HER STORY
The Woodhouse Six AND THE ARMISTICE DAY BLIZZARD BY CAROLYN CORBETT Nov. 11, 1940, started out rather mild in mid-Minnesota, Mavis Galligher remembers. However, the weather changed quickly and unexpectedly. The wind became stronger and the snow heavier as the powerful winter storm intensified. And so the Armistice Day Blizzard began.
Mavis Galligher. was Mavis Woodhouse back then, a 10-year old youngster with five siblings. The children had gone off to the Pillager school that day as usual. First the weather was misty, then came the snow. An unprecedented and unforecasted amount of snow. At about 10:30 in the morning the
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