Places in a Life
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Eileen Marie Hilpert Townsend
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Album captions identify Eileen and Bill at the Cinebar house and call the same place our little Cinebar house. Family caption; broad locality marker. Birth date November 11, 1923 is known from another public album caption but birthplace is not expressly stated there. Marker precision: broad locality.
Source for this place
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The Hilpert family
Eileen Marie Hilpert Townsend
Eileen was the daughter of Otto and Milly Hilpert. She married Francis Abbott Townsend, known as Frank or Bud. Their four children were Martha, Bill, Albert, and Betty Lou. Eileen preserved family photographs, letters, and stories in binders for her children—the beginning of the digital family book shared here.
- Parents
- Otto Hilpert & Milly Dortzbach
- Spouse
- Francis Abbott Townsend (Frank or Bud)
- Siblings
- Not yet established in this biography.
- Children
- Martha · Bill · Albert · Betty Lou
In the family album
Explore the photographs and memories in The Lives of Otto and Milly.
More photographs and stories will be added as we bring the family’s collection together.
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