Clara was born in West Point NE. When she was very young her family moved to Kansas where her father helped settle Luray KS. She told stories of the trip from West Point to Luray by wagon. It was accomplished in the spring and it was VERY cold! She said her father used to cut the frozen bread in the morning with an axe! Once in Luray her father taught all four children to play musical instruments so he could have a dance band. Clara played violin, piano, and coronet.
She was the fourth of 4 children born to Frank Pospishil and Martha Ann Reeson. She married Robert Charles Albach on 24 October 1903 in Russell County KS. They continued to farm on the Pospishil homestead near Luray and had three children. About 1915 Clara & Robert divorced and Clara married Bill Dillon on 11 November 1916. They also remained on the homestead and had three children but the dust bowl of the 30s drove them out of Kansas and into southern Wyoming where they homesteaded on Browns Hill near Baggs WY. In 1937 they divorced and Clara kept the homestead.
After the war (WWII) she moved to California to help her daughter, Roberta, manage the apartment building that Roberta and her husband, Hugh Farquharson, owned in Alameda CA. When they sold the apartment building they purchased The Traveler's Motel in Williams CA and Clara lived there until Hugh died in 1955. At that point she moved to live with another daughter, Willadine, to help raise Willadine's two boys. They lived in Clear Lake CA for awhile and then they moved to Wheatland WY and made a final move to Lompoc CA in 1965.
She was the fourth of 4 children born to Frank Pospishil and Martha Ann Reeson. She married Robert Charles Albach on 24 October 1903 in Russell County KS. They continued to farm on the Pospishil homestead near Luray and had three children. About 1915 Clara & Robert divorced and Clara married Bill Dillon on 11 November 1916. They also remained on the homestead and had three children but the dust bowl of the 30s drove them out of Kansas and into southern Wyoming where they homesteaded on Browns Hill near Baggs WY. In 1937 they divorced and Clara kept the homestead.
After the war (WWII) she moved to California to help her daughter, Roberta, manage the apartment building that Roberta and her husband, Hugh Farquharson, owned in Alameda CA. When they sold the apartment building they purchased The Traveler's Motel in Williams CA and Clara lived there until Hugh died in 1955. At that point she moved to live with another daughter, Willadine, to help raise Willadine's two boys. They lived in Clear Lake CA for awhile and then they moved to Wheatland WY and made a final move to Lompoc CA in 1965.
Clara was born in West Point NE. When she was very young her family moved to Kansas where her father helped settle Luray KS. She told stories of the trip from West Point to Luray by wagon. It was accomplished in the spring and it was VERY cold! She said her father used to cut the frozen bread in the morning with an axe! Once in Luray her father taught all four children to play musical instruments so he could have a dance band. Clara played violin, piano, and coronet.
She was the fourth of 4 children born to Frank Pospishil and Martha Ann Reeson. She married Robert Charles Albach on 24 October 1903 in Russell County KS. They continued to farm on the Pospishil homestead near Luray and had three children. About 1915 Clara & Robert divorced and Clara married Bill Dillon on 11 November 1916. They also remained on the homestead and had three children but the dust bowl of the 30s drove them out of Kansas and into southern Wyoming where they homesteaded on Browns Hill near Baggs WY. In 1937 they divorced and Clara kept the homestead.
After the war (WWII) she moved to California to help her daughter, Roberta, manage the apartment building that Roberta and her husband, Hugh Farquharson, owned in Alameda CA. When they sold the apartment building they purchased The Traveler's Motel in Williams CA and Clara lived there until Hugh died in 1955. At that point she moved to live with another daughter, Willadine, to help raise Willadine's two boys. They lived in Clear Lake CA for awhile and then they moved to Wheatland WY and made a final move to Lompoc CA in 1965.
She was the fourth of 4 children born to Frank Pospishil and Martha Ann Reeson. She married Robert Charles Albach on 24 October 1903 in Russell County KS. They continued to farm on the Pospishil homestead near Luray and had three children. About 1915 Clara & Robert divorced and Clara married Bill Dillon on 11 November 1916. They also remained on the homestead and had three children but the dust bowl of the 30s drove them out of Kansas and into southern Wyoming where they homesteaded on Browns Hill near Baggs WY. In 1937 they divorced and Clara kept the homestead.
After the war (WWII) she moved to California to help her daughter, Roberta, manage the apartment building that Roberta and her husband, Hugh Farquharson, owned in Alameda CA. When they sold the apartment building they purchased The Traveler's Motel in Williams CA and Clara lived there until Hugh died in 1955. At that point she moved to live with another daughter, Willadine, to help raise Willadine's two boys. They lived in Clear Lake CA for awhile and then they moved to Wheatland WY and made a final move to Lompoc CA in 1965.
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