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From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. Favorite memories of my childhood, when we lived at 4654 McKinney Avenue, were the times my mother, Annie Marion, loaded her five children (John Ray, Faye, Robert, Ida Lea, and Dulcie Anne) and her mother, Allie Cox, into her 1929 Nash and…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. Donald F. Huffhines was born December 9, 1929, and died November 18, 2000. During World War II his father, J.C., worked as a government inspector for Guiberson Motors, the company holding the contract for installing motors in tanks for the U.S. Army.…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. Marie Buhrer was one of nine children born to Jacob Buhrer (b. 1855) and Anna (Hinterman) Buhrer (b. 1854). Their house was a white two-story home on 200 acres on the west bank of White Rock Creek. The family attended St. Paul’s…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. Fred Braden Spainhouer was born September 16, 1889 in Russellville, Arkansas. He was the son of Aaron and Emma Pittman Spainhouer, both of whom are buried at Cottonwood Cemetery. Myrtle Viola Houston was born in the community of Elm Grove on April…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. George Washington “Dub” Foster, Sr. was born May 23, 1917 on his family’s farm at Liberty Grove in northeastern Dallas County. His grandfather, George Washington Forster, was seriously ill at the time and Dub wasn’t named until after his grandfather’s death, which…
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