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Leona McLain
Sunday, March 11, 2007
An era has ended. The youngest and only remaining child of 11 born to Herman and Mary Klostermann Kirchhoff, early pioneers in the Egypt Mills area, died Saturday, March 10, 2007. Leona Malinda Kirchhoff McLain was born Sept. 24, 1909. Her grandfather, Henry W. Kirchhoff, is co-credited with naming Egypt Mills. McLain lived on the farm where she was born until moving to the Lutheran Home in August of 2004. She attended Egypt Mills Grade School and High School.
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