Kandy Davidson

25 Year Wedding Anniversary

25 Year Wedding Anniversary
For our 25 year wedding anniversary, I surprised Byron with a trip to Asheville, NC for a two night stay at the Biltmore House. Our anniversary is December 31st. When we arrived, we were treated like royality. We decided we wanted something to eat but not a full meal so we...
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Joanne Whaley

Orville Richard Whaley (Dick)

Orville Richard Whaley (Dick)
    Dick Whaley born April 1,1929. This is a picture of Dick when he became EXO of , He spent 30 years in the US Navy, He retired in He enlisted as a boot seaman, became a Chief and then was commissioned as an officer, and without getting a college...
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Annette Lorenz

News and Events of the 1960's

News and Events of the 1960's
Annette remembers the big events and news and how it affected her life in Australia...  
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Michele Brattain

Missing Ring

On my 16th birthday my beloved grandmother gave me a ring.  It was a simple, and in todays standards, very inexpensive ring but to me it was worth EVERYTHING.  It was round with dainty scallops around the edges and my initials engraved in the center.  I slipped it on my finger...
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Alice Domagalski

My Happiest Job: Nurses Aide at the Kate Cocks Babies Home

My Happiest Job: Nurses Aide at the Kate Cocks Babies Home
Alice talks again about her time at the Kate Cocks Babies Home and her abiding respect for Kate Cocks herself - a pioneer, friend and saviour to many unmarried and single mothers in the 1940's and 1950's in Adelaide. Alice reads from an article she wrote back in 1998. In the...
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Joyce Pounsett

Socialising as a teenager

Socialising as a teenager
Joyce tells us how she went to dances and balls as a young teenager in the early 1950's, and socialised with sailors who were on shore leave.  She corresponded with Peter from Surrey for 5 years after meeting him at a dance.  She also went on holidays to Perth where she...
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Millard Don Carriker

An Airport Too Far

JUDGMENT: “The ability to judge, make a decision or form an opinion objectively, authoritatively,and wisely,especially in matters affecting action; goodsense; discretion:” Or so say the guys who write dictionaries. Okay I can memorize that and tell you in seconds what judgment “is.” Given a few minutes I could probably write an...
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Dick Pellek

Scuba Diving In The Bubbles Of Jacques Cousteau

Scuba Diving In The Bubbles Of Jacques Cousteau
  On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Scuba Diving In The Bubbles Of Jacques Cousteau   Despite the horrific loss of life in the earthquake of 12 January 2010, Haiti remains a fascinating place to visit.  Our memories of Haiti predate the...
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Karen Mack

Grandma Lucy - 5 pictures video

  Video - Grandma Lucy
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Golden V. Adams Jr.

A Tribute to W. A. Adams on his 90th Birthday

A Tribute to W. A. Adams on his 90th Birthday
[While I was serving my mission in The Netherlands, I received a letter dated 17 Dec 1964 from my grandfather's niece (my cousin, Ardes Adams) which read: ". . . We expect a big day on your grandpa's birthday. . . .  Your mother and I wrote a ditty about him...
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Joyce Pounsett

My life interest in knitting

Joyce tells us that from the age of 4 she started working with wool.   From Mats for tea pots, knitted squares (which her mother turned into rugs), scarves and baby clothes, Joyce has been a knitter all of her life.
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Dick Pellek

Getting Around In Helicopters

Getting Around In Helicopters
  On the road again...! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Getting Around in Helicopters   Foresters and other natural resources professionals get around in helicopters more often than most folks.  Kind of like a businessman or woman taking a taxi to get to an...
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Dick Pellek

Aw, shucks, Ma'am

Aw, shucks, Ma'am
  On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   M for Montana   Having  a railroad pass to travel anywhere in the United States was part of the plan to make a summer adventure in a new state after his sophomore year at Rutgers....
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Legacy Blog

Legacy Matters Welcome Program- Lesson 2

LEGACY MATTERS WELCOME PROGRAM CERTIFICATION LESSON -2   Overview This series of lessons walks you through the entire  process from facility signup to delivery of the DVD to the family. It is absolutely critical to know these steps. Print out this section and make notes as you read through and keep...
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Judy Nickles

School Back in the Day

     In 1950, with my sixth birthday falling long after the cut-off date for beginning first grade, my parents placed me in private school. Mrs. Bode's School was a two-story white stucco house on Monroe St., just behind our house on Madison. If I stood in the back yard and looked...
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Golden V. Adams Jr.

"Now a Certified Legacy Advisor"

"Now a Certified Legacy Advisor"
The Payson Chronicle came out with a news article "Golden Adams Now a Certified Legacy Advisor" today, 19 Sep 2012.  Along with the article is a photo of me holding the new "Legacy Matters" Program launced earlier this month.  It will be interesting to see if I have any contacts as...
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Alice Domagalski

Eighteen and all that....

Eighteen and all that....
Alice talks about being 18 and all that........  
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Judith Black

Fashions of the 1960's

Fashions of the 1960's
Judith shares stories of the fashions she wore on the 1960's from her firsrt pink silk shirt to her short skirts and the music of the times that she collected and liked.  
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Jill Sayner

Fashion and Life in 1950's and early 60's

Jill tells about the fashions in the 1950's while she was growing up.  She liked to wear very full skirts gathered at the waist with lots of petticoats.  One of her favourite outfits was a black watch tartan skirt with black stockings and pointy toed shoes. Bikinis were in fashion and...
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Ruth Henderson

Ruth's memories of the late 1960's - fashions and news

Ruth's memories of the late 1960's - fashions and news
Ruth shares her memories of fasions of the late 1960's - the mu-mu, short dresses and empire line dresses, Prue Acton, Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton.  She also remembers important news stories of those days.    
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