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Don Wonnell posted a condolence

Thursday, May 2, 2024

I met Jeanne around 1963 while going to college in Warrensburg MO and staying several times at her parents. Caroline Bodman was the sister of my grandmother Augot Hettelsater Brackney originally from Miss, Norway. Jeanne said she and her husband Max designed the electrical systems for the Big Max power shovel. She said the guys in engineering at KU resented her as the first woman to graduate in engineering from there, but she wouldn’t give up. Carrie’s brother Anton designed a huge number of grain elevators from the 20’s to the 60’s. Her brother Henry was an inventor in the electrical field, my grandmother Augot weighed 20 ounces at birth, but they knew how to use a wood range as a makeshift incubator. 8 kids in the family and since the mother Elise was sick a lot, my grandmother did much to raise the family. The women in that family have been exceptional, and Jeanne certainly was.

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Don wonnell posted a symbolic gesture

Monday, July 17, 2023

I met Jeanne in Overland Park in 1949 or 1950 through my grandmother Augot hettelsater brackney’s sister Caroline and bil russell bodman. I got to play baseball for several weeks there, remember Jeanne and max as very pleasant. It was said she got unheard of grades in getting a Bach and masters in electrical engineering at Kansas u. I’ve been looking off and on for years trying to find what became of them. I wrote a recount of the hettelsater’s geneology from sign og fjiordane norway on. Don wonnell, Sylvania Ohio

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A tree was planted in memory of Carolyn Johnson

Saturday, November 13, 2021

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Brendà rice lit a candle

Thursday, November 11, 2021

I'm so sorry

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Thursday, November 11, 2021

A Memorial Tree was planted for Carolyn Johnson

Monday, November 8, 2021

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Carolyn Jeanne Johnson

1925 - 2021

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Carolyn Johnson

1925 - 2021

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