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Blizzard Aftermath

July 2024
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You might be interested in an additional fact regarding Elbern Coons’s article “Blizzard.” That same year, 1931, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Holly, Colorado, raised the money for a monument in memory of the five children and bus driver who had lost their lives. The monument was dedicated on October 7, 1931, and placed near the graves of the blizzard victims in the Holly Cemetery.

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