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..GOD BLESS..
...BRUCHER...
This is taken from the family history I wrote for my husband and I. Many years of work went into this. I started with the old type computer. I lost it many times, but at least managed to have a copy of the information. I lost it again when our computer bombed in 1996. It took me a long time to learn how to convert the discs. Now I hope there will be no more problems!!
Grandma Brucher's 90th birthday party...
Lillian Mae Mattison and Andrew Carl Brucher
Lillian..daughter of George Knox and Mary Jane Peck Mattison
Andrew..son of John and Elizabeth Sutter Brucher
Grandparents of Marjorie
Children:
Raymond---Jan 1 1912
Leo---April 14 1913
GLB---1914
Beulah---May 22 1916
Marjorie---Aug 13 1918
Marcella---June 22 1920
Marion---March 27 1923
Lillian's sisters and brothers.......
Clinton-- Jan 20 1883
Harrison--Feb 1 1884
Lillian--Aug 26 1885
Orlando--Feb 16 1887
George--April 17 1888
Addie--Feb 14 1889
John--Aug 17 1893
Willard--Oct 7 1898
Raymond--never married
Leo & Mabel children:
Diana, Kenny, Andy, Judy, Virginia
GLB & John Vincent Smith children:
Marjorie, Donna, Ronald
Beulah & Ralph Mac Arthur children:
Marcella (Honey), Doug, Bill, John
Marjorie & Earl Heinz children:
Debbie
Sell & Dick Steinmann children:
Barbara
Marion & Bob Campbell children:
Billy, Tommy, Judy, Jimmy
When we grew up the family was pretty close, as Grandma Brucher got older and the family started to spread out, they had a birthday party for her each summer. Quite a few showed up for it. Aunt Sell and Uncle Dick would make a cake with roses on it for grandma. They got hard rolls; mom took her macaroni salad. Grandma got a lot of presents.
One year we all got together and bought grandma a stereo, she really liked this, used it a lot. She always wanted to show you her new records. I got her a big purple teddy bear, which she kept on her bed. Honey and I may have bought it together for Grandma.
When we were children we would go to Grandma Brucher's house on Sundays. Usually in the summer. At the time we were still in the outdoor toilet era. A big ole duck use to chase us. But, we always had a lot of fun. There were apple trees out in the fields. Several chicken coops were there too.
In the summer Uncle Ray and Leo would plant a big garden. The corn and lettuce were just great. When I got older, I planted a garden with them, for sure, it was the one and only time I can remember a storm coming in. We lost just about everything we had planted. I was very upset. I had planted Indian corn, pumpkins and a lot of other things.
I have tried to grow pumpkins all over, in Wilmington, North Carolina in my yard, and on the patio at my apartment, I did manage to get some gourds on the patio. In Tennessee on a hill by our place. I finally got 3 pumpkins, on my patio in Charlotte!!! The big city!!! I had tons of gourds to go along with them.
In later years Uncle Ray built a garage. It was pretty big, us kids use to go out there to play keiley over? you would have 2 teams, throw a ball over the roof and holler 123 keiley over, the other team tried to catch the ball, if they did, you hollered Ollie Ollie oxen free? You then ran after the team on the other side to try to catch them. While watching television recently it was mentioned that in hide and go seek you hollered Ollie, Ollie oxen free, yet, this seems to be what I remember hollering when we played the other game too. Could we have made this game up, a combination of other games?
There was a long road that went down into grandmas. We would go up it a ways to play in the woods. We had so much fun. There was a tiny, tiny creek to one side. We had pretend houses. Sometimes we would bug our parents till they would take us for a ride in the car. We would sing songs like How Much is that Doggie in the Window? By Patti Page, songs by Theresa Brewer, one was Tennessee Waltz, we had lots of fun, and many times we took two or more cars.
Whoops..!!..Tennessee Waltz was by Patti Page too. I have had to do some digging to find out about this. I heard this fact mentioned on TV. I asked myself had Theresa Brewer re-done the song? I finally found a page on Theresa. She sang Till I Waltz Again With You. It's all coming back to me now!!
In the back there was a small pond where we use to go ice-skating. You could not see the house from there. Across the front was a field. Grandma had a big garden full of dahlias and gladiolus. They really were pretty. At the end of this field were blueberry bushes. We use to go there to pick them and in some other nearby fields. They sure were good. Dad would carry a big pail, we carried whatever we could get our hands on. When we filled it, we would put the berries in dad's big pail. Mom would make cobbler and pie, we ate some fresh, some cold with milk poured over and sugar sprinkled on top.
There was talk of bears too. Especially concerning the patch down behind our house. We swore we heard them at times.
Sometimes we would go up by Aunt Beulahs to pick berries, only problem there was a big OLE bull out in the field. Uncle George would say that he would not bother you, but, we recall one memorable time when the bull charged, guess who was over the fence first?
Uncle Dick's mother lived in a house close by. There was a path going from grandma's house to their house. You went through the woods. We use to go over there on the weekends. Aunt Sell made waffles for everyone. Then we watched The Sid Caesar Show with Imogene Cocoa. It was real funny.
Another popular show was Your Hit Parade with Snookie Lanson and Gisele Mackenzie. They sang the current top 10 songs. It was real interesting when a song was on many, many weeks in a row. You could not wait to see what they had come up with each week for a new setting. One song that was popular was This OLE House with Rosemary Clooney. She is aunt to the current star of the television show, ER, George Clooney. On Top of Old Smoky was another hit.
Aunt Sylvia lived nearby too, grandma would walk over there at times. Aunt Sylvia crocheted, she made all these pretty things, Aunt Sell crocheted too. The two of them would get together to figure out a pattern or to share patterns. They use to make these pretty doilies. The edges of them were like a diamond. You starched them and they stood up. The centers were white, the edges in diferent colors, usually a varigated color. It seems everyone had one of them. They were quite large too. Aunt Sell is the one who taught me to crochet. I made Wendy an afghan in the popular zigzag stitch in pink, white, and blue.
I use to go to grandmas some. Mom would walk me part of the way; I ran the rest of the way. It was dark and scary on that road. Grandma would meet me. We must have had phones by then.
Mom says she believes her and Beulah had phones first. She is not sure when they got phones, but does remember that we still did not have them when Donna was born. Donna was sick that summer, Sonny La Polt went to call Doctor Duggan for her. Back then doctors came to your house if they had to.
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