Grandma's Trip Back Home to Kansas

Mom brought Grandma to my house to see the boys play football.  The next day we drove to Fort Worth to pick up her sister, Betty Jo. 

 When we got to Kansas, we went by her mother's old house and grave.

Mom even found a way to have fun on our cemetery trips.


 Grandma's sister, Ethel, and her husband, Lyle, drove from Denver to meet us.  The six of us drove around for several hours through several towns to see houses their family lived in and cemeteries.  They looked at the book all about Grandma.  Ethel is 11 years younger than her sister.

We were a tid bit crowded.

We visited Kelso, Kansas, where Grandma went to school and the Cemetery where her Aunt Jose is buried

 Grandma is making a face because she is upset that they put siding on her old grade school.

 This is the river she would have had to cross to get school from her grandma's house.  Her mother bought a house closer to the school with the $2,000 back pay they got for her dad's service in WWI. 

 

We visited Dwight Cemetery to see where Robert's wife is buried. 

 

Grandma's grandfather,

father, (She put her picture under his stone)

and brother are buried there, too.

 Next, we went to see her brother, George, in Kansas City. 
George made these ships.  Rocks from the melting of the Ice Age came all the way to Kansas.  He gave us rocks as souvenirs.

 

Cousins, Rose, Mary Ruth, Betty Jo, and Sharon

 

 Sharon showed Mom and Betty Jo how to make a basket.  She made me one and gave another one to Grandma.

 

 Sharon's house had a lot of unusual decorations.

 

 
 Next we visited Knob Noster, Missouri, to see her brother, Robert.

They read letters their mother wrote and saw the price of school supplies and food in the 1930s.

Robert grows several crops in several plots on his land.  He built this beautiful fountain and air plane weather vane.

Robert treated us to a chicken fried steak lunch at the Panther Restaurant.

We visited the Precious Moment Museum

Grandma's family were stone masons and farmers.  They built a theatre and church among other things.  Betty Jo decided we needed a stone from our ancestors hard work.  We got one from the Picolet's old farm house.

We saw some "things" in Kansas.

 

 

We ate some good food

 
The Kansas City B-B-Q was great

  

The Kansas Mexican food was not so great

When we dropped Betty Jo back home, we got to see George Richard and his family

 Betty Jo has researched Grandma's family and shared the information she found with her.

 Finally, when we dropped off Grandma, we put the dirt she got in Arkansas on Grandpa's grave

Finally, I dropped Mom off and we ate lunch with Dad at Monument Café.

We had a wonderful trip learning about family.