Mike, you should write a book ... wow!Donna
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On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 8:20 AM, Karen Hutmacher<karenm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mike, I did know that law enforcement families lived in the old jail (which
some folks think looked like the Addams Family house!). I'm sorry you went
thru such disruption so early in life. I for one, however, am very glad that
you landed in Freeport. Otherwise, you would not have been part of the Great
FHS Pretzel Class of 1965 and our group would never have gotten to know you!
Karen
On 12/1/2022 5:27 AM, Michael Brose (no1knows47) wrote:
On this date in 1958 the Our Lady Of Angles school burned in Chicago killing
91 students. That scared the snot out of me because at that time I was
attending First Ward School in Freeport. It was a building similar to the
Chicago school, except the Chicago school was two stories high and First Ward
was three stories tall. It looked very similar to the Chicago school and I
worried about First Ward having a fire. My life wasn't all that great at that
time. My parents divorced in 1956 and my mother, brother, and I moved from
Kankakee to Freeport where my mother's sister lived with her husband in of all
places, the Stephenson County Jail. My uncle was Chief Deputy and they lived
in an apartment that was inside the jail building. We moved to an apartment a
block north of the jail and I started attending First Ward in the 4th grade.
Okay, enough for now, just part of my interesting life.
Mike
