Grandpa Scott reading stories

Scott Vanatter reading stories to grandsons Ryan and Sean. Taken by their aunt Sydney Vanatter. How cute is that?

Visiting with Gloria and Sharon Erickson

We went and had dinner with Gloria and Sharon at Los Gueros Mexican resturaunt in Monrovia. Mom and I had gone to Sears Pasadena and then out to the west side Pasadena to look at the apartment on Washington and Summit where Mom, Dad and Scott lived just before I was born. She remembers Sonny and Dad had gone to get tacos and would come back to the apartment and eat chili's over the sink until their ears turned red. Scott would run around while Mom went out to hang clothes on the line between the apartments. Grandma Mary and Aunt Lottie came over and were talking about how Dad could carpool, which he did do. She remembers the place fondly. I can imagine it now. There is a photo of Mom with a maternity dress on out in front of this place. There are also pictures of Scott sitting on the front step with Dad. Fun day. Then after dinner we went back to my house and searched for Arch Grafton Brown for Gloria. That was her Dad. We found some census records and draft registration for WWI. also some of her grandfather from Arkansas. We had enchiladas, of course. Ha !! It was way too hot to cook any. Roy stayed home and Mike has a tooth ache. We saw Kimmy and Gwen and such Friday when Mom first got there.

With Diane and Paige July 6th, 2008

We drove out to see Diane and Paige in Rancho Cucamonga on Sunday where we always meet because it is half way between our houses. We got the Spaghetti Factory restuaunt shift supervisor to take this of us. When you've known each other since 1967 you start to look alike, kind of cheery. Mom said Paige looks alot like Diane when she was that age. We shopped at Dress Barn and went to Starbuck's. Good Times.

We also went to visit the Wilson's we didn't have the camera with us. They are doing okay. Good friends. They don't drive anymore. Their house is just the same. They had their 60th wedding anniversary in 2007. They had a party. They have a whole bunch of grand children.

Landcaster with Boyd's

Mom and Dad in Duarte

Richard and Caroline Beth decendents 1997

Caroline Foster Beth , Elizabeth Beth and Pearlie

Three generations. Caroline Foster was both in Birmingham, England in 1822. Her father Nathaniel Foster's family produced bricks and moved along as projects were finished. They imagrated to Philedelphia, PA by 1837 where she married Richard Beth when she was about 16. He was born in Scotland. He joined the US Army in 1822. She moved with him to Kansas by 1855 after he recieved Pension land near Stotsbury, Missouri for wounds recieved during the Mexican-American war (a bite on the hand") being discharged in Taos / Dona Anna Mexico, near current Sante Fe NM in 1850. They moved accross the border into the Fort Scott Kansas area during the "Bleediing Kansas" era where Slavery divided the country into Free State and Slave State supporters. They had several children. Her last child was born in 1862. Elizabeth Beth (pictuted on the left) married Charles Wiliam Lifer. Her father had died in 1862 and her brother William was a father figure to her. He as about 20 years older. He had been born in Fort Leavenworth when Richard was in the US Army serving in the Dragoons. Others wer born at Fort Gibson, Okalhoma when it was still Indian Territory. Pearlie Mae (right) was born in 1887 in Kansas to William Lifer and Elizabeth Beth. Her sister Carrie died when she was four years old. Pealie Mae is the mother of Charles Edward Lifer who was my mothers father. This portrait was taken in Fort Scott, KS in 1895 in a studio on Main and Wall streets. It was found in some furniture that was sold to a dealer who called my Uncle Charles Laverne Lifer and asked are you related to Elizabeth Lifer. The photo was indentified on the back. Caroline Foster Beth Clarke, Elizabeth Lifer and Pearlie Mae Lifer. I copied the original and returned it to my Uncle where it was distroyed in a house fire in Bronson Kansas in the 1990's. I love it when people write on the back of a photograph. Thanks for reading this I know it's long and it is just the tip of the iceberg. in 1997 there was a reunion of their decendents in Fort Scott.