Sunday, March 31, 2013
Saturday, March 30, 2013
on the honor roll...
NORTH MERCER R-3 "B" HONOR ROLL": Eighth grader KATIE DAILEY!
CAINSVILLE R-1 "Excellence All 'A's: Junior WHITNEY THOMAS!
kenton's facebook note....
Lost Loved Ones (Aunt Kay & Grandma Brown) Losing people you love is one of the many hard things we have to deal with in life... You will miss them greatly, think about them often, and know they are watching you all the time... Aunt Kay and Grandma Brown, You both are always in my heart, and often on my mind.....
Friday, March 29, 2013
Day 88 - Logan's leprechaun catcher he had to build for school. It fell apart on the way home but he kind of rebuilt it so I could take a picture!
Day 87 - Logan won the $25 gift certificate to Walmart, sponsored by the Maries R-2 PTO, for perfect attendance at Bland Middle School for the 3rd quarter! :-)
yeppers....stealing stuff from my sisters facebook page.....
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Monday, March 18, 2013
we inherit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted.....
We inherit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted-our names, the color of our eyes and the texture of our hair, the unfolding of varied abilities and interests in different subjects. . . . Each of us contains within our fragile vessels of skin and bones and cells this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise. Only when we recognize that we are heirs can we truly be pioneers. -Edward C. Sellner
my little brother is on tv again...
http://www.heartlandconnection.com/news/story.aspx?id=873490#.UUeK9Rfql8E
is the link to the news story....they show him talking, but they're doing a voice over. he is also shown nodding solemnly.....
first my sister Lisa powerwalking on a brochure....and now John the tv star!
Thursday, March 14, 2013
from Lisa's picture of the day on facebook....
Day 40 - My first taste of Empty Nest Syndrome. The boys left yesterday about 3 and got home from Christ in Youth Believe about 7 tonight. We enjoyed our 1st night with both gone in 8.5 years but so glad to have them back home. Not quite ready for an empty, quiet house yet....
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
day 26-the oddest basketball game ever.
(from my sister Lisa's blog...)Our boys officially lost by one point in double overtime although most of the people on our side of the gym (our parents and the team waiting for the next game) thought we really won. This was the 2 refs conferencing with the scorekeeper, coaches, and teams after somehow the other team was awarded 2 points at the end of the regular game (we were tied and we fouled them - they got ready to shoot the free throws and were 2 points ahead). After a long delay, discussing, calling in the head person for the tourney, etc. they finally took the 2 points off. Then the refs messed up in the 2nd overtime and gave the ball to the other team for a jump ball when it should have gone to us, so more discussing before time was put back on the clock and the ball went to us. In addition, some parents said we weren't credited for 2 points from a shot we made, which would have made all this other stuff irrelevant as we would have won (I looked away and didn't see this). Quite a comedy of errors...
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Mildred Emma (Hampshire) Fry Randall
unknown undated newspaper clipping
Mildred Emma (Hampshire) Fry Randall, daughter of Charles Augustus and Erma Marie (Dill) Hampshire, was born December 5 1913 in Mercer County, Missouri, and died October 14 2001 in Reno Nevada.Mildred attended the Calvert School in Mercer County. She was a Sunday school teacher, member of the Eastern Star and a member of several clubs. She enjoyed playing pitch and bridge, making crafts and quilts and having garage sales. SHe lived in Mercer County until 1945, when she and William and their family moved to Trenton, Missouri. She and her family moved to California in May 1950. She was a global traveler.
Mildred was married first on May 11 1929 to William Howard Fry, who was killed on February 11 1949 in the Kansas City, Kansas freight yards. She was then married on December 17 1949 to Thomas Ballington Randall,who died in 1985. Besides her husbands she was also preceded in death by her parents; three sisters, Neva May Hampshire, Hazel Pearl (Hampshire) Williams Summers, and Marjorie Laura (Hampshire) Phillips; seven brothers, William Paul Hampshire, Clifford Tuba "Bud" Hampshire, William Albert Hampshire, Clyde Roscoe Hampshire, James Harold Hampshire, Darwin Wesley Dill and Marvin Lee Dill; a daughter, Helen Jane (Fry) Bowers Willams; and two grandchildren. She is survived by three sisters, Thelma Goldie (Hampshire) Houlette, Margaret Helen (Hampshire) Hummel and Marolynn Donanell (Hampshire) Shafer; six children, Charles Howard Fry and wife Marijane, Harold Lewis Fry and wife Margie Jane, Ronald Harland Fry and wife Mary Jo, Janice Evelyn Marie (Fry) Mason, Shirley Kyle (Fry) Winton, and Thomas Mark Randall, who was adopted and wife Lisa; 19 grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; and many other relatives and friends.
