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[NI0002] Proof Source: Certificate of Birth, Dallam County, Texas File #3895 Dated June 19, 1951 Not named on original record. R.U.Counts, County Clerk was a friend of the family and had known Freda from birth. First needed birth certificate to graduate from an accredited high school in Clayton, New Mexico.
Nickname: Redhead Gingerbread by Mrs. Vickers, clerk in JC Penney Store.
Mr. Hopgood, Manager of the Farmers Coop in Dalhart had Santa deliver a beautiful Shirley Temple doll with Freda's name on it at the Wilco Community Christmas Program in about 1938.
Was born at Harlow Place. Lives at Turner Place, People's Place, across from Dalhart Air Base, Hawkin's Place and bought farm at Sedan the summer before I started 6th Grade. Had "bumper" wheat harvest in 1944 and would have built a new house at Sedan but wheat harvest was not good in 1945 so Willie Ritchey remodeled the 4-room house, later enclosed the back porch, built a well house, piped running water to the house, dug a septic tank and installed our first indoor bathroom! Got our first car battery operated radio, kerosene cook stove and Wearever waterless cookware at the Turner Place. During the depression Daddy drove a school bus. He would stay in Hartley during the day and work at a lumberyard. For Christmas that year he build Veretta and me a child-sized table and chairs and cabinet and painted them dusty blue. (Wish we had kept them!) After the depression Daddy had his tractor painted bright red. Veretta and I got our first tricycle with a bell and extra handlebars on the back. Oh, it was so pretty!! We also got a dump truck. Probably the first store-bought toys our parents had been able to buy. Daddy was more progressive than most. We had our first electric lights by windcharger with glass batteries at the People's Place, Natural Gas for lights and stoves at the Hawkin's Place. Went back to the windcharger electricity until REA in 1950 when we bought our first new Ford car and went to the Davis Reunion in Eliasville, TX, that summer. I was able to attend Inlow Camp three summers. When I was in 8th or 9th grade I raised Goldenrod Chickens for 4-H and won the Grand Champion Ribbon. Had lots of parties at the Pettigrews and slumber parties at the Moores. The 4-H Club bought skates and Shortie Bohn hauled the skates to the Sedan gymnasium every Saturday night for years. Such good community entertainment. Kept us busy with something wholesome to do. Later they showed movies on Friday night at the school.

[NI0003] Christian: April 14, 1970, Putnam City Baptist Church, T.T.Crabtree, Pastor
Education: Graduated from Putnam City High School (1978), Oklahoma Baptist University (1982) Accounting Degree
Worked for B.C.Clark Jewelry during high school and college; Frankfort, Short & Bruza, TG&Y before marriage, Pete, Marwick & Mitchell CPA, Fort Worth and Celburn Public Schools, Cleburn, TX. Homemaker and Americana Jewelry Rep (1991).

Kendall was born in Hugley Hospital, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, TX while they lived in Celburn, TX. Kyle, Abilene, Taylor County, TX. Kevin, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, TX while they lived in North Richland Hills, TX.

[NI0004] Graduated from Putnam City High School, Okla. City
Baylor University and Southern Methodist University, Masters
Worked for Baptist Annuity Board, Fidelity Investments
Lived with college roommate, Wendy, in Garland; Richardson and in Bob's mother's house until after her death in 1992. Built a new home in Arlington in 1993-1994.

[NI0005] Graduated: Putnam City North High School, Oklahoma City, Ok
Baylor University
Won big on Wheel of Fortune
Work: Securities Broker, MERITiming, Harbor Duet with Paul Guffey, advertising jingles and song writing with Hummingbird, free lance musician,
1994: Production Associate ( talent scout) for Sparrow Recording Company with Peter York, Bill Hearn and Billy Ray Hearn, owner, for whom Freda Cunningham (Grant's mom) work in 1954 as Music/Youth/Recreation Secretary at Trinity Baptist Church, San Antonio, TX.

[NI0006] SSN 451-32-1557
Born 3 miles East of Rayner, TX.
He was fast on his feet. He was a good runner in school. Had beautiful handwriting. Attended college in Canyon, TX for at least one semester. Took a woodworking class. Used to walk to see Effie when they were courting. They always knew he was coming because they could hear him whistling along the way. Was one of the first young men to buy his own Model A Ford Coupe. He and some friends took a trip to Colorado and had trouble trying to come down Pike's Peak--burned out the brakes, I believe. Helped to build the baptistry in Hale Center Baptist Church and was one of the first to be baptized in it. He grew up in a Presbyterian family but converted to Baptist belief mainly regarding the security of the believer and baptism. Was an ardent believer in the Cooperative Program and was a faithful teacher of tithing.
Married by Rev. J. Harlan Matthew in Baptist parsonage in Plainview.

Occupation: Wheat Farmer, Secretary for Farmers Coop (no telling how many stock certificates he signed and, oh, the fun of those annual stockholder's meetings and ice cream suppers in the Dalhart High School), Treasurer for Trans-Canadian Baptist Association (He traveled countless miles to attend Associational Meetings and dinner on the ground. Many times he was mistook for a preacher.), Southern Baptsit Deacon (He always liked to provide the visiting evangelists a place to stay--no motels in those days. And there was always fried chicken, gravy and hot biscuits for breakfast!! About the only time we had coffee.) He loved to read and study his Bible. Taught a men's Sunday School class for years.

During depression days he had a black Ford Panel which he used for a school bus. He would drive the route in the morning, work in a lumberyard in Hartley during the day and return home after delivering the school kids in the afternoon. The dirt storms were so bad during the Dust Bowl days and tumble weeds would often have to be burned for cars to get down the roads or to have to shovel a path through a sand drift. However, he bought their first radio which ran on a car battery during those days. The sand took off all the paint on his tractor and he had to have it re-painted bright red after the depression.
He was innovative in his farming, was a trailblazer in many things like windcharger electric lights, was a good carpenter and mechanic. Remodeled the house at Sedan rather than building a new one after the wheat harvest was not a bumper crop the year he bought his first farm a mile and a half over the Texas line in New Mexico, 34 miles from town, of mostly dirt road. The mailing address was still Dalhart, TX, because it was a Star Route out of Dalhart going to Sedan, NM. Heating was with prophane gas and REA (elecricity) came in during the late 1940's. His first new car was a 1950 Ford with undercoating. Farm to market (hard surfaced) roads came in the middle 1950's replacing the graded dirt roads. During the war farmers could buy gasoline for their tractors at a savings but blueing was put in it. It was illegal to put it is automobiles. Teenagers were known to steal blue gasoline from farmers, about the meanest thing they did outside of stealing watermelon or maybe putting shocks of feed in the road for Halloween.

Lived: Aspermont (near Graham), Hale Center, Floydada, Dimmit (Hart), Dalhart : Harlow, Turner, Peoples, by Air Base, Hartley: Hawkins--all in Texas; Sedan NM: bought farm, Tucumcari, Portales: lived in town adjoining Eastern New Mexico University; Bossier City, LA: June 12, 1978 until his death.
Attended many Ritchey Reunions mainly at Erastus & Gillie's in Hale Center, Johnson/Springer Reunions mainly at W.T. Johnson's home, Hale Center and later in Plainview park; in 1977 - Hereford, TX; 1986 - Plainview (and Hale Center Baptist Church Anniversary), Effie had had hip replacement surgery and Freda and Paul took him.

Prayers:
Accept our thanks, Heavenly Father, for the manifestation of your goodness. Bless this food to the nourishment of our bodies and our bodies to Thy service. Help us look to Thee for guidance and strength and to know an do your will. Help us to be mindful of the things that are uplifting to your cause. Forgive us when we fail you. In Jesus' name.

Thank you, Lord, for the good night's rest and for your watchcare over us. Bless this food for its intended use and help us do your will. In Jesus' name.

We thank you, Lord, for this table comfort. Bless this food to nourish our bodies. Accept our souls for Christ's sake. Amen.

Humor:
I didn't stay awake to see how much I slept last night.

[NI0007] Moved to Oklahoma City to live with Freda & Paul Cunningham in Nov, 1992. Attended Family Reunion at Palo Dura Canyon, TX July 4, 1992, with Paul & Freda and the Choate family.

[NI0008] Married at First Baptist Church, Reception at Vickers home. Died suddenly while attending Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Had a respiratory infection and cough, was hospitalized and developed holes in her lungs. Glenn was a Chaplain in the Army and was stationed in Japan and could not be located before her funeral. Buried in the Military Section.

[NI0009] Proof Source: Certificate of Birth, Floyd County, Texas Vol 4B, Page 446 per Herman Weiland 8/1994.

[NI0010] Occupation: primarily farmer, hotel business for short while. 1883 moved to Grayson Co, TX.

[NI0011] Was married near Cookeville, TN by her uncle Rv. Stephen Davis, Cumberland Presbyterian minister.
Celebrated 80th birthday and 65th wedding anniversary on same day

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