Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It’s Saturday Night Again –
Time For Some More Genealogy Fun!!
Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision.
1) It’s Father’s Day on Sunday. Tell us three things about your father, or one of your grandfathers (or another male ancestor), that have influenced you in your life.
Since my mother’s father died when I was very young, I only have two male ancestors that had an influence on my life: my father, Eugene D. Crawford and his father, Leon R. Crawford.
While we moved away from my grandparents when I was in junior high, my grandfather had a quiet influence on my life.
- Faith – While I never heard my grandfather discuss his faith, his actions revealed his deep faith. He and my grandmother started their day by reading a devotional: Upper Room. Sundays would find him attending early church service. This faith say my grandfather thru world war I, the death of his younger brother in a railroading accident, and the death of two children – one his first born as an infant and the second was his youngest who died as a young adult.
- Marriage – My grandfather’s willingness to do the dishes showed that he viewed marriage as a partnership. The dozen roses his wife received on their anniversary each Christmas eve was a visual reminder of his love for my grandfather.
In addition to faith and marriage, my father greatly influenced my career life. I became a teacher because of my dad being a teacher. I became a science teacher because my dad not only required me to take science every year of high school but also to take Chemistry 1 as a college freshman. I’m certain that the problem solving skills my father helped me develop as a young child allowed me to utilize those skills as computers were introduced into Nemaha Valley High School. My forty two year career as a science teacher and then a technology coordinator are the evidence of this influence my dad had on my life.