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From: Virginia Curulla <>
Subject: [LATTA] FW: LGN Query Submission
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 19:02:15 -0700
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Paul Smith is not a subscriber, so please reply to him directly.

Does anyone recognize this family?


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From: "Paul H. Calhoun" <>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 21:50:36 -0400
To: "Curulla, Virginia" <>
Subject: Fw: LGN Query Submission


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Subject: LGN Query Submission


> I am looking for a line that includes Dale Latta who died in 1940 in an
> industrial accident. He worked for Gates Tire and Rubber Company, and
> was killed at work when a large tractor tire fell on him. My mother
> thinks it happened in Indiana, and the family lived in Omaha at the time.
> Dale Latta's second (?) wife was one of my maternal grandmothers. Her
> name was Helen May (AKA Honey)Darter (the name of her first husband) or
> Brotts (her maiden name).
> Dale Latta had two children from a previous marriage: Elizabeth (Betty)
> Joyce and Thomas (Tom). I knew Betty Joyce, and know that she died in
> Los Angeles in the early 1970's. I never met Tom Latta.
> Honey came to her marriage with Dale Latta with two children: Arthur
> Winfred Darter (who took the Latta name) and my mother Lorraine Eva
> Darter (who took her mother's maden name, Brotts.) Betty Joyce, Tom,
> Arthur and Lorraine were all reportedly around the same age, which means
> they would all be in their early eighties now. Honey was born in MO in
> 1904 and died in Los Angeles in 1976. Arthur also died in Los Angeles in
> 1975.
> Arthur had four children: Judith Frances, Arthur Wilbur, Alice Louise and
> Diana Marie. Their birth certificates all give the name of Latta.
> I would appreciate any hint about this Latta line.
>
>
> Paul A. Smith, Ph.D.
> 6105 Glenhurst Way
> Citrus Heights CA 95621
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