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Edwin M. & Eleanor
W. Harris |
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Edwin M. Harris was working in the refinery in Alton, Illinois when he was
offered a job in Aruba. He was a widower with two children and the
Aruba offer was lucrative and he moved to Aruba in 1929. His children
Adair and Clarence attended school in Aruba. Adair married a Sorrenberg
(son of another family working at Lago) and had two children in Aruba before
moving to the "States." Clarence went off to college in Ohio and
obtained an engineering degree. He then moved to New Jersey and
married. |
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grandfather, Karl E. Dahlberg and my Uncle Elof Dahlberg both worked on the
construction of the refinery. My mother, Eleanor W. Dahlberg
went down to Aruba to visit them in 1934 and met my father, Edwin M.
Harris. They were married in 1935 in Aruba. They had
four children, all born in Aruba at the colony hospital. |
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four children are;
me, Elna M. Harris (1936), my sister Myrna G. Harris (1939), and two
brothers, Gary E. Harris (1941)and Howard M. Harris (1943). |
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all went to Aruba colony schools until my father retired at the end of 1951.
I was the exception to the rule, I went off to boarding school in the eighth
grade and returned to the Aruba school system for one semester before my
father retired. Our family stayed on Aruba during the WW II. |
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Submitted by: Elna
Harris King |
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See Bungalows
347 &
305 |
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