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From: sufred <>
Subject: Re: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Shirley RATHBUN has passed
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:36:43 -0400
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Thank you Betty for this obituary information. Shirley will be sadly
missed by many. Susan

Betty wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I was just reading this morning's "Lowell Sun," and discovered a name on the
>Obituaries page which I recognized. It is sad to read that Shirley
>Rathbun has passed. As part of the obituary says:
>
>"Mrs. Rathbun was very active in the genealogical community in Lowell, doing
>much volunteer work at both the Pollard Library, and at the Center for
>Lowell History over the course of many years."
>
>I just checked the archives of the Nova Scotia List to see if I was
>remembering correctly, and Shirley was the researcher who provided that List
>with the names of people at the "Tewksbury Almshouse" who had been born in
>Nova Scotia. She was active on that List for several years.
>
>Shirley was only 65, so she must have suffered a serious illness before her
>passing.
>
>www.lowellsun.com
>
>Oh, I just noticed in the obituary that her husband was the Rev. Robert
>Rathbun, a pastor of a Baptist Church in Lowell.
>
>Shrley will be missed.
>
>
>Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA)
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