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Child of Crague and Mildred (Byrne) Bigelow:
1555E.54331 Laura
Anne, b 15 Oct 1920
Ashland; d 11 Dec 2009 Ashland, WI; (see obit); unmarried
1555E.54332 Robert Roy, b 14 June 1922
Ashland; d _____ ; m 05 Sept 1953 Genevieve Yeager;
1555E.54333 Mary Margaret, b 10 Mar 1924
Ashland; d _____ ; m 01 Oct 1949 James Frederick Brownell;
1555E.54334 Patricia Susan, b 03 Sept 1925
Ashland; d _____ ; m 07 Oct 1950 Harry Donald Stevens;
1555E.54335 Barbara Byrne, b 25 Aug 1928
Ashland; d _____ ; m 16 June 1951 Russell John Quinlan; 3 children (FTM)
Sources:
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol II, pg 397
child;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America; pg 334 child;
vital records and probate, Defiance co., OH;
Bigelow Society Quarterly, "Forge," Oct 1988, Vol. 17, No 4, p. 76)
Laura Ann Bigelow lived at 922 Vaughan Ave, Ashland, WI 54806.
She was at Western Bigelow Reunion Aug 7-8 1999.
Obituary
Laura
Anne Biglow, age 89, of Ashland, Wisconsin, died on Friday,
December 11, 2009, at the Ashland Health & Rehabilitation Center,
in Ashland.
Laura Anne was born, on October 15, 1920, in
Ashland, the daughter and eldest of the five children of Crague C. and
Mildred M. (Byrne) Biglow. A brilliant student, she graduated from
Ashland High School at age 16, in the class of 1936. She then attended
the College of Saint Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota, earning her B.S.
degree in medical records and graduated in 1940. Following a year as
Medical Librarian in Rapid City, South Dakota, she enlisted in the
W.A.V.E.S., serving the war years at the naval hospital in San Diego,
California. After serving her country she attended Northwestern
University in Chicago, Ilinois, and graduated with a master’s degree in
public health in 1947. She served as head of records at the Staten
Island Naval Hospital, New York, New York, and retired from the P.H.S.
with the rank of Lt. Commander. Not wanting to slow down after
retirement, Laura Anne became director of education for the National
Association of Medical Record Librarians in Chicago, Illinois. In this
position, she established baccalaureate programs in universities,
colleges and junior colleges throughout the United States and its
territories. She also oversaw the curriculum for the correspondence
courses established through the Association. Upon her retirement for
the second time in 1986, she was awarded the honor of being selected as
the employee of the year by her colleagues in the National Association
of Medical Record Librarians. The award was presented to her in Boston,
Massachusetts, and attended by her family. Laura Anne loved her family
home and hosted the much looked forward to Fourth of July family
picnics each year for her extended family. She was very active and past
president of the Monday Club and she served as a member of the Ashland
Parks Committee. She was a minister of the Eucharist at Our Lady of the
Lake Catholic Church in Ashland.
Survivors include: her sister, Barbara B.
Quinlan, and her husband, Russell, of Meriden, Connecticut; her cousin,
William Biglow, and his wife, Hazel, of Ashland; and numerous nieces
and nephews.
She was preceded in death by: her parents; her
brother, Col. Robert R. Biglow, and his wife, Genevieve; her sister,
Mary Brownell, and her husband, James F.; her sister, Patricia Stevens,
and her husband, H. Donald.
A visitation, for family and friends, will be
held at the Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church, in Ashland, beginning
at 10 a.m., Wednesday, continuing until the hour of service.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11
a.m., Wednesday, December 16, 2009, at the Our Lady of the Lake
Catholic Church, in Ashland. Father Paul Pare’, O.F.M. will be the
celebrant.
Interment will take place in the Mount Hope
Cemetery, in Ashland.
Memorials are preferred and may be directed to
the Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church and School in Ashland.
Our Ashland Chapel will be assisting Laura
Anne’s family with her memorialization.
Messages of condolence, for Laura Anne‘s
family, may be left at the ’Contact Us’ page of this web site. In your
message, please include: Laura Anne’s full name, so that we may
accurately direct your message to her family; and your name, so that
her family will know from whom it came
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