Chuck Pullman and Dad

Chuck Pullman and Dad. On the stove behind them is Dad's pot of chili.  On the bar is the most recent LA Times with the sections separated and stacked.  On Mom's pink tiled counter-top is Dad's signature 7-Up.  Dad was so proud of his Virgin Mary medallion.  Marilyn Drabickas got it for him on one of her trips to Egypt.  Chuck was so happy and proud to be in my dad's orbit.  In the cabinet behind them and to the left always hung a catholic calendar.  The picture is probably 1986.

Joe Sullivan's & Kathy Walden's Letters

From KathyBones@hotmail.com, February 7, 2002

Joseph

Hey thanks for answering us.  This is great!!

We would like copies . . . Pictures .  . . Notes . . .dates. . . Of births, deaths, weddings, children, burial places . . . Everything.  LOL

My grandfather, William Charles, did have 3 girls and two boys.  They are Myrtle, Martha, and Mary.  Mary died in the homestead in Butte when she was 5 years old.  The boys are William Lawrence, my father, and Jack.  I didn’t know much about Jack.  He ranched in southern Colorado and we didn’t hear or see of him. 

Here are some of the facts we have so far.  We look forward to hearing from you.

William Charles “Walgenbach” Walden and Evaline May Jackson Walden.

William Charless “Curly” and Eva line “May” met at Coal Creek Canyon . . . Canyon west of Denver, while both working, Curly for Bill Blake and taking care of the daughter of a rich family, in 1908 they got real close and got married April 20, 1909.

Evaline was the daughter of Henry Jackson from CO and Mary Davis from Rotherham, England.  She came to the states in 1887 with her brother who was 7 and a younger sister who was 3 at the time.  Her father was a cabinet maker and a carpenter, who worked on the capital building in Denver when all work was done by hand.

They lived in Denver till after Myrtle Evaline was born 05/16/1910 as their family followed the shearing run throughout Wyoming and into Montana.  They lived near Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana.  Three more children were born:

1)  Florence Mary “Mary” 8/6/1913.

2)  Martha Mary “Martha” 7/13/1916.

The following page is a letter from Joe Sullivan to Charlen and John. I did not find a date on it.

 Page #2

It’s April here!

Dear Wot’s His Face and Charlen:

You just don’t know how long this letter is in it’s being.  So many times I have started it and so many times the paper remained blank.  But now it’s Sunday and I’ll give it another shot.  What with banging my knees on the desk and finding the right posture to get this off and all.

Now that I am getting into gear there is so very much to say.  I pray that you have time and can enjoy it as do I. 

You note the last time, Charlen, mentioned about your family and weddings and all.  What a truly busy it must be for you all.  Now that we are ‘way up here (Grover City) and not conversant or what have you about people down there, weddings and christenings are things of the past.  Like remembering you there in the old Hall of Justice, Charlen, just a wee thing with your dark hair and such a beautiful smile.  Remind me again then about those times in West Covina when I had Janice with me and she did all of the things that I remember you doing  then back in some other day, Charlen and with your favorite person: Dad.  I have so many remembrances, as do you, of him and recall his being tortured there on the street in Duarte that I don’t recall now when he did not have that long to live.  He was groping for us and for air as he laid there in that place of pain.  Those days I remember and will never forget.  Your dad had so many times in his life when he had that impact on us and me and he had that Walgo way of living.  And I remember the days of Nora as best he would allow me and how she treated or talked to the family.  Those days of San Gabriel and Duarte and all of the rest are here to remember for all time.  He was wonderful.  You, Charlen and John, recall it all and more vividly, I am sure.  I felt when I started this that it would come to this and I didn’t want it to.  But shucks. 

Mom's beautiful handwriting.  I love her return address sticker that reads "Mr. Charles Walgenbach."  She used those return address stickers for years since Dad's death in 1988.  She used the stickers to remember her husband, to keep the memory of him alive.  I love it.  He would   have loved that gesture, Mom, to know that you were thinking about him.  He would have asked for a kiss.

Mom's beautiful handwriting.  I love her return address sticker that reads "Mr. Charles Walgenbach."  She used those return address stickers for years since Dad's death in 1988.  She used the stickers to remember her husband, to keep the memory of him alive.  I love it.  He would   have loved that gesture, Mom, to know that you were thinking about him.  He would have asked for a kiss.