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&#13;
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&#13;
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Rena was selected to be one of two deputies for Jesse D. Funkhouser, then a Shenandoah County Treasurer. Many other Northern Virginia Articles chronicle her community involvement over the course of her years in Woodstock.&#13;
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The couple did not have children and Rena’s death certificate notes she was divorced and living in Woodstock when she died. At the time of her death, she worked as a secretary in a nursing home. She was well into her seventies by then.</text>
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&#13;
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&#13;
In 1999 the Shenandoah County Historical Society acquired over 31,000 of these negatives from the estate of local collector Charles D. Bauserman. Volunteers from the historical society worked over the next several decades to house, number, and scan each image. This effort resulted in over two tons of Morrison plates and negatives being processed and digitized. &#13;
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&#13;
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                  <text>A special thanks to Tracy McMahon for her dedicated work entering metadata for this collection. </text>
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                  <text>Copyright for these images is held by the Shenandoah County Historical Society. Contact the Shenandoah County Historical Society (www.https://www.shenandoahcountyhistoricalsociety.org/) for permission to utilize images commercially, for high resolution scans, or for prints. </text>
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                <text>Portrait photograph of Rena Helen (Barr) Botkin posed looking to the side, in profile.&#13;
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Rena was born in rural Woodstock to William Kirby (1864-1925) and Laura Frances (Wilkins) (1867-1941) Barr, a farming couple. She lost her father as a teenager and in both the 1930 and 1940 censuses, she and her widowed mother lived with her older sister, Myrtle, and her husband, Clarke W. Kibler, on a farm along Route 11 in the Stonewall District of Shenandoah County.&#13;
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For many years, she worked as a secretary for Philip Williams, a Shenandoah County Attorney and Commonwealth’s Attorney in Woodstock.&#13;
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She moved to Washington D.C. at some point in the 1940’s and by 1950, she was working as a secretary for a congressional office and living on C St. SE. A Northern Virginia Daily newspaper article from January 1956 noted she had worked for Congressman A. Willis Robertson and later, Congressman Burr P. Harrison.&#13;
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Rena was already in her forties when she married in 1953. A detailed article in the Northern Virginia Daily (on 7 July 1953, page 4) described the event: “Of wide interest, not only in Woodstock and Shenandoah County, but also among Democratic political circles in Washington D.C.”&#13;
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Her husband was William Harrison Botkin, Jr. (1920-1966), a travelling salesman for Emerson Television Company in Huntington, West Virginia. Not long after, they moved to Woodstock.&#13;
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Rena was selected to be one of two deputies for Jesse D. Funkhouser, then a Shenandoah County Treasurer. Many other Northern Virginia Articles chronicle her community involvement over the course of her years in Woodstock.&#13;
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The couple did not have children and Rena’s death certificate notes she was divorced and living in Woodstock when she died. At the time of her death, she worked as a secretary in a nursing home. She was well into her seventies by then.</text>
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                <text>The glass plate negative of this image was stored in a box labeled "Jun 1934".</text>
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                <text>Identified in 2025 by library staff based on other photographs of the subject. </text>
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                <text>Rena Helen (Barr) Botkin appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 001749, 015346, 020206, 021526, and 022657. </text>
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