Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living comfortably in Roxton Pond, Que., had a profitable trucking business and a pretty dark-haired bride of two days. When he returned that night, his world had suddenly collapsed. His wife, Lucile, had left him to go back to her mother. Nicol knew what that meant. A Baptist, he had courted Lucile, a Roman Catholic, for seven years before eloping with her to Vermont. His widowed mother-in-law, Mme. Oviline Charrois Labrecque, made it clear that she was determined to break up the marriage...
Graduated in 1946 from the University of Nebraska's College of Medicine in Omaha, Dr. Reeves served a year's internship at Southern Baptist Hospital in New Orleans, then cast about for a place to settle where he would feel at home. An advertisement in the Journal of the American Medical Association took him to Callaway, Neb., as assistant to a general practitioner. The young doctor had to make several calls in nearby Arnold, where a doctor had recently died. He liked the place, and within a few weeks moved...