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Has 2 ancestors and 4 descendants in this family tree.
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| Name |
Virginia West |
| Birth |
31 May 1916 |
Lakeside, Navajo, Arizona, United States  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
9 Jun 1984 |
ARIZO |
| FamilySearch ID |
KWZS-7XQ |
| Death |
17 Jan 1994 |
Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States |
| Burial |
Show Low Cemetery, Navajo, Arizona, United States |
| Person ID |
I161844 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Ezra Joseph West, b. 5 Nov 1889, Snowflake, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 11 Sep 1968, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States (Age 78 years) |
| Mother |
Elma Stratton, b. 3 Aug 1889, Snowflake, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 24 Nov 1918, Lakeside, Navajo, Arizona, United States (Age 29 years) |
| Marriage |
18 Aug 1909 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Family ID |
F41168 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Oscar Albert Reidhead, b. 24 Apr 1917, Woodruff, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 7 Oct 1978, Costa Mesa, Orange, California, United States (Age 61 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. Living |
| | 2. Veralda Doreen Reidhead, b. 16 Sep 1935, Taylor, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 21 Aug 2002, Taylor, Navajo, Arizona, United States (Age 66 years) |
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| Family ID |
F41167 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
3 Sep 2024 |
| Family 2 |
Milton Lloyd Whipple, b. 15 Jun 1911, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 7 Mar 1987, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States (Age 75 years) |
| Marriage |
24 Aug 1946 |
Gallup, McKinley, New Mexico, United States |
| Children |
| | 1. Milton Dale Whipple, b. 27 Mar 1949, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 3 Jan 2016, Arizona, United States (Age 66 years) |
| | 2. Val Willard Whipple, b. 25 Apr 1953, McNary, Apache, Arizona, United States d. 3 Oct 2018, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States (Age 65 years) |
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| Family ID |
F41075 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
3 Sep 2024 |
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 | Birth - 31 May 1916 - Lakeside, Navajo, Arizona, United States |
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 | Marriage - 24 Aug 1946 - Gallup, McKinley, New Mexico, United States |
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 | Initiatory (LDS) - 9 Jun 1984 - ARIZO |
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 | Death - 17 Jan 1994 - Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States |
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 | Burial - - Show Low Cemetery, Navajo, Arizona, United States |
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| Notes |
- Virginia West Whipple
I was born May 31, 1916 in a house that Dad built in Lakeside, Arizon a . M y Dad was on a mission at the time I was born and he didn’t see m e u n ti l I was one and a half years old. I had two sisters and a brothe r ol de r t han I and there was a younger brother born two years after me . Mam a d ie d when he was two weeks old. They had a big flu epidemic a t that t ime. Sh e had gotten over the flu, but she went to help her sist er whos e hus ban d had it and she got it again and they both died of it.
The first thing I remember is when Dad got a job in Wickenburg and Gra n d m a West took us kids on a train to Wickenburg to live with him. I w a s ru nn ing up and down the aisles of the train. Grandma, Julia West, w a s taki n g care of us. We had a big swing in Wickenburg that was over t h e ditc h th at we had a lot of fun on. I also remember a little white c oa t I wa s so p roud of at the time. Grandma West made Hazel and I som e bla ck dres ses an d I hated mine. One Sunday I took some scissors an d cut bi g hole s in it s o I wouldn’t have to wear it. She made me sit i n the cor ner, I can rememb er my father and Uncle cutting my hair insid e of a hote l t hat they were b uilding and nicking my ear.
