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JUDD, GOOKIN, BRIGGS

Posted By: Nancee Seifert (email)
Date: 8/4/2005 at 21:02:33

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, June 24, 1909

Ten or more years ago MRS. A.B. GOOKIN, of this city, and the MISSES CARRIE
and BESSIE JUDD, of Garden Grove, attended school together. Later the
MISSES JUDD went to the Philippine Islands, where they engaged in teaching.
MISS CARRIE JUDD was married to a MR. BRIGGS, who also was engaged in school
work on the islands. Three children were born to them, one little girl, now
being seven years old and twin daughters, eight months of age. Soon after
the twins were born MRS. BRIGGS died, and on Saturday, the sister arrived in
Chariton, and were guests at the GOOKIN home, on their way to the old home
at Garden Grove, where the children will be put in the care of the
grandparents, MR. BRIGGS expecting to return to the states in the fall.
This is a most pathetic passage in every day life and only illustrates the
hazards that are encountered by those who reach out beyond their own
environs.
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Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert
July 25, 2005
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