Dorothy Agnes Drugan ^{2 3 4 5}

  General Notes:

Miss Dorothy Drugan is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Nels Haggerty at Freeport, Ill.

(Source: Winona Republican-Herald, Winona, MN, 9 Jun 1942, page 1 1)
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  Birth Notes:

Trempealeau County Birth Records, Vol. 20, page 477.
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  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1930 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 3 May 1930. ³

1930 US Census
Sheet 5A, Roll 2614, District 24, Household 131
Trempealeau, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
Home owned, $1500
Dorothy Drugan..Daughter..5..WI
(Living with parents.)
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• She appeared on the 1940 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 26 April 1940. ⁴

1940 US Census
Sheet 7B, Roll 4529, District 61-24, Family 163
Trempealeau, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
home owned, value $800
Residence in 1935: Same House
Dorothy Drugan..Daughter..16..WI..10th grade
(Living with parents.)
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• Her obituary was published in the La Crosse Tribune on 3 June 2015 in La Crosse, WI.

GALESVILLE '97 Dorothy A. Smith of Galesville passed away Monday, June 1, 2015, at Gundersen Health System in La Crosse. She had only been in a hospital nine other times, when she gave birth to her children.

Dorothy was born Aug. 7, 1924, to Hubert and Olive Drugan. She was raised in Trempealeau and graduated from Trempealeau High School. Dorothy married Brookes Smith Oct. 17, 1945, at St. Bartholomew Catholic Church in Trempealeau. Their marriage was blessed by nine children: Patricia Eichman (Gerald), Barbara Jacobson (deceased) (Kent), Kathleen Kujak, Bonnie Truax (William), Mary Schubert (Ray, deceased), Rebecca Harris (Robert), Sandra Salsman (David), Michael Smith (Nancy) and Daniel Smith (Paula); 27 grandchildren; and 27 great-grandchildren.

She is survived by her husband of 69 years; eight children; sisters, Gen Rogness, Evelyn Jessessky and Loretta (Duane) Johnson; and sister-in-law, Helen Drugan.

She was preceded in death by her brothers, Hubert, James and Leo Drugan; sisters, Elizabeth Hammond and Catherine Drugan; and brothers-in-law, Robert Hammond, Jim Rogness and Louis Jessessky.

Mom always had coffee and treats ready. She made everyone feel welcome and loved having such a large family. She would proudly tell everyone she had seven daughters first and then two sons. She will be missed by all of us, she was a wonderful wife, mother and grandmother.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 4, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Galesville, with Father Woodrow Pace officiating. Burial will follow in Pine Cliff Cemetery. Her grandchildren will serve as pallbearers. Friends may call prior to the service from noon to 2 p.m. at the church. Assisting the family is Zwickey Funeral Homes, Galesville Chapel.

(Source: La Crosse Tribune, La Crosse, Wisconsin, 3 June 2015)
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• She was buried on 4 June 2015 in the Pine Cliff Cemetery in Galesville, WI.

Find a Grave Memorial 193626351
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Dorothy married Brookes D. Smith, son of Edward Detmold Smith and Bertha Nordstrom, on 17 October 1945 in Trempealeau, WI.¹ (Brookes D. Smith was born on 18 September 1922 in , Trempealeau County, WI,^{6 7} died on 9 January 2016 in La Crosse, WI ⁷ and was buried after 9 January 2016 in Pine Cliff Cemetery, Galesville, WI ⁷.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They resided in Galesville, WI in September 1949.
In the September 1949 obituary for Hubert Drugan, it mentioned that Dorothy and Brooks were from Galesville, Wisconsin.
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  Marriage Notes:

Marriage license: October 17, 1945, Vol. 11, Page 230, Trempealeau County Recorded Marriages (Whitehall, Wisconsin).
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Brookes & Dorothy Smith, Galesville, Wis. celebrated their 60th anniversary Oct. 17. They were married at St. Bartholomew's Catholic Church in Trempealeau, Wisconsin in 1945.

They have nine children: Patricia (Gerry) Eichman, Washburn, Wis.; Barbara (Kent) Jacobson, Ettrick, Wis.; Kathy Kujak, Fountain City, Wis.; Bonnie (William) Truax, Galesville, Wis.; Mary (Ray) Schubert, Galesville; Rebecca (Robert) Harris, Trempealeau, Wis.; Sandra (David) Salsman, Ettrick; Michael Smith (Nancy), Trempealeau; Daniel (Paula) Smith, Galesville.

They have 27 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren.

The couple owns and operates Brookes Implement in Galesville.

(Source: La Crosse Tribune, La Crosse, WI, 24 Oct 2005)
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