Here on the left are The Chaplain's great-grandfather and his family on their Oklahoma homestead. On the right you see The Chaplain's paternal grandparents and their three children apx. 1929-30.
Here on the left are The Chaplain's great-grandfather and his family on their Oklahoma homestead. On the right you see The Chaplain's paternal grandparents and their three children apx. 1929-30.
On the right is a photo of The Chaplain's fraternal grandparents on their Northeastern New Mexico homestead in the early 1900's. After two children were born there, they sold out and moved by covered wagon back to Oklahoma in 1916. On the left is a photo of The Teacher's clan in West Texas in the early 1950's ... the small baby in her mother's arms third from the left on the second row is The Teacher. At front row right center is her grandfather, who rode as a Texas Ranger in the early 1900's.
Families can be great, especially when they manage to stay together. And for a family that has moved frequently, the family bond linking one member to another can be very important as one of the few things other than our God that remains constant.
As the title of our page indicates, the children have left this particular nest. But they are still very much a part of us and always will be. After the second one graduated from high school and chose to go to college where we were living just as her older brother had done -- and was still living at home -- it was the dad and mom who picked up and left home, leaving the two fledgling adults on their own together. It wasn't actually our plan -- the U.S. Air Force played a key part!! -- but it worked! And several years later we even sold the house right out from under our daughter and younger son, who had returned there to attend college. Nice parents, huh?
On the left is our youngest son, and on the right is our daughter.
And here is our oldest son and his family.
