EAST OTTER TAIL COUNTY 1977, VOL. I

OTTER TAIL COUNTY , MINNESOTA - Page 41

MRS MAMMIE COOLEY ALMY

        Mammie Marquardt was born in New York Mills. She married Grant Cooley who died in 1911 when their youngest child Arvilla was only five months old. In 1919 Mammie married George Almy  who died in 1962.

        Mammie and Grand Cooley were parents of five children. Lawrence , born in 1902, married Dorothy Johnson. They had four children: Alice Delphine, Cal, Irene. After Dorothy passed away, he married Shirley Johnson. They were parents of seven children: Sherry, Linda, John, Margaret, Carolyn, Leslie and Edgar.

        Gladys was born in 1904. She married Ford Holly and they had two children: Berdell and Robert. Gladys died in 1936.

        Edgar was born in 1906. He lived in the home place in New York Mills, and died January 14, 1974 at the Boren Home in Fergus Falls .

        Opal was born August 20, 1908. She married Arthur Hoff and raised three children: Agnes, Bernice and Ray Stoltz, children from Opal�s first marriage. They reside in Detroit Lakes , Minnesota .

        Arvilla was born in 1910 and she married Ervin Wells.  They had one son, Keith, who died in active duty in 1947.

        Mammie Cooley Almy died February 1, 1975 at the age of 88 years.

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