tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44011723187925081342024-03-09T21:45:46.547-05:00Mona's MemosA personal blog, just little bits here and there... started long ago, updated sporadically. My propensity to write long chatty descriptions is inspired by family... check KINFOLK TALES. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-89984213183223346772023-07-11T21:43:00.021-04:002023-07-11T22:33:41.669-04:00O, my heart!I'm getting some inquiries from miscellaneous folks, so here is an update on how I spent my weekend. Maybe in more detail than you want to know, but this is my way to share without repeating the same story over and over. Most importantly: I'm OK, I'm home, I'm resting! You may know that I've been battling some chronic health conditions over the last few years. Recently I've had difficulty Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-50096477087059805662023-06-24T16:27:00.262-04:002023-07-11T22:02:58.784-04:00Boomer TechI was recently asked, “What was your first job?” It caused me to reflect on the work done by my parents, as well as my own working career.
The first
memory this question provokes is of becoming aware of what a job is, and why one
is needed. As a child of about five or six, I greatly enjoyed being “Daddy’s
girl.” I would follow my dad around the house, yard, and gardenUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0Hatton, KY 40601, USA38.2481018 -84.89847759.9378679638211551 -120.0547275 66.558335636178839 -49.7422275tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-57332816850971962122023-06-24T16:06:00.088-04:002023-07-11T22:05:34.147-04:00Favorite Children’s Stories Stories and books began for me with Aunt Edith. My mom’s oldest sister, she was an elementary school teacher then living in Ohio who visited our big old farmhouse near Winchester, KY, frequently during my childhood. Their mother had died young, leaving eight children to be raised by their father in depression-era Appalachia (in Breathitt County, KY). Edith stepped into the role of substituteUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-8096131101411249412015-11-13T17:00:00.006-05:002023-07-11T22:06:41.558-04:00Ross Haddix - Liberator
Veterans Day, 2015. Saw a post on Facebook from my cousin Mindy's daughter Holly Merz Argast, mentioning that her grandfather, Ross Haddix (my mother's brother, my uncle), was interviewed about his experiences in WWII, and the interview is available on YouTube. Wow - I didn't know! So of course I stayed up late, watching and listening to a precious voice from the past. Many thanks to the Mary L.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-75535829800464068812013-06-16T13:56:00.005-04:002023-07-11T22:07:34.184-04:00Push me, Daddy!
Taken in the front yard of our house in Winchester, ca 1959? Lots of fun in that yard... games of croquet, badminton, freeze tag, hide and seek, Red Rover, Easter egg hunts, chasing lightnin' bugs, rides on Buttermilk the pony, family picnics, swinging high, secret hiding places, Sable and Prince the collie dogs, puppy litters, pet rabbits, baby birds, stray kittens, smells of the garden, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-56971655572913823262013-06-16T13:53:00.002-04:002013-06-16T14:03:08.300-04:00Valentine's Day 2013 - Crash!
A big ooops, and a lucky escape. Turning left across traffic, saw 2 lanes stopped, one driver motioned me on to turn. But I didn't realize, couldn't see... there was another lane, and a car coming in it. Fortunately my passenger seat was empty, since it's now folded in half. I had a cracked shin bone and some torn knee cartilage, was off my feet for 8 weeks but healing went well. Car is Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-68626888693866448362013-03-19T23:45:00.001-04:002023-06-25T12:45:07.407-04:00MonaGail's Corner
Come
in and share my little corner of the web.
(see all family/genealogy posts from old kyspot.com web site -click to expand the March 2013 archive at left)
You'll find a mix of personal stories and
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-34125171416119283932013-03-19T23:42:00.000-04:002013-04-10T02:33:38.456-04:00Family Bits n Pieces
"I saw behind me those who
had gone, and before me those who are to come. I looked back and saw my
father and his father and all our fathers, and in front to see my son
and his son, and the sons upon sons beyond. And their eyes were my eyes.
As I felt so they had felt, and were to feel, as then, so now, as
tomorrow and forever. Then I was Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-49619089348373432582013-03-19T23:40:00.000-04:002013-03-28T18:14:01.915-04:00My Guardian Angels
Arthur and Maude (Noble) Haddix, before 1938
Blanche (Haddix) and Ollie James Landrum, 1944
Laura (Back) and Albert Sidney Landrum, before 1942
Allan Leo Proctor, 1938-2000
GUARDIAN ANGELS
A hundred-year-old photograph stares out
from a frame,
and if you look real close you'll see our
eyes are just the same.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-63136605843638465052013-03-19T23:37:00.000-04:002013-03-29T22:55:39.359-04:00Mom's Legacy
Mom's Legacy:
A Gift from the Past
by
Blanche Haddix Landrum
as
told to
Mona Landrum Proctor
©
2013 All
rights reserved.
Do not duplicate in any form.
E-mail request for printed copy
Chapter One:
Secrets
in a Small Town
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-27352437884892192762013-03-19T23:35:00.001-04:002023-06-30T19:19:38.008-04:00Daddy's Girl(Originally published 8/15/09)
A friend has been posting online about music from our youth: Elvis, Woodstock... and we recently lost some great talents of the music industry, Les Paul and Mike Seeger. Well, I got started on YouTube clips, progressing to even earlier musical memories. Which leads me to confessing a guilty secret: my Saturday nights lately are occasionally spent watching Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-15673511429302486082013-03-19T23:30:00.000-04:002013-03-28T14:01:47.341-04:00Linotype MachinesThis started out on my Facebook page, but I decided to save it here, and elaborate a bit, in memory of my father, O.J. Landrum (1912-1979).
