attend Mama's funeral. He told Daddy he'd have orphans instead of Motherless children ~ Daddy went back to bed. I had the flu too, and Doctors told my parents and grandparents I'd never pull through. Grandma sat up with me day and night for a week, but with the help of our Heavenly Father my daddy and I both recovered, and when we were able, Daddy, Danny and I returned home with Grandpa and Grandma to Sierra Madre.

Grandma saw to it that we attended Sunday School each Sunday. The little stone church was called "Bethany Church," it was built of rocks from up in the Sierra Madre Canyon, by a blind stone mason. It is still there at this writing. It is a truly beautiful building. It was here as a child, 3½ or 4 years old, that I memorized my first scripture. John 3:16 - a very beautiful one, which I have never forgotten - "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life."

My Daddy was a Plumber & Baker

In 1920 my grandparents bakery and part of their home burned down. Some neighbors, thinking they were helping, took me to their home and in the excitement no one told Grandma and thinking I was in the burning house, she collapsed. Her health was never very good after that. They rebuilt the house and bakery.

Daddy decided it was too much for Grandma to take care of the three of us, so he advertised for a housekeeper. The lady who was to become my new mother answered the ad. Her name
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