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I was much too young to be personally involved in this escapade but it is a story that was told and re-told many times around the table in later years at family get-togethers. Knowing my older brothers as I did I am convinced it is a true story. ******* ...
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My mother was the tenth child and she too young to argue about her name that she grew up hating all of her life . When she introduced herself at school functions she used her middle name Ruth and all of the family used her nickname “ Sis “. It was...
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It was the same plane that he crashed into the mountains killing his wife and dog..
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The most important and most challenging job that I have attacked was bringing two families together in peace with my wife. I started in April 1988. My wife’s daughter was a strong spirited seven years old that her father had died with a heart attack suddenly three and half years prior...
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All of my life my mother hasn’t liked her mother in law . My Mom and Dad got married and lived with my Dad’s folks for awhile after they were married . My Grandmother ( Her mother in law ) said something that didn’t set well with my mother and my...
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It was going to be a full day of nothing but fun for my older brother and I. My brother was four years and four months older than me so he got to help keep me entertained ( out of trouble). We left early in the morning for the forty mile...
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I have lots a acquaintances, but a true friend is a treasue! Laurel is one of the few acquaintances I have that I would consider a true friend. In the 1980s, I was teaching at Farrer Jr. High School in Provo, Utah. Bruce Evans and I had been the mainstays in...
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It was a cool day in October 2009 in illinois. We were having a funeral today . It was for my son that was that had turned 35 years old in August . I was their bouncingoff the walls . That’s just the way I was handling it . My...
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Had “Darwin Awards” existed in 1946, Gene Covell and I would have made the list. It could easily have been awarded posthumously were it not for the fact that guardian angels look over little kids. The stunt Gene and I dreamed-up seemed do-able at the time. Sure, in the bright light...
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The only grandparents I knew were my Grandma Beavers, who was to me a consummate witch, and my Grandpa Carriker, who was her polar opposite. Grandpa Carriker came to visit us in the summer of 1942. Compared to him, Calvin Coolidge was a blabber-mouth but Grandpa was a pleasant old man...
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True friends are ones who are your friends no matter what. They will be with you in the jail cell as the addage goes, saying "Damn we had a good time!!" They are the ones there with you through thick and thin. Those are the most precious of friendships because they...
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One - only one? You would try to impose limits on me? I have many I want to visit. FIRST and foremost is my great great grandfather John Wesley Martin. Right now he is my genealogy brick wall. I have visited his grave in Lincolnton, Georgia and asked him to manifest...
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