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Note: N7 As I write this, in 1996, Eva is 98 years old, blind but still fully in possession of her faculties, living in an old folks’ home in Beach, North Dakota. It is to her and to her daughter, Mary Jane Rice (“Janey”) of Barnsdall, Oklahoma, that I owe much of the Ginsbach family history. Janey visits Eva at least twice a year, in spite of the distance. Eva is another of the sweet, kind, and loving Ginsbach daughters. They must have taken after their mother, who was so universally loved; it was Eva that told me that when the children got rambunctious, her father Jacob would make them go out and run around the house, even in the bitter subzero winters of North Dakota. I never knew her husband George, who died before I came upon the scene. Janey and I have communicated frequently about the family tree, and we finally met in 2001, when she and Claude visited us in Albuquerque. I have not met any of Eva’s other children. --One year later, Eva died, nearly 99 years old. Her daughter Mary Jane sent me the folder that was handed out at her funeral. Her pallbearers were Tom, Hank, and Alvin Franzen, and Lee, Jeff, Clint, Clay, and Charles Nagel. Her biography, as given in the pamphlet, is as follows: Eva Louise Ginsbach was born on January 16, 1898 in Milbank, South Dakota, where she was reared and received her education. She was the third child of six born to the union of Mary Ann Gfroerer and Jacob B. Ginsbach. The family moved to Centuria, Wisconsin in 1915, and one year later, Eva came to North Dakota to teach [at] the Green River School near Willmen. Eva Married George Patrick Carr, a rancher, on June 4, 1917 in Centuria, Wisconsin. George and Eva lived in Billings County, North Dakota, raising their five children on the CCC ranch, located thirty-two miles north of Medora on the Little Missouri River. In 1950, due to very cold winters and George’s poor health, they moved to Pawhuska, Oklahoma where they remained until George’s death in 1958. Eva then moved to Olympia, Washington, helping her siblings care for their mother; residing there five years before returning to North Dakota in 1963. She lived with her daughter and son-in-law, the Gene Gunkel family, in Beach and Towner, North Dakota. In 1965, Eva purchased a home in New Salem, North Dakota, living there for twenty-two years. She was very active in the Pioneer Club, the St. Pius Catholic Church, and was an avid gardener. Mrs Carr became legally blind in 1987, and she moved to the Golden Valley Manor retirement home in Beach, until a month ago, when she was hospitalized and transferred to Elm Crest Nursing Home in New Salem, North Dakota. She died there with her daughter and son-in-law, Beth and Fred Nagel, at her bedside. [She] died ... twelve days before her 99th birthday. She was active up until a month ago, when her heart began to fail.… [Omitted immediate family survivors] She is also survived by twenty-one grandchildren, fifty-eight great grandchildren and fifteen great great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, four sisters, one brother, her husband, George Carr, and one grandson, Tim Franzen.
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