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Faithful Withee Mennonite family buries fire victims
Five Lauder children aged 7 months to 10 years were buried in a single grave near Meadowbrook Church after a Dec 20 fire destroyed their Longwood farm home. Parents Ammon and Ellen Lauder survived with four older children Linda 12 Lois 11 Marlene 8 and Glenn 7. Mourners from several states attended the service as caskets lay center church, three open, while relatives filed by in quiet reverence.
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Meadowbrook
Thorp
Linda
Lois
Marlene
Glenn
Leon
Ammon Jr
Ellen
Loren
Wilma