Dirt Farmer's Son

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Terry A. Maurer. Dirt Farmer's Son

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Dirt Farmer's Son

A True Story: 1942 ? 2020

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It wasn’t until 2011 in Redwood City, California, when Mary Ann and I were visiting the Powers’ daughter, Barb Kirkpatrick, when I asked her who it was I met in Battle Creek, Michigan, twenty-five years earlier at her parents’ farm. It didn’t take long to figure out that it was her great uncle, Lauren Munson—wife was Mae from Monroe, Michigan, who moved my uncle Doc and his father to Roscommon in 1930. Munson owned a general store in Monroe and had no children. Uncle Doc’s mother had died earlier of what I don’t know, maybe from the flu of 1918. They are all now buried in the big cemetery on Front Street in Monroe, Michigan. It is the same cemetery where the IHM nuns are buried. There is a very large marker near their site for a Maurer. Must be a distant Maurer to my dad’s family, which was from the Nashville and Hastings, Michigan, area.

Actually, my grandpa Laurence Maurer and his father, I think Jacob, are both buried in Hastings. There is a Godfroy Street in Monroe, just south and adjacent to the IHM motherhouse and St. Mary’s Academy, and the old military school where I spent six years of my life. That academy was called the Hall of the Divine Child (HDC), and in 1985 it became Norman Towers retirement home. The Hall was closed due to declining enrollment and the high cost of lay teachers after the Second Vatican Council.

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