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| 4th grade |
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| Spending more and more time at the stables. Dad and Tom tease me that I like "a little black kid". I don't get it?? My Friend Annette had a birthday in March and I wanted to take her a gift. My mother tried to tell me that it just wasn't going to happen, that we don't go into that part of town, again I don't get it. I've learned since then that they called it "north town" or "the projects". I did not know or even care that it was different place to live. "Please take me Mom" I asked again and again. I remember a long discussion at the kitchen table. She did take me. I will never forget that day. Mom driving me into that neighborhood and people actually coming out of their house and standing up on their porches watching us. Again I didn't get it. Mom sat in the car while I went up and knocked on the door and handed my friends mom her gift. They look bewildered. I didn't get it. This girl was my friend, why wouldn't I take her a present or be invited to her party (which I wasn't by the way!). I ran across this link I think it's super interesting and something at the time I didn't understand or even know about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MILe8kYcwAY |
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| Tom and Kelly |
Once my friends Marie and Cotton and I went riding on the canal bank and we were racing the horses back. My horse screeched to a halt at a place where a side walk path went across the bank and I did not stop! I went over head first! Cotton road like the wind to get Tom. When he got there he roped me and made me walk back to the stable behind he and his horse with that rope around me. I went to school after the weekend and Mrs Hunsaker said "Kelly I think your arm is broken". She called mom. We went to the Hospital and sure enough, I'd been 3 days with a broken arm and all my hurting WAS real after all!!! Even though "It was too far from my heart to kill me", "nor was it Bleeding!" as they all told me over and over again all weekend!!!
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| KellySue and Judyann when we still lived in the little green trailer |
Daddy
dreams;
Money
good race horse
new truck for my horse trailer
Fears;
I get the Blues
Lack of Money
Tom
dreams;
Being myself in the Mountains and having Fun
RODEO
Working on a ranch I own
Fears;
revenge
that I'll run
not acting like "I should"
Mother
dreams;
Having all my family going to and in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Going Back to School
Being thin enough to wear pants!
Fears;
no unity in my family and they don't go to church
neglecting my home
I don't study enough to improve myself
I wish I could SING!
Kelly Sue
dreams;
i want to be a fairy to make everyone happy give them what they want
i dream of being a teacher and hallering at the children!
I dream to be a mother
Fears
mom and dad mad at me
my toys are broken and gone
being left alone
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| Kathy and Tim |
October 16th 1967 7 lbs 13 oz. to the parents Kathy and Tim McCoy
"I am lonesome daddy comes home late. I wait up for everyone to come home Tom isn't even here yet. I watched Perry Mason while I waited. I played like I was having Family Home Eve only no one showed up. I was alone and I turned to the 2nd lesson and I read about knowing Heavenly Father and that he loves me, it helped make me not to be afraid."
and a different night ....
"I was afraid tonight in the dark house I prayed and Tom came home in 5 min. It helps to pray I am glad I read about that last night for my Family Home EVE. I love my mom, I miss her. Tomorrow I think I have to go sleep at the stable."
and then...
"always people at the stable, but I am still alone. I worked on my hook rug and cleaned the floors. Is that all I am good for to Daddy cleaning? I believe I picked my mom to come to live with, I wonder why she is always so busy? I love you Mom. I miss doing your hair tonight."
TV/Movies/Music
Playing baseball at recess I was pitching and got hit smack dab in the pelvic bone fell to the ground. It was hot. I cried. They called mom I am ok. I don't like to play baseball. I like to go to the movies, dance, I like 4 square, jacks and kick ball! I can't pay attention to read. Story problems are the worst, reading and Math eeeeewwwwggggghhhh!
I found this letter that Grandma wrote because she has a new great grandson thought I'd include it here...
To you my unknown great grandsons and daughters,
I bequeath my love of God and all the revealed principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I bequeath my love of your great grandfather and for our children Otis, Iris and Elda Tomney. I hope you will cherish the memory of Philip Michael Tomney your Great Grand Father. And I hope you will love truth as he did and cultivate the virtue of honesty that he did. I bequeath to you too the honor and respect for your step Great Grand Father Albert Robinson Lyman that I feel for him. He is truly a man of God, a patriarch, in the church of Jesus Christ and in age is now 87 and still eager to DO all he can for everyone to help them gain Eternal Life and I am grateful to him for all he has done for me. May God bless you with a testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel. With heartfelt for all my own
Gladys Perkins Tomney Lyman
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