Lorena Hickok
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Her mother died [[Sep 16]], 1906 in Bowdle, [[South Dakota]] of a stroke, leaving her husband and three daughters: Lorena, Ruby and Myrtle. Doris Faber prints in her book, the obituary of Anna (Waite) Hickok from the Sep 20 issue of the Bowdle ''Pioneer''. About fifteen months later, on [[Jan 1]], 1908, her father Addison married again to Emma Flashman in Brown County, South Dakota. | Her mother died [[Sep 16]], 1906 in Bowdle, [[South Dakota]] of a stroke, leaving her husband and three daughters: Lorena, Ruby and Myrtle. Doris Faber prints in her book, the obituary of Anna (Waite) Hickok from the Sep 20 issue of the Bowdle ''Pioneer''. About fifteen months later, on [[Jan 1]], 1908, her father Addison married again to Emma Flashman in Brown County, South Dakota. | ||
| − | + | Lorena is reported to have been an extra step-daughter in a family who didn't really care for her. Her father abusive and violent, her step-mother detached and uninterested. Lorena found her own way by working sometimes as a live-in housemaid until she moved in with remote family members. Lorena started in journalism and this is eventually how she managed to meet Eleanor Roosevelt. Some biographers of both her and Eleanor state that they clearly had a romantic and probably sexual relationship, others are not quite so committed to the sexual nature, including Eleanor's daughter Anna. | |
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| + | Lorena Hickok died [[May 1]], 1968, age seventy-five. | ||
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