1967 – Birth of First
Grandson
Danny married Velda Darline
Sherrard on September 21, 1966. Our second grandchild, Harold Danny Thomas, Jr.
was born on September 5, 1967. Harold and I went to see him as often as we
could. Harold was still working for B. L. Taylor at the E’town Bowling Lanes.
He had gone to school up north to learn how to fix anything that went wrong
with the mechanics of the bowling alleys.
I had inherited a rocking
chair that belonged to my grandmother’s brother John Lanter who had lived up in
Pennsylvania. We had to go up there to pick up the things that had been left to
me and Mom. Harold had rocked our children in that rocking chair and now he rocked
both our grandchildren in the same rocking chair. I so love when history and real
life come together.
Heinz had gotten out of
the Marine Corps and he had taken Ann and her daughter Christina, who we had nicknamed
Tina, to Ohio to live. Heinz had a job driving a semi with Sue’s husband, my brother
in law, Buck McVaney.
Heinz was on the road but
Ann and Tina had come from Ohio to spend Christmas with us. Tina kept taking the
ornaments off the tree and had broken several; she loved the sound of the breaking
glass. Ann had tapped Tina on the butt and told her not to touch the tree
ornaments. So she didn’t. Instead she walked up to the tree with her hands behind
her back and bit them off the tree. After we had cleaned up the glass, moved the
glass ornaments higher up out of her reach we had a good laugh about not touching
those tree ornaments. Tina was almost fourteen months old when she did this. She
always was good at figuring things out.
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