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Show 90 th Anniversary . Cora Amelia Tucker will be hon- ored on her 90th birthday with a ', family dinner at the home of her ; son, Norman Ator, on Oct. 18. ; MRS. TL'CKER has lived in . I'armington for five years after '; moving here with her family from. '.; Quincy, III. She also has a daughter, daugh-ter, Carolyn Kirkpatrick, who lives j' in liountilul. She was born in East Prairie, Missouri. Her parents both died :" when she was five years old. After their death she was sent to an orphanage in St. Louis, Mo. where she lived until she was adopted by ; her foster parents of Pleasant Hill. 111. She had three sisters and two brothers and the other children 5. were also placed in foster homes. ! ; THROUGH the local newspaper f and the efforts of her brother, jj Robert, all of the children were reunited except for the older V brother, Sam, whose whereabouts 3 were never known and all efforts to find him were futile. t' She married Ray Ator in f Pleasant Hill. He died in 1966. She r later married Charles Tucker I whom she met while working at the I , iV' Ay,- I',; - f J' CORA AMELIA TUCKER State Hospital in Kankakee, III. He passed away in 1970. SHE ENJOYS gardening and until un-til recently made many quilts and crocheted afghans. She has five grandchildren and sixteen greatgrandchildren. |