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The parents of Everett were Guy Hendrickson and Lillian Sutlif.
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The parents of Phyllis were "Bill" Harvey and Mary Austin.
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Harry was a very successful salesman for a large distributor to hardware stores. He was proudly regarded as a friend by everyone who knew him.
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Carol authored the genealogical book "L.D. Miles" toward which she devoted many years of research. Nearly all of what appears in this book for the Miles ancestral line has been extracted from her work. Carol wrote this for me about herself in July 2005:
I was born in Elkhart Co, IN, Feb. 22, 1923, at the farmhouse of my paternal grandparents, George and Maud Bickel. My parents were Myron Perry Bickel and Mabel B. Miles. I was only five years old when in the spring of 1929 my maternal grandfather, L. D. Miles, lost a renter on one of his farms and my parents decided to move to South Dakota and farm for him.
I attended country school, graduated from Conde High School, and received a RN degree from St. Luke's School of Nursing. This was a three year program with only two weeks off each year. We had no nurses aides and no maids to clean the rooms but we learned well and St. L:uke's nurses had no problem finding jobs. My third year I joined the US Cadet Nurse Program, agreeing to be a supervisor of a department my last six months. The nuns gave me three choices, Diet Kitchen, (I didn't think the nun really wanted me as I had curdled the tomato soup and also a big pan of custard during my previous six weeks rotation there ), Surgery, (No way - That nun literally pulled you around.), and Pediatrics, a perfect match for me. This program was instituted to relieve the RNs so they could join the army. We were paid $50. a month and had our tution paid. I felt like I was rolling in money. My professional career included working in a Doctor's office, eighteen years as School nurse at Northern State College, and later in Occupational and Physical Therapy departments at St. Luke's.
I married Harry Cramer of Aberdeen, who died in 1979, and we had three children: James Perry, Joan Carol and Lyn Patrice. All are married and doing well. I have three grandsons and acquired two more, Adam and Ryan Vink, when Joan married [second] Marshall Vink.
Jim married Corinne Aaker of Redfield, SD and they have two of my grandsons, Ryan, who married Karen Yost, and Austin who is not married. Joan has one [natural] son Jason who has completed four years in the US Air Force and is now attending college. Jim, Corinne and Ryan live in Atlanta and Austin lives in Richmond VA. [Joan and Lyn live in the Minneapolis area]
My mother died in 1991 and I moved to Minneapolis to be near my daughters. I visit Jim and Corinne at least once a year and they come to Minnesota often. I have had a good life.
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Indeed she has and continues to have "a good life". At the age of eighty-five Carol's mind is still plenty sharp and her sense of humor is acute. She is a delight to have a conversation with and she can still out-walk people twenty years her junior. Always a good looking lady in good physical shape in her youth, she is still that as a very senior citizen.
Carol is a great cook and delights in setting a wonderful table but she also appreciates a good restaurant. She is still active in researching the genealogy of her family and is presently concentrating on her father's ancestry. She still does her research the "old fashioned way" by reading the actual source material in research libraries; she is frequently to be found in Salt Lake City using the vast library resources of the Mormon Church there.