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Barbara’s Autobiography
Barbara Smucker was born in Kansas in 1915 and attended school there through university. Her
careers have been numerous. They include: newspaper reporter, bookstore saleslady, high school
teaching, librarian, author, mother of three children, and now, grandmother of four. Her places of
residence have been just as numerous. Her family has lived in New Jersey, Illinois, England,
Mississippi, and Canada since 1969-their longest place of residence. She and her husband are dual
citizens of Canada and the United States of America. Her U.S. address in Bluffton, Ohio, her
husbands hometown. In 1993, they retired there, and return to Canada every spring.
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