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The Walter and Eleanor Gillen Story

As Told By Their Children

by Virginia Gillen Poole and Sherry Gillen Butcher Belmonte

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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.

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Paperback
Format: 6.14 x 9.21 Color Paperback, 294 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (May 31, 2023)
ISBN10: 1977260985
ISBN13: 9781977260987
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical

Author Information...

Virginia Gillen Poole and Sherry Gillen Butcher Belmonte



Virginia “Ginger” Poole was born in Toledo, Ohio, and worked at the U.S. Navy Headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, for 36 years. She retired as the business financial manager for the chief engineer in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition). She is enjoying retirement with her husband of 42 years and lives in Alexandria, Virginia, near George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate. When she’s not writing, she enjoys family and friends, golf, bridge, 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.
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