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In 1929 a young lady, Adell Rhodes, came back to her home in Mexico, a new graduate from Breckenridge High School in Texas. She returned to teach school. The teacher's responsibility was to help all the kids with their education. I know she was very proud to be back home. After that year she went back to Breckenridge, Texas, to marry my dad.
One of the stories she told me was about a plane flying over very low one day and everyone thought that the Lord had come and started praying.
I know that when I was small the people loved my mother and always had a party at the school for her when we visited.
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One year when we went back to Mexico during Christmastime my dad played Santa Claus, and my mother was a very popular person. She had taught school down there one year before she married my dad so they had a big party at the schoolhouse. They cut down a live orange tree that was fully decorated in oranges, and my dad put on the Santa Claus suit and played Santa Claus to all the people that were there. Mother had brought buckets of hard candy and they were passing out candy to all the kids and all the people. It was a great time because it was a time of renewing old friendships for my mother, and building new ones for me because I was just a little girl then.
With my grandparents I got what I liked to eat etc. One day my granddad (Dorris Rhodes) gave me a duck. My dad built a box to put the duck in and hauled it on the back bumper of our car on the way home. When we got to the border we had to give the duck away because we couldn't take it back across the border into Texas. I told the guards at the gates that that was okay because my granddad could send me another one in a letter. Like all children I thought granddads could do anything in the world.
What wonderful memories I have of those days. Everyone has stories to tell, and these will stay with me all of my life. |
