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Our Newest Granddaughter Arrived Today

Posted on December 31st, 2008 by Carol

New granddaughter

Our family tree has increased by one today with the arrival of our new granddaughter Shelby Paige Wilkerson.  She was born just after lunch time and weighed 6 pounds 5.6 ounces and was 19 inches long.  As you can see from the photo taken just minutes after her birth, she has a lot of hair, just like her older sister Katrina did when she was born in 2001.  Older brother Garrett is going to have his hands full with two little sisters!

Wishing you all a very Happy 2009 tomorrow!

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Henry Travers: The Rest Of The Story

Posted on December 25th, 2008 by Carol

Sometimes, genealogical information can come to you in most extraordinary ways. Take, for instance, the life of Henry Travers. You probably know of him from the Frank Capra movie It's a Wonderful Life, starring Jimmy Stewart. Henry Travers played the angel Clarence Oddbody who was trying to get his wings, and did so by saving George Bailey from suicide on that cold and icy bridge in Bedford Falls. But the backstory of his life came to me when we moved to Port Orchard, Washington and into a house on Opdal Road in 1982. It was then that we met the Hess family. As I got to know the wife Peggy Hess, she told me of her connection to Henry Travers.  One day, we were discussing the movie and Peggy said, "Oh, you mean my 'grandpa' ". Henry Travers was born Travers John Heagerty in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England, the son of Daniel Heagerty, an Irish doctor from Cork and Ellen Gillman Hornibrook Belcher from Bandon, Co. Cork Ireland. They moved to Huddleston Street in Cullercoats, near Newcastle on Tyne, England. Henry died in Hollywood, California October 18, 1965.  He and his wife Ann Travers were interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Henry Travers

I am not aware that Henry was married other than to Ann Glud Courtland, widow of Harold Lansing Courtland.   Ann had lived in Alaska with her husband Harold before moving back to Seattle.  Harold and Ann had a daughter Dorothy b. abt 1915 in WA; Margaret who was born there around 1920; and their son William Lansing Courtland was born December 30, 1927 also in Washington.  Harold Courtland, a cook, died an untimely death in the Kelso, Washington train station after suffering a massive heart attack. Ann moved to Hollywood, California after Harry's death and that is where she met and married Henry Travers. So, there you have it. You just never know what serendipitous events might give you a brush with history. Sources: FindAGrave, Wikipedia, Turner Classic Movies

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US Army Nurse In WWII Belgium Is My Aunt

Posted on December 20th, 2008 by Carol
When I last posted some WWII photos it caught the attention of the author of another blog, European Center of Military History and I told him that I had a couple photos of my aunt Joyce Moline who had been in Belgium during WWII. I am rather slow when it comes to getting pictures scanned and uploaded, so I am just now getting around to honoring my aunt's military service with this post.

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Joyce is blond girl far right

She was born Joyce Lorraine Moline on 29 October 1921 in Seattle, WA to parents Helen (Nordgren) and Elvin B. Moline. The second daughter to be born, (older sister Jeane and her younger sister Joan were her siblings; Joan was my mother) at the age of eight she lost her mother to a tragic pedestrian accident on a street corner in Seattle in 1929. In 1933 the Moline family, with new stepmother Lillian Vera "Eppie" Epstein Moline moved to a small logging town named Bordeaux, where Joyce and her sisters would grow up amid fir trees and lumber by the railroad cars full. Eppie was a registered nurse, but she didn't work as one when they lived in Bordeaux.  I imagine that taking care of a husband and three growing girls was a mighty job in of itself.

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It's my opinion that you have to have a certain kind of personality to be a nurse, and to become an Army nurse was even more of a challenge. Joyce graduated from Rochester High School in 1939 and soon after she went off to nursing school in Seattle. After completion she took a job nursing in Alaska at a small clinic.  When Word War II began she enlisted as a Lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps.

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Joyce's military records are a bit sketchy and incomplete because some of  them were lost after the war. From the records I have, I know she was awarded the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal for her service in Belgium. And I know she served in Belgium because of these two photos below.

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Chateau D' Ardennes -  May 1945

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After the war, Joyce became a licensed RN in CA on March 1958. The license expired on November 30, 1979. Her license number was RN 12742. She was licensed under the name Joyce Lorraine Huntley. She was the wife of Frank Huntley.  Joyce passed away on 23 September 1990.

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