Scratch One Off The Bucket List

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Last Monday, I was able to scratch a big item off my bucket list. I attended a Liverpool Football Club game in person. Liverpool FC came to my hometown of St. لوئیس, Missouri on August 1, 2016 to play a preseason game with AS Roma. My daughter Caity attended the match with me, which made the day extra special. من

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I Hope She Doesn’t Want Parole

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امروز, Tam and I will be married twenty years. متاسفانه, life in Missouri is 20 سال, so I hope she doesn’t want to apply for parole. I’m hoping she decides to keep me around for a few more years. در ژوئیه 27, 1996, Tam, my mother and sisters prepared the clubhouse for our wedding later that afternoon. They wisely kept

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Hattie May Story (1896 – 1917)

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My great grandmother Lydia Margaret “Dollie” Story Zimmerman’s youngest sister Hattie May Story was born on August 20, 1896. Hattie was Dollie’s half-sister as she was the daughter of George Washington Story and his second wife Margaret Sweat. Dollie’s mother was George Story’s first wife Malinda Davis. Hattie’s mother Margaret either died in giving birth to Hattie or passed away

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George Washington Story (1843 – 1903)

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My second great-grandfather George Washington Story was born in August 1843 to Gilford Dudley Story and his second wife Nancy Jane Story nee Womack. George was born in Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Illinois, USA. He was the fourth of Dudley’s and Nancy’s nine children. George Washington Story married his first wife and my second great-grandmother Malinda Davis on November 26, 1863,

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Happy Birthday, مادر بزرگ!

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Yesterday, my maternal grandmother Alvina M. Ellis nee Mosblech would have been 100 سال. Born in St. لوئیس, Missouri on May 15, 1916, Grandma was the seventh of fourteen children. She married an only child in 1938 and they would have two children, my mom and Aunt Maureen. Grandma had a big influence on my sisters and me because

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Amanda Isabelle “Mandy” داستان

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Many Zimmermans always believed my great-grandfather Parker L. Zimmerman was married five times. <طول bbox_x = "543" bbox_y = "1494" bbox_w = "56" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" قرمز = "255" سبز = "255" آبی = "255" آلفا = ", Parker was married three times to Victoria Harris, Mellie Bollinger and Lydia Margaret “Dollie” داستان. It was actually Parker’ sister-in-law Amanda Isabelle “Mandy” داستان, who was married five times. Mandy was born in Illinois on July 16, 1877 to George Washington Story and Malinda Davis although

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Julius Johannpeter (1875-1961)

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ژولیوس “عمو ژول” Johannpeter was born in St. چارلز, MO در ماه مارس 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “عمو ژول” was seven years older than his sister Caroline Leah “بادپناه” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee had the challenge of raising her two-year-old son Gilbert as a single

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