1922

To supplement Harold Fraser's obituary, I'd like to share with you the following exerpts from a Burlington, (Vt.) Free Press article published some 30 years ago.

"Hal at Jubilee Farm was busy in the dairy business, but his wife Mabel was not so fully occupied.

"So, when a minister suggested they take a foster child, the idea appealed to them. Thin, little Bill, eight and a half years old and 'needing love' was the first... Bill brought so much happiness that later the Frasers took David, fifteen, hospitalized with critical burns. He proved a most welcome addition, so the family took in Stanley, eight. And two little sisters, Mary and Shirley, later joined the family. Previously, the children knew rejection, poverty, and even physical abuse. Now they were learning about God and love.

"Hal and Mabel have their compensations: The joy of a child first seeing a candlelighted personal birthday cake; Christmas with a tree gathered from their own pasture and special gifts for each child; the little child fresh from a bath confiding 'Oh, Mommy, it's so nice to be clean;' and how the heart throbs when one knows this child once slept on a dirty old coat on the dusty floor of a bare room.

"Hal says 'Without the children Mabel and I would just be old fuddy-duddies' and Mabel cheerfully adds 'I am never bored.'"

And now we gratefully bow and thank Heaven for having had Hal and Mabel Fraser in our 1922 family.

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