Burial was in California.
Tom Brokaw Makes Me Cry
this appeared in The Mirror
by Marie Dailey Hass, Mercer
I read a lot of Anne Rivers Siddons books. On the flyleaf is a list of books she has written. One is "John Chancellor Makes Me Cry." I have not read that book, but I have just read Tom Brokaw's latest book, "The Greatest Generation Speaks." You printed my comments on his book, "The Greatest Generation", January 6, 1999.
This is a book that needs to be read. We have a lot of World War II veterans and their stories are going to be lost. Tom tells in his book how many of those veterans are dying each year. Those of you that have beterans, talk to them, ask them to tell you their stories, and write them down.
Those of us who stayed home from the war, have our stories, too. We farmed, we had rationing for gas, sugar, food, shoes, tires, and we took part in scrap iron drives, aluminum drives, and didn't we save our waste grease, collect walnut hulls, etc? I read in one of my Mom's diaries that sugar rationing did not end until two years after the war ended. We also scraped money together to buy Victory Bonds.
I had a brother in service, three sisters had husbands in service, one brother and one brother-in-law worked in airplane factories.
Yes, we were all touched by the war. Tom Brokaw makes me cry.
The Mercer County Library has this book.
Ann Landers column yesterday was from a man who had served in the Navy submarine duty, and he felt they had been left out of the book. I would guess that Tom Brokaw will do more books.
Note from Bob: Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Marie. I will go read that book. I hope we are able to publish more stories from our veterans here in Mercer county. Some of the most rewarding and interesting stories I have published were about veterans like Denny Beavers, Leonard Hashman, and Donald Lafolette. I hope more of you veterans will come and talk to me.
Great Great Grandma Anna Axsom with some (great great?)grandchildren...
didin't write it on picture.... I knew at one time....I'm thinking Hughes boys.
pictures tucked in Christmas cards through the years....
pictures tucked in Christmas cards through the years of nieces/nephews/cousins kids.....
Sam....Max & Logan....Ashley & Tara....Jace & Lexi.....
Missouri Century Farm Club
membership is awarded to Debra Lynn Axsom Dailey (1893-2005)
This certificate recognizes those families who have contributed to local, state, national, and international agriculture by owning and operating the same Missouri farm for 100 years of more. The Missouri Century Farm program is sponsored by University of Missouri Extension and the College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, University of Missouri.
this is for the descendants of James C. Maxwell, who started the Maxwell Family Farm in 1893. the farm is in the Cat Creek Community, near Brimon, in Harrison County, Missouri. When Aunt Minerva passed, she left it to her nephew Jimmy Maxwell. she bought the farm from her parents, Tom & Gilly Maxwell, who bought it (or maybe it was left to them? not sure) from/by his father, James C. Maxwell.
throughout my childhood into my adult years Aunt Minerva hosted a family reunion dinner at the farm the first weekend in June. we played softball in the old hog lot, took hikes around the farm and looked at the old antique machinery and vehicles, hiked up the road to the farm where their long ago neighbor Amanda Shirley was mysteriously murdered...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
In Loving Memory of Fern Brown
July 7 1919-October 24 2004
Services 1:00 p.m. Friday OCtober 29 2004, Whitaker Eads Funeral Chapel, Trenton, Missouri
Officiating: Pastor Ron Ratliff
Organist: Jackie Altenderfer
Singer: Bill Orndorff
Songs "In the Garden", "Whispering Hope"
Pallbearers Steve Banks, Jerry Southers, Frederick Bosley, Franklin Bosley, Harlan Hobbs, Jerry Hughes
Interment Rural Dale Cemetery, Grundy County, Missouri
On December 22, 1928, Roscoe Ward Craig was united in marriage to Nettie Miller,
foster daughter of MR and Mrs W.A. Miller of Ridgeway, Mo. They had two daughters, Gladys Elizabeth, born October 8, 1929, and Madolyn Rose, born August 20, 1935.
Elizabeth Craig was married to John R. Andrick,, son of Mr and MRs J.B. Andrick, on June 22, 1947. They have three sons, John Michael born June 13, 1948; Stephen Craig, born September 28, 1950;' and James Phillip born April 23 1953. They have one granddaughter, Sarah Marie Andrick, daughter of Stephen. John and Elizabeth live in Bethany, Missouri.
