Friday's Family Foto

Deborah over at http://picturespotspens.blogspot.com/ is hosting Favorite Family Foto. You get to see lots of family photos, hop on over and check them out.

This week I'd like to tell you a story about a young couple that met and married many years ago........

Many, many years ago in about 1934 a young man named

Otis Carl Barlow

met and fell in love with a beatiful young lady named

Sara Lorriane Pevey,
in Brookhaven, MS, He was a Crew Leader at the CCC Camp in Lorman, the world was in a depression much like the one we are headed for now. They were married and lived happly for several years, in a small house near the railroad track, first they had a beautiul Daughter

Shirley Ann born on Oct. 23, 1936,

Shirley was an Angel who needed special care, 5 yrs later another girl came along on Sept. 20 1941, Mary Dean named after both Grandmothers. War was looming with Pearl Harbor just months away. Things got tight so they moved to New Orleans trying to find a better life. In 1943 their last Daughter, Marjorie Carolyn was born...Me. Marjorie & Dean

Sadly the big city went to a little Country Boy's head and the night life and the fun took him away from the family he had promised to love forever, 6 yrs later. I do believe in his heart he still loved us, he really tried to get Mom to come back, but he didn't want to change. I just feel sorry for him

because he missed out on this great family and secondly because he died on a Street in New Orleans walking back to his apartment where he lived alone, after picking up his check at the Service Station where he worked. He died from heart failure at age 61, brought on by the Asian Flu, in 1975. And this is just my Family Dean had 3 children and 4 Grands, plus 1 GGD. So sad what some people will throw away for their idea of fun and "the good, free life". Hope you enjoyed meeting my Daddy and Momma and my sweet sisters.