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Roots Generation 2

.....a.  Eleanor Frances ROOTS m. Reinhard Hans SCHUMANN.  

.....b.  Loretta Rea ROOTS (1936 in China - 1988 in MI).  She attended British boarding school with Eleanor until the Communists drove the entire family out of China in the spring of 1951, when they returned to America.  She m. Donald Emery LIBBY (1926 in WA - present) in 1967 in MI. She died due to an automobile accident æ 52.  Loretta was a long-time volunteer for the MRA.  Don m. 2) Barbara T. BEAL (1930 in London, England - present) in 1990.

.....c.  Dr. Logan Herbert ROOTS, II M.D. (1939 in China -  present) m. Joy Ellen WALDRON (1942 in MA - present) in 1962 in MA.  Logan moved from China to Mt. Kisko, NY in June 1951.  He obtained his A.B. degree in 1961.  He received his M.D. MA in June 1966.  Joy was University when she met Logan.  They married, and had 2 children, and moved to West Africa in September 1968 for a 2 1/2 year post with the CDC/AID to eradicate smallpox.  The venture was successful.  A third child was born 3 months after arrival in Africa.  In June 1970 the family moved to Washington where they lived for 3 years.  They moved again to NM in May 1973.  
                Joy was raised in Massachusetts and taught French and Spanish.  She taught herself to play the guitar in 1969, then began a successful 10-year career in folk and pop singing.  She obtained her B.A. in English, cum laude, in 1977.  Logan and Joy divorced in 1976. (Ancestral blood line)
                Logan m. Karen KISTENMACHER in 1989.  

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