This Is How It Started

PLACES IN TIME
1948 THRU 1966

This Is How It Started:

It has occurred to me that I’ve started posting these stories in the wrong order. Perhaps I should sort of map out… make a brief summary.

Mom and Dad (George Lewis and Alice Marie Shannon), met and married in Fort Worth. Dad was a marine stationed at Camp Bowie. Mom worked at the rationing board with her dear friend, Wanda Fae. They would watch the marines drill in the street below. Dad would be standing in the window in the building across the street from the rationing board. George and Alice Marie flirted that way at a distance for who knows how long…..weeks...... days?..... hours? ...... minutes? I suspect minutes. Finally Dad motioned to Mom that they should meet down stairs. Now, Mom says they were formally introduced. Hmmmmm......But since they had no common friends at that time, I suspect that they picked each other up. Then things started to heat up. They were married in July of 1944 at the home of her parents (Munnie and Granddad) on Grand Avenue. I believe they left for Cherry Point and lived there until Dad had to be shipped out for China and Korea.

Joanie was born in August 1945. Mom lived at home with Munnie and Granddad, and her sister Ollie and younger brothers, Jack, Bill and George while Dad was overseas. Mom and Dad would write almost daily, and Dad would send her bolts of silk fabric from China to sew into something fabulous. After he returned to the States, he and mom and Joanie moved to Elmira, New York where I was conceived and was born in 1948, January, and where Dad worked for Corning Glassware. Anne followed about 14 months after I’d arrived. And that made me the first middle child. After that, it was back to Fort Worth, Texas where Joe was born in 1950, November. We then moved to………………

….Brenham, Texas from 1951 to about 1953, and then up to….

….St. Louis, Mo until about1956, where Claire was born, and then from there…

….back to Fort Worth, where we lived with Munnie and Granddad at 1407 Grand Avenue, until we moved into a house two blocks down the street at 1619 Grand Avenue sometime in 1957. Geo.III, Danny, and Mary were born there, and then……….

....Munnie and Granddad built a new house out near Lake Worth, and we moved back into 1407 Grand Avenue, where we stayed, and Caroline, Tommy and Bryan were born.


Well, that the briefest I could make this summary. You can use it as a “place finder”.