"Bringing Our Pioneer Spirit of Yesterday Forward Into Tomorrow"
"Bringing Our Pioneer Spirit of Yesterday Forward Into Tomorrow"
The week-end before we were due to leave for Corpus Christi to celebrate Aunt Lucille’s 85th Birthday I received a call from Carolyn Lohn. She invited us to spend the night on the way down to break up the trip so to speak. She said she would feed us dinner when we got there and breakfast the next morning before we headed on to Corpus. (more…)
Yesterday, I went down to the Checotah cemetery to put flowers on our families’ graves. When I got to where Mama, Papa, Grandma Austin and Tommy are buried, I could see that there was a man sitting on Mama’s headstone. (more…)
At approximately 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 14, 1933,
in a dilapidated farmhouse a few miles out in the country from Warner/Porum my 42 year old mother gave birth to me, her 11th child and ninth daughter. It had been six years since the birth of child number ten, my sister Peggy, and it had been both the assumption (because of Mama’s age) and the fervent hope of the whole family that there would be no more children. Needless to say, I was not exactly a welcome addition. (more…)