Things about me have been requested...so here goes - 79 yrs at FB speed = 1. More than one person has told me to my face that I am weird (and that was even before Dan and I moved to Transylvania!) 2. Perhaps the reason for being weird is that I am left handed and was born in the Land of Fruit, Flakes and Nuts - in Bakersfield, CA. -- or maybe its because 5 attempts were made upon my life when I was small, but each time God sent someone to interrupt, and saved my life. 3. At age 9 months I had to follow my dad, geophysicist, seismologist, to the swamps around Lake Charles, Lake Arthur, Welsh, Crowley, Opelousas, Jennings, Louisiana, (where I learned to speak Cajun and to enjoy eating raw oysters fresh from the bay!). 4.Next, we entered the Great State of Texas - Silsbee, Victoria, TX. 5. But my dad was ordered to take his crew back to Louisiana - Bunkie, Alexandria, Lafayette, Eunice. 6. We took a side trip to Durant, Mississippi (I was told that my dad was the first one to take a seismograph crew East of the Mississippi River. I remember crossing the Big River in our car on a small ferry boat connected to a huge rope so the ferry did not drift, pushed across the water by poles), and then Jasper, Alabama (where clothes hung outdoors to dry ran the risk of getting covered with coal dust!) 7. But Texas needed us the most, so at age 4 years I entered Texas Womens University, Denton, TX - in their on campus Kindergarten, then on to Rosenberg (where I was the bride in the first grade play, but, once again, had to follow my dad...leaving broke my heart!) Next, we went South to Laredo - where I learned Spanish, learned to skate, received free cactus candy from the nice Hispanic man who sold it from his street cart, and became a devotee of Tex-Mex). 8. Then Angleton, Kenedy - I was only 6, due to begin 2nd grade, but promoted to 3rd. (I remember getting into the movie theater free until I turned 6. I had to struggle with my 6 yr old conscience to finally tell the ticket lady that I had turned 6, and paid $0.05 to go to the movies. A huge dip of ice cream was also $0.05. WWII began while in Kenedy. I walked a mile to school passing a Prisoner of War Camp on the way to school. Even now I get a sad, heavy feeling remembering those war years. WWII really happened! 9. My sister, Barbara, was born in Kenedy shortly before we moved to Floresville! Next was Gonzales where my sister, Linda, was born! (Barbara had lovely blonde hair; Linda had beautiful auburn curly hair; I had dark brunette hair with red highlights. I always wanted red hair! Now...Im gray headed - thankful for hair. Chemo destroyed my hair. Bald can be beautiful. Its all in how you look at it.) But on to Beeville where we lived in naval officers housing. (I was 9 yrs old in 6th grade; a bunch of us 6th graders got together and threw a party...each told our parents that a classmate had invited us!) WWII ended, my dad settled us on land outside of Gonzales, TX. I had the female lead in the operetta, Martha, played clarinet in GHS Band, was Valedictorian. Dan and I met at Sheffield, TX, church camp and my life changed forever! 10. Went to Abilene Christian College, worked 20 hours a week to support myself ($25 scholarship a semester for brains in 51 at ACC); attended Mission Training Class weekly, sang in A Cappella Chorus, planned before we married to have 4 kids; married when a Soph in ACC (age 18). When Dan graduated - moved to Ardmore (Bob born), and Velma, OK; Cisco, TX (Dyann born); Utrecht, Holland (Scott and Dean born); Memphis, TN; Wilmington, DE; Dallas, Coppell, Ft. Worth, TX; then moved to St. George, Covasna County, in Transylvania, RO, in 2007. I now have 8 grandchildren AND 1 great grandchild! (Dan & I were called to the places where we worked. It was always a surprise to receive the call. We did mission work in Fairbanks, Alaska (3 Months), The Netherlands (5 yrs), the rest were short term - Belgium, Scotland, Massachusetts, Inner City Philadelphia, Ghana (W. Africa), Russia, Romania. We were asked several times, and finally accepted the call to move to St. George, RO, near Brasov not far from Draculas Castle in the Carpathian Mountains! P.S. As a result of living/working in these places, I traveled in all 50 U.S. States, Mexico, Aruba, all of Western Europe, and a few countries in Eastern Europe.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 20:36:19 +0000
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