Misc

Letter from Mildred Horsely.  A childhood friend of the Gideon girls. 

Drawing inside the letter

Trixie's calling card.  So neat!

Papa Jones' (Dr. EA Jones, MD) first car and some of the Jones and Gideon girls.

Bird Creek- Avant, OK.  Mama Jones (striking in black as always), George and Trixie Gideon and daughters, Byron and Ethel Jones with daughter Lela Virginia

Post card from Shelley Jones, Trixie's older brother.  

Aunt C is Aunt Carrie Jones from Sayre, Oklahoma

I love this photo.  Trixie and her first born daughter, Georgia Lucille.  

Trixie in front of the car, Earl Gray (Juanita's husband), Juanita and possibly her daughter Earlene or Ann.

Bathing beauties of the Roaring Twenties! Lucile and Juanita Jones posing in Bird Creek. 

Post card from Lucile Jones.

Post card to little Geraldine Gideon from her Uncle Shelley Jones.

Helen and Stanley (Jones) Curtis. Stanley and Helen moved to the North West part of the country. 

Aunt Lulu Riffe, Juanita, Mama Annie Jones, Anna Jones (Shelley's first wife)

Photos and Misc.

Trixie and children.  Some of these photos haven't aged as well as others. I still enjoy looking at them though.

Trixie and co.

Letter from the dear, 'ole Dad, aka Dr. E.A. Jones, MD.  He and Trixie were always very close.  I read a letter Trixie wrote in her older years where she said that her Dad gave her more strength than anyone after the death of George.  Trixie raised all eight children as a widow and never remarried.  

Old stock certificate- no, not worth anything! ha.

Trixie and her girls.  I have never found a photo of her where she didn't look pretty.  

Uncle Donald and Aunt Carrie's Abstract Company

Uncle Donald and Aunt Carrie Jones owned and operated the first abstract company in Sayre, Oklahoma.  Their son Newlin maintained ownership of the company.  I am not sure what happened after that as his only child, Gene Jones, was killed in action during WWII.

These are advertisements Trixie had saved from 1915 for the Sayre Title and Abstract Company.  So pretty!

January 2, 2015

It's hard to believe my "Mimi" would have been 95 today. Not a day goes by that I don't think about and miss her. She (along with all three of my grandparents) was a class act. Grandparents are so important. If you still have yours, you are blessed. Pay attention to them, call them, ask them questions about their lives (the past and present), ask them how they would handle your adult problems, etc.. There are so many things to learn from them. I am so glad she wasn't just my Grandmother but was always a close friend. I always loved getting advice from her. She taught me so many positive things.

My "Mimi" (aka Mildred Gideon- Bowman) and "Papa" (Orves Bowman).