Random Memory = Cousins

Cousins, Buddy Sanders & Patsy Foster about 1950

 

 

It is just so much fun to find these really old photos!  Mom had a box of them in the bottom of her hall closet and I have been scanning them so they can be more easily shared with friends and family....

This is a picture of me (Patsy) and my cousin Buddy (Phillip Ray Sanders) when I was about 3 or 4 years old.  After Mom & Dad were married in 1946 they moved in with his sister (Maggie) and her family.  So for the first 5 years of my life, I had Buddy and Lavern to act as my older brother and sister.  I'm still looking for pictures of Lavern.  I know there must be some here somewhere...

Luv ya Buddy!

Random Memory = Thanksgiving with Granny Hess

Today I was making out our Thanksgiving menu and grocery lists.  It got me to thinking about my Grandmother (my Dad's Mom)... if you didn't call her "Granny Hess", you called her "Miss Alice".  She was one of the sweetest ladies I've ever known and a wonderfully nurturing grandmother. 

All the family would get together at Granny Hess's at least twice a year.... Thanksgiving and Mother's Day.
All the ladies in the family brought dishes to help fill out the menu, but Granny Hess did the majority of the cooking.  I remember one thing all the kids loved was her 'Pink Cake'.  She made the white layers from scratch and I found out later that the pink icing was seven-minute frosting with a few drops of red food-coloring.  It was always the first desert to go....

Alice Alderson Sigman Foster Mills Hess

Granny Hess was born in 1895 in Potts Camp, MS, She out-lived four husbands... She had two sons and one daughter by her first husband, Mr. Sigman...  then she had my Dad by her second husband, Mr. Foster (Forrester)  She had another daughter by Mr. Mills, but that little girl died when she was about 3 or 4.  She had dozens of grandchildren who loved to visit and then she had even more great-grandchildren before she passed away in 1970.

Granny Hess taught me how to cook and to this day I use her recipe for cornbread dressing at Thanksgiving.  I can still remember the wonderful smells in her kitchen.  She made the absolute best chicken and dumplings I've ever had.

I miss you Granny Hess...I wish my boys and grandchildren could have known you...
Maybe I'll try my hand at your 'Pink Cake' this Thanksgiving.

Random Memory....

Summer - 1985... all the cousins went to Grandma Foster's to spend a week and she took them to Mickey D's to see Ronald McDonald... (Looks like Maclain started making fashion statements at a very young age :)

l-r= Mic, Amy, Allyson, (Ronald McDonald), Maclain, Steve, David

Random Memories.....

 I've been trying to retrieve some photos that I thought I had lost on an old computer that was infested with a devastating virus... By some miracle, our youngest son Dave was able to  get access to the 'my pictures' files and I have several years of photos to pick and choose from.    I've decided to write about a random memory each day based on the photos we've retrieved.....

This first trio of pics was taken at the Memphis Zoo back in 2006....  This is Steve, Vanessa and Gavin enjoying a beautiful day at the zoo...

 Gavin enjoyed playing in the water at the zoo, but refused to get all the way in.  hands and toes only was the most fun of all.

Looking at the zebras....