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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 10: Strong Women: Anna M. (Sullivan) Hork

I am working on this year-long prompt, hosted by  Amy Johnson Crow . I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either  Mam-ma’s Southern Family  or at  My Trails Into the Past . I’m looking forward to writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. One of the strongest women I know in my family was my grandmother, Anne Marie Sullivan Hork. When Anna was twenty years old, her mother died. [1]   She was attending the Montana State Normal College in Dillon, Montana, where she played basketball, volleyball, and sang in the Glee Club. [2]   She then spent her time teaching. Anna is the front row on the far left (in sepia tone) I don't know how she met her future husband, William Cyril Hork, but they married 22 November 1922 in Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana. [3]   They then moved to southern California.  William Cyril had been stationed in Long Beach during World War I and probably found the climate better th...