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Ruth Mary Mertens at 18 years old

Updated Jun 26, 2025
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Ruth Mary Mertens at 18 years old
Probably taken when she visited her sister in Belleville, IL, the locket she is wearing, I have (I'm her granddaughter, Diane (Mason) Gray. Here she was 18 years old.
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Ruth  Mary (Mertens) Higgerson
She was bright, self-educated, industrious, energetic, clean, a fabulous cook and wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.
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Diane Gray
Graduated from Frank W. Cox High School on Great Neck Rd in Virginia Beach, VA, in 1970 when I was 17 years old.
My immediate family of four generations consists of the surnames: Mason, Higgerson, McKenzie, Norwood, Mertens, Garrison, Harris, Weckenmann, Chewning, Wimp, Merzenich, and Werz.
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