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 When her daughter Dolly contracted polio in 1953, Adele became an agent for White Pass to help pay the medical bills. She worked there for seventeen years manning the public town phone, the White Pass dispatch phone, and the administration phone. The family lived upstairs in the depot with their two youngest daughters. After Adele’s death, the family created a special edition cookbook of her recipes with a cover sketch by artist Ted Harrison.((“Adele (Sansom) McMurphy 1905 – 1980.” //Trailblazers and Change-Makers: Pioneer Women of the Yukon,// 2022 website, https://yukontrailblazers.ca/trailblazers/adele-sansom-mcmurphy.)) When her daughter Dolly contracted polio in 1953, Adele became an agent for White Pass to help pay the medical bills. She worked there for seventeen years manning the public town phone, the White Pass dispatch phone, and the administration phone. The family lived upstairs in the depot with their two youngest daughters. After Adele’s death, the family created a special edition cookbook of her recipes with a cover sketch by artist Ted Harrison.((“Adele (Sansom) McMurphy 1905 – 1980.” //Trailblazers and Change-Makers: Pioneer Women of the Yukon,// 2022 website, https://yukontrailblazers.ca/trailblazers/adele-sansom-mcmurphy.))
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 +There was no high school in Carcross so Jack and Adele's second oldest daughter, Millie [Jones] was sent out to to her grandparents in Langley Prairies to school. Her grandfather died in her first year so she didn't finish and returned to Carcross to work as a cook at section houses along the White Pass railway.((Donna Jones, "6th Generation of Yukon Teachers?" //North to New Horizons: Short Stories by Yukon Women,// Volume 4, History Committee of the Pioneer Women of the Yukon Society, 2025: 35-37.))
  
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