May 2, 2008 - Winnie Jo Was Here

More photos

Winnie Jo also had a photo of the Sunny Lane School taken in 1929. I put it up on our Carroll County website
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~arcchs/index.html

It was taken the same day as the one we have of Daddy and Truman with the Sunny Lane Basketball team that Jonell gave us because Daddy and Truman have on the same clothes in both photos.

And who is this?

Another photo from Winnie.

Winnie

This is the only photo I have ever seen of Aunt Oma and her husband. I have one or two of Oma taken around 1911/12, but this is the only one I have seen of her after she moved to Oklahoma. She died in 1955. I can remember Grandma talking about Sister Oma with love and respect. I am really pleased to get this picture from Winnie.




I really enjoyed having cousin Winnie here. I got to scan several photos including this one of Floyd and a matched pair of mules.

I sure hope Winnie made it home alright. I was not impressed with her driving ability. When we drove into town today, we saw someone had mowed over the stop sign at the end of our Douglas Road at the edge of town. I hope it was not Winnie. If it were not for the fact that they were already dead and buried, we would have been attending a few more funerals for the people she ran over at the 3 cemeteries we visited while she was here.

Richard

If you look in the background here, you can see the blue tent over Richard's gravesite. It is in the last row, under a big tree. All in all it went very well.

I have uploaded some pictures we took today here
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~powell/Richard/
If anyone wants to look at them.

Richard & Patsy

This is the earliest picture I have seen of Richard. He must have been less than 2 years old. Thanks to cousin Winnie for sharing this picture.

The measure of a man

Maybe, just maybe, after a man has done all he will ever do here, a man might be measured by the tears that are shed by the ones he was closest to... The ones that knew this man best have cried several rivers today.

Richard Powell 1939 - 2008