A Few Random Questions And Answers

What is your Greatest Joy:

Mary Maud & Maurice Earl Asay- Each other and family

What is your Greatest Sorrow:

Mary Maud - That my mother couldn’t live to see how happy I am.

MEA - My Father’s early death

What did your grandfathers do for a living:

Mary Maud - Farmer

Maurice Earl - Grandpa Allred was a Farmer and Grandpa Asay mostly lived off of his children and helped his son Amos Earl Asay on his farm.

Did your grandmothers Work:

MEA - Grandma Allred worked very hard on the farm, caring for her family, canning, and maintaining the home.

Do you recall any special event that took place in your neighborhood while you were growing up:

Mary Maud - When the family moved to Lovell an elderly neighbor, a gentleman named Bird, told my mother that I would live to see the second coming.

MEA - When they put in the city water – it was all dug by hand with picks and shovels.

What makes your brothers and sisters special:

Mary Maud - I always wanted to pattern myself after my oldest sister (Myrtle) because she was doing ‘grown up stuff’. Jean liked to work on my hair – one over enthusiastic perm destroyed the already natural curl in my hair. (family note: Jean was both an aunt & a cousin who grew up with Mary Maud i.e. Jean’s mother was Mary’s grandpa’s 2nd wife and her mother’s sister)

MEA - I was the middle of 7 and always got hand me downs. When I was 6 my brother Orvin and I would gather the cattle all over town and herd them for 5 cents a head. We had a deal with the local dairy to handle their whole herd for a dollar a day. One time when the Dairy owners son was herding them they passed a spot on the side of the road where someone had dumped a load of rotten onions. For about a week after all the milk in town tasted like onions. The next day we had to get there ahead of the cows to cover up the pile. We put an old mattress on it and burned it.

Maurice Earl and Orvin Asay