Not really , but this was our third California home at 4029 Jones St. Arlington, California.Randy looks to be about three years old and we were probaly on the way to church. A 52 grey dodge is in the background and my builder, Clarence Myerscough told me to get a better car so we [...]
Dan is in Donna’s arms and doesn’t show up to well, but this was our first rental nearSierra Jr. high school where I taught.Caroline Leeland, an old friend of my Mother, Emma Thompson Rye, was with us for a time around Dan’s birth. I spoke of her in an earlier blog and in 1965 or [...]
God bless Mom and Dad, Angela Ann, Randy Lee, Daniel Gene, all our relatives and friends and help us to be kind and true and love and help one another.
This picture was taken in December of 1959. We were indeed blessed.
The year is 1958 and Daniel is 6 months old. we were renting a home for $85 a month and as we looked for a home to buy, the realtor, James V Johnson, offered me a job if I purchased a home from him. We did. The address was 10010 Hedrick in Arlington. I used [...]
It was turkey day parade in Worthngton,Mn., the turkey capital of the world. At this time, some high school kids had straws with which they blew little candies through like a blow gun. I wanted Angela and Tam to be in the parade but felt that if students pelted me they also would suffer.Tam’s harness [...]
Randy was born in the hospital at Worthington, Mn. where I taught speech, debate and drama. That year my students won the Minnesota one act play contest with their presentation of Box And Cox, an English play.Donna’s sister, Caroline, lived inEngland and we had her send us records with the cockney accent and my students [...]
Our first born, Angela Ann in our home in Hills, Mn.
This is Tam,1, in our 55 chev pickup in front of the home in Hills, Mn.We had sheep and a horse when we lived in Hills and 12 boy’s who lived in town had sheep on our property.They couldn’t join the FFA, Future Farmers of America, unless the had a project. I signed a [...]
Actually it was no longer about me.This is Angela’s batispm day in Hills, Mn. and Sister, Vivian, and Donald Helgeson were the Godparents. We lived in Hills where I was teaching history, speech and debate.We had a one bedroom home that we paid $25 per month for and it had a stool in the [...]