As Thanksgiving nears, memories of bygone ones arise

Mary Wakefield Buxton

by Mary Wakefield Buxton –

URBANNA —

That Thanksgiving in 1945 as World War II was winding down, I was 4 years old living with my family in Vermilion, Ohio. We planned to spend Thanksgiving with my great-grandmother, Franc Horton Parsons, who lived with her daughter, Grace, on Elber Avenue in Lakewood.

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