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Shared Note: - (Research):Arthur and Barbara lived in New Orleans prior to 1948; possibly still there in 1948. Information from Aunt Edna Loofbourrow's letter dated 18 Jan 1948. Barbara's husband, Arthur, was born in New Orleans, LA: his parents lived there too. Arthur and Barbara were married at the First Baptist Church, San Jose, CA. Information from Deborah Vignes, 9-15-09. MHK Arthur and Barbara moved to UT after WW2; back to Bay area in the mid 1950's when Barbara's mother, Bertha (Brown) Loofbourrow, became very ill, died in 1956. They moved to Woodland Hills, CA in 1963, where Barbara died in 1969. Arthur and his youngest daughter, Mary, moved to Redding, CA in 1976, where he passed away in 1979. This information is from 2 of his daughters, Julie Marie (Vignes) Putney and Mary Eleanor (Vignes) Cocke, 8-27-09. MHK 8-27-09 More family info from daughter, Deborah Vignes: She believes that her parents met at a USO function in the Bay area during WWII. MHK 9-12-09 More information from Deborah by email: "After WWII, my parents Arthur Henri Vignes and Barbara Jeanne Loofbourrow, lived in New Orleans, LA and then Lake Charles, LA. Jobs were difficult to come by after the war, so my parents moved to Provo, UT where he found work as the manager of the Provo Credit Bureau. We moved to Cupertino, CA about 1954 when our grandmother Bertha Brown Loofbourrow became ill. In 1961, our family moved to Woodland Hills where I graduated from El Camino Real High School and attended Pierce College. In 1975, I returned to San Jose with my sister Julie and her family."
Made change from Jeanne to Jean to match correspondance from Deb and Julie. 12/5/2009
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