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rurallib

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2. My great Aunt, Sister Mary Ethel taught there. We were talking about this at a Christmas get together

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Dec 24, 2023, 08:13 PM

Dec 2023

yesterday. My great aunt taught in the morning and was home at the convent across the street when the fire started. She was in her 70s and crippled by arthritis at the time.

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On this day, December 1, 1958, a fire broke out at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2023 OP

I was the same age snowybirdie Dec 2023 #1

My great Aunt, Sister Mary Ethel taught there. We were talking about this at a Christmas get together rurallib Dec 2023 #2