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Growing up on the Farm
As retold by Doug Boilesen, son of Betty Ann Barr Boilesen Betty was born on August 26, 1924 in Elba, Nebraska in 1924 on a 650 acre ranch by a river and lots of cottonwood trees.
Baby Betty
In later years she would speak fondly of that river ranch which they unfortunately lost during the Depression.
Betty on right holding young niece Marjorie's hand on farmhouse porch, ca. 1929.
L-R Betty Ann and Nina
June 1929 on the farm (Betty on left)
Anna and Betty on a visit, 1929
Betty's dad Manley with his horses on the Elba Ranch.
They would move to another farm where Betty would go to school in Cotesfield until she went to Grand Island High School for her Junior and Senior years instead of Cotesfield High School since her mother thought she would get a better education in a larger school.
1934 as a student in Cotesfield
Fotomat circa 1935
Fotomat 1937
Fotomat 1938
Betty holding young child at Cotesfield school, 1937.
May 1939 (age 14).
On the farm ca.1940.
Manley and Anna's Elba Farm, February 1940. L-R Jessie B. Tucker, Mrs. Henry Barr (Maude), Manley Barr, Francel Airth Barr Philson, Anna Barr, Lila Tucker
On the farm ca.1941.
Fishing near the farm.
Axel visiting the farm while courting.
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