Rock County, Nebraska; Biography, Irma Genevieve Harlan

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Biography extracted for the NEGenWeb Archives by 
Bev Hopkins, yellowhawk_51@webtv.net 

Title: Rock County, Nebraska, Centennial, 1888-1988.

Published by Centennial Book Committee - 1987
Copyright 1987 by Rock County Centennial Book Committee and Rock County 
Historical Society


 Irma Genevieve Harlan was born to Evans and Mina Harlan on September 30,
 1901.  Irma attended Sybrant school, then attended Chadron State
 Teachers College for 2 years.  She taught school several years in Rock
 County.  Her husband , Ray, came from Beldon, NE, to Rock County to work
 for a ranch.  He met Irma while working in the Sybrant Community.  They
 were married and went to Denton, Montana, where they ran a dairy for 3
 years.  they sold out the dairy and moved to Randolph, Ne and were
 engaged in farming there.  After several years they came to Bassett to
 the ranch of her parents to live and run the ranch.

 After the death of Irma's parents, they bought the home place and lived
 there until they retired in 1970.  They bought a home in Bassett and
 sold the ranch to Irma's nephew, Elmer Harlan.

 Ray and Irma had no children of their own but nieces and nephews stayed
 with them in the summer months and enjoyed their Aunt Irma's good
 cooking and they loved their Uncle Ray.  Ray passed away at the Rock
 County Hospital May 6, 1975; Irma lived on in their Bassett home until
 the time of her death of leukemia, February 28, 1981 at the Atkinson
 Memorial Hospital.
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