Category: 1955 to 1972
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THE GOATNAPPER
This is a post from the Butch blog on this site. The dog, Butch, and the goat, Nanny, were our pets. The Goatnapper We went upstate for Christmas in 1970. While we were gone someone moved a mobile home into one of the few wooded areas around us. The house was not visible from the…
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DEER HUNTERS
Ken and I were teaching in Fort Worth in the late nineteen fifties. Ken and six of his fellow teachers hunted on 800 acres in eastern Stephens County. My brother had beef cattle there. The cows expected food when they heard the horn of my brother’s pickup. One of the guys was unable to travel…
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CAMPING
I am not a camper. Ken once told a friend, “Her idea of roughing it is having to walk across the street from the motel to eat breakfast.” (Yes, there was a long-ago time when hotels did not have restaurants or complimentary breakfasts.) Betty Walden and I were recently reminiscing about a camp out in…
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Sixty-three Years
Ken and I were both at the church on time May 28, 1955. I was “cool, calm and collected.” The minister asked us to join right hands. I thought I had touched a block of ice. This unnerved me. I wasn’t sure Ken wouldn’t freeze and fall over. A good friend and neighbor to my…
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MY VALENTINE
Ken proposed to me on Valentine’s Day in 1954. We went to dinner at a steakhouse in Ponder. He proposed later that evening. We were both students at North Texas State College. (Now University of North Texas) Ken worked in the college library. He worked 100 hours a month for 30 cents an hour. This…
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A WORLD WAR
World affairs were beyond my comprehension when bombs were dropped on Pearl Harbor in 1941. I have no specific recollections of that day. I was in first grade. I was aware that some of my brother Carroll’s friends were joining the Texas National Guard, whatever that was. They were too young to join without parental…
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A SPECIAL CHILD
The year was 1969. I was teaching in a migrant kindergarten. A deaf boy, Guillermo,* was placed in my class. There were no experts to consult. I was told to make him feel accepted and work on socialization. He watched the other children and followed along. The biggest help was a cousin who had…
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Lovable Lady
My brother started dating Lora Mae Linam after he returned from WW11. She became a Williams when they married on June 13, 1948. I was thirteen years old. It was a small wedding at the home of Lora’s parents. I had a pretty new dress and felt very dressed up. I was watching and listening…
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Butch and the Giants
When I self -published the children’s book, “Butch the One of a Kind Dog,” this story was included in the blog on the book’s web site. When I started “Loose Strings From The Past,” the Butch blog was incorporated into the new site. This is one of the stories that never made it to the…
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ENGLISH TEACHER
August 1956, was a busy month for Ken and me. He was stationed at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia, fulfilling his 2 year military obligation. He had a week of leave .during the last week of that month. During that time, we bought our first new car, a 1956 Chevrolet. I graduated from North Texas…