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From: Kathleen <>
Subject: Re: [OK-Orphanages] POWELL/OK ORPHANAGES
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 22:19:32 -0700
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Have you sent this message to the Powell Mailing list? If not, you should.

Kathleen Burnett
Powell List Mom

wrote:

> I AM LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON MY GRANDMOTHER AND SISTERS WHO WHERE IN AN
> OPRHANGES IN ON IN THE LATE 1920'S EARLY 1930'S. WE BELEIVE THEY WERE IN THE
> HOME AT PRYOR BUT AFTER MUCH SEARCHING AND MANY PHONE CALLS TO PEOPLE WHO
> WHERE THERE AT THE TIME, I CANT COME UP WITH ONE PERSON WHO CAN RECALL EVERY
> SEEING THEM. THEIR NAMES WERE:
>
> AGNES LUCILLE POWELL B. DEC. 28, 1919
> ALTA NAOMI POWELL B. FEB. 20, 1922
> GLADYS MARYLIN POWELL B. ABT 1925
>
> THE GIRLS WHERE PLACE IN THE HOME AFTER THEIR FATHER WENT TO PRISON AND THE
> MOTHER WAS UNABLE TO TAKE CARE OF THEM. THE PARENTS WERE DIVORCED AND THE
> MOTHER LATER MARRIED AGAIN. AT THIS TIME SHE WENT BACK TO THE ORPHANGE TO
> CLAIM HER CHILDREN. BUT THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER HAD BEEN ADOPTED OUT.
> SUPPOSENLY TO AN OKLAHOMA CITY FAMILY. I WOULD LIKE TO LOCATE THIS SISTER OR
> HER FAMILY. I PLACED AN ADD IN THE OK CITY PAPER BUT CAME UP EMPTY. ANY ONE
> ON THE LIST HAVE ANY IDEAS OR OTHER ORPHANGES I MIGHT CHECK. I WOULD GREATLY
> APPRECIATE THE HELP!
>
> GINA MCGUIRE


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