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Howard County Genealogical Society reorganizes, receives gift from Gene Waters

Posted 10/6/21

The Howard County Missouri Genealogical Society (HCGS) was saddened by the sudden death of long time president Harold H. Kerr II in early August, and recently reorganized.

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Howard County Genealogical Society reorganizes, receives gift from Gene Waters

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The Howard County Missouri Genealogical Society (HCGS) was saddened by the sudden death of long time president Harold H. Kerr II in early August, and recently reorganized.

HGCS exists to further the study of local family history and to aid members in genealogical research. The society maintains the Glenn & Betty Collier Research Room at the Fayette Public Library in Fayette, and provides on-site research help on Friday afternoons or by appointment.

Bylaws  have been written, new officers elected, and a website has been created. Recently elected officers are: president, J. Y. Miller; vice president, Kathy Jo Biswell-Brady; treasurer, John Coutts; secretary, Gwen Wilder; and secretary emeritus, Patsy Miller.

Gene Waters of Kansas City visited HGCS on September 23 and presented the society with six boxes of historical material, representing over 40 years of his research on family histories. Much of the work is compiled in a four volume book which is on a DVD, which he also presented to the society. Waters also made a cash donation.

The material was accepted by society president J. Y. Miller. Family information included in the research material covers several Howard County families: including, among others: Robb, Dennis, Creason, Dixon, Magruder, Lesley, Graves, Creach, Morris, Padgett, Wiley, and Roseberry. 

Waters related how he met his first wife, Patsy Robb, in the old Mattingly’s Store in Fayette when he was a Central College Sophomore and she was a Fayette High School student in 1951. The result was a happy marriage that lasted until Patsy’s death in 2007.

For more information or to join HGCS, contact any officer, send an email to hcgsrequest@gmail.com, or visit the webpage at jymiller.net/HCGS.html. Dues are $12/year, which entitles members to all privileges of membership including a subscription to the quarterly newsletter. 

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