|
This week’s Passing Parade picture and article were requested. The picture is of Bob Allen Gray and his beloved aunt, Mrs. Faye Locker Hogan of Oklahoma City. The picture was taken by Arlene Koonce. Mrs. Hogan invited her nephew, Bob Allen Gray and his cousins Floyd and Arlene Koonce for a Thanksgiving dinner. Mrs. Hogan first married Hiram Locker of the Liberty Community. He died in 1930. Early that year, she and Hiram Locker attended an Ice Cream Supper at Liberty School. The supper was a success and the school bought a piano. Miss Virginia Kelso was the music teacher. |
Passing Parade |
I remember going with them to visit Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Locker. That very November Hiram Locker died. While he was at our house, he wanted me to sing “The Boll Weevil Blues”. I did not, but I wished later I had sung it to him.
When my mother broke her hip, Mrs. Hogan asked me to come see her. Before she died she invited Elizabeth Smiley and me to come spend a few days with her. Mrs. Hogan was a wealthy lady. She was said to be worth three million dollars. She had a beautiful home in Oklahoma City.
Before he died, Hiram and Faye Bills Locker took us to a fair in Fayetteville, TN. As a boy, Hiram Locker attended Rowland Hill School under Oliver Largen.
Elizabeth Smiley and I were so sorry we did not get to visit our special aunt who died less than a month after her invitation to us. Hiram Locker was the best dressed young man in Lincoln County and he married Faye Bills who is buried at Enid, Oklahoma, with her parents. Hiram Locker preferred to be buried in Stewart Cemetery.
Congratulations to Bobby and Maple Ferguson who recently celebrated their 49th wedding anniversary. We all love Maple. She does great and wonderful things. She is a great and pretty lady.
Sympathy is extended to Martha Nichols in the recent death of her son.