Madolyn was married to Larry Paul Courter, son of Mr and Mrs Orus Courter, on December 26, 1953. They have two daughterse and one son. Paula was born on March 1, 1955; Pamela on September 11, 1958; and Kevin on September 20, 1965. Dr. and Mrs Courter live in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Nettie Craig, widow of Ross Ward Craig, now lives in Lake Ozark, Missouri. Her love of life and family has endeared her to all.
The pioneer spirit of the Craig family has lived on through the descendants of Roderick Craig. Military achievement, leadership, scholarly pursuits, professional endeavors, religious participation, and a great sense of family loyalty and love has been handed down from one generation to the next.
Submitted by Madolyn (Craig) Courter.
"Aunt" Mollie Mullins age 85 and Grandma Susie Boyd age 92
taken at their shared "duplex" in or near Cainsville, Mo. fall of 1956. These ladies lived together and took care of each other in their later years.
Fern Brown
services set
Funeral services for Fern Brown will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, October 29, 2004 at the Whitaker-Eads Funeral Home in Trenton. Burial will be in the Rural Dale Cemetery, east of Trenton.
A family visitation is scheduled one hour prior to the funeral service at the funeral home.
Miss Brown, an 85-year-old resident of 1713 Bolser St. in Trenton, died at 7:10 a.m. on Sunday, October 24, 2004 at her home.
The family suggests memorials to the American Cancer Society.
unknown newspaper clipping Tuesday October 26, 2004
this must of been taken 1931-2 my younger brother Billy is not in the picture.
photo from Marie West.
back row from left Dale Taft, WARREN BOYD, RALPH SHAFER, Gerladine Helton, Thelma Philips, PAULINE SHAFER
2nd rwo from left Wilson boy?, DEAN SHAFER, Crawley b oy?, JUNIOR SHAFER, Mildred Taft, MARIE BOYD
3rd row Wilson boy?, _________ George (Deloris?), Lilly Bea Crawley, BETTY SHAFER, The last child ?
I hope you enjoy. Marie
Engaged
Mrs. Amanda Shafer, 1715 Eighty st., announces the engagement and approaching marriage of her daughter, Betty Jean, to David L. Ashley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Ashley, Fifty-fifth st. and Meredith drive. Miss Shafer is the daughter of the late Ross J. Shafer. The couple will be married June 2.
Engaged
Mrs. Amanda Shafer, 1715 Eighty st., announces the engagement and approaching marriage of her daughter, Betty Jean, to David L. Ashley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Ashley, Fifty-fifth st. and Meredith drive. Miss Shafer is the daughter of the late Ross J. Shafer. The couple will be married June 2.
Engaged
Mrs. Amanda Shafer, 1715 Eighty st., announces the engagement and approaching marriage of her daughter, Betty Jean, to David L. Ashley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Ashley, Fifty-fifth st. and Meredith drive. Miss Shafer is the daughter of the late Ross J. Shafer. The couple will be married June 2.
Class of 1939
Mercer Mirror
photo submitted by Marie Dailey Hass. This picture was in Betty (Shroyer) Daily's book and written under the picture was "My class in 1939." first row left to right, Max Haggard is 4th. back row left to right Betty Shroyer Daily is 4th.
First in family to fair-
PRINCETON POST TELEGRAPH Aug 10 2006 Samantha Duff, 11, is the first member of her family to have a 4-H exhibit qualify for the Missouri State Fair. Her chocolate chip cookies, shown above, qualified for the state fair during the Mercer County Fair last month. Both her state fair-qualifying cookies and her no-bake oatmeal cookies won blue ribbons locally.
First in family to fair-
PRINCETON POST TELEGRAPH Aug 10 2006 Samantha Duff, 11, is the first member of her family to have a 4-H exhibit qualify for the Missouri State Fair. Her chocolate chip cookies, shown above, qualified for the state fair during the Mercer County Fair last month. Both her state fair-qualifying cookies and her no-bake oatmeal cookies won blue ribbons locally.
Congratulations Stephanie Thomas
showed GRAND CHAMPION MARKET LAMB, showed RESERVE CHAMPION MARKET LAMB & EWE
Anna Axsom
picture on loan from Aunt Freeda August 7 2005
Grandma Anna Axsom, age 91, this picture was taken at Bethany August 29 1939 the day her beloved grandson Alfred Axsom married Mary Pauline Shafer. It was a hot day, and she dressed in a hot black taffeta coat. Grandma Pauline told me the Bethany paper took this picture and ran it in the paper. I never did find that edition...but this accidental find is unreal!!!
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