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| Helen (Cooke) Roberts (r) reading to her half sister, Constance Cooke |
Helen Raeder Cooke, was the older sister of my grandmother, Ruth Eaton (Cooke) Carpenter. Helen was born on February 21, 1892 in Attleborough, Massachusetts and died in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on October 4, 1987. She is my grand aunt.
Helen was a nurse and was married to Dr. Frederick A. Roberts of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
The date of this photograph is circa 1930 when Constance Cooke was about 4 years old. Constance was a child of Helen's father, Walter Wilson Cooke (1869 - 1944), and his second wife, Flora Sayle. Walter's first wife, the mother of Helen, my grandmother and four other children, was Florence Leonette Flagg. "Nettie," as she was called, died in 1904 having been predeceased by both her sons who died in infancy.
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Original photograph in the collection of the author.
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Copyright 2013. John D. Tew
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