Current Events!

Brian and Kristy Barker Scott recently moved to Austin, TX.

This quiz was handed out at the family reunion, June 2003, and is re-published here for those unable to attend. Click here to see the answers.

1. ____________ loved to fish, heart of gold, preacher man.

2. ____________ loved family, made good bread pudding, tea cakes, believed in good education, loved Christmas.

3. ____________ ferry operator, railroad engineer, oil field gang pusher, fox hunter, good sense of humor, a real loving person.

4. ____________ amazing sweet disposition, hard worker in spite of handicap (glaucoma), greatly loved her family, talented seamstress.

5. ____________ watchmaker, quiet sense of humor, farmer and gardener.

6. ____________ trained her boys to help her keep a spotless house, good cook, especially the "best biscuits".

7. ____________ tool pusher, would do anything for you, favorite holiday, July 4th, celebrated with watermelons, homemade ice cream and a day full of games.

8. ____________ hard worker on farm and in oil field, believed in a good education, grew the biggest watermelons you ever saw.

9. ____________ loved to fish, loved company even when unannounced, songbird, loved her church and her family, great cook.

10. ____________ oil field laborer, fisherman, chief cook and bottle washer, carpenter who catnapped after lunch on the floor, cute chuckles.

11. ____________ a "people" person who made you feel so welcome in her home, who loved life and loved to play tricks on her children.

12. ____________ hard worker, would give you the shirt off her back, loved her farm animals, one of her sayings for slow drivers, "why don't you park the car and walk over the hill".

13. ____________ worker in field, housewife, mother of two children of first husband, of German descent.

14. ____________ loved horses, always wanted family to come live with her, great fresh coconut cake baker and loved to give gifts.

15. ____________ electrician in shipyard, refinery worker, farmer and gardener, good candidate for fastest pea sheller, after a big rain, "it came a toad strangler last night".

16. ____________ only one to graduate from high school, wanted to be a nurse, but became storekeeper and housewife, loved missionary work, you might hear her say, "sure muff?"

17. ____________ loved to fish and hunt, oil field laborer, skipper, great teaser of children.

18. ____________ sang a little "ditty" when counting down days left before he got married, "two more days and it won't be long", died of TB at 24 years old.