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From: wm buckner <>
Subject: Re: [MOJASPER] Can anyone help?
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 22:32:13 -0600
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try miami okla for the marrage as we have been going there for a lot of
years from all of the four state area


wrote:

> I know I've posted before, but hopefully someone out there will be able to
> assist me here. I am desperately looking for my mother's 1/2 sister who we just
> found out existed. Family has helped a little, but they know nothing more.
> Here's what I have, any other suggestions or help or anyone willing to do some
> research, please contact me.
>
> My mother's sister's name is Roberta Crable, born supposedly in the 1940's in
> Joplin, Missouri. Her father's name was Richard Hooker Crable, who later
> died in Reno, Nevada, and her mother's name is unknown, however we think her
> first name was Eleanor. "Eleanor" was supposedly the daughter of the Bank
> President in town, and she herself was a bank officer. I would suppose that Richard
> and her met while he was cashing his paychecks. Now Richard worked in a
> munitions plant, supposedly in Joplin, however some of you suggested that it was
> actually in Parsons, Kansas, a short distance away. The reason for this was
> because Richard as the story's been told use to stay nights at the munitions
> plant, and a couple of you suggested that the one in kansas had barracks for the
> workers. Just found out that Richard use to save war bonds for his daughter
> Roberta. So I am assuming that Roberta would have been born between 1940 &
> 1945, and that Richard and her mother were married sometime around 1940. In 1930
> Richard was is Chicago, Illinois living with his mother and step-father. I
> have written to the Joplin Genealogical Society, and have paid them to do some
> research, but that was over a month ago, and still no response from them. I
> am getting a bit desperate here, I NEED to find Roberta before my mother or her
> die. I got a copy of Richard's last wife's will and there was no mention of
> either my mother or Roberta in this will, and there were no obits printed for
> either Richard or his wife, so nothing there. I found a Roberta H. Crable
> married in California, the dates kinda matched for the time frame I was looking
> for, however I sent off a letter to whom I had hoped would be her husband, but
> again no response from him. Not even a yeh or nay. What do I do now? Maybe
> some kind soul out there could give me a hint?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> karen c
>
> .
>


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