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Kathleen
Kilgallon (left) and Bonnie Hunt Perry (a great-grandniece of Annie
Oakley)
inspect the hand
written letter from Annie Oakley’s husband to his brother,
Will, discussing Annie’s final illness.
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Garst
Museum
Museum
Receives Donation of Annie Oakley Items
In
honor of Annie Oakley’s birthday week, The Annie Oakley Center
Foundation, in
Greenville, Ohio presented three Annie Oakley related documents to The
Annie
Oakley Center at Garst Museum.
Eileen
Litchfield, president of The Annie Oakley Center Foundation said,
“These new
artifacts complement the existing exhibit at The National Annie Oakley
Center
at the Garst Museum.” Included
in the
presentation are a handwritten letter from Annie Oakley’s husband Frank
Butler,
to his brother, Will, about Annie’s final illness, a letter, a postcard
and two
envelopes from Frank Butler to his brother in which Frank contradicts a
false
newspaper story that Annie had died and a poem about hunting in
Florida, with a
postscript in Frank Butler’s hand.
The
Annie Oakley Center Foundation is an independent non-profit
organization that
supports The National Annie Oakley Center at the Garst Museum in
Greenville,
Ohio.
The
Garst Museum and The National Annie Oakley Center are located at:
205
N. Broadway, Greenville, OH 45331
web
site: www.garstmuseum.org
email:
information@garstmuseum.org
For
more information about Annie Oakley and the Foundation,
www.annieoakleycenterfoundation.org
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