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Marriage: Children:
  1. John Patrick O'Gorman: Birth: 12 MAR 1929 in St Louis, Missouri, USA. Death: 21 NOV 2003 in St Louis, Missouri, USA

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Sources
1. Title:   Mass Card
2. Title:   Aunt Lucile O'Gorman
3. Title:   Zeitz.FTW

Notes
a. Note:   H00020
Note:   Notes from Joan Zeitz: I talked to Aunt Lucile about where they lived, etc. She said they came back to St. Louis from Nebraska shortly before Grandpa Carpentier died. When he died they moved in with G&G Hannagan, She was only 3 years old at the time. She mentioned Grand & Lee but I'm not sure if that is where they lived then or if that was later. She says she remembered when Aunt Li got married - that's Elizabeth - who married John Royal and had Dorothy. They ran away to get married, then he died and she & Dorothy moved back to the Hannagan household. Dorothy was about 11 years old at the time. Aunt Annie was married to Austin King & had a son Austin. When Austin Sr. died, Annie moved back home & brought Austin Jr. with her. Grandma Carpentier got a job at a little store behind (I think she said) the Knights of Columbus hall. She told me the name of the man at the time we were talking but I don't remember now what it was and how the hell she remembers! Anywho, she said they sold cigars, candy, etc. and that Grandma C would help Grandma H with the kids during the day and then go to work in the afternoon and work until midnight. I do remember Dad telling about Grandma C working late and how his dog - Buffy (I think that was the name Aunt Lucile said) - would go to the bus stop every night and meet her to walk her home. Anyway, she finally got the civil service job and went to Muskogee, OK. She originally took Dad with her and he was staying at a home run by the brothers. Grandma didn't feel they were caring for him properly and the nun at the Ursuline Academy told her he could come down there. That way he could go to school and live with the farm hands and other men who worked around the grounds. She taught in OK and in Horton, Kansas. She had gotten the flu but thought she was over it. She took the Indians to Mass on Sunday in an open buckboard. She contracted double pneumonia and died. After her funeral, the kids went back to Arcadia for a year until Aunt Lucile finished school. She then went to work for the Royals who had a heating business. Aunt Betty & Dad went to St. Mark's to finish their schooling. According to Aunt Lucile, Grandpa Hannagan was a stowaway on a ship from Ireland. She says he was helped by a man named O'Fallon. He settle in O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska on a land grant and lived in a sod house. Aunt Lucile said the Grandpa Hannagan brought his parents, sisters and brother from Ireland to the United States once he was settled here. I asked her what she remembered about him and what he did for a living. She told about how they were in the Cathedral parish but actually lived closer to St. Mark's and how they would all walk to church together. She said he drove for Wells Fargo and that in those days stores were open on Sundays, at least during the holidays. She remembers one of the aunts or someone telling about how he didn't like to have to stop for pedestrians as he went flying through downtown St. Louis. She didn't know why he went to Nebraska originally and didn't say how he ended up here in St. Louis.


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