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Charles B. Packard
Having spent half of his 70 years compiling family history and genealogical data, the author has wrapped up this compelling collection of family tales and legends in his book, The Crepe Myrtle.
...view moreHaving spent half of his 70 years compiling family history and genealogical data, the author has wrapped up this compelling collection of family tales and legends in his book, The Crepe Myrtle.
Born and raised in the small Central Texas town of Temple, the author has chronicled the lives and adventures of his Packard and Foster ancestors in the interesting and entertaining blending of actual American history, with that of his own families’.
Spanning more than 450 years, The Crepe Myrtle is a saga which has its beginning in 1500’s Elizabethan England, and concludes in 1900’s Central Texas.
Charles Packard closes his book with true-life family stories – notable of his older sister and her World War II pilot husband, Col. Chas A. Walters, Sr., as well as humorous sketches about an older brother, Dr. Robert G. Packard. Dr. Packard, who taught physics at Baylor University for half a century, also served in WW II, first as an Army Signal Corps specialist in the Pacific, and later in occupied Japan as a Japanese interpreter.
Despite encouragement from a much admired Temple High School English/Lit teacher, who urged the author to take up writing as a career, The Crepe Myrtle is Packard’s first and only literary effort.
This book is dedicated in her memory………view less