Snipets

One year ago yesterday, my sweet mom left this world for glory.  I shared this milestone day - the last of the firsts, with family - talking over old times, reminiscing, and sharing memory snipets of her and our family.

Dale remembered mom as a young teanager being assigned the job of babysitting Glenn, Larry and him.  She and Odessa would pack a picnic lunch and take them out to the pasture.  Dale remembers that Mom and Odessa would make them little bib overalls and pin them on them.  He remembers the straps over the shoulders.  He also remembered that once, when everyone was picking cotton, he wanted to pick too, so Mom made him a very small pick sack with a long strap.  It was so small that it probably only held a few boles.  I remember her telling the story that her siblings did the same for her. 

We also talked about Momo and her love of fishing.  We both remember digging worms in her yard for those times we got to tag along.

Sometimes I feel like John Boy Walton, with such wonderful memories of a child hood gone by, though not spent on Walton's Mountain, but in the safety of my beloved Chandler Springs.

I thank you all who remembered Mother and me yesterday both in person, in prayer and by mail. Her memories are precious reminders of what a treasure she was to us all.

Courtship

After Mom graduated from high school in 1946, she enrolled in beauty school in Talladega. There she met a woman named Jewell Ellis who had a brother named Carl Cagle. Jewel wanted to introduce her to Carl and he had come by the beauty school once, but Mom was out to lunch. The woman that ran the beauty school had a shop in Sycamore where mom worked once she graduated. The Cagles lived next door to the beauty school. Mr. Cagle had built a building that had a grocery store on one side and the beauty shop on the other. Mom finally met dad when he came by the beauty shop to tell her about Jewel's son Colin had arrived. Colin was born on May 2, 1947. Dad and his friend Ralph Britton were riding when he motorcycles and he and mom got to talking. Dad came out to Chandler Springs to meet her family. He was about to go to Oklahoma to work with his brother Verdo, but was so distracted because he had fell in love with mom that His sister -in -law told him he should go back to Alabama and marry that girl. So he did. Mom didn't think he would come back. She was excited to see him. Mom and Dad were sitting on the porch talking to Momo and when Momo got up to go in the house, dad followed her and ask for mom's hand. They were married on August 10, 1947.