Angela Miriam Schmidt was born at 3:07 a.m. June 16, 2015, in water at home to Olesya Fursova and Corey Schmidt of Halibut Cove. Rite of Passage Midwifery assisted. She weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces. Her grandparents are Nadezhda Fursova of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Vladimir Fursova of Salsk, Russia, and Lynn and Ellen Schmidt of Nevada, Mo.
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