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stories by Evelyn Milligan Jones ~ illustrations by Betty Nolan
edited by Dorothea Hoover ~ published by Harrigan House 1962, 1968
Tales About Joplin: Short and Tall
Book Review by Tom Blaise de Shepherd
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Betty Nolan Wilson was the illustrator for Tales About Joplin: Short and Tall, a collection of stories authored by Evelyn Milligan Jones and published by Dorothea Hoover in 1962 and 1968. She is an alumna of Joplin High School, of Drury College and the Famous Artists Correspondence School based in Westport, Connecticut.
Betty's father was John Dolan, a Joplin attorney, who died her childhood. Her mother was Elizabeth Hale Dolan, sales clerk and manager of Richards, a Joplin dress shop owned by Mark Ettinger.
Betty married Ralph Lauder Nolan in 1928. A nephew of early-day bachelor industrialist Tom O'Connor, Ralph Nolan served as manager of the Joplin Municipal Airport and as president of the Connor Real Estate Investment Co. Following Ralph's death, Betty married recent divorce' Alan S. Wilson Jr., who died of complications resulting from alcoholism in 1987. According to Betty, Alan proposed marriage to her prior to his divorce.
Betty Nolan is the mother of John Keith Nolan, Lakeville, Conn. attorney, and of Thomas Connor Nolan II, former president of the family-owned Security National Bank & Trust Co. of Joplin.
In 1967 Thomas Connor Nolan II received a 6-month prison sentence for violating bank regulations. In 1982 he received another prison sentence for forgery.
Betty Nolan Wilson and her son Tom Nolan were later charged with defaming the reputation of several Joplin people, to include an attorney, by creating and distributing malicious pornographic smut.
The Blaise Family (right): Dudley E. Blaise, E. F. "Gene" Blaise, Clara Olive Snyder Blaise (Seated Left) and Marie Blaise (Seated Right) Gardens of Xochimilco, Mexico City 1939.
The Blaises are owners of El Cedro Mining Co., Guanajuato, Mexico. E. F. Blaise was president (1929 to 1936) of Admiralty Zinc Co., later acquired by Eagle Picher Co. Gene Blaise was also a pioneer Tulsa independent oil baron (Chaser & Cushing Oil Cos.) and bank owner (Farmers National Bank of Tulsa). Blaise was a nephew of Okla. Terr. Supreme Court Justice Bayard Taylor Hainer. He was a grandson of Judge Ignace Hainer, Hungarian general and statesman and University of Missouri professor of modern languages.
She Raised Thousands for Charity & for Medical Research Over the Years
Victim of Surgical Medical Malpractice ~ of Slander ~ of Coverup by Corrupt Physicians and Lawyers
Bio Family Photos School & Medical 1976 Obituary Guanajuato Home
Joplin Youth Leader John Shepherd Dies Homeless
~ Was Honor Student From Elementary School Through College ~
Fraternity Brother of Joseph Newman, Pete Blair and George Blackburn
~ Suffered From Brain Tumor Complications ~ Seizures ~ Neglect ~
Was Abducted, Battered, Terrorized by Male & Female Classmates During Early Childhood
Tommy Havens threw a rock at him, while he was riding his bike, hitting him in the head.
The Rosenberg brothers, Jay and Myron, and two other neighbors abducted,
tied up and physically battered John when he was only 12 years old.
Others, including Bucky Jeans, Bob Thornhill, Jim Dailey
and Billy Christman repeatedly mocked him.
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The Shepherd Home
816 Richmond Road
Joplin, Missouri
1950-1957
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Helen (Mrs. Sol) Newman,
Clara Olive (Mrs. Charles) Shepherd,
Mary (Mrs. Dan) Stanley
framed Globe clipping here
Lady Clara Olive
Blaise Shepherd
Tom Shepherd and Lynn Newcomb
Navidad 1953 1954 Later Years
Tom Shepherd a/k/a Tommy Separdi
The Blaise Family
The Snyder-Shepherd Family
Biographies of
Betty Nolan Wilson - Conness Blair - Clara Olive Shepherd - Peach Craig Fox - Delpha Eberle
Miss Boyington Plans to Wed Next Month - August 1959.
~ Prospective Groom Was Arrested for Stealing Hubcaps in 1956 ~.
He Was Accused of Soliciting a Younger Neighbor for a Homosexual Act,
Then Afterwards Torturing the Same Boy for Refusing to Comply.
Former City Prosecutor Bob Richart Arrested
~ Charged With Duplicating a Demoral Prescription ~
Colleague Judge Dismisses Charge on 'Technicality'
~ Richart Soon After Elected President of Missouri Bar Association ~
Joplin Surgeon's Gay Son Repeatedly Molested Neighbors
Victim Seeks Damages for 1953-54 Assaults, Battery, Defamation
and other stories
North Joplin & Roanoke Edition
To Hon. John Snyder Blaise Shepherd
Mexico en la Piel
Mexico! Mexico! Te lleva en el corazon
Luis Miguel Canciones de Mexico Tom Miguel
Mexico! Mexico! Me brota la inspiracion.
por siempre
a gift from brother tom
Guanajuato
Tour of the Post Home in Eastmoreland - Joplin
View of the Minnie & Frank Childress Home
& Grandson Emery Carlyn Childress Jr.
Joplin, MO Lady Helen Mitchell Monterey
Great Aunt of Thomas Mitchell Shepherd