Three days before I turned 4, Dad married Dora Veralda Lisonbee in t h e S a lt Lake Temple. I was the first one to call her Mother. We move d t o Me s a after they were married, all except Alma, who stayed with Gr andm a We s t in Lakeside and she raised him. Dad built a long cabin i n a fiel d wi t h one large room and a bath. The kids slept out in a tent . We ha d a bun c h of chickens and I can remember a barrel with a chicke n’s nes t in i t. I would climb in and then out again and say, ‘see how m any egg s I lai d’ ! Then we lived in a house on Sirrine Street. They sta rted bui lding th e M esa Temple about that time and they had a long tunn el to on e of the b uild ings and we used to play in it until they finish ed. On m y fifth birt hda y on the back porch of the house was an old mat tress rol led up an d I hi d in it so I wouldn’t get my birthday spanking , but my D ad found m e an d I got one any way. I started first grade a t Alma Schoo l on Extensi on. T here was a play that Hazel and a couple o f the neighbo r girls decid ed tha t we would give. We put chairs out an d invited all t he neighbors t o com e see our play. We had a good time a nd the people di d come. Then w e move d to Phoenix on 16th Street just o ff of Van Buren S treet about a b lock. I was baptized when we lived here . I was baptized i n my red swimmi ng su it up on the stage in a font. Da d didn’t baptize an y of us kids, I don’ t know why. Afterwards he took m e for a banana split . The next d ay in chu rch I was confirmed. I went t o Long Fellow Schoo l while we live d here. Th ere was one time I got bor ed in music and I hi t a boy over th e head wit h a ruler. The teacher ma de me go out into th e hall. They ha d some “gian t strides” on the playg round which were lik e a big maypole w ith long meta l chains streaming d own instead of ribbon s and on the end o f the chains w ere some metal ru ngs that we hung ont o as we ran around th e pole. If we g ot up enough s peed we could hold ou r feet up and it woul d swing us around. When the p erson in front of me j umped off of hers i t came back and hi t me in th e eye. We had a lot of f un with that, callin g my parents and th e docto r.
Every summer we would go to Lakeside, as Dad was still working on th e h o t el. My cousin took a saw horse and a board and made a seesaw ou t of i t. O ne day we were playing on it and while I was up in the air m y cous i n le t go of it and I came down with a bang and broke my arm. Th ey test e d it t he old fashioned way trying to see if it was broken or j ust spra in ed. Aft er two weeks we came back to Mesa and my father too k me to Dr . Sh upe to h ave it set. I woke up just before they had got i t all strai ghten ed out. I carried it around in a sling with my cast on . When the ca st ca me of f they could see it had set a little crooked.
Dad lived in a home on 16th Street in Mesa and we moved into it. The r e w a s a canal there and a swing across it. Mother wouldn’t want us t o g o sw im ming until a certain time of year, but we would go down and s win g on t h e swing and ‘accidently’ fall in the canal and go swimming a ny w ay. Au n t Gwen and Aunt Mary, who are Dad’s sisters lived with us m ost o f thei r t eenage years. One day Dad left the key in the car and Au nt Mar y decid ed s he would take us kids for a ride. She wasn’t much old er tha n us kids. Wel l we ran into the canal and had to be pulled out. D ad buil t a hous e in Ph oenix on Center Street. We went to Osborn Schoo l and wal ked abou t a mil e to school each day. I was about 9 years ol d at the tim e. I love d to pla y baseball and was a good jack player an d jump roper . One time w e had a c ontest, who could jump the rope the l ongest. I wen t to 500 an d the teache r made me quit. One time the teach er caught me e ating cand y in the classr oom and made me get up in fron t of the kids an d finish ea ting it which wa s very embarrassing.
Dad built a home on Camelback Road and we moved over there, but we s t i l l went to Osborn School. There was a canal on 7th Avenue a short w a y fr o m home where we used to go swimming. I must have drowned abou t 1 0 time s i n this canal. One time two of the neighbor girls and I wer e pl aying i n th e canal and there was a whirlpool that they were afrai d of , so I wou ld ca rry them on my back one at a time around the whirlp ool . They got t o argui ng and both of them jumped on me and as we wer e goin g around we g ot caugh t in the whirlpool and couldn’t get out. Lu ckily s ome older kid s were u p on the bridge and saw our predicament an d came a nd got us ou t.
Then Dad built some houses further down on Camelback Road and we mov e d d o wn there. We used to skate a lot out on the road. Next we move d t o Cali fo rnia at Point Loma right close to San Diego on the coast li ne f or abo u t a year. It was beautiful there with all the green foliage . W e could w al k to the seashore from our house. Dad built two or thre e hom es there. I w as in about the 5th grade at this time. In school w e were h aving th is les son about the Greek Gods and Goddesses which wa s very bor ing to me. Ther e were two boys sitting in a seat in front o f me and I ha d a fount ain pe n in my hand this time and came up under o ne boy in th e backside o f his p ants with the pen. The teacher sent m e down to the f irst grade ro om, bu t I enjoyed the punishment too muc h and the teache r sent me back t o my ow n room.
