Thursday, June 22, 2006

Willis and Hazel Powell/ May 16, 1937, married 51 years

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Galla Creek said...

I often wonder what road they are
standing in. Momma and Daddy eloped. Momma had a brown dress..her best dress...Daddy bought her a blue dress. It is wrinkled cause Daddy had it in a paper sack.

Before he died..Patsy said she was sitting by the hospital bed (with hospice we kept him at home) and Daddy looked at Momma and said "they didn't think we would make it, did they? but we made it
Momma!"

Jesse Powell married Momma and Daddy.

6:22 AM
Sister--Helen said...

I have been told where the road was do you sisters remember... was it close to Jess Powells?

6:31 AM
Sister--Helen said...

Called Pat she will be on this afternoon...pat tell us where this road was... pls.. I just can't remember... They rode with that couple that was Mama's friend and they sat in a rumble seat...

8:42 AM
Sister--Helen said...

Winnie our Mama was different, She only had a forth grade education. She could read and write and do pretty good considering. When she wrote she used small words that she could spell easily.

She had an excellent memory about certain things...I am sure till her dying day she could tell us every detail about this dress right down to what the buttons were like. The picture of Fleta, Betty, and me she once described all of our dresses to Betty telling her even the color of flowers on each dress.

Mom was never a pack rat her theory was... "If you are not going to use it in the next 5 minutes throw it away!" She did always keep things like pictures and I think she kept every card all of us kids ever sent her after we were grown. I am sure we all sent her cards every occasion without fail because they were so important to Mama. It really did not matter what the verse said but it did need a pretty picture on the front...Remember that Sisters...

Also we would giver her nick-knacks and she liked them but after a year or so she would give it to one of us because it was in the way... she also did not give it back to the one that gave it to her...like things I gave her, she might have given to Betty's daughter Laura or something Betty gave her might have came to me...This did not bother any of us at all... but it was a little odd that she did that.. I'm sure she knew none of us cared what she did with things...

She was a good Mama and took care of all of us. I still remember being a grown girl maybe 14 or so and sitting on the couch and tell Mama I wanted a drink of water and she would get up on those poor cripple legs and get it for me... By the time my kids were 8 and asked me for a drink they had a comment coming from me like, "Are your legs broke!".. She was a better Mama that I am for sure...

9:00 AM
Galla Creek said...

Helen, Momma went to the 8th grade. She went through the 8th grade twice in fact. Her father only had 4 terms of school and that may be what you are thinking of.

No, Mother was not a great speller, but she was good at a lot of things. She was much smarter than a lot realize. Spelling was a problem for her, but it is for me too...teehee. Her math was good. She was better at keeping the money straight than Daddy.

1:06 PM

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