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87 Year Old Ma Doherty Reflects On Life In Cedar Rapids
The Dec 22 1965 Citizen Times feature 87 year old Ma Doherty recounts a life in Cedar Rapids, including a University of Iowa student who stayed with her and a fatal auto accident involving a close friend of her grand-nephews. She celebrates 12 grand nieces and nephews and her 52 years in the same neighborhood, noting plans to offer her property as a park playground. Her unfulfilled ambitions are to send her youngest grand-nephew to college and to vote for Bob Johnson for Governor.
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