It was seldom that Fred Jr.(son #1, by Alberta Hill) and Chris(son #2, by Shirley Stovall) were together for an outing - but this weekend they were both together down at the lake. One of them had brought the sail with a board attached, to the lake to try it out. They never quite got it to work properly - you're supposed to stand on the board and hold onto the sail an go scooting across the water - for them it never happened. The other two in the photo are their sons - Michael Jason and Michael Andrew.
Maria on the left and Nikki on the right join the two Michael's in this pose at the fireplace at the 26 Saint Cloud Place in Wichita.
Yvonnie loved the races at Oaklawn in Oklahoma - which we went to with other Grandlake friends - Margaret Volk, Sue Hampton, and Bonnie Cook - she was a $2 better but loved every minute of it!
Margaret Hickmont, a Friendship Force member that I met in New Zealand in 1995. She wasn't one of my hosts but we sort of hit it off together - she was extra friendly to me so I was extra friendly to her. When the guests and the hosts had a function together, we managed to sip our wine or eat, to do it, together. She worked in some sort of a gardening store. She had lost her husband several years previous.
In the summer of 1997(I think), she sent me a letter announcing that she was planning on visiting me in Wichita, if that would be OK with me. I told my wife, Yvonnie, that Margaret was coming to Wichita and that she would be staying at a local hotel and not with us. That seemed to be OK with Yvonnie - since she would not be staying with us - she was still a little leery on house guests since Masao(my host in Japan that came to Wichita and stayed with us as a house guest for a week in 1996) and I had got drunk and he bumped into the furniture in his room in the middle of the night and scared her half to death - it was probably my fault for giving him so much "Wild Turkey."
Yvonnie and Margaret hit it off very well - in fact they exchanged birthday gifts each year after the visit. And Yvonnie said she could stay with us if she ever returned to the USA. While she was here we went to the lake place on Grand Lake for the weekend she was here. Yvonnie didn't like to get out in the boat if she didn't really have to - so Margaret and I had several lake excursions by ourselves. Don't get ahead of the story - nothing happened - it was tempting to cross the line and make a pass at her but I didn't - maybe I was hoping she would make the pass - but she didn't.
We still send each other birthday greetings(2008) and she is on the Internet so we can e-mail each other. She has an open invitation to come back to Wichita and stay with me - who knows maybe she will someday! However I haven't mentioned this to current partner, Sandra.
The golf cart parade at the lake on the 4th of July took place at Hickory Point where our place was at Grand Lake. Yvonnie was the Statue of Liberty with her spiked hat and torch - a light bulb stuck in a cone of Styrofoam - and I had a "boom box" that blared out The 1812 Overture" as we made the route around our part of the lake tossing candy to the kids looking on.
The only place in the world you can get Snake Chili
"It tastes like chicken"
A Denver hotel room40th reunion University of Denver engineering class of 1952
John Smilley, Fred Hadley, Joe Cateora, Bernie Lebsock
Taku Glacier
We planned a small wedding at Crestview Country Club, in the Garden Room. We only invited immediate family and even some of those could not come because of the ice storm that decended upon us that day. Maxine, a school chum of Yvonnie's from grade school, called her up from Warrens home in Lake Havasue, Ariz. and ask if she would arrange for a place and minister to marry her and Warren when they passed through Wichita on their way to Warren's winter place in Wisconsin. Being a member of Crestview Country Club, it was no problem making the arrangements. Yvonnie knew a judge, Judge Wall, and got him to do the wedding.
Then she got to thinking that since it was all set up she and I might as well get married at the same time and make a double wedding out of it. She wanted to get our license out of town so that it would be less chance that the heirs of her deceased ex-husband's estate, who had been sending her his oil royalty checks, might stop if they found out she was married again. So we went to Newton to get the license.
The wedding went well. Chris took a video of the proceedings. The ice storm deposited ice on the guests windshields and Judge Wall helped scrape the ice off of the guests cars.(the Judge passed away in 1999).
Receiving recognition for her 29years of service in the volunteers at St. Joesph Hospital.....
A memorial in Springfield Mo. for three women missing from the home of Sherrill Levitt. Sherrill was the daugther of Yvonnie's friend Maxine Winn. She and her daugther, Suzie Streeter, and a friend of Suzie's, Stacy McCall completly disapeared from Sherrill's home on June 7, 1992. To this day (January 2009), there is no evidence of what happened to the three women. If anyone reading this knows what happened to these three women contact the Springfield Police department - a reward may still be in effect.
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