When Erma was cleaning out the extra things from her home to prepare to move to Albuquerque, she came across this letter that I wrote to Keith when I was ready to graduate from High School and ready to settle in LaJara, because I was married in March and was finishing my schol.
Keith was in the navy and I think he was still overseas. I had forgotten that I had ridden the train that went from Alamosa to Chama, New Mexico, every day, and back each night. It was just right for me to get to school in the morning and to go back to LaJara, each evening. Daddy and Leon and Barbara and LaRue and Doris Faye were living in Romeo and were moving from one house there to another. That was not long before Daddy died.
After Mama died, Daddy couldn't stand the farm anymore, so he sold it and moved into a house that was behind the school house,to the North. The West side of that block is where Shirley Sorensen lived. I don't know why Daddy moved, I think the house was sold and he had to find another place to live. The house I talked about in the letter was one block South of the highway and one block West of the East side of town. They moved there in May and he died in July.
My Mom and Dad didn't live in Manassa after we moved to the ranch. The house that we moved into when Dad sold the farm was north of the school house block on the north east corner, in Romeo. Dad was never quite settled after Mom died.
We moved into the Paul weddington house. It was on the northeast corner of the block that Shirley Sorenson lived in. We lived there until two months after I was married. This letter was written when Dad was moving from that house that is explained in the letter. The only house that I lived in, in the town of Romeo, is the house that I just described. That is where we lived when Nona and Moine and Arlo and I dated. We were together most of the time as we courted.
One day when we lived there, someone came into my class room at school and said "Gatha, your house is on fire". I jumped over a desk and ran as fast as I could to the house and Barbara had ironed a dress to wear to school and left the iron on. It burned a hole in the ironing boar and was starting to burn the floor. We got there in time to put the fire out.
There was always something going on. Life was not easy without a mom. When I have heard people complain about their moms I would say, "I'll trade you places.
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When Erma was cleaning out the extra things from her home to prepare to move to Albuquerque, she came across this letter that I wrote to Keith when I was ready to graduate from High School and ready to settle in LaJara, because I was married in March and was finishing my schol.
Keith was in the navy and I think he was still overseas. I had forgotten that I had ridden the train that went from Alamosa to Chama, New Mexico, every day, and back each night. It was just right for me to get to school in the morning and to go back to LaJara, each evening. Daddy and Leon and Barbara and LaRue and Doris Faye were living in Romeo and were moving from one house there to another. That was not long before Daddy died.
I see that you figured out how to get the image of the letter into the blog.
It's fun to see the original letter. You were talking about living in two places. What were the two places you were living in?
After Mama died, Daddy couldn't stand the farm anymore, so he sold it and moved into a house that was behind the school house,to the North. The West side of that block is where Shirley Sorensen lived. I don't know why Daddy moved, I think the house was sold and he had to find another place to live. The house I talked about in the letter was one block South of the highway and one block West of the East side of town. They moved there in May and he died in July.
Are you talking about Romeo or Manassa?
My Mom and Dad didn't live in Manassa after we moved to the ranch. The house that we moved into when Dad sold the farm was north of the school house block on the north east corner, in Romeo. Dad was never quite settled after Mom died.
Actually, This is a comment by Gatha:
We moved into the Paul weddington house. It was on the northeast corner of the block that Shirley Sorenson lived in. We lived there until two months after I was married. This letter was written when Dad was moving from that house that is explained in the letter. The only house that I lived in, in the town of Romeo, is the house that I just described. That is where we lived when Nona and Moine and Arlo and I dated. We were together most of the time as we courted.
One day when we lived there, someone came into my class room at school and said "Gatha, your house is on fire". I jumped over a desk and ran as fast as I could to the house and Barbara had ironed a dress to wear to school and left the iron on. It burned a hole in the ironing boar and was starting to burn the floor. We got there in time to put the fire out.
There was always something going on. Life was not easy without a mom. When I have heard people complain about their moms I would say, "I'll trade you places.
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