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Donald Frank Crain (1898-2003) |
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Donald Frank Crain and Gertrude Resene Crain Married 19 April 1924 |
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After his return from World War I and graduating from Knox College in Galesburg, IL, Don Crain moved to Colorado in 1922 to teach high school Spanish and lived there for 52 years.
Don first lived in Berthoud, Colorado where he met and married Gertrude Resene, daughter of Swedish immigrants to Iowa, Lewis Resene and Martha Olson Resene. Gert’s sister's husband had a drugstore in Berthoud. When the brother-in-law died of TB, Gertrude came out from Iowa to help her sister.
Don was living in a hotel about three doors down from the drugstore. One Sunday afternoon, he was playing poker with the boys. Gert came in to get change from the hotel and they were introduced. Don said, “She was a nice, buxom, sweet girl and of course I was single. She was wearing a big diamond — engaged to a guy who worked at a big bank down in Denver.”
“Soon after, I invited to her a dance. I figured she was safe since I didn't want to get married or get involved. Silly me. We started going together to different dances. One day I noticed she wasn't wearing her diamond any more. I said, ‘Where's your diamond?’ She said, ‘Well, I gave it back to him. I decided I didn't love him anymore.’”
“A short time later, I'd been out in Utah (probably staking uranium claims or practicing his hobby of ‘rock-hound’ –smh) and I came back and she was talking about going to a dance with Johnny Stroh, a big Dutch farm boy out there. He was working at her sister's drug store. I said, "Well, I guess you like John Stroh more than you like me?" She started crying and said, "You know I wouldn't marry Johnny Stroh!" "I don't suppose you'd marry me either?" "She said, "Yes, I would!" I used to kid her about proposing to me. We were married early the next year, April 1924." We were married 59 years when Gert died. We celebrated our 59th and she died a couple of weeks after that.”
Don Crain July 29, 2001 Morro Bay, California
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Crain Farm, Huntsville, Schulyer Co, IL
Village of Pulaski, Augusta Township, Hancock County, Illinois
1=First Generation 2=Second Generation 3=Third Generation, etc. +=Spouse
+Harriet Eleanor Tong 1817-1884 2 James Newfield Crain 1832-1873 +Catherine “Kate” Debenham-1905 3 William Debenham Crain 1859-1936 4 Nell Crain 4 Earnest Crain 4 Ralph Crain 4 Horace Crain + Nell 5 Mabel Crain 4 Ruth Crain 4 Frank Crain 3 Horace Newfield Crain c. 1861-1937 3 Elsie Crain 1862-1864 3 Hattie Crain c. 1863- 3 Thomas c. 1864 3 Mary c. 1866- 3 Herbert c. 1869- 3 Cora c. 1870- 3 Myrtle c. 1873- 2 John Franklin Crain 1832-1872 +Margaret Howard-1914 3 John Bond Crain, MD 3 William Crain 3 Charles Newton Crain 3 Elsie Crain 3 Benjamin Crain 3 David Crain 3 Edward Crain 3 Margaret Crain 2 William Harris Crain 1834-1904 3 Annie Belle Crain 1861-1864 3 William Maurice Crain 1863-1964 +Sarah Ann Newcomb 1865-1920 4 Helen Newcomb Crain 1896- +Joseph Davenport Houghton 1895- 5 Helen Harriet Houghton 3 Hattie Crain 1865-1866 3 Frank Matthew Crain 1867-1952 4 Frannie Crain 4 Matthew Crain 4 Donald Frank Crain 1898-2003 +Gertrude Anna Resene 1900-1983 +Philip Broaddus Hawes, Sr. 1889-1960 5 Philip Broaddus Hawes, Jr. 1934- 3 Charles Crain 1869-1871 3 Harry Marshall Crain 1874-1967 +Mace Gardner 1882-1967 +Sadie Thelma Caddick 1880-1957 4 Ralph Waldo Crain, Jr. 1906 - +Anna Lacey Johnson 3 Carl Crain 1880-1882 2 Sarah Ellen Maria Crain 1838-1915 +Robert Ellis 1829-1886 2 George Crain 1840-1840 2 Mary Crain 1841-1841 2 Elizabeth Crain 1843-1843 2 Julia Crain 1845-1846 2 Harriet Eliza Crain 1847-1946 3 James Benjamin Kirk 1868 - 1966 +Lillie Helena Johnson 3 Harriet Kirk 1871 - +Charles McGinnis 3 William Kirk 1873 - +Jenny 3 Mary Kirk 1875 - +Edmund/Edward Burke 3 Effie Kirk 1877 - +Charles Nelson 3 Letha Kirk 1880 - +Husband Mitchell 3 Viva Kirk 1887 - +Glenn Weston Hansell 2 Benjamin Bacon Crain 1851-1946 +Nettie Augusta Catlin 1854-1898 * 2nd Wife of Benjamin Bacon Crain: +Nell Hess 1867-1939 +Jennie Hoadley Reed 1865-1949 3 Henry Walter Crain 1887—1971 4 Henry Walter Crain 1923—1982 4 Daughter Crain +Lelia Flay Goodson 3 Edward Benjamin Crain 1889- +Anna Gertrude McMahon 4 Edward Benjamin Crain +Helen Betty Pruitt 3 Paul Reed Crain 3 Rollin Crain +Ellen Fisher-1916 +Quincy Allphin-1889 *2nd Husband of Mary Frances Crain +John Helmick |
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Descendants of Rev. William Crain Brother of Lucy Crain Gragg, Nancy Crain Price, James Crain, Elizabeth Crain Gragg, Mary Harrison Crain McGinnis, Sarah Frances Crain and —all children of
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