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Comments: Peaches, we are all so glad your doing so well and are back home. After all, we need the "mother of our class'' healthy so you can continue to look out for the rest of us. A job you are especially good at doing. Happy 4th of July to everyone!!! We plan on going to the DAC country club tonight for their spectacular fire works show. I know there is a fireworks show at Fair Park tonight at 9:00. Do any of you know of another fireworks show that might be fun to go see tonight?
Comments: Peaches, I'm so glad you're home and hope all went well. Going home was a pretty good birthday present! Take it easy, and feel better soon.
Comments: Happy birthday Peaches!
Comments: HAPPY BIRTHDAY PEACHES!!!!!!
Comments: I talked with Peaches and she is thrilled to be home. She is in good spirits and says she is not in a lot of pain. Thankfully her brother is there until Saturday to help her. She is awaiting biopsy reports sometime this week. Keep her in your thoughts and prayers.
Comments: I believe Peaches either went home yesterday or is going home today. I haven't called her yet because I know she would like to get settled in and I'm sure she is exhausted.
Comments: U.S. looses to Germany by one point, but advances anyway to the next level.
Comments: Has anyone heard anything about Peaches?
Comments: Connie Fleming Olympio, just called and said that Danny Green's ('63) mother had passed away. Her name is Laura Violet Green. The service is at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, June 25 at Laureland.
Comments: It's tough being an employee. After 39 years in the German car repair business, I finally sold my business at the end of May. I agreed to stay on part-time for up to 6 months to help during the transition. One of my friends said "You're going to make a lousy employee!" My new "boss" told me to forget it if I was planning on trying to get fired. One thing I have noticed, however, is that one of my longtime employees is staying with the new owner and, although subtle, his demeanor has changed a little toward me now that we are co-workers. It's going to be a long 6 months!
Comments: Recently our local newspaper and the Conroe Courier carried a story regarding Wilkerson Intermediate School in The Woodlands. The school is built in the midst of an old logging camp that was active in the 1940's and 1950's. The Grogan-Cochran Lumber Company operated a sawmill that had a nearby "dunk" pond filled with chemicals to treat the logs before they were milled. The school was built around 1974 and soon the students and faculty were reporting strong odors in the school, giving them headaches and other medical issues. Now in 2014 quite a few former students and teachers have come forward reporting a host of severe medical problems and questions are being raised as to whether or not their troubles are linked to the time they spent at Wilkerson. I'm not certain where all this is headed ... just to further soil studies or perhaps a class action lawsuit? What struck me most about the story is that when we moved to The Woodlands in 1995 my sister-in-law was the Art teacher at Wilkerson Intermediate. In a nearby room was the Music teacher ... Mary McCord Bach. Here is a link to the story: http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/courier/news/health-issues-concern-former-students/article_219a5e8d-42b3-5aeb-9d7e-155724b29525.html
Comments: Peaches, My Prayers are With You for Healing!!!!!! We All Love You!!!!
Comments: Although I rarely visit other sites, I noticed on the 64 website that Sandi Munro had passed away.At one time, when she was 9th grade at Zumwalt & I was soph. at SOC she and I started a relationship & were very close for a no. of years.I remember her like it was yesterday. I am very sad that she is gone even though I have not seen her in many years. I heard she had married a pilot & moved to New Zealand(she was airline stu). Does anyone know what happened to her? She was only 68-something must have been wrong. If anyone knows what happened, please email me & let me know. Thank you in advance--Mike
Comments: My dear wonderful SOC friends: I am scheduled for surgery Thursday, June 26th 7:15 am at Presbyterian Hospital Dallas on Walnut Hill. I believe in the power of prayer so I am now requesting prayers specifically for the pathologists to have a very clear reading before doing the surgery (which was not determined during biopsy). I have had God’s peace from the very beginning…… the peace that only our Heavenly Father can give us. My brother, Rob, will come the first week of my surgery and visit with mother while I cannot. I will not be able to go back to work or drive for 3 weeks. Also please pray for my mother to have good health and spirits for the next three weeks during my recovery.
Comments: Those of you who do not do FB ...Mary Kay from '64 has had surgery and recovering well with excellent path report. Now, Peaches is scheduled for surgery and a pathology report soon. They both need your support and prayers during this time.
Comments: The SOC Class of 64 Reunion Committee is busy planning our 50th reunion. We have a long list of missing bears. I know that not all classmates will attend the reunion but they should all be invited. Please go to SOC64.COM, click on the "Missing Bears" link, and let me know if you know anything about any of our lost classmates. I appreciate your help. AS A REMINDER: Members of the class of 63 are invited to our reunion. Info is on the SOC64.COM website.
