Tag: family
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Ice Cream Connection
There are more special people in my life that I will share with you, but there is one connection that has to do with being first at the new Baskin-Robbins in Pasadena, Texas. By this time our family’s time on Dewberry Lane had come to an end. Our landlord wanted sell 2103 Dewberry Lane and…
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THE MACHINE
Growing up the privilege of drinking pop, soda or Coke, whatever it was called in your neck of the woods, was rare. The only time I drink pop was when I went to my Uncle Ed and Aunt Jo’s or to the restaurant in Corpus called Ship Ahoy. When we came into Aunt Jo and…
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Before Dewberry Lane
Before I get too far from Fannin Street (Corpus Christi) I want to share some of those memories I have of some very special friends , Mary Weigelt, Butch (Lawrence) Weigelt, Harlan (Sonny) Womble and Peggy Womble. I had a crush on Peggy. It seems there is a theme of me following in love with my…
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A Blessing: The Davidsons
My biological father, John Gilbert Anderson, left us when I was 2 years old. My mom remarried Michael John Hickey, and he took us in to be his family. Michael Hickey, as I shared earlier, was a merchant marine and was gone all the time. I learned that his father was an alcoholic and very…