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View Tree for Virginia Marilyn FischerVirginia Marilyn Fischer (b. March 10, 1914, d. July 23, 1997)


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Virginia Marilyn Fischer (daughter of Ernest Ewald Fischer and Bess Gay Oldfield)167, 168 was born March 10, 1914 in Blue Island, IL169, 170, and died July 23, 1997 in Eau CLaire, Wisconsin171, 172. She married Palmer James Kosmo on September 01, 1937 in Eau CLaire, Wisconsin173, son of John Kosmo and Ida Haug.

 Includes NotesNotes for Virginia Marilyn Fischer:
[Kosmo Family.FTW]

Virginia was born in Blue Island, IL and grew up in the Italian section on the west side of Chicago. She often told stories of the difficult, but exciting years growing up in the midst of the gangster dominated area of Chicago during the Prohibition Era. Virginia, or Ginger as she was known in the Windy City, loved the big city and flourished at McKinley High School, but in her senior year in high school her parents announced that they were moving to Eau Claire, WI. It was 1932 and the Great Depression had put her father out of work and forced him to return home to Eau Claire to join his brother in the familly harness and canvas awning business. Virginia may have understood the reasons for the move but it appears that she certainly was not happy. Writing about the move in her later years it is clear that she saw it as a life changing event, one of several difficult challenges she was to encounter.

"I was a senior in high school." she wrote. "It was with mixed emotions I finished my final year at Eau Claire High. In Chicago I was to graduate in January 1933. I was one of the editors of our school newspaper and our schools's pick for a scholarship to the Chicago Art Institute. Each class in the city sent their most artistically inclinded student there for study and I was the choice from McKinley. Instead, I moved to Eau Claire and found many of my classes did not transfer. Spanish was not taught there and didn't transfer. Advance math also was required, but I did not have it. I had never heard of finals. In Chicago we were tested quarterly and never again. Suddenly I was involved in finals. Instead a January graduation I had to make up credits. I did not graduate until June and at that time I had 38 credits. Although 32 credits were needed to finish, some of mine didn't fit the Eau Claire requirements. My diploma read 'Special Diploma.' They said I could stay another year for math and a different foreign language because Spanish and my art classes did not count. I took the 'Special Diploma' and left. Besides, it was 'special'."




More About Virginia Marilyn Fischer and Palmer James Kosmo:
Marriage: September 01, 1937, Eau CLaire, Wisconsin.173

Children of Virginia Marilyn Fischer and Palmer James Kosmo are:
  1. +James Stephen Kosmo.
  2. +Sandee Diane Kosmo.
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