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Church honors Giles family

Posted under Burnsville,News on Thursday 31 March 2011 at 1:46 pm

First Spirit of St. John’s Award honors Ed, Loretta, children

by John Gessner
Thisweek Newspapers

Family and faith mattered most to Ed and Loretta Giles. Milk cows and vegetables were somewhere on the list, depending on the era.

After all, it’s not easy sending nine kids to Catholic school.

“If anybody gave him a piece of ground or land, he would plant it in vegetables,” said Denise Williamson, one of four Giles daughters. “We had to weed or harvest. We sold our vegetables. We used that money to pay for our tuition, and we would buy our (school) uniforms with it.”

Leftover produce, Williamson said, went to the nuns and priest at their parish, St. John the Baptist in Savage, where the kids attended school until their teen years at Holy Angels in Richfield. (more…)


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