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Note: BIO:Born in Oakland, California on June 16, 1898. During the Great San Francisco earthquake of 1905, she stayed with the family of a Baptist
Evangelist. Her father did not like the consequences of this sojourne and
so kidnapped her and took her to Arizona. There he placed her in a convent
for her safe keeping. Somewhere around 1915 to 1918, she met and married
Thomas Francis Gannon (Sr) of Chicago area. They lived in that area where
he worked for the U.S.Post Office driving an armored car. At that time, it
was customary for the postal system to transfer money between banks and
businesses. After one particularly deadly robbery on Thomas' route,
Genevieve vowed that if he lived they would leave. As it turned out, he
was on another route that day. But, she prevailed and took a job in Santa
Clara, California. He became the Postmaster in ____ and worked there until
his death in 1942.
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