We moved to Laveen next, just south of Phoenix. It was about 15 mi l e s t o the church house. We used to roller skate with all the neighbo r k id s ab out 10 miles a day. We would skate or walk to school abou t a mil e aw ay. W e lived on an 160 acre farm there. We had a lot of cow s and so ld mi lk. W e loved it there. I was the one who had to milk th e ‘house co w’. On e da y Dad got mad at Hazel and told her she had to mi lk the cow . She did n’t l ike outside work and our foreman, Art Etes, sa w her and s aid, ‘What ’s th e matter Hazel’? ‘Oh, Dad says I have to mil k the hous e cow today. ’ ‘Well, give me the bucket’, he said. And he fil led it to t he brim, i t was jus t foaming over. Dad said, ‘Hmmm, you d o a lot bette r than Virgi nia does. ’ We never told him for a long tim e who had milke d the cow tha t day. Th e foreman thought us kids could d o no wrong. Lave en was alway s called hom e to us kids, we loved it. W e lived there abou t 4 years. I g raduated fro m the eighth grade there . We had to take a bu s into Phoeni x to High Schoo l. Phoenix Union Hig h School was the only o ne in Phoeni x at the time. O n Sunday we would g o to church. They had Su nday School f rom 10 to 12 an d Sacrament was a t night time. In between m y friends an d I would to downt own to the sho w. Dad would give us mone y for a sandwic h. It cost 10 to 2 5 cents to g et into a show. We lived s o far away we di dn’t get to go to P rimary ve ry much. When I started hig h school, instea d of going home fro m schoo l we would go to our girlfrie nds and wait fo r mutual to start an d the n our folks would pick us up af terwards. I hate d to wear stockings a n d my friend’s mother, Mrs. Patter son, wouldn’t le t me out of the hous e u ntil I had some stockings on. S o she would have h er daughters let m e wea r some of theirs. I would pu t them on until we go t down to the co rner an d then I would take them of f.
Dad sold his cattle and went into the sheep business and went broke . T h a t is when we moved to Tonto Street. Dad built some little house s ther e. W e didn’t live there too long. He went into the grocery stor e busine s s an d we lived in the house next to the grocery store. Then w e went t o L akesi de and took the goods and opened up a store there. I w as a Seni or i n Hig h School. I never graduated from High School, bu t I graduate d fro m Semina ry. I went to High School one month as a seni or and the n I ran a way and g ot married to Oscar Reidhead. We got our l icense in H olbrook an d went t o Snowflake and was married by Presiden t Smith in th e old Smit h home in S nowflake. I was under age and Dad an d Mother weren ’t too plea sed. At thi s time they were trucking grocerie s back and fort h from Lakes ide to Calif ornia for their grocery busines s. We moved to L akeside and L arry was bor n in Dad and Mother’s home th ere. Aunt Rhett a delivered Larr y. She also d elivered me. Three weeks a fter Larry was b orn I went to a d ance, I love d to dance. I was reall y dancing and havin g a good time whe n my aunt ha d me come over to wher e she was and made m e sit on her lap s o I couldn’ t move and made me st op dancing. Then we m oved to Taylor wher e Dad had th e grocery store th ere also. Oscar did th e trucking busines s for it and ot hers. Doreen wa s born here in Mother a nd Dad’s house loca ted on Main Stre et right b y their grocery store whic h is known as Hatch’ s store now.
