PICTURES LIKE THIS BRING BACK SO MANY MEMORIES......THIS IS MY DAD...WITH A BOTTLE OF BEER ......AND MY UNCLE WALTER.....MOTHER'S BIG BROTHER.....MY UNCLE WALTER WAS A "REAL COWBOY".....HE RODE IN RODEOS AND ALWAYS DRESSED THE PART......HE PLAYED A BANJO IN THE FAMILY BAND......MOTHER'S OLDEST BROTHER GLEN GOFF PLAYED THE TROMBONE.......WALTER THE BANJO....MOTHER THE PIANO.....RUSSEL THE SAXOPHONE AND CLARINET AND LESTER THE TRUMPET....EVERYONE IN OUR VALLEY KNEW THEM....MANY A FUN DANCE WITH MY UNCLES AND MOM PLAYING.....GLEN HAD ONE DAUGHTER FOR 17 YEARS WHO WAS 9 DAYS YOUNGER THAN ME......THEN DAVID 17 YEARS LATER.....HER SISTER EDITH HAD FOUR CHILDREN BY HER FIRST MARRIAGE......JIMMY, GENE, ROSE AND THELMA....THEN TWO BOYS BY ANOTHER MAN AND FINALLY EMMY LOU WHO SHE GAVE AWAY????? WALTER AND HIS WIFE JOSEPHINE HAD JIMMY AND BOBBY AND DOLORIS AND DOROTHY.......RUSSELL AND WIFE MARTHA FLORENCE HAD BILLY AND TOMMY AND MARTHA FLORENCE AND LESTER HAD NO KIDS. THESE WERE THE COUSINS ON MOM'S SIDE THAT WERE IN AND OUT OF MY LIFE.....I WAS OLDER THAN MOST OF THEM AND NOT CLOSE AT ALL.
I LOVED MY DAD SO MUCH AND WAS ALWAYS PROUD OF HIM AS HE WAS TALL AND HANDSOME AND VERY KIND.....
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