I had this post scheduled for later in March. However, it's now a post for Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge. It's Saturday Night - time for more Genealogy Fun! Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to:1) The 1950 United States Census will be available to search on 1 April …
Category: Emporia
Remembering Roberta
Roberta, Pauline, Barb Roberta and Kaye Delta Sigma Epsilon Sorority - Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, Kansas - about 1950 Roberta and Eugene - Wedding Day Roberta and neighbor Bev - Dodge City, Kansas Roberta, Sister Letha, Uncle Leslie, Mother Pauline 80th Birthday party - Roberta with her children
Roberta Adell Briles Crawford
Roberta Adell Briles Crawford was born June 20, 1930 in Buffalo, Kansas. She was the daughter of Edward Osmund and Pauline (Mentzer) Briles. Roberta passed away at Sunrise of Lenexa in Lenexa, Kansas on January 9, 2022. Roberta graduated from Emporia High School in 1948. She attended Kansas State Teachers College where she was a …
Throwback Thursday
While searching for a birth announcement in the Iola, Kansas newspapers, I came across this interesting little article. My aunt and uncle owned an airplane! Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Mentzer and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mentzer enjoyed a visit and plane ride Friday when Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Thompson flew their plane down from Emporia. …
Place Line
#SaturdayNightGenealogyFun Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):1) We're all familiar with Timelines - date, location, event, etc. - for events in our lives. This week, …
Ancestral Homes
#SaturdayNightGenealogyFun Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):1) Identify an ancestral home address ( preferably one with a street address...) for one of your ancestral families (You do know where they lived, don't …
Band Member
#52ancestors #Music Is your family one of those blessed with lots of musical talent? If so, did you inherit any of that talent? I would love to say that I have inherited some of my mother's musical talent, but I'm definitely a left brained person. I can figure out computer issues, but I don't have …
Radio
On Sunday, David Allen Lambert tweeted the question, "Did your family own a radio in 1930?" as part of the #ancestorchallenge2018. Even though I have obtained the 1930 census records for most people in my tree, I have to admit that I have not paid attention to that little detail. When I checked the 1930 …
EHS ’18’ Club
Guys and Dolls An "18" Club at E.H.S. has been recently established. A student may become a member if he is 18 years of age, and with his parents' consent, is willing to give blood at the Emporia Bloodmobile. Those who have donated a pint of blood are Robert Brecht, Larry Hayes, Richard Frederick, Marie …
1974 Emporia Tornado
"At least six people were killed, more than 80 hospitalized and an unknown additional number injured by a tornado that ripped across the northwest corner of Emporia early Saturday evening. The twister virtually demolished the Lincoln Village Mobile Home Park and the Flint Hills Village Shopping Center." (The Emporia Gazette - Extra - Sunday, the …