We moved back to Show Low and lived in a cabin behind the Blue Moon, w h i c h was located on the west end of Show Low where the Maxwell Hous e i s no w. Doreen wasn’t walking yet. After a time there we moved to a c abi n i n Sh ow Low and Oscar drove a truck in construction. Dad was buil din g th e Blu e Moon Dance Hall and they starting dancing in it before i t wa s rea lly fi nished. He built a café by it where I worked. One tim e Osca r an d I were d riving the truck to Taylor to get supplies for th e café f rom t he store th at Dad owned. I talked Oscar into letting me d rive an d I wrec ked it in Fo ol’s Hollow. The truck completely rolled ov er and l anded rig ht side up, b ut I was all right and fixed sandwiche s that nigh t for ever ybody. Darry l was born out at Mother’s place in S how Low at t he Show Lo w auto court t hey owned next to the café. Mothe r took care o f us. We ha d a doctor com e out to the house. We moved t o the saw mill a fter Darry l was born. Osca r rented the saw mill and ow ned the trucks th at they di d the hauling with. It was located by Claysp rings. Marzelle he lped do th e cooking for the h ired hands. We took tur ns so we wouldn’t h ave to ge t up early all the tim e in the morning. Th en we both did the c ooking fo r the rest of the meals. Oscar and I had k ind of broken up an d Oscar wen t to work construction o ver seas for abo ut a year, then he c ame back. H e got shipwrecked on the w ay home and a nother ship had to co me pick the m up. I had met Fat at thi s time. I ha d gone to see Hazel i n Lakeside an d took the kids. On the wa y back w e had a flat tire abou t where Uncle Ch arlie Whipple lives. Fat st oppe d by and fixed the flat . He got away with out me saying thank you. Th a t night at the Blue Moon , he and Slim were s tanding there together a n d I said, “I don’t know wh ich one of you did it, but thank you for fix in g the flat”. They looked s o much alike I couldn ’t tell them apart an d the y wouldn’t tell me whic h was which either. Whe n Oscar came bac k I decide d it was better to kee p the family together an d tried again . Fat went of f to war. He went t o India in the hospital uni t. When Dar ryl was about tw o years old, Osca r and I moved the family t o Californi a. We were havin g a hard time in o ur marriage, but decided t o try agai n. Our house was u p on a small hil l so the rain water couldn’ t get t o it, but Aunt Martha F ish’s wasn’t a nd the water would come up t o he r porch. I worked in a groc ery store an d then in a plant where the y ma de parts for airplanes. I als o worked i n Aunt Martha’s cafe whil e I wa s there too. We were there abou t two yea rs. Oscar and I split up a nd D ad came and got us and took us bac k to Sh ow Low. We lived in a cabi n t here that Dad built for us by the aut o cou rt. I got my divorce in Hol b rook. Then Joe was born in McNary, I wa s pr egnant and didn’t know it . T hen I worked at Maxwell’s Café waiting ta bl es. We had to do about e veryt hing then but mostly waiting tables. I wo r ked at different cafe’ s unti l Fat came back from the service in 1945 o r 4 6. We got to goin g togethe r again and were married on August 24, 194 6 i n New Mexico . I wouldn’t ha ve a wedding in Show Low so Dad and Mothe r wen t with u s to Gallup to se e us married.
When we first got married Fat was driving a bus from Show Low to Whi t e R i ver. I didn’t work for awhile. A year later we were expecting a b ab y. F a t and I were going over to Marzelle and Orley’s to play card s o n a Frid a y night. We stopped at a café to get a cup of coffee an d a fel low we kn e w came up to say hello. He slapped me on the back an d said, ‘ Well how a r e you Virginia?’ Well he slapped a little too hard , I coul d feel it al l t he way to my toes. We went to play cards and ca me on hom e. About 2 i n th e morning I told Fat it was time to go to th e hospital . I wasn’t hav ing p ains, but I knew it was time. Marzelle wa nted to com e with us and w e wen t to McNary. The nurse didn’t think i t was time, bu t Marzelle insis ted o n calling the doctor and I had Jud y 30 minutes lat er. She only weig hed ab out 6 pounds. I had all my babi es pretty fast th at way. She was bo rn clos e to Mother’s Day and we ha d to stay in bed qu ite awhile before t hey woul d let us up. So Fat an d Doreen decided to ma ke me a cake. They g ot the ca ke baked OK, but th ey had a hard time wit h the frosting. They w ould get i t first too thic k and then too thin an d then too thick and the n too thi n and finally r an out of powdered suga r and had to use flour.
We had a cow, some chickens, a dog, and a cat. The cat always slep t w i t h Judy. Joe liked the dog and Darryl the horse and the plowing. T he c o w w as always getting away. The man from the Paint Pony would cal l up a n d say, ‘the old blue cow is here’. She would cross the cattle gu ard . I w ent t o the Show Low hospital to have Dale and the doctor sai d I wo uldn’ t be ha ving the baby for a long time. He told Dad, Fat, Mot her, an d Marz elle the re with me, they might as well go home. Dad and F at wen t home an d mad e a pot of coffee and brought it back and I had th e bab y in two hou rs. Da rryl had the most hair, thick, black and curl y down t o his shoulde rs an d Dale was bald. Dad had built up the wate r works an d Fat was helpi ng him. Four years later Val was born. We ha d a fun tim e that night. Fa t took m e to McNary to the hospital. Then F at went hom e cause nothing wa s happeni ng. It was a very busy night a t the hospital . Wendall Whipple’ s wife wa s having twins that night an d Shirley, anoth er cousin, was a nu rse there. They would bring the babi es in for me to w atch because they d idn’t hav e enough people there t o help and places t o put everybody. Fina lly the do ctor came to see m e and I had Val 30 min utes later.
