Brother Jessie Nave was the pastor at First Baptist Church and Dad was the minister of music and youth. It was not a big church, and Dad didn’t have a big salary, but Mom said that the people were so kind to us there, it was worth it. To help with the family …Read More
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CHAPTER 15 & 16 -Back to Roswell, New Mexico… Again
We moved back to Roswell when Dad became a music evangelist. At about that time he was ordained as a preacher at New Bethel Baptist Church where we attended when he was home. The trees were not very big in the yard of our new house, so I couldn’t climb as much as I wanted, …Read More
View Post Bill Jetton, Courts Jetton, Joe Wigley, Judy Jetton, Lottie James, New Bethel Baptist Church, Rod Jetton, Ruth Ann Taylor, Son of a Preacher ManChapter 13 & 14 Cedar Street in Roswell to Plainview Texas
We only lived in the blue house for about eight months before moving across town. We had to remodel the new house, which meant new everything. Mom put up new wallpaper, and Dad worked out in the yard. Grandma used her sewing skills and made curtains for all of the windows. I didn’t want to …Read More
View Post Bill Jetton, Courts Jetton, Don Sloan, Joe Knowles, Joe Wigley, Judy Jetton, Lottie James, Plainview Baptist Church, Rod Jetton, Ruth Ann Taylor, Shelley WigleyCHAPTERS 11 & 12- Sedalia, Missouri and back to Roswell, New Mexico
We were in New Mexico for only a short time before Dad took a job leading the music and youth at The East Sedalia Baptist Church. We lived in a big, white, two-story house. I started kindergarten in Sedalia, and my memory is less hazy about the events that happened when we lived there. I …Read More
View Post Bill Jetton, Cindy Pickard, Courts Jetton, East Sedalia Baptist Church, Grandpa Lewis, Greg Lewis, Judy Jetton, Lottie James, Mike Pickard, Roger Pickard, Ruth Ann TaylorCHAPTER 5-SIBLINGS
Courts Lottie and Ruth playing in 1974. That might be the Mac Davis show in the background. I’ve always thought that Ruth and I took after the Jettons and were a lot alike, while Lottie and Courts took after the Lewis’s and shared more similarities. Lottie and Ruth both had dark brown eyes, but Courts’ and mine changed …Read More
View Post Bill Jetton, Courts Jetton, Judy Jetton, Lottie James, Rod Jetton, Ruth Ann Taylor, Son of a Preacher Man, Southwest Baptist University