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Looking back at history that cannot be changed

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Alturas, CA— "On September 17, 1938: Two deer hunters met death in Modoc County. Mrs. Barbara Thompson (O'Malley) of Malin, OR was fatally shot near Higrade, New Pine Creek. She had gone hunting with her husband, Lester Thompson and a friend John Stewart, also of Malin, OR. Officials said Stewart mistook Mrs. Barbara Irene Thompson (O'Malley) for a deer and fired the fatal shot. Her body was taken to Klamath Falls, OR. Authorities attributed the other casualty, W.O. Vincent of Santa Rosa, to a heart attack." Eighty years to the day the granddaughter of John Stewart, of Malin, OR made contact with me, the grandson of Barbara Irene O'Malley (Thompson) of Malin, OR. The son of Edith Kathryn Garland (Donaldson) buried in Eternal Hills, OR. Seven miles from Barbara Irene O'Malley who is buried at Mt. Laki Cemetery, Klamath Falls, OR, next to James and Kathryn Thompson, the parents of Lester Thompson the husband at the time to Barbara Irene O'Malley who