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| Location unknown ca. 1950 - Maybe in Kansas or Oklahoma |
UPDATE: Location for above photos has been positively linked to a Kansas Methodist facility.
Saint Joseph's Industrial School and Orphanage, and later Home for the Aged, Bethany, Oklahoma.
It opened in 1912 and by the time it closed in the 1965 several thousand children, and aged, had been cared for by the facility.
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| Location unknown ca. 1950 - Maybe in Kansas or Oklahoma |
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| "Did you hear about the reunion...?" |
Over the decades many orders of religious were in residence at St. Joseph. These included :The Sisters of Mercy, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, the Sisters of the Most Blessed Trinity, the Carmelites, Benedictines, and Missionary Sisters of the Most Blessed Trinity. These will be individually profiled in upcoming entries, as well as their role in Oklahoma history.