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Sandra Logue, 1987 Sandra Louise Creitz was born in 1940 in Pennsylvania, the daughter of Lewis Alfred and Helen Marie (Widmaier) Creitz. In 1950, Lewis, Helen, Sandra and her older sister Dawn were living in Saint Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, where Lewis was a barber. The 1957 Northeast High School yearbook showed that Sandra (who had signed her name “Sandy” over her picture in the uploaded yearbook on Ancestry.com) was the president of the junior class, a member of the National Honor Society, the varsity volleyball team, the Girls’ Athletic Association and of the Keyettes (a service organization affiliated with Kiwanis International). In 1958, Sandra was a senior Northeast High School in Saint Petersburg. Sandra was married in 1960 to Larry Jon Bates in Saint Petersburg, Florida. The Orlando Sentinel , 18 September 1960. “Sandra Louise Creitz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Alfred Creitz, St. Petersburg, and Larry Jon Bates, son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Bates, Sanford, were m...

Margaret Davis, 1942 Margaret Virginia Davis was born in 1924 in Alma, Michigan, the daughter of Earl Bennett and Laura Lenora (Elliott) Davis. In 1930, Earl, Laura and their children Don, Max, Madeline and Margaret were living in Alma, Gratiot County, Michigan, where Earl was working in retail sales. Margaret was in the National Honor Society at Alma High School in 1939, according to the school’s   Panther Tales   yearbook. The 1940 census located the Davis family still residing in Alma. Earl reported he was in retail sales promotion. In 1942, Margaret was a freshman student at Alma College in Alma, Michigan. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in biology at Alma College. Margaret was married in 1947 in Wayne County, Michigan to Lawrence Eugene Handren, a native of Massachusetts. Margaret’s father, Earl Davis, died in 1948.   Lawrence, Margaret, their daughter Heidi, and Margaret’s mother Laura Davis were living together in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan when the cen...

Loraine Anderson, 2024 Loraine H. Welch was born in 1929 in Michigan, the daughter of Harry Arthur and Bernice M. (Burgett) Welch. In 1930, the Welch family (Harry, Bernice, Loraine and older sister Marjorie) was living in Hamtramck, Wayne County, Michigan. Harry was working as a die maker in an auto factory. The 1940 census located Harry, Bernice, Marjorie, Loraine and younger siblings James and Shirley residing in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. Harry was a “trouble man” for the tool department in an auto factory. Loraine, attending school, had completed the fifth grade. Loraine graduated from Cass Tech High School in Detroit, and in 1950 was living in Goodison Hall, an all-girls dormitory at Michigan State Normal College in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The 1950 yearbook for the MSNC listed Loraine as from Detroit, studying home economics; the 1951 yearbook showed her photograph as a member of the class of 1952. After graduation, Loraine went on to teach in the Detroit School District. ...

Berit Pavloff, 1990 Berit Naess was born in Norway in 1939. She emigrated to the United States in October 1951, aboard the Stavangerfjord, from Oslo, Norway to New York City, New York. She was aged 12 years and had traveled with 37-year-old Gudrun Naess, possibly her mother. They were bound for an address in Hazel Park, Michigan. Berit was naturalized as a United States citizen in 1957. In 1960, she was a student at the University of Michigan, where she was living in Hunt House, an all-women section of South Quad, one of the dormitories on campus. Berit was married to Louis Pavloff, a first-generation American born in Michigan to parents who were natives of Greece. They had at least one child, a daughter, Kia Pavloff. I first met Mrs. Pavloff in the winter of 1990, when I was a member of her creative writing class at Avondale High School. We wrote a lot of poetry, but I believe there were also assignments where we wrote short stories and probably other forms of writing. We wer...