Comments: Well, the Family Reunion was wonderful. As I thought, we only had 50 people this year. But we got to visit with each other more. Really good homemade food. However, the trip back was a little hairy. About 20 miles from home, just outside of Terrell, a hose to the transmission blew and we had to call AAA for a tow and my brother to come pick us up. But everything worked out okay, the tow truck and my brother showed up at the same time. Fortunately, the transmission is okay and only cost $110 to fix it. I really hate cell phones, but in case of emergency I am so thankful we had one.
Comments: Charlotte, I made a mistake. The corn cob stove and the wood stove was one big stove with two ovens on top of each other. The top oven burned the corn cobs. it made me sad when we went back to South Dakota a few years ago and saw what had happened to the pristine farm towns with their beautiful churches. The farms were deserted and the towns were like ghost towns. These towns and farms had been so vital and active in the fifties. It was disturbing because our grandparents sacrificed so much and worked so hard to keep these farms going especially during the depression.
Comments: Charlotte, We burned old corn cobs in the stove. The corn was fed to the pigs and what was left of the cob was burned in the kitchen stove. It was like burning wood in the stove, but it was corn cobs instead. She also had another stove in the kitchen that burned wood. There were burners on top of that heavy,old stove. My grandmother was an excellent cook. She would make tons of prune kolaches in that primitive kitchen with no running water. We had to pump water into buckets and bring the buckets of water into the kitchen. I wish you could see that kitchen and compare it with todays modern kitchen.
Comments: Kathleen, describe a corn cob stove....do you mean she burned corn cobs in it? I love all these stories. Brings back so many wonderful memories from visiting with my grand mother. My family was musical too......Mandolins, banjos, guitar, fiddle, piano, beautiful voices and so forth. I just love going to the music gatherings at my dad's cousin's house.
Comments: I remember my grandmas cooking.a tin can full of lard on the stove.grandma could swing two chickens at a time.I hated the smell of defeathering those chickens in a hot pot of water. She always had melorine in the freezer and the Manor bread truck came twice a week to the farm. wonderful country food. And she always said Danny please eat some more. I got to 6 ft 2 inches with all that home made food.Miss her so much after a life time ago.
Comments: A little late for this conversation, but I used to go with my great uncle who lived by White Rock lake and we hunted squirrels in the land behind the old water plant. This was in early 50s. We skinned and ate, never really liked squirrel. We also shot ducks there in the fall.
Comments: I remember Mrs. Stanley, my first grade teacher at Lisbon, making butter in class. We put cream in a jar and shook it while saying, "Come, butter, come. Jack is at the garden gate, waiting for his butter cake. Come, butter, come." I recall it was delicious.
Comments: I don't know why my name didn't post on the last posting, but it is mine.
Comments: I loved visiting my grandmother's farm in Tabor, South Dakota. It was a beautiful place on the Missouri River, with rolling hills. It must have been the quietest place on earth. She had a well, a basement, an outhouse, no electricity and a corn cob stove in the kitchen. The weather was cool so lots of berries grew in the garden and we often picked cherries from the cherry tree and made cobbler. My granddmother liked to can fruits and vegetables. She even canned beef in Mason jars. The beef was like stew meat marinated. She stored everything in the basement under the kitchen. (kind of like a freezer). The basement served as a storm cellar. The old farm house had an attic with secret rooms. Everyone in the family was musical and played an accordian or some kind of musical instrument. I loved playing the old pump organ in the bedroom. My grandmother was a cousin to Lawrence Welk's wife. My mother babyset their children when he first was getting started on the local radio station in Yankton, S. Dakota. My brother and I had a wonderful time on that old farm which now belongs to the Menonights whose farm bordered my grandmothers.
Comments: Mike, you are so funny. Yes, there is a way to delete. Maybe you should slip the Administrator a few bills under the table. ![[rofl]](/images/boards/smilies/rofl.gif "Rofl - :lol:") Are any of you going to the '64 50th? I'm about to sign-up.
Comments: Good Gosh! Is there no way to delete anything off this guestbook--I can't correct my mistakes!
Comments: Sorry about posting twice--I hit the wrong key too many times
Comments: Sorry about posting twice--I hit the wrong key too many times
Comments: One other funny thing I will tell you. My great uncle, John Fain McLure, lived on the farm next to great Grandpa. A truck came by every 2 weeks selling what they couldn't grow or kill (salt,sugar,etc.)driver would buy rabbits for50 cnts. Must be skinned cleaned but had to leave 1 foot on rabbit to prove you were not selling him a cat. LOL.They were kind of like koreans, eat anything with 4 legs except a table & anything that flies except an airplane.In high school, I took Glen Starnes with me to S. Arkansas. You can ask Glen how it was there. |
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