Hogle Family:

Doctor William Milo Hogle was born on October 4th, 1873 in Winterset, Iowa to Peter Cartwright Hogle and Mary Louise Harper. He went to medical school at the Keokuk Medical College in Keokuk, Iowa and graduated with degrees in medicine and surgery in 1901. Clara May Conrad was born on March 12, 1874 in Warren County, Iowa to Samuel Wesley Conrad and Florence Guy. She entered the nurses training course at the Graham Hospital in Keokuk, Iowa in 1902. She was the only student in her class and was the first to graduate from the new program. The two met while in school together and married in 1903. William moved to Des Moines, Iowa to teach at Drake University in 1908 after it acquired the Keokuk Medical College. That same year, Frances Hogle was born to the couple. A few years later he moved back to Keokuk to start up his own practice. On July 28, 1912 Charles Streeter Hogle was born in Keokuk under the ministrations of his father. During World War II Doctor Hogle became the local examining physician for those entering service. He also took on the patients of doctors who enlisted or were drafted. He died in 1947 of a heart attack. Clara Conrad Hogle continued to work as a part time nurse until her death in 1958.

Frances Hogle was born in Keokuk Iowa on April 7, 1908 to William Hogle and Clara Conrad Hogle. She grew up in Keokuk and moved to Iowa City to attend the State University of Iowa (now the University of Iowa) in 1929. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1930 and took a job as a music and history teacher in Monona, Iowa. After a year, she returned to college and received a Master of Arts degree. She got another teaching position in Waukon, Iowa after graduation.

Fellows Family:

Judge Liberty Eaton Fellows was born in Corinth Vermont in 1834 to Hubbard and Mary Ann Fellows. In 1857 he moved to Allamakee County, Iowa. He became a member of the Iowa Senate and retired the judge of the thirteenth judicial district in 1899. He married Mary S. Reed in 1861. They had eight children together. L. E. Fellows died in 1912 and Mary Fellows died in 1922. Their second child, Albert Milton Fellows, was born on March 1, 1864 in Lansing, Iowa. He became the head of a lumber company and owned a controlling share of the People’s State Bank in Lansing. He married Elise Smith in 1899 and together they had six children, Kenneth Fellows being the youngest. A. M. Fellows was elected as and Iowa State Senator in 1912 and 1916. He died in 1932 and she passed in 1959.

William Kenneth “Ken” Fellows was born In Lansing, Iowa on August 19, 1908 to Albert M. Fellows and Elise Smith Fellows. He moved to Iowa city in his teens to study business at the State University of Iowa and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1931. He took a job as a newspaper reporter in Waukon, Iowa and eventually met Frances Hogle during an alumni get together. The two were married in Keokuk, Iowa on June 19, 1935.

They decided to purchase the weekly newspaper, The Alice Echo, of Alice, Texas right before their wedding and the couple moved there immediately after the nuptials. Elise Ann Fellows was born in 1936. Then the couple decided to take an offer for the Alice Echo and move back to Keokuk to be closer to Frances Fellows' parents. In Keokuk, they had three more children, Carol Frances Fellows in 1940 and twins Richard Kenneth and William Charles Fellows in 1941. The family moved back to Texas the year the twins were born, following Kenneth Fellows’ new job with the Houston Natural Gas Corporation. Both Kenneth and Frances remained in Houston for the rest of their lives. He died February 17, 1992. She passed on July 29, 2001.

Elise Ann Fellows, known as Ann, was born on October 5, 1936 in Alice, Texas to Frances and Kenneth Fellows. After graduating from San Jacinto High School in Houston, Texas in 1954, she went to the State University of Iowa. She was a member of Alpha Delta Pi and graduated in 1958 with a degree in Political Science. She moved to New York City soon after and worked as a typist and copy desk clerk. In 1960, she participated in Operation Crossroads Africa in Sierra Leone improving roads. After that summer Fellows moved to Indiana to work as a journalist and public relations coordinator at the Lake County Public Library. And in 1968 she chose to spend two years in Australia. In 1969 she married John Christenson with her sister Carol officiating. They lived in Rockledge, Florida where John worked as a librarian for the Brevard County Federated Library System. Nathaniel Odin Christenson was born in 1970 to the couple followed two years later by Kate Christenson. In 1974 the family moved to Good Thunder, Minnesota. Ann Fellows Christenson continued to work as a free-lance writer while her husband worked as a librarian and as the town mayor. In 2005 the retired couple moved to Iowa City, Iowa to be closer to their adult children. There they participated in social movements such as the Rally to Restore Sanity in 2010. Ann Fellows joined 100 Grannies, a non-profit organization that works towards green energy and sustainability.

Carol Frances Fellows was born on February 17, 1940 to Frances and Kenneth Fellows in Keokuk, Iowa. Her early life had several medical complications from an atrial septal defect and Marcus Gunn Syndrome variant. While at San Jacinto High School she was part of the Golden Gauchos Drill Team and went to the first ever Girl Scout Roundup in 1956. After graduation she was admitted to Stanford University in Stanford, California. Her first semester of her sophomore year was spent at Stanford in Germany studying German and liberal arts. Carol graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts in German and history. Sher returned to Germany for another year to study at Phillips-Universität in Marburg, Germany. She then studied philosophical theology at Southern Methodist University, graduating first in her class with a Bachelor of Divinity degree, was ordained, then spent a year as a German theological translator. Her final degree came from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in 1972 with a Doctor of Medicine. In 1977, Carol Fellows moved to Casper, Wyoming and started work as the first radiation oncologist in the state. In 1979, she co-founded the Central Wyoming Cancer Center and Hospice Program. She was the director of the center until 1987 when she became the Chief of Staff to Mike Sullivan, the Governor of Wyoming. In 1989, she moved two Kalamath Falls, Oregon to found the Merle West Medical Center (now Sky Lakes). She was married twice, to Henry C. Louderbough in 1973 and to Tim Bewley in 2007. She retired in 2005 and she focused on her work with the local Rotary club, founding a local Branch of First Harvest, initiating a first-grade literacy program, and working to get prosthetic mechanical hands to those in need.