With Aunt Twila's passing, I have been thinking about their family. They are all together again and that is quite wonderful. I thought that it might be of interest to quote a bit from Fay's oral history about her parents. They both died before I was born so a treasure these insights.
She was asked to describe them and this is what she said:
"Well, Mother's eyes were brown. You couldn't miss that, boy. They looked just like Twila's are, just a real dark brown. (The family referred to that color as Bell eyes). And dad's eyes were blue, but he always had a problem with his eyes. In fact, when he died, he was getting cataracts and had very poor eyes.
Mother, I think, was just a little bit taller than I am, (5 foot 2 inches) and not really heavy but well built. And Dad was real stocky built. He was real muscular and a very strong person. I guess he could really fight when he was younger. He had blue eyes and kind of light brown hair. It wasn't really dark hair. He wore glasses, but I don't believe my mother ever wore glasses, I really can't recall too much about Dad. I do remember that he just worked a lot. And I remember what a struggle we had sticking together after he died, because we had to fix that house and boy, that first winter."
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