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Lucme ivmrpny Witter now resides at Miramar Lodge in Pass Christian. Besides raising three children with husband Michael, Witter e /ed a long career in the banking industry both at Merchant s'and Hancock Bank.
“We all felt we were kin, but we weren’t really of course. It was just what it was like.”
Nancy Murphy
Living in Napoleon
A young Lucille Witter, the oldest of the ten children of Mary Starks and Charles B. Murphy of Napoleon. She was the only one of the ten not born on family land there.
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It is no wonder that when planes began flying low over the area around 1960, no one thought much about it. The planes were from the U.S. government and they were surveying the area to plan an acquisition of the land by eminent domain in order to build a new rocket testing facility.
“We didn’t know,” said Nancy Murphy. “The plans kept flying over low and we wondered what was going on ... we thought they might think it was as pretty as we did ... but they were looking
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