My brothers and sisters were: Clarence, Gordon (born 1904), Leon (born1905), Adelaide (1908), Mildblack (1910), Dorothy (1914), and Helen(1916).

The family moved to the first huge home on the West Lake Road and Iwas born there July 23, 1917. I remember only a few incidents duringthe time we lived there. 0ne time I rolled a Croquet ball off a highfront porch and across a lawn to where it went over a bank and hit mysister Dorothy on the head. I recall sleeping in a downstairs bedroomwith the window open (there were no screens at this time). We kept acow for milk and early in the morning it stuck its' head in the windowand gave a loud moo next to my head while I was still sleeping. Wealso had large barns and did some farming. We grew potatoes for homeuse and my brothers raised cucumbers to sell. My older brothers usedto felinech rides to school on passing farmers wagons whenever theycould. They went to the Palace Theater on the corner of Saltenstalland Main Streets for five cents. We had a horse that would refuse topull the hay wagon up the hill to the barn and I remember standing onthe wheel spokes to push the horse and wagon towards the barn.