Volume 2

Late comers—odds and ends

Overlooking Niagara Falls

Doris’ wedding: Standing l. to r. Richard’s sisters, Joy and

Gail, Doris, Richard, me, Fran Dodds and Harry Rauch, and
Irene and Joan in front.

Family to the
right.

Dad following
his stroke to
the left.

Dad with his

Clarinet.

Me with my
Colliers bag
above left.

Me on my
Dad’s knee
left.

Mom to the
right.

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 Our 1st year at New Sharon we took the 1st week of our vacation to help Harry build his house in
Bettendorf, Iowa. When we arrived the basement was constructed but by the end of the week the
house was under-roof and the chimney through the roof. Ethel’s brother Loyd was building right next
door to the Seward’s and so we stopped working on Seward’s house at 4 o’clock on Friday and moved
over next door and while I cut out all of the rafters for Loyd’s hip roofed house Pop (Ethel’s dad)
would pass them up to Loyd, Freddie and Harry to nail them in place. By dark the roof was framed in
all but the attached garage.
We then went on to Sturgeon Bay and visited our friends the Baxters.
We stayed with the Seward’s every time we returned to Iowa. Ethel always took her sewing ma-
chine along to sew for Helen. She also baked and decorated their 25th Anniversary cake in 1959..

Wayne, Helen, Harry and Marilyn Sisters, Ethel and Helen Helen and Harry Seward

Marilyn, Harry, Helen, Wayne, Emma Marilyn, Harry, Helen, Wayne Pop, Babe, Helen, Ethel and Loyd
and Pop (Fred Thompson).
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Then it was off to Noblesville, IN for 2 years, 1948-50.

Our second ministry was at Noblesville,

IN where we only stayed 2 years, but only
because Tom Jones, President of Earlham
College learned of my building experience
and invited me to supervise the construc-
tion of Stout Memorial Meetinghouse on
the Earlham campus and promised to see
me through college.
The Church and parsonage are pictured
here to the left.
Below you can see Ethel continued the
dress alike pattern even including her
dresses like the girls.
The girls riding their modes of transporta-
tion, and Irene and her friend Vickie
Brown giving Trix a bath.

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 While we were pastor at Noblesville we made a couple of interesting vacations. The first one was out to the
west coast to visit Ethel’s cousin Lucille Greaves and her hubby Don. On the way we looked up Uncle Ed
who was operating a drilling rig searching for oil. It was located out in the middle of nowhere, somewhere in
Wyoming. Ethel and Irene (Joan behind) are pictured with him below. The other 2 shots are of the rig.

This picture was

taken somewhere in
the area where oil
had already been
found and the pumps
were busy pulling it
from the earth.
Mom, Ethel and the
girls were investi-
gating.

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 More pictures of our 1949 trip

Crater Lake, Oregon. Snow balling in June! A direct hit I guess that’s all folks!

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