Did you make your own dresses? My mom looks so pretty in this picture! How old do you think everyone was? Do you remember where this was taken? Was it a special occasion?
Sister Margie, bought those dresses for Naomi and I. They were so pretty. I’m not sure but I think that van may have been Edgars. I don’t recognize where the picture was taken. Cleo could that house have been the one on St.Mary’s Blvd. that Margie lived in, and then Bea? I was probably about 12, naomi 10, and Lloyd, 7. Cleo 16, and Mahlon 18, or close to it. Cleo always had the most beautiful head of hair in the whole family! This is a lovely picture of her.
The only thing I remember about that picture is that blue wool skirt and the dresses that the girls are wearing. Mahlon looks so young. That is really a nice picture of him.I didn’t remember anything else until Naomi and Lolly jogged my memory a little. I remember that Mahlon was a pain in the ass, but he grew out of it. I am thinking that maybe that is the basement apartment in the back of that building. I think Eds brother Clarence and his wife were living in that basement apartment and Margie and Ed lived in the upstairs apartment om the right, the same apartment that Beatrice and Fred lived in When Ed an Margie moved to Decatur Ill.. I think that Ed and Margie along with his brother clarence, may have owned that building for many years. Almost every stitch of clothes I ever owned, second handed or new, came from Margie. Margie was 10 when I was born and she sewed for me, and later Lolly and Naomi. Lloyd was our baby brother for those who dont know, the last of 12 children
When Beatrice was in High School in Eugene Mo. she learned to sew in Home Economics. Well she tried to teach me to sew. I started with a beautiful flour sack with blue roses on it. We started with a apron. When I was finished with the apron, while she was at school one day I wanted a pocket on the apron. so i cut out a rose and sewed it onto the apron, with no finished edges. When she came home and saw what i had done she was so mad she wouldn’t help me any more. It was soon after that 4-H was established in our school.John Sappenfield was our teacher and instrumental in getting 4-H started. Mother and father must have felt slighted because they would have nothing to do with it. I think thier feeling were hurt because in thier past life, when they lived at Schuberts, they and some of the older kids were very active in 4-H, which I didn’t know anything about. If Mahlon and I had meetings to go to we had to walk. My first sewing leaders were Grace Sappenfield and Coleen Slaughters mother (cant remember her name). I dont remember who the Community leaders were . I guess it was John Sappenfield.It wasen’t to many years before Mother and father became very active again in 4-H.
I guess mother was my 4-H clothing leader. I can’t remember anyone else teaching us to sew except (I think) a Graham lady, maybe Laura? and we cut out a dress at her house and she laid the pattern on wrong, and we cut it out wrong and we learned not to do that!! It couldn’t be sewn because the wrong side of the fabric was on one side of the garment. They probably make quilt scraps of it.
Julie Baker says
Did you make your own dresses? My mom looks so pretty in this picture! How old do you think everyone was? Do you remember where this was taken? Was it a special occasion?
Aunt Lolly says
Sister Margie, bought those dresses for Naomi and I. They were so pretty. I’m not sure but I think that van may have been Edgars. I don’t recognize where the picture was taken. Cleo could that house have been the one on St.Mary’s Blvd. that Margie lived in, and then Bea? I was probably about 12, naomi 10, and Lloyd, 7. Cleo 16, and Mahlon 18, or close to it. Cleo always had the most beautiful head of hair in the whole family! This is a lovely picture of her.
Naomi Vetter says
I think the pic was taken at Bea’s house on the corner of Waverly and St. Mary’s. I like Lloyd’s cute outfit!
cleopha says
The only thing I remember about that picture is that blue wool skirt and the dresses that the girls are wearing. Mahlon looks so young. That is really a nice picture of him.I didn’t remember anything else until Naomi and Lolly jogged my memory a little. I remember that Mahlon was a pain in the ass, but he grew out of it. I am thinking that maybe that is the basement apartment in the back of that building. I think Eds brother Clarence and his wife were living in that basement apartment and Margie and Ed lived in the upstairs apartment om the right, the same apartment that Beatrice and Fred lived in When Ed an Margie moved to Decatur Ill.. I think that Ed and Margie along with his brother clarence, may have owned that building for many years. Almost every stitch of clothes I ever owned, second handed or new, came from Margie. Margie was 10 when I was born and she sewed for me, and later Lolly and Naomi. Lloyd was our baby brother for those who dont know, the last of 12 children
cleopha says
When Beatrice was in High School in Eugene Mo. she learned to sew in Home Economics. Well she tried to teach me to sew. I started with a beautiful flour sack with blue roses on it. We started with a apron. When I was finished with the apron, while she was at school one day I wanted a pocket on the apron. so i cut out a rose and sewed it onto the apron, with no finished edges. When she came home and saw what i had done she was so mad she wouldn’t help me any more. It was soon after that 4-H was established in our school.John Sappenfield was our teacher and instrumental in getting 4-H started. Mother and father must have felt slighted because they would have nothing to do with it. I think thier feeling were hurt because in thier past life, when they lived at Schuberts, they and some of the older kids were very active in 4-H, which I didn’t know anything about. If Mahlon and I had meetings to go to we had to walk. My first sewing leaders were Grace Sappenfield and Coleen Slaughters mother (cant remember her name). I dont remember who the Community leaders were . I guess it was John Sappenfield.It wasen’t to many years before Mother and father became very active again in 4-H.
Naomi Vetter says
I guess mother was my 4-H clothing leader. I can’t remember anyone else teaching us to sew except (I think) a Graham lady, maybe Laura? and we cut out a dress at her house and she laid the pattern on wrong, and we cut it out wrong and we learned not to do that!! It couldn’t be sewn because the wrong side of the fabric was on one side of the garment. They probably make quilt scraps of it.