We moved to Mesa and lived on Solomon Street for about 6 months. T h e n w e bought the home on 8th Street off of Country Club (555 West 8t h S tr eet). I worked at the ‘Feed bag’ restaurant for awhile. Then we bo ug h t a caf é on Main Street and ran it for 4 years. There wasn’t any pa rki n g there. A couple of dentists that always came for lunch would tak e ca r e of ou r kids teeth, so we would feed them in trade. We probabl y ende d u p owin g them.
At the time of Doreen’s wedding, Fat was in the Veteran’s hospital a t P r e scott with an hernia operation. Uncle Charlie went to be with hi m wh i l e I came back to Taylor for the wedding. We gave her $50 for a d res s a n d $100 to go on a honeymoon. Darryl was watching the kids whil e I w as g on e and Val fell out of the window and cut his head up prett y bad l eavi n g a scar on his forehead. A neighbor lady had come to help .
Dad moved to Mesa and went into the insurance business. Fat helped h i m b u ild his office and then from then on worked in construction for q ui te a wh ile. I worked in Dad’s insurance office as a bookkeeper, ‘jac k o f al l tra des master of none’. I worked in the room in the back. Whe neve r the y ha d a big meal there, I did all the cooking. They had a bi g Chri stma s dinne r one year that I cooked and I baked fruit cakes fo r prizes . I th ink I ba ked about 50 of them. Of course Fat would alway s help m e with th e dinners. The first dinner I cooked I wanted to coo k the turke y all nig ht, but Da d thought that would ruin it and wante d me to wait u ntil morni ng. Wel l I went ahead and put the turkey in th e oven withou t him knowin g and Da d tasted it and just loved it. ‘See’ , he said, ‘yo u would have r uined i t if you would have cooked it all n ight’.
During this time we had an Indian lady named Ella take care of the ki d s . She would stay with us during the week and then go home to her fam i l y o n the weekends. While we lived in the ‘old house’ Val would set f i r e to t he old umbrella trees. They were hollow inside and you could p o u r water i nto them, but it wouldn’t put the fire out. They would smol d e r and then b laze. He also started the car when he was little and r a n i t into the she d pole.
We started building the apartments at this time. The two duplexe s o n t h e west side were built first while we lived in the old home. Th en w e li ve d in the end apartment while we tore down the old house an d we bu ilt t h e other two duplexes. We lost our shirt on them.
In 1960 I was in an automobile accident at the intersection of Count r y C l ub and University. A car ran into us and demolished our Studebake r . Fa t w as driving, but didn’t get hurt. I saw the car coming and reac he d ove r wi th my foot to push on the brake. They tried to help me up , bu t my fo ot wa s caught under the brake. It cut my knee up and brok e my to e an d I was o n crutches for awhile. At Southside Hospital the d octor ba wle d me out fo r taking so many pain pills. He said my knee wa s well . I tol d him I wasn’ t taking them for my knee, but for my toe. H e had f orgotte n all about m y toe. He took me right in and fixed my toe . I jus t took i t for granted t hat he would get around to fixing my toe . We bui lt the ho use at 735 N. Da te in 1963 and sold the apartments o r gave the m away wha tever you want t o call it.
I started working for the school as head cook in the cafeteria. I wo r k e d at Carson Jr. High School, Mesa Jr. High and at Westwood High Sch o o l af ter we moved into the house on N. Date for a total of 17 years . Du ri ng th e summer I worked out at the Country Club golf course, at t he sw imm ing po ol in the snack bar cooking hamburgers and hot dogs. Fa t was w orki ng ou t of town a lot of these years in Alpine, in Mesa Rodo nda by C oncho, in S how Low as a ranch hand, and in Winslow inspecting c attle. Fo r thr ee or f our years I raised the kids pretty much alone. On e year w e too k a turke y dinner to him in Winslow and got the kids a ho tel roo m to sle ep in. Va l would spend a lot of time with him in the su mmer whe n he wa s working i n Alpine. In 1968 Fat started work at Willia ms Air Fo rce Base, doing runw ay maintenance and a little bit of everyth ing. He re tired wh en he was 6 5 from Williams.
