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Tribute; Mollie Heinrich Wolf Grant Read

Mollie Heinrich Wolf Grant Reed, the youngest of ten children, was born January 27 1918 to Katharina (nee Ottmar) and Gottlieb Heinrich at Willa, North Dakota. The Heinrichs, Germans from Russia, immigrated to the United States in 1905 from Neuburg, south Russia, near Odessa. Ten months after she was born her mother died in the 1918 flu epidemic. She was raised by the Schotz family, a distant cousin of her mother with 14 children of their own. At age five, her father was able to move the family all back in together at Dryden, Washington where he worked as a foreman in a cold storage warehouse....

 

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