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 She Lived to be 100!
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By Michelle
In Novel Notes of Local Lore
Posted June 18, 2026

She Lived to be 100!

Tereza Hlavacek was born on August 15, 1895 in what was then called Bohemia, the part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that later became Czechoslovakia.  Her parents were Dobroslav and Marie [...]

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 From the Luftwaffe to Chicago Tool and Die
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By Michelle
In Novel Notes of Local Lore
Posted June 11, 2026

From the Luftwaffe to Chicago Tool and Die

Deiderich Muller was born on July 27, 1921 in Dortmund, Germany to Adolf and Elisabeth Muller. Elisabeth had been married before to a man named Karl Achterberg and had one child with him, Ada, [...]

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 “It’s Not The Real Albert”
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By Michelle
In Novel Notes of Local Lore
Posted June 4, 2026

“It’s Not The Real Albert”

Albert Daelman was born on September 5, 1916 on a farm in LaSalle, Illinois to Ernst and Willemina Daelman, Dutch immigrants.  Ernst was a farmer and was what Albert describes as “a hard-working [...]

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