January 29, 2021January 29, 2021joynealkidney

Who were the Rebekahs?

November 2, 2020November 8, 2022joynealkidney

Miss Grissell Held Office Before it was Legal for Her to Vote–1920

May 9, 2020April 13, 2024joynealkidney

Grandma Leora’s Crocheted Roses

April 17, 2020February 10, 2021joynealkidney

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

March 30, 2020June 19, 2023joynealkidney

Nine Patch Quilt–Laura (Jordan) Goff

March 2, 2020June 20, 2025joynealkidney

Leora Goff and the Guthrie County Jail

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