Uncle Charlie and Aunt May

Recently, Mother mentioned "Uncle Charlie and Aunt May". I believe it was to mention that Leon had gone to live with them after Grandma and Grandpa Bingham's death. There have been many times in my life that I have heard the names, but I have never understood what our relationship was to them, or much about them.

This last week, I got a DVD from mom. The tile on the disk was "Schofield pictures and histories". I believe this is our Uncle Charlie and Aunt May.

I think that there is a possibility that May was Grandpa Bingham's sister. Mom, is that the case?

There were several pictures on the disk that were simply labeled, "Auntie". I don't know who this is or what her name might be.

Ted at the right I believe to be Ted Bingham.

I believe this is a picture of our Aunt May, our grandpa. Who is Dot?


There is a story about Grandpa, Aunt May, and a flower. Mom, could you please tell us that story?

My childhood

The first memories I have are when we lived in Saguache. Keith and I were playing in a two wheeled trailer , going back and forth in it until it hit the ground on front and then back. I fell out and cut my head. I still have a scar from that.

We moved from there to Manassa, We lived in a house that Eda and Rex Johnson live in now. We lived across the street from Wayne Rogers. They was an older couple, Aunt Tea and Uncle Al Nielson, that lived on the Southwest corner of the block on the South of us. We bought milk from them. Aunt Tea was Grandma Dunn's sister. She died and Phil Married Uncle Al. That is Nancy Dunn's mother.

While we lived there Mom was washing clothes in a washing machine in the back of the house. Keith and I got under the front porch and started a fire. It burned a hole in the porch. We ran to tell Mom that the house was on fire. She hurried and got the fire out.

We moved from that house to a house on the southwest corner of town. That is where we lived across the street from Lillie and Arch McKenzie. They were Helen Culler's parents. Helen and I always loved each other. We lived there until we moved to Romeo to the farm that is two and a half miles from Romeo and two and a half miles from Antonito. That is the home that we spent most of our lives with our family.

Doris Faye's Family

I got this email from Gloria and thought you would all like to see a picture of Doris Faye's family:

"Here is a picture of the family we saw in Mesa: Doris Faye and her children with new husband If you are not able to open the attachment let me know.

The names should be under the picture. maybe some of you will not know them, but they are cousins.

Maybe some of you may not recognize them either! Hope you all have a good day.

love ya gloria"

Slideshows

I have added a new slideshow to this site. I would have liked to start with Uncle Keith, but I'll have to rely on Laraine and her siblings to do that. I don't have enough pictures to make it work.

Life has taken its toll on the pictures I have. Thanks to Larry who took the time to scan some of Mom's albums, I was able to gather a few pictures of Mom.

I took the slideshow that was on the site and moved it further down on the web as it made me sea sick for them to be going at the same time.

I stuck a picture of a cabin in this slide show. I know why, do you?

I have really enjoyed working with the pictures I have. I am hoping that some of you will be able to add more. I am hoping too that you will be able to add more memories to this site.

A couple of the pictures in the "Gatha Bingham Vance Wilson" slideshow were taken when mother was an employee of the school hot lunch system in Manassa. At one time they used the kitchen of the old opera house in Manassa. She would being leftovers from the school home. She brought the food home to feed her "pigs" at home. My favorite was when she would bring home shepherds' pie or American pizza.

Visiting Family

Leon, Bonnie Lynn, Don and Gloria went to Belen, New Mexico for Keith's funeral, and on Friday evening we had dinner with Erma and Keith's family. The ward provided it. All of Keith's children were there and most of their grandchildren also. Loraine lives in California, three of her children are married and 2 of them are not. Dick and Cindy live in Los Alamos, I don't know about their family, Sue Ann and Keith live near Provo, We saw all of their chidren but I don't know about them. Barry and his wife live in Los Alamos. I know his wife's name but I can't think of it. Kelly and Ruth live by Belen. We didn't have time to get acquainted with them as I would have liked. The funeral was wonderful. The boys and grandsons and sons in law made Keiths casket. It was beautiful It was made of white pine with cedar panels. The girls made the liner. The funeral was good. The children did the talks and music. It was a real tribute to Keith. We returned home on Saturday after the funeral. Don and Bonnie had to be to work on Monday.

On March 24 I flew to Phoenix and Joe and Doris Faye picked me up at the airport. I spent the night and the next day with Doris Faye, getting her final things done before moving to Phoenix. On Tuesday Erma came and we rented a car and went to a motel. It was nice spending time with Erma. We went to the temple then helped get things ready for the wedding the next night. All of Doris faye's children were there. Joe and Darla came first. of course. Warren and kathy live in the valley and Carl and Naelene live in Mesa, I think. Pam and Philip live west of Phoenix so they were already there. Jacob and Ellen live in Minnesota. So does Joe and Darla. EJ lives in Alaska. There are a lot of grandchildren and some great grandchildren too.

The wedding was very nice and they are so happy. Erma and I went to Sun City West and saw Rex and Nancy. On Friday night Bonnie and Gloria came. We had breakfast with Leons three girls and Jay and Kimberly. That was special. We went to Phoenix on Saturday night for a reception with Bert's children. that was special too. On Sunday morning, Bonnie and Gloria came home. It was a good trip. Doris Faye and Bert are very happy.