I have some old family photos and other materials from the 1800s that include an obituary for my great-great grandfather James G.B. Shadford. He was my Grandpa Rose’s maternal grandfather (the father of Grandpa Rose’s mother, Lulu). So Grandpa Shadford is Tom’s great-great-great grandfather, and S&G’s great-great-great-great grandfather. Recently I found a photo of Grandma […]
Monthly Archives: December 2012
After Tom graduated from college in 1991, he moved to San Luis Obispo and started a mobile bicycle repair business. Although his idea for that business was ingenious and innovative, and he was very good at it, he discovered that the market for that service was limited. So he ended up moving to Santa Barbara […]
Tom wrote the following letter in February of 1991. He would soon celebrate his 22nd birthday. At that point, he was still living at his mom’s place in Santa Monica. He was going to college in the Valley, and in May of that year he would graduate with his bachelor’s degree. Dear Dad, Since I […]
When Tom was a child, he and I wrote each other a lot of letters. Unfortunately, the two of us were apart a lot. During his infancy and early childhood, I was often at sea, and later, when Tom was four years old, his mom and I separated. Tom lived with his mom in southern […]
I recently received some copies of documents from my cousin Chris in Paradise, California. Chris is my great-uncle Otto’s daughter, so she is my dad’s first cousin. The documents include Grandma Wilson’s marriage certificate, some documents in German that look like baptismal certificates from Europe, and two postcards that my Grandma Hattie (Hedwig Marton) sent […]
We’ve had some very rainy weather here in southern Oregon but enjoyed a break between storms today. This afternoon I cleaned the leaves out of all the rain gutters on our house, so we’re ready for the next storm, which is coming soon. The freezing weather hasn’t really started yet this winter, but everything is […]
memories of tommy 