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Bond with school spans a century: 5th generation of Oakdale Elementary builder's family now attending class.

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| August 20, 2006 | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Steve Lyttle

Aug. 20--Maggie Grey will walk through the front door of Oakdale Elementary School on Friday morning and add a link to a historic bond that stretches back more than a century in the northwest Charlotte community.

Maggie, 6, a first-grader, begins the fifth generation from her family to attend classes in Oakdale, where her great-great-great grandfather built the first school in 1904.

"It seems only natural for her to be here," her mother, Jennifer Grey, said. "Our family has a lot of history tied up in this place."

The Oakdale Elementary that Maggie attends is newly built, a far cry from the one-room schoolhouse that Leo Dunn and Blythe Abernathy built near…

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