Stan in New Mexico with his family

This photo was taken in 1951 when Stan was returning home from Argentina. It is probably in Gallup, New Mexico. From left to right is his father Ernest, his mother Odetta , his brother Craig, his sister Jeane Bramwell and Stan. Ernest, Odetta, Craig and Craig's wife Marcy and her mother Aunt Maud, and their baby Patty drove to El Paso, Texas then drove up to New Mexico where they saw Jeane who was serving a mission in the Indian Mission in New Mexico. Craig served his mission in Argentina and then Stan got his call also to Argentina and Craig was his first Senior Companion. Craig then came home and Jeane got her call to the Indian Mission. Craig and Stan's missions were for two and a half years at that time when there was no Missionary Training Center. I don't have the dates but I think that Ernest and Odetta had a missionary in the mission field for six and a half years more or less. Stan came home up thru the interior of South America via train then by boat across Lake Tittitaca then visiting Machu Picchu and Cusco in Peru, and then flying to Houston and from there he took a greyhound bus to El Paso where miraculously (to me) he met up with his parents and Craig and Marcy and he claims he only had a nickle in his pocket by that time.

-Pickwell Drive

Stan had a photo taken when he was a child with he and Craig and Jeane on a pony. I always loved that photo. It used to be common for a photographer to come around and take photos of the children on the pony. I was thrilled when a photographer with a pony came to our door in San Antonio. As you can see, Scott was pretty petrified of the whole experience. It appears that Kathy loved being on the pony and Shauna is reaching out to reassure Scott while Chris is his eager happy self. Scott was born when we lived on Dublin Drive. We lived on Dublin Drive just fourteen months when our friend Doug made us a deal we couldn't refuse and we moved into the new home on Pickwell Drive. Scott would have been about a year and a half and Kathy 7, Shauna 5, Chris 3. This photo was in the back yard and I see the geraniums I planted along the house. We lived in San Antonio for just three and a half years; but we bought two new houses (our friend who was a contractor and also the Bishop and later in the Stake Presidency), and we had two sons born to us. Kathy, Shauna and Chris all attended Dan-Ann-Jim Nursery school and Kathy began lst grade at Hartley School and Stan served as a counselor in the bishopric and on the Stake High Council and I served as Relief Society counselor, Spiritual Living Teacher and Relief Soc. Pres. Stan was an Academic Instructor at Officer Candidate School at Lackland. We also went TDY to Montgomery, Alabama to Maxwell AFB twice where Stan attended Academic Instructor School and later Squadron Officer School so a lot transpired in our lives in those few years.

Mother's Day 1956

This photo was taken at the home of Stan's sister and her husband Jeane and Lionel in Salt Lake. We were in the Air Force stationed at Harlingen Air Force Base and Kathy was 15 mos. old and Shauna was just a few weeks old. It was one of the dumbest things I let myself be talked into. A single LDS fellow was driving from Harlington to Salt Lake to see his girl friend on his way to somewhere else for a six week schooling and I was eager to go home and show off our little girls. We left Utah when Kathy was just 6 weeks old. Another LDS girl had gone on such a trip and said it would be good. Stan thought it would be good and I wanted to go but didn't want to go. We left about 6pm and we were about 20 miles down the road and I was wishing I hadn't said I would go---but we went and drove straight thru to Utah. This fellow had a Chrystler, air conditioned so it was very nice....but a hard difficult trip. I had to manage the two children plus take my turn driving. This fellow was eager to get to Salt Lake but when we were coming back, he wasn't eager to return to Texas, but I WAS and when I drove thru west Texas--no traffic--good roads, I was driving FAST. Anyway, this photo shows Marjorie, daughter of Craig,
then my new baby Shauna, then Patty, daughter of Craig. At the bottom left is Colleen, daughter of Jeane and my Kathy. It is interesting that Craig, Jeane and Stan each had two girls as the beginnings of their families.

Rol and Abbie's family

This is a photo of my mother Abigail. She went by the name of Abbie. I have no idea as I am typing this what year this was taken so I don't know what her age was. If it was when she was Mother of the Year in 1949 then she would have been 66 but it may have been when she was in her 70's. Her hair didn't go grey until she was close to 80 so you can't judge by her dark hair.

Abbie taught school after getting her "Normal Certificate". She taught in Plymouth, Utah and Brigham City. With her earnings, she had electricity put in to the home of her parents. Then she also went by train in 1903--whenever it was--to the St. Louis World's Fair and to meet her relatives from her Grandfather Burbank's side of the family who were not LDS.

She kept a journal of her trip and also of her courtship and marriage and the birth of their first child.
She wrote poetry, stories and songs and her children enjoyed her stories she told. One favorite of mine is the Tar Baby.

Shauna likes this photo. It is difficult to see my mother who probably has the garden hose in her hand watering her flowers. The house in the background is our neighbor's the Freemans. There was a driveway beside our house and between the driveway and the neighbor's fence were flowers. It just occured to me that mother never wore slacks or pants but always a dress so even when she was doing yard word with her flowers, she had a dress on. However, she also wore what we called "house dresses" with an apron if she was doing big dirty jobs so I suspect she was either just watering or maybe even picking flowers because there is no apron or house dress here. And again, I have no idea what year this would have been. Our home was at 136 North lst East in Brigham. There have been many changes to it so it doesn't even look like the home I grew up in.

This picture was taken in 1944 I believe---because I have on a jacket that I think was part of a suit I had when I graduated from Seminary that year. My two brothers Clyde and Fred , on the back row were away in the military so my brother Carl who was the creative one, cut out their photos and put them in this family photo.

Back row: Clyde, Grace, Amy, Lola,

Middle Row: Carl, Mildred, Wayne, Laura,
Delbert and Afton.
Front Row: Dorothy, Roland my father, Abigail my mother, and Milton. Milton was home on leave after getting his pilot wings from the Army Air Corp before being sent to Europe. Clyde was in the Navy in the Pacific and Fred was in the Army in the Phillipines.