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Lena Rivers married at 18 to Milo Proper, Jan. 23, 1899 in Highgate, Vt. ( marriage Licence VTstate vital records)
Lena Rivers, Highgate ,VT Jan.28, 1889, first marriage, age 18; born Highgate, VT ; Father George Rivers; Mother - Ellen Brooks; Pastor M E Church, Higate E Church.
Obit Holyoke October 9,1942
Mrs. Lena (Rivers) Proper Widow of Milo Proper, died suddenly of a heart attack last evening in her home, assoc. medical examiner Edmund J Zielinski was called. Mrs. Proper was a native of Highgate Springs, VT, and during the last 18 years had lived in Holyoke.
She leaves four daughters, Mable ( Mrs. William Kurtz), Mrs, Joseph Giroux,(Holyoke), Mrs Alvin Mattson(Syracuse,NY), Mrs. Albert Revoir (Wilma ST Albans, VT), son Gordan ( Harwick, VT),: four sisters Mrs.Fred Bryant of this city, Miss Florance Rivers of Springfield, Mrs. Margret Kennedy of Chicopee, and Mrs Fred Keens Of New Haven, CT., also 12 grandchildren.
The Funeral will be held from C. Blais & Son funeral home, arrangements are incomplete.
Lena is buried in Forestdale Cemetary, Holyoke, Mass up the road from her mothers & son's grave.
Lena and Milo lost two sons before age one - Milo and Ronald. Milo is buried with his grandmother Mary Ellen Brooks Rivers 1858 - 1904.
Lena was a very good looking young woman from an early photo of the family.
Lena move the family to Holyoke, MA about 1924 to be near her sisters.
Sheldon, VT Sheldon is a very isolated and with a countryside view of rolling hills and farms with most raising cows on the land. The town hall is small and a one woman office with good records of vital statistics of all the town peoples. As you drive into the area you see homes that are modern ranches mixed in with the 1930 and older homes all living close to the road for easy access to the highway. The farms dominate the area that has brooks and streams. There are stands of trees at the back of the farms that may have been left that way by the earlier settlers whose land grants required them to clear so many acres and leave the balance of the land grant untouched. It is very relacksing to drive through the country side and view the area. --- Earl Dugan 1997
Lena is buried in Forestdale cematary S6 7 row and 5 gaves in. off the same road as Mother- Mary Ellen Brooks buried in plot # 558 (second road from the left to the end and out to the street area) with Milo Proper who died October 4, 1904 - Lena�s son.
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