Wayne's Birthday

Wayne celebrated his 69th birthday this past week.  As with Bill, Nana has written a story about his birth.  She also told me he was born at 3:15pm in the afternoon.  She called Wayne at that exact time to wish him a Happy Birthday.  Here is the story Nana wrote:

In was November 19^th, 1944 in The Williamsport Hospital on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. I had our first baby, a little boy.  His dad was overseas, a soldier in Italy.  The doctor said, “Give me his address. I will call and tell him he has a son.” Later the doctor came back and said, “He’s in battle and I can’t reach him.  He is on the front lines.”

Then I cried so many tears I drowned the hospital.  The doctor said, “I will try something else.”  He left and later came back with good news.  He asked the Red Cross and they got through to him.  The doctor told me, “Your husband now knows he has a son.

Written by Deanie Rhone

March 12, 2011

Daddy was discharged from the Army in late October 1945.  He didn't get home until the beginning of November and that's the first time he saw his son.  Nana was so happy he made it home for Wayne's first birthday!

 Wayne - 9 months old - 1945

 Wayne - September 2013

Bill's Birthday

Over the past few years, Nana has written stories for us about her past.  Today is Bill's birthday and I thought it would be fitting to post Nana's story about Bill:

1951 – 1957 and Billy

It was 1951 living at the Bower place.  There was no running water.  I worked hard to carry water each day to scrub clothes on a washboard.  On November 5^th, 1951 once again I was at Lewisburg Hospital and at 12:34pm, I had a special little baby boy.  I named him William Stanley.  I did not want a junior so I just switched his dad’s name.  His first few years were with his brother and two sisters at the Bower place where they had a yard to play in.  One memory is the day Billy was in the shed a long time and I was concerned until he came out with his little tractor painted pink.  It was a good paint job.

We finally moved out of that back-road place to the Staggert place in 1957.  At that time all the children were all in school and to make ends meet, I went to work at Montgomery Mills.  There I spent 18 years ball spinning.

Written by Deanie Rhone

April 12, 2011

 Bill at the Bower Place 1952

 Bill September 2013