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Edith graduated from Fredonia High School and Fredonia Normal and was a school teacher. She and her husband lived in Elmira, NY. He worked for the YMCA. - Marjorie (Gilray) Crosgrove
     Edith received her B.S. and M.S. from the University of Bridgeport, CT. She did postgraduate work at Manhattanville College. Edith taught first grade from 1953-67 at the Valhalla public schools. From 1967 until 1978 she was a first grade teacher in the Larchmont school system. She was also superintendent of the Sunday school primary department at the Church of the Highlands, of which she was a member.
     Her obituary states she was born 10 Sep 1910.²

Cecile graduated from Fredonia High School and attended Fredonia Normal. During WWII, she served for the Red Cross and traveled overseas. - Marjorie (Gilray) Crosgrove
     At the time of her first marriage she was a teacher of drawing in the Utica public schools.
     Cecile graduated from Fredonia Normal School, class of 1932, and did graduate studies at Buffalo State University College and New York University in Denver, CO. A retired teacher, she taught at John F. Kennedy High School in Sloan and at schools in Long Island and Geneva, NY.
     During the Korean War, Cecile was a civilian volunteer and worked with the U.S. Air Force setting up craft programs. She taught ceramics, photography and jewelry making and lived in the Far East for five years.
     In 1960, Cecile married second to Howard F. Higgs. She had resided at 27 1/2 Water Street, Fredonia at that time. After the marriage they resided at 310 West Main St.
     She was a member of the First United Church, Silver Creek.³

probably in Maryland. Dorothy graduated from Fredonia High School and nursing training to become a registered nurse. She and her husband lived in Washington, DC. - Marjorie (Gilray) Crosgrove
     Dorothy lived in Kensington, MD. (1978) (1982.)¹

She lived in Lily Dale, NY. (1978)
     Irene worked as a nurse's aide at a nursing home. She was a member of the Laona United Methodist Church and its Ladies Aid Society.¹

Check for 1950 census for Howard M. Shinn Jr.

Blanche was born premature at the home of her parents on Cook Rd. in Sheridan, NY. It was said that she was so small that her head would fit in a tea cup and she could fit in a cigar box. Just how much she weighed no one knew, but people drove for miles to see her. She was wrapped in cotton for two weeks before her mother dressed her and only through her mother's loving tender care did she live. She grew up on the farm on Cook Rd. She graduated from Dunkirk High School in 1913 and Buffalo General Hospital School of Nursing Feb 23, 1917. She joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and served at Camp Gordon, GA during WWI. On returning home, she was a surgical nurse at Buffalo General until she came home to marry Mayman Gilray. They built their home and greenhouses on Rt. 20 in Sheridan and lived there the rest of their lives. Blanche helped in the greenhouse during the busy season then did private duty nursing. After her husband's death in 1950, she ran the greenhouse until it was sold and then did general duty at Brooks Memorial Hospital from 1959 to 1968. she was a member of the Sheridan United Methodist Church, the Sheridan United Methodist Women, was past grand of the True Union Rebekah Lodge and a member of the Sheridan Garden and Variety Club. for many years an avid button collector, she was a member of the Buffalo Button Club, the New York State Button Society and the Pennsylvania State Button Society. - Marjorie (Gilray) Crosgrove.²