The Walter and Eleanor Gillen Story by Virginia Gillen Poole and Sherry Gillen Butcher Belmonte, published by Outskirts Press

The Walter and Eleanor Gillen Story

As Told By Their Children

by Virginia Gillen Poole and Sherry Gillen Butcher Belmonte

The Walter and Eleanor Gillen Story

As Told By Their Children

by Virginia Gillen Poole and Sherry Gillen Butcher Belmonte

Published May 31, 2023
294 Pages
6.14 x 9.21 Color Paperback
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical

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Book Details

Who better to tell the story of Walter and Eleanor Gillen than two of the couple’s eight children—Virginia Poole and Sherry Belmonte—who take the reader through four generations in this family biography, where love is a four-letter word and no skeletons have been found in their closets. And almost every one of the siblings participated in the book’s creation. The memoir unfolds with Walter’s and Eleanor’s childhoods in the early 1900s and then examines the many challenges of raising a large family, concluding with the family’s emigration from Germany. Replete with tales, trials, and tribulations, The Walter and Eleanor Gillen Story focuses on Midwestern lifestyles and family values.

About the Author

Virginia Gillen Poole and Sherry Gillen Butcher Belmonte

Virginia “Ginger” Poole went to airline school after high school. When the airlines went on strike she was offered a job at the US Navy Headquarters in Arlington, Virginia and enjoyed a 36-year career with the Navy. She was married to Captain James Poole for 43 years. She is currently active in church and community activities and enjoys famil and friends, golf, bridge, euchre, traveling by car, and landscaping.

Sherry Belmonte and a roommate headed to Wyoming after college to have an adventure and start their first jobs. Sherry was a therapeutic recreation specialist at the Wyoming State Hospital for 11 years and a mail carrier for 20 years. She is active in church and community activities and loves traveling. She raised three children and thoroughly enjoys them and her grandchildren and staying connected to all her extended family.