Wow, I wonder if we have ever met? I graduated in 1953 and have lived in and near St. Louis, MO ever since! You've done exactly what my brother and I did when growing up near Bunker, MO on Upper BeeFork Creek! We liked caves, the woods, hunting and fishing and playing games that we made up for ourