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
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CHAPTERS 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 TaylorCHAPTERS 9 &10- DeSoto, Missouri to Roswell, New Mexico
When does a child first have memories? When do you begin to hold onto faces, images and remember what happened in your life? My first memories are of the house on Jefferson St. in DeSoto, Missouri. Like all small children, I only remember bits and pieces of life there, but it was the town Mom …Read More
View Post Artesia First Baptist Church, Bill Jetton, DeSoto, Grandma Jetton, John Robinson, Judy Jetton, Lee May First Baptist Church, Lottie James, Missouri, Rod Jetton, 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 UniversitySon of a Preacher Man- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & FORWARD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Even though this is just a story about the first years of my life, and I am only writing it for you, my children, I do want to take a moment to acknowledge and thank a few people. First, my parents. Everything that is positive in the following pages, and in my life as …Read More
View Post Bill Jetton, Bob Ingold, DeSoto Missouri, Judy Jetton, Lee Kanakis, Lottie James, Mary Gans, Paul Fitzwater, Paula Bogart, Rod Jetton, Son of a Preacher Man