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Essie Goins:1972, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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       Essie Beatrice Manson Goins was born on June 19th, 1936 to Willa (Broadus) Manson and John Wiley Manson in Macon, Georgia. She had a brother named John Jr. who was three years older. In the 1940 census her father worked at a bottling plant.    By 1950, the family had traveled north and settled in Allegheny County. They are still a family of four. John Manson worked driving a refuse truck for the city. John Jr. was 16 and Essie was 13. Essie’s mother, Willa, was called “Willie” on both those census documents.       Essie grew up and married James Burton Goins. They had three children: Victor, Monica and Mark.  Mr. Goins worked as a maintenance man Allderdice high school.        In 1972 Essie Beatrice Goins was working for the State of Pennsylvania as an investigator for the Department of Public Assistance. This was not just a job, but a career. Essie and John’s children were teenage...
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Kathryn Bevington:1972, Akron, Ohio

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       Kathryn Louise Wiltrout was born on May 31st, 1945 in Sidney, Nebraska. Her parents were Doris and Robert Wiltrout. That’s in Cheyenne County which is way out in Western Nebraska. Interstate 80 runs past it. I have driven that stretch of I-80 but I must admit that I did not recall Sidney, Nebraska. Looking at the map you can see that Lodgepole Creek runs through the town.  I imagine the town grew up there because of the water supply. The railroad likely came along next and then the Interstate came about a century later.     By 1950, the Wiltrout family was living in Akron, Ohio according to the 1950 Census.    Kathryn Wiltrout married Jay Bevington in 1963 when she was 17 and he was 20. Jay was in the AirForce at the time. They had been high school sweethearts at Coventry High School.   Kathryn Bevington was a young mother in 1972. She and Jay had a son and a daughter.    Kathryn took on a job ...
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Bobbie Lee Wells:1980, Swanton, Ohio

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       Bobbie Lee Dorough Wells was born in Alabama on the 16th of November 1949 to Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Dorough of Pell City, Alabama . Bobbie was born into a large family. She had four sisters and five brothers.  Bobbie married Larry Wells. They lived in Taylor, Michigan . They had a daughter named Renée. Renee was grown and married by 1980. She and her husband also lived in Taylor, Michigan.    Bobbie Lee Wells was working in the medical field, it seems, in her last year of life. I found a photo of her in her nurses uniform on her Find-a-Grave profile .    Taylor, Michigan is a nice town.  It’s a suburb of Detroit. It’s just a couple minutes north of Flat Rock, Michigan .    On February 19th, 1980, Bobbie Lee Wells disappeared. I didn’t see anything about the time of day that she disappeared but I am going to guess that she was leaving work after an evening shift.        One of...
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