This news item relates to the family of my Mother, Kiree (Hartley) Brown
LORAYNE GUNNELS HAYNES -- The Hartley family home in Williams Holler was built in the early 1920s. While Aunt Levon (Dochia) was the first born in the new house in 1926, I had forgotten that Grandma Hartley's niece, Lorayne Gunnels, gave birth to a girl, Betty, in 1935.
Already with a full house of her children and step-children, Grandma Hartley reached out to her niece, Lorayne, at her time of need. Lorayne (we all pronounced it Lorene) was the child of Grandma Minta's brother, John Gunnels. In 1918 when Lorayne was quite young, her mother died in childbirth and her father died not much later of the 1918 influenza epidemic.
When we start putting together the Gunnels Family Book, Lorayne's chapter will contain a compelling story of tragic loss, then rejection and finally love and acceptance. Something to look forward to.
Betty Haynes (whose father was Larkin Haden) and her husband, Jerry Fouts, live in retirement in their new condo on the outskirts of Nixa MO. Jerry and Betty are battling Jerry's ALS affliction as explained in this recent news article: theozarkuncle.net/HARTLEY-PDFs/Fouts-ALS.pdf.
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| Lorayne in Later Life |
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| Betty and her family in recent years |
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