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 Hulda
E. (Roggerman) Fitzpatrick was born in Dundee,
Michigan in August of 1886. She was the second child
of Charles
and Louisa (Raymond or Rehman) Roggerman.
She was a 1904 graduate of Dundee High School and married Albert Olsmond Fitzpatrick in Monroe, Michigan on January
22, 1908. Hulda worked for some time as a teacher at
a rural, one-room school in the Dundee area.
According to the U.S. Census in 1920, they were living in Elk Rapids,
Michigan but by 1922, their residence was Savannah,
Georgia. An article in the Dundee Reporter has her
living in Venice, California in 1928. Hulda died in Los Angeles, California
on January 24, 1932 at the age of 45.
The couple had three
children:
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Signoa Irene Fitzpatrick
(1908-1956)
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Elizabeth Louise Kelley
(1911-1973)
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Dorothea H. Harshale
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I
must admit that I had very little first hand
knowledge about my mother's ancestors. There was an
occasional mention of her Uncle George Roggeman or
her Uncle Len Roggerman but I don't recall ever
hearing anything about an Aunt Hulda. From what I
have found so far, it seems that she led a very
different life from the rest of the family.
Aunt
Roggerman or Roggeman or Roggermann? In U.S. Census forms, the name is
listed as either Roggerman or Roggeman. With the exception of
