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Article: KATRINA EVACUEES FIND KIND REFUGE IN EUGENE.(Disasters)(A couple who lost their New Orleans house pause to thank local Guard members)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2005
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Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard
The black-and-white photograph of Bob Roesler and Dean Martin from the 1951 film "Sailor Beware" is intact, but the water damage is evident. Still, it survived, just as Bob and his wife, Cloe, did.
But little else from the Roeslers' New Orleans home made it through Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 29: some sculptures created long ago by Cloe's father, Enrique Alferez, a famous New Orleans artisan; a few other photographs; and a framed tribute to a book that Bob wrote on New Orleans horse racing.
The Roeslers are among several former New Orleans residents living in and around Eugene now. And like others, they just ...