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Margaret Martha Holthouse
Born: 22 February, 1913 Jonesboro, AR
Died:
27 May, 2001 Houston, TX
Married: Lawrence Bernard Feldhaus 30 Apr 1936 in Lawrenceburg
TN
He was born 8 May 1907 in Lawrenceburg TN and Died 30 Dec 1987 in
Lawrenceburg TN
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Lawrence, Margaret and me 1937
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Margaret is the daughter of Bernard Godfrey and Nelle Williams Holthouse. She is my Mother.
Margaret and her sister Maude are in the picture on the right and below.
Margaret graduated from high school in 1930. Her father had always promised to send her to college at Peabody in
Nashville TN, but because of the market crash in 1929 and the uncertainty of the business climate, he reneged on the promise.
She instead was sent to Martin College in nearby Pulaski TN with a wardrobe sewn by her Mother.
She was embarrassed by the handmade clothing and shortly returned home.
She then attended business school in Nashville for a year, afterwards taking a job with the Federal Land
Bank in Louisville where she took evening and night classes at the University of Louisville Law School.
She married Lawrence Bernard Feldhaus in Lawrenceburg, TN in 1936 and began four years of nomadic living as her husband
traveled around the south from one brick laying job to another.
The picture above is of her, her brother Bob, her husband Lawrence, and Bob's son Heath.
In 1941 her husband took a job with Reynolds Aluminum Company in Sheffield, AL where he worked until he retired.
They lived in Lawrenceburg and he commuted 45 miles each way every day while she raised a family of four boys and two girls.
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Virginia, Mother, Dad, Moma Nelle, Pop and Frank Dunn
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1959 - Virginia, Frank holding his sister Mary Ann, Mother
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The first daughter, Margaret Nelle, contracted encephalitis at age two and remained in a coma until she died at age eighteen
on 4 February, 1959. During all those years she remained at home and was cared for by Margaret.
Margaret remained in Lawrenceburg most of her life. She enjoyed being near her parents and her friends. After
Lawrence died in May of 1987 she continued to live in her house in spite of requiring three hip replacements.
At about 84 years of age she sold the house and moved to Pueblo, CO to live with her daughter. After a couple of
years they moved to Houston, TX where she lived until she died at 88 years of age after a short illness.
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