Annie Discusses Glenna
09/01/07 11:39
Well, Glenna was born when Frant was in England,
he was in World War I. So, Uncle Sam took care of
him not being there for her arrival.
Well, Glenna was born when Frant was in England,
he was in World War I. So, Uncle Sam took care of
him not being there for her arrival.
She was six months old when he got home and my sister Berdie decided she’d have a homecoming for him. I’d mentioned this pest house and they put him in the pest house.
Well, the day they let him out, why the whole town went up to see him, you know. There was about six of those war babies at the same age there and they took those babies and their mothers -- they wouldn’t let the mother hold the baby, they changed them around. They would put the little boys caps on the girls and the girls bonnets on the boys and you could hardly tell your own child, and then they had someone else holding each one of them, and they sat around in a circle and they said, “All right, Frant, you pick out your own baby now.”
He looked them over and he said, “You know any of them don’t look hardly as cute as what my wife tells us that ours is.” He said, “I don’t believe ours is here.”
He looked for a while and he said, “That one belongs to William C. Heaton” and it was, it was William’s. And another one he said “That’s Pole Roundy’s.” And he did it by process of elimination and he said, “And I think that’s ours,” and it was.
. . .
She always helped out, she was anxious to work with the kids. She’s always been a good helper, then she worked for awhile.
She was good in school -- Glenna was very good -- and when she got up in high school, she kept that job and helped put herself through high school.
She went to Logan one winter. and well, she had, it was about three fellows that asked her, wanted to marry her at Thanksgiving time, but she didn’t want any of them.
Finally she wrote one day, she said, “Dad and Mother, I wish you’d come up to Logan. There’s a fellow here I just believe I could go for pretty easy. I’d like you to meet him.”
So we went up for some occasion and we met Vern. They were engaged and they got married just soon after school was out. In fact, he had a fellowship for the McGill University to get his PhD -- he had received his masters before he left -- so we had kind of a hurry up wedding.
He had to be back to McGill at a certain time for school and they didn’t give him very much time, they took the back seat out so they could put everything that they could in there.
What they couldn’t put in there, why we stacked in a great big walk in closet that we had upstairs. And in the spring, when I went to clean that closet out -- I realize she was gone; you now, when they are married, they are gone, they’re not yours.
But I hadn’t taken time to go into her things -- they left so much, so many of their wedding gifts and things that they couldn’t take, didn’t have any place to take them or any use for them there. So I got the things all out of the closet, then I sat down and I had a good cry.
She was six months old when he got home and my sister Berdie decided she’d have a homecoming for him. I’d mentioned this pest house and they put him in the pest house.
Well, the day they let him out, why the whole town went up to see him, you know. There was about six of those war babies at the same age there and they took those babies and their mothers -- they wouldn’t let the mother hold the baby, they changed them around. They would put the little boys caps on the girls and the girls bonnets on the boys and you could hardly tell your own child, and then they had someone else holding each one of them, and they sat around in a circle and they said, “All right, Frant, you pick out your own baby now.”
He looked them over and he said, “You know any of them don’t look hardly as cute as what my wife tells us that ours is.” He said, “I don’t believe ours is here.”
He looked for a while and he said, “That one belongs to William C. Heaton” and it was, it was William’s. And another one he said “That’s Pole Roundy’s.” And he did it by process of elimination and he said, “And I think that’s ours,” and it was.
. . .
She always helped out, she was anxious to work with the kids. She’s always been a good helper, then she worked for awhile.
She was good in school -- Glenna was very good -- and when she got up in high school, she kept that job and helped put herself through high school.
She went to Logan one winter. and well, she had, it was about three fellows that asked her, wanted to marry her at Thanksgiving time, but she didn’t want any of them.
Finally she wrote one day, she said, “Dad and Mother, I wish you’d come up to Logan. There’s a fellow here I just believe I could go for pretty easy. I’d like you to meet him.”
So we went up for some occasion and we met Vern. They were engaged and they got married just soon after school was out. In fact, he had a fellowship for the McGill University to get his PhD -- he had received his masters before he left -- so we had kind of a hurry up wedding.
He had to be back to McGill at a certain time for school and they didn’t give him very much time, they took the back seat out so they could put everything that they could in there.
What they couldn’t put in there, why we stacked in a great big walk in closet that we had upstairs. And in the spring, when I went to clean that closet out -- I realize she was gone; you now, when they are married, they are gone, they’re not yours.
But I hadn’t taken time to go into her things -- they left so much, so many of their wedding gifts and things that they couldn’t take, didn’t have any place to take them or any use for them there. So I got the things all out of the closet, then I sat down and I had a good cry.