Maurice and Annabel Crook were born at Iola, Kansas. They grew up and married
  there in 1923. In 1925 they moved to Medicine Lodge where Maurice was employed
  by the Best Bros. Keene Cement Company. Annabel's parents, Felix and Beulah Casey,
  had moved to Medicine Lodge a litle earlier. Felix, also, was employed at Best. Bros.
     During their residence in Medicine Lodge, the two families lived together, and for
  the purpose of this history, were one family. In 1926 they built a home on West
  Kansas Aveenue which was the family home until Beulah's death in 1951.
     A few years after Best Bros. became a part of National Gypsum Company, Maurice
  was transferred for a short time to Belefonte, Pennsylvania in 1942, during World
  War II, they returned to Medicine Lodge and Maurice became Plant Manager while
  Dudley Chads was away at Blue Bonnet Ordance Plant in Texas. In 1943, Maurice was
  transfered to Fort Dodge, Iowa, and then, in 1944, to Buffalo, New York, as Assistant
  and later Chief Engineer. He retired in 1966. Felix moved to their home in Buffalo,
  after Beulah's death,, and died there in 1953.
     Maurice and Annabel had one daughter, Helen Frances, who was born at Medicine
  Lodge in 1925. Helen attended Medicine Lodge schools, graduating from High  School
  in 1943. While in High School Helen became interested in journalism and was employed
  part time, during school years, at the Barber County Index. After moving to Fort
  Dodge, she attended Junior College and later, became a reporter for the Fort Dodge
  Messenger, continuing in this vocation until her death in 1963 in an automobile
  accident. Helen married Franklin Strode in 1944, and they had a son and a daughter.
  Duane is employed at Iowa City, Iowa, as a counselor in State institutional work.
  Deborah is a teacher in the Alaska State Schools at Barrows, Alaska. Franklin died
  in 1965.
     The family church affiliation at Medicine Lodge was with the First Methodist
  Church. Maurice was active in Masonic work and Annabel in OES. She was librarian
  for thirteen years at Lincoln Library. She was also active in club work, having
  been a charter member of the Self Culture Club.
     Annabel and Maurice arrived too late to qualify as covered wagon settlers but did
  make their entrance in a 1924 Ford Coupe, sharing it with two large white collies.
  One of their first memories is that, while driving up Main Street, then unpaved,
  they were welcomed by several large Russian thistles rolling before a strong north
  wind. Another vivid memory is that of living through an extended period with only
  candles and oil lamps for lighting, after the city light plant burned in 1925. They
  now live in Lawrence, Kansas, where Maurice is a graduate student at the University,
  and Annabel is actibe in the Hospital Auxiliary.
     They thouroughly enjoyed living in Medicine Lodge and have many fond memories of
  their experiences and of the many wonderful people they were privileged to know.
   
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 144