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_SRCT:
_FIELD: TX-AUTHOR
Text: Julia (Edwards) Laughlin
_FIELD: DT-PUBLICATION_DATE
Date: 1993
_FIELD: TX-TITLE
Text: Ancestors and Descendants of James Brunk and Mary Wren Horsey
_FIELD: TX-PUBLISHER
Text: self-published
_FIELD: RP-REPOSITORY
Repository:
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[S1294] - Brunk/Horsey Book, Horsey section page 42
DON EDWARD EDWARDS m 1st ca 1935 Vera ?
b 17 Dec 1914 2nd ca 1940 HELEN REEDER
Wyandotte Co. Ks. both N.Y. CITY both born N.Y.
d 27 Jan 1952 (38)
Kitsap Co. Wash.
car accident - cremated
ashes bur. Forest Lawn Cemt. Bremerton, Wash.
As a boy Don Edwards learned to do many things to make money during the depression, sold magazines, mowed lawns, ran errands for neighbors and caddied as golf clubs. At 15 he started to roam around the country in summer months. At 21 in New York City he married and after his first child died soon after birth, Don and Vera returned to Kansas where twin sons did not survive. Don returned to N.Y. where he could find work, married a second time, starting a new family. During World War II he worked for the Coast Guard, 1950 found him out of work so he traveled to Washington State and went to work for the U.S. Naval Ship Yards. He was killed before his family could join him at Bremerton, Wash.
ch: an infant boy b & d 1936 N.Y. and twin boys b & d 18/4/1937 Kansas
JOAN EDWARDS b 6 June 1939 New York City
MARGO EDWARDS b 18/3/1941 Brooklin N.Y.
VIRGINIA EDWARDS b 8/5/1942 " "
JOYCE EDWARDS b 15/5/1943 " "
YVONNE EDWARDS b 8/2/1948 " "
KATHY EDWARDS b 1949 " "
JULIA MARIE EDWARDS m 19 June 1938 MARION J. LAUGHLIN (Jim)
b 29 May 1916 Johnson Co. Ks. b 28 March 1916
Wyandotte Co. Ks. Jasper Co. Missouri
parents: Jesse W. Laughlin
Cora Belle Filtingberger
ch: Jerry W., Judith W.
Julia graduated from Rosedale High School in Wyandotte Co. Ks. iin 1934, worked in Kansas City Missouri at the Shukert Fur Company before marriage in 1938. 'Jim' Laughlin is from a Johnson County pioneer family. The Laughlins came from Bourbon County Kentucky in the 1870s and his mother's grandparents came from Gallia County Ohio about 1859. He worked at the Kansas City Star as a truck driver and trained horses for the owners of Miles of View Farm in Johnson County. He rode horses in the American Royal Horse Show, hunter and jumper classes. During World War II Jim worked at T.W.A. Airline on planes for the military, later was in business with his brother for thirty years, retiring in 1978.
Julia and Jim have enjoyed traveling in an R.V., a place at Pomme de Terre
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