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Images courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.
Estelle's big sister, Lillie, was about 12 years old when she wrote out this arch little poem (which was in general circulation at the time, but I can't identify any specific source). You can see the family resemblance in the two sisters' handwriting, though Lillie's naturally is under better control.
Here is Lillie's senior portrait, from the Hobart High School Aurora yearbook for 1916:
Lillian's obituary, which ran in the Hobart Gazette of March 26, 1980, described her as "a retired Hobart Elementary School teacher and a Hobart resident prior to her retirement twelve years ago to Phoenix, Ariz." She had died March 18 in Phoenix. Her husband, John Gresser, had died the previous September; his obituary (Hobart Gazette, Sept. 26, 1979) described him as "a popular Hobart barber for 40 years and a resident for 71 years." I do not know when they married. It appears that they had no children.
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