In 1968 Dad died, he was only sick 5 days. Mother died in 1980 clo s e t o M other’s Day. It was that year too, that we found out Fat had ca nc er. In 1 980 he had a prostrate operation and the doctor gave him fr o m 5 t o 10 yea rs. I kept working at the school until I was 65 and qui t s o I co uld tak e care of Fat. He couldn’t do too much then. He kep t a gar den, bu t couldn ’t do much heavy work for two years. We went thr ough th e Templ e in 1984 a nd were sealed. Doreen was sealed to us at th is time . In 198 6 he was clea r down. I don’t know what I would have don e withou t Marzell e who came t o stay with me the 1st of January. On Mar ch 7, 198 7 he passe d away. He lo oked beautiful at the funeral. The fun eral was i n Mesa, bu t we buried hi m in Show Low. The boys had to tak e him for a r ide in hi s old pickup arou nd Show Low before they burie d him.
In February and then in August I had palsy. I was called to work i n t h e T emple and I guess I didn’t wait long enough before going back t o wo r k an d came down with shingles the next February of 1989 and hav e had t he m eve r since. Marzelle came down and stayed with me last summ er whe n I g ot th e shingles. I know the Lord has been good to me an d I know I’ ll b e with h im one of these days. I know the Church is tru e and I kno w tha t Christ i s my Savior. I love all my children and wan t them to b e happy. I want mor e than anything for them to love each oth er. I want t hem t o do what’s rig ht and always have love for their fell owman.
Some memories of the Kids
Darryl had a new bike for his birthday and ran it into the canal the f i r s t day. Joe ran the car into the neighbors fence. At the west sid e o f t h e house there was an orchard where the kids would string up ten ts a nd s le ep outside in. Val started the car when he was little and ra n int o th e sh ed pole. We raised rabbits and had Rinny the dog. She wa s an Au stral ian S hepherd. She wasn’t a barking dog, but the neighbor s could’n t com e into t he yard without us being there. She would just s tand there . Jud y and Dal e were walking down to the Dairy and Judy wa s walking i n the mi ddle of th e street and a car was coming. Rinny go t a hold of he r hand an d pulled he r off the street. We had some chick s up in a pan o n a post an d some littl e chicks fell out. Rinny got the m and kept the m close to hi m all night an d didn’t hurt them. The hea t got to him dow n here in Mes a with her long f ur so Uncle Orson took h er with him to th e ranch in Sho w Low where the Hi gh School is now. W e really hated her t o go.
We had a 55 Oldsmobile. Dale, on his 16th birthday, took the car o n h i s p aper route. Then he took it across town to the 7-11 for a drin k an d i t wo uldn’t start. A guy tried to help, but he finally had to pu sh i t al l th e way back home. It was late, but Fat hadn’t missed the ca r an d Dal e conf essed for nothing and couldn’t get his license until h e wa s 17.
Judy was married to Bob here. We’ve always had chickens here in th e n e w h ouse and the boys had pigeons. We’ve raised turkeys and rabbit s an d d ucks.
I took up painting when I retired and painted quite a few landscapes . I ’ v e crocheted since I was pregnant with Judy and I made her some ba by c lo th es. I made her a little sweater that was so small we didn’t th ink i t w oul d fit, but she was so little it fit just right.
The kids went to Emerson, the only school here. When they finished ele m e n tary they built a new Jr. High, and the same way with High School . Wh e n J udy had to go across the way to a different school she bawle d so mu c h th e principal said you might as well leave, she won’t stop u ntil yo u d o. Va l went to a nursery at the end of 8th Street and Countr y Club , Mink ’s Nur sery.
Uncle Jess was Fat’s sister’s husband. He would come stay with us. H e w o u ldn’t let us know he was coming. He would just come and say, wel l h e r e I am. His wife had passed away. The kids all liked him.
Larry ran away one time and wanted to go live with his real Dad aft e r F a t and I were first married. Then he wanted to live with Uncle Alm a.
We were running the café and a Indian came in and wanted something t o e a t. He didn’t have any money and said he would give me this silver a nd t u rq uoise bracelet that’s about 2 inches in diameter on the top . I wor e tHis for many years. Val found another turquoise ring and I wor e it fo r ye ar s and then Dale found another ring in Las Vegas that wa s silver a nd h a d a stone in it. I tried it on and kept it.
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