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Beverly Rose Potts:1951, Cleveland, Ohio

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       Beverly Rose Potts was born on April 15th 1941. Her parents were Elizabeth Treuer Potts and Robert Potts.  Beverly’s parents had been born in 1899. They lived at 11304 Linnet  Avenue on Cleveland’s west side. Robert Potts worked at The Allen Theater as a stage hand. Beverly had an older sister named Anita Lois Potts born in 1929.    Beverly was ten in the Summer of 1951. Anita was already a graduate of Notre Dame and was working as a secretary at the National Cash Register Company in Cleveland.    Beverly had spent several weeks of the summer with her cousins in Hudson, Ohio. That’s a little town south of Cleveland. She went swimming often there and even took lessons. She and her great aunt went blackberry picking. She played with her cousins and neighbors there. Her family took the last photos of her there that summer. She returned home to Cleveland in late August.    August 24th, 1951 was a Friday....
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Ruby Mays:1982, Dayton, Ohio

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       Ruby Mays was born on August 5th, 1962 to Jean F. Mays and James Mays.    She grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana on the Northside. She attended Westlane Middle School and went on to high school at North Central High School. She had a younger sister named Marjean.   (My youngest child graduated from North Central there in 2020.) (Herb Baumeister, serial killer, went to high school there. So did Jared Fogel who became famous for eating Subway sandwiches and went to jail for possessing and trading child sexual abuse materials.) It is not a bad school. It’s just very big and has been operating for many decades. It’s also smack in the middle of the Midwest.    Her parents divorced at some point and her father remarried. Ruby’s Dad, James, and her stepmother, Jo Ellen, lived in Logansport, Indiana.    Ruby and her mother moved to Dayton before her high school graduation and Ruby graduated from Meadowdale H...
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