Saturday, March 9

SHARON K. ANDERSON, a resident of Green Forest, Arkansas, was born October 1, 1943 in Berryville, Arkansas, a daughter of Clinton Theo and Reba Irene (Ayers) Trantham. She departed this life Thursday, March 7, 2013 in her home with family by her side in Green Forest, at the age of 69 years.

Sharon worked as a homemaker.

She is survived by one son, Ricky Anderson of Berryville, AR; three daughters, Dorothy and husband Steve Norris of Green Forest, AR, Ronda Terherst of Eureka Springs, AR and Carolyn and husband Steve Pritchett of Blue Eye, MO; one brother, Gary Trantham of Green Forest, AR; three sisters, Barbara Powell of Green Forest, AR, Annetta and husband Rob Egberg of Lovelock, NV and Wanda and husband A.J. Smith of Berryville, AR; seven grandchildren; fourteen great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews; and a host of friends and loved ones.

On May 28, 1961, Sharon was united in marriage with Rondal Anderson who preceded her in death. She was also preceded by her parents, Clinton and Reba Trantham and one son, Roy Anderson.

A memorial service will held at a later date. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Nelson Funeral Service. Online condolences may be sent to the family at nelsonfuneral.com.

Friday, March 8

Look what I found online, here

http://www.expertgps.com/data/ar/mountains.asp

If you click to enlarge, you can see more detail.

When you enlarge this, you can see the orange machine just above the road in the upper left corner.  But, look at that gray spot above the orange machine and see the orange spot at the upper left of the gray?  Know what that is?  That is George burning a brush pile.

Here is a larger view where you can see the entire Rock Quarry and the creek. 

And here is the pond with George's rows of hay in the field and the dogwood tree in bloom.  

George remembered it was in the spring of 2011 that he had the hay here, so I went looking for pictures. This is a picture of the dogwood in the corner by Clayton's with the hay between me and the dogwood.  The same scene as the picture right above it, except from a slightly different angle, as in looking from ground level.  This picture was taken on April 10, 2011. 

Another picture from April 11, 2011 from down along the fence between us and Dan's.   If you enlarge it you can see the rows of hay in the field. During this time, we were working on cleaning up the graveyard on Dan's.

This picture was taken on April 22, 2011 and the rows of hay are gone. So these were taken in the first part of April 2011.

Thursday, March 7, The Bible says

Let the dead bury the dead, but, I don't think Aunt Helen buried herself.  She was buried where her husband chose to bury her in the manner he chose to bury her and the wording on her grave stone were his words.

Today is a beautiful day.  Saturday, George is taking the big billy goat back to the hills.  We have had him penned up for about 2 weeks now.

It is supposed to be really nice tomorrow and Saturday.  I plan on enjoying the spring weather.

Title: Civil Servant of the Year Dinner.Date: January 18, 1962 Accession number: 62-709-08

and more...

Darius Arthur Luckey

The baby in the dress is D. A. Luckey that married Aunt Helen.

Found it here

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=31473314

and his gave marker here

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=31473312

buried in Kansas

Wednesday, March 6, Day of The Dead

More dead non relatives:

Name:	Norman Otis Young
Gender:	Male
Residence State:	Missouri
Spouse:	Helen C Luckey
Spouse residence state:	Missouri
Marriage Date:	18 Jun 1977
Marriage County:	Clark
Officiant Type:	Religious celebrant
Recorded Date:	27 Jun 1977
Recorded County:	Clark
Book:	514
Page:	B096524
Instrument number:	894287

NAME:	Norman Otis Young
SPOUSE:	Miss Leona Ruth Schulenberg
MARRIAGE:	30 Jan 1937 - Jackson
MARRIAGE:	1937

1940 census

NAME:	Norman O Young
SPOUSE:	Leona R Young
BIRTH:	abt 1915 - Missouri
RESIDENCE:	1935 - Osarland Park, Johnson, Kansas
RESIDENCE:	Blue, Jackson, Missouri

Name:	Norman O. Young
Last Residence:	64015  Blue Springs, Jackson, Missouri
Born:	13 Nov 1914
Died:	1 Jun 2006
State (Year) SSN issued:	Missouri (Before 1951)

and this

Birth:	1914
Death:	2006
Note: Permission granted to copy this photo.
Burial: Mount Washington Cemetery Independence Jackson County Missouri, USA Then: Calvin James Blevins and Hettie M. Gaddy

Name:	Calvin J Blevins
Age:	36
Race/Ethnicity:	White
Birth Date:	5 May 1928
Marriage Date:	27 Jun 1964
Marriage Location:	Benton, Missouri
Marriage County:	Jackson
Spouse Name:	Hettie M Gaddy
Spouse Age:	28
Spouse Birth Date:	3 Apr 1936
Spouse Race/Ethnicity:	White

Name:	Calvin J. Blevins
Last Residence:	64136  Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri
Born:	5 May 1928
Died:	7 Nov 2007
State (Year) SSN issued:	Kansas (Before 1951)

Sunday Morning

Coming up.

Sunday, March 3rd

Kids playing on the pondbank yesterday.  Robert decided to roll down the muddy bank and Grandma yelled at him to not do that.

He came up to to the house looking like this, but very disappointed to have to leave the fun.  I told him he could go back, since he was already covered in mud. 

He went right back and rolled in the mud.  I do not know why kids do that.  I would never play in that red clay and get my clothes all covered in red clay mud.