Thomas Edison called it the 8th Wonder of the
World. It was made of 10,000 parts - 5,483 of which were moving - and it
used molten metal heated to 550 degrees. Mistakes landed in a "hell
box" for recycling. The 7-year apprenticeship included 3 yearsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-83069706362206195722013-03-19T20:41:00.020-04:002023-06-30T19:02:46.799-04:00AL: Remember MeAllan Leo ProctorMay 17, 1938 - March 11, 2000Set me as a seal upon your heart,as a seal upon your arm;for love is strong as death,passion fierce as the grave.Its flashes are flashes of fire,a raging flame.Many waters cannot quench love,neither can floods drown it.If one offered for loveall the wealth of his house,it would be utterly scorned. Song of Solomon 8:6-7All the love that history Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-6679310285486073922013-03-19T20:40:00.009-04:002023-07-01T01:13:32.122-04:00Al's Place>Don't weep at my grave, for I am not there,I've a date with a butterflyto dance in the air.I'll be singing in thesunshine, wild and free,Playing tag with the wind,while I'm waiting for thee.author unknownSee the dedication text for this page and selected quotes at: https://mproc.blogspot.com/2013/03/al-remember-me.html For the RecordAllan Leo Proctor was born May 17, 1938Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-88263717480602266132013-03-19T20:35:00.014-04:002023-07-01T01:30:43.378-04:00Grieving
The
Agony of Grief
Grief
is a tidal wave that overtakes you, smashes down upon you with
unimaginable force, sweeps you up into its darkness, where you
tumble and crash against unidentifiable surfaces, only to be
thrown out on an unknown beach, bruised, reshaped.
Grief
means notUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-63777554640785376172013-03-19T19:27:00.006-04:002023-07-11T22:08:29.598-04:00Even This...
I
memorized the first stanza of this long ago, and it has both helped and
haunted me over the years... I was delighted to discover the
entire poem recently, and even more impressed with its
full message. Even
This Shall Pass Away
Once
in Persia reigned a king,
Who upon his signet ring
Graved a maxim true and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-20921049564830434142013-03-19T19:26:00.003-04:002013-03-28T15:01:44.163-04:00Quotes
A room without a book
is like a body without a soul.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the
battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant
or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.
-- Ecclesiastes 9:11
Did you get what you wanted from this Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-81193771429640920232013-03-19T18:42:00.035-04:002023-07-01T03:29:37.170-04:00Time and ChanceLast updated: 7/1/2023I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. - Ecclesiastes 9:11My posts Al: Remember Me and Al's Place began this whole project. It started as a personal web site, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-88326959948111972982013-03-19T18:41:00.000-04:002013-03-28T14:53:06.729-04:00And Sue
(originally published 2/19/2010)
This was a rough week for the Landrum cousins. Less than 24 hours after Jamie's funeral on Monday - in the midst of a blizzard - we also lost our beloved cousin Sue. Not unexpected, but a terrible blow nonetheless. These two... were the heart of the whole bunch. My sister Judy put these words to what we are all feeling: "It's so sad that Jamie and Sue went so Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-26642890830634076192013-03-19T18:40:00.000-04:002013-03-28T17:53:14.731-04:00Jamie
(originally published on 2/13/2010)
Well, the long-dreaded news arrived yesterday, and we are all still in shock. My beloved cousin Jamie Ann finally lost her long, tough battle with cancer. The two of us were always 'peas in a pod' in a great big garden full of cousins. From childhood playmates to teenage confidants and ever after, we were the best of friends for 50+ years. She had a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-80532762184157775902013-03-19T18:39:00.000-04:002013-03-28T14:57:03.715-04:00Dave's ROOK Prize
Cousin Dave's Rook Prize
presented by James A. Landrum
(click to see a larger version)
Name: David Warren
Gross
Date Born: Tuesday, September 14,
1943
Date Died: Sunday, March 23, 2008
Age: 64
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-36302734684965108842013-03-19T18:22:00.010-04:002023-06-30T19:56:16.702-04:00Kinfolk TalesMy propensity to write long chatty descriptions is inspired by family... check out Edith and Selena's stories about their brother Vergil!
Arthur
Haddix and sons.
L-R: Joe, Ross, Arthur, Vergil, Bert Vergil was the oldest; he was married with a family when World War II began. Both Ross and Bert served in the U.S. Army Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-91636718044836704222013-03-19T18:21:00.003-04:002023-06-30T20:03:50.839-04:00Proud Families of Appalachia
Proud
Families
of Appalachia
©
1973, 2023 by
Mona Gail Landrum Proctor
All
rights reserved.
Do not duplicate in any form.
E-mail request for printed copy
This
document was a paper written for Communications 102
at Lees Junior College in April 1973 by Mona Gail Landrum.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-83882392894148589142013-03-19T18:20:00.000-04:002013-03-28T14:06:57.618-04:00Breath of Life from Breathitt
Fun at Lost
Creek, ca. 1950
Nephew, uncle, cousin-in-law,
cousin-once-removed..
who's keeping track?
James Alan Landrum, Philip Haddix,
Leslie Phillip Carnahan,
Albert Lloyd Sallee
Breathitt
There's a charm about
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401172318792508134.post-64933612046662783512013-03-19T18:15:00.002-04:002023-06-25T19:05:13.910-04:00Haddix Generations
Haddix Generations
Photos of Haddix homes for four generations near Lost Creek, Kentucky
Arthur HaddixLost Creek, Breathitt Co, KY
b.1889KY-d.1974KY
m. 1st Maude Noble
m. 2nd Beatrice Tharp
William
Washington Haddix(father of Arthur Haddix)Lost Creek, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0