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Ella Riffel — clerk-treasurer, flag designer, and the town's memory

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Town Code §11.01(G); South Bend Tribune, 2005 and 2008, at index strength (ProQuest index carriers)

Ella Riffel holds three places in the town's record, each from a public carrier. In September 1976 she co-designed, with Dennis St. Germain, the town flag — an Indiana silhouette carrying the town's name and the year 1916 — which Mrs. George Eisbrenner and her daughter Sally produced on white polyester gabardine (§11.01(G), quoted whole in the pass note). By 2008 the South Bend Tribune described her as a "longtime resident and former town clerk-treasurer" — her term's dates are not in the record reached, and she takes her place in the officer line as an unplaced holder in the pass note's gap register (G-GV-12). The Tribune's third fact is the one the folklore file takes up: she "has kept scrapbooks of articles going back 40 years of everything she has seen about Roseland, and she's still clipping. Many of the scrapbooks are in a secure location in Town Hall, she said." A 2005 Tribune correction — her name had been misspelt in an article about the Roseland Citizens' Association — places her in the town's civic life in that year on the same record. No obituary for her was reached, and nothing beyond these public-record facts is printed; the scrapbooks themselves stand as a named settler for this build's open questions (G-SP-5).

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Source: Ella Riffel — clerk-treasurer, flag designer, and the town's memory, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/roseland/people/ella-riffel-clerk-treasurer-flag-designer-and-the-town/