A welcome rain on Sunday brought cooler weather. It should make weed pulling much easier. We’ll see.
Last week I was pleasantly distracted by a family who is planning a burial in the Rippey Cemetery and also doing family research. Two sisters from out of town and state, who are descendants of the Burk family, spent a couple days visiting the local cemeteries and I was able to provide some information for them. I also met the Burk boys from Jamaica and was glad to share a picture of a family that is on their tree that was in a box of “stuff” someone else had given me several years ago.
On Saturday afternoon, I went to Woodward for a celebration of life for Charles “Buster” Frantum . Buster and I were childhood friends, attending church and school together, graduating with the class of 1960. As always, there were a few people from my past who, when we looked at each other, our names escape us!
I was able to sit with Jerry Thornburgh, who married a friend and classmate of 1960, and we started visiting about the Thornburgh family tree, (with and without the “h”) and it was fun to provide names for him when he got stuck. I have sent him some pictures and hopefully he will be able to identify some of the people for the two family branches I am concentrating on.
Both the Burk and Thornburgh ancestors were blessed with many children, so there are lots of branches to their trees. I’m never bored!
-Jean Borgeson