I just pulled an obit for Jack Pennock of Longmont, who died in 1993. I received the request from the RAOGK website. There was also a 2nd article about Mr. Pennock in a 1988 newspaper:
By Kaye Bache-Snyder
Times-Call CorresponentOut on east ninth Avenue past Fox Hill Country Club golf course, a black, wrought-iron arch on two poles reads, “PEN-O-TEX.” Up the driveway are an historic farmhouse, barns, three topless silos and fields spread out behind.
And, Jack Pennock of Longmont is sure his rag doll “Billie” is tucked away somewhere in the farmhouse walls.
Pennock, 65, remembers his favorite toy as fondly as his childhood on that farm, where he lived from 1923 to 1939
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It turns out that the Pennocks sold the farm in 1940 to “some well-heeled Texans”. I’m not sure what happened next, but the farmhouse and barn are still there. They are now architectural accents to the neighborhood that I live it. I haven’t seen “Billie” lying around anywhere, but I’m sure going to keep my eyes open.
Pennock Barn?
30 April 2009
History (personal and otherwise), it’s amazing what little things are the stars in that sky. The 1910 farmhouse we remodeled had WWII scrip behind some of the baseboards and a complete history of every wallpaper trend from 1910 through 1980 something. We could tell almost to the year the last time carpet was put down in the living room (1957), and dining ( early 70’s indoor/ outdoor peacock blue and green). No toys were found but “ghosting” the house remuddles through the years was a lot of fun, though not as much fun as tearing the remuddles out and getting it back to some of it’s original glory.