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Joseph Koci died in 1928. According to the 1948 County Assessor card, the house was remodeled in 1928, but it is not known whether this occurred before or after his death. Anna Koci continued to live at 1201 Lincoln and raised her children there as a single mother. At the time of the 1930 census, she was 41 years old and living at 1201 Lincoln with Rudy, age 16, Anna, age 10, and Josephine, age 8. There was no apparent source of income for the family listed in the 1930 census records. During the Depression of the 1930s, Louisville women were employed to make clothing as part of a WPA sewing program. A number of the women are believed to have been widowed or were otherwise single. It is thought that this was a factor that helped them qualify for the program. The following photo shows these women in front of the Louisville Town Hall, where they worked on the second floor. Anna Koci has been identified as the fourth woman from the right in the back row. The 1940 census records show that Anna Koci was living at 1201 Lincoln along with her daughter, Anna; Anna's husband, Leroy Reddington (who had been born in Louisville in 1920); and Anna's daughter, Janet, who was age 1. Another child, Gary, would be born in the house later that year. Leroy was working as a miner at the time, then served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and later worked as a plumber. When the Reddingtons were not living with Anna Koci, they lived on the west side of the 1100 block of Lincoln, a few doors to the south of Anna Koci's house at 1201 Lincoln. The following photo of the house and a ground layout sketch are from the 1948 Boulder County Assessor card. The photo of the house indicates how little the area around 1201 Lincoln had been developed even in 1948. 3