Jan 10, 2011

Share a memory of your brothers and sisters. To whom did you feel the closest? Why?

I think that the memories of the whole family together were mostly around the piano on sunday evenings after church.We would sing and dad was always so fun to listen to with his deep bass voice. Other than that I did a lot of things with them individually as well. Alma was older by 10 or so years and by the time I was very old she was off to college and I actually became closer to her after I was married and we would visit them in Sandy, Ut where they were living at the time. Stan also was older and I remember him best as my roommate after he returned from his mission and how I loved to listen to him play his guitar out in the furnace room. Lynn and I did an awful lot of farming together and that included irrigating, haying, gardening and milking the cows. We usually got along pretty good but did have our moments. Leesa and Marsha were probably the closest to me and Leesa especially after Pauline came to live with us. Pauline was Leesa'a age but in my class at school due to her Aug birthday and she waited a year while I went ahead a year. Marsha and I have been close most of our lives and I figure that is because we had to play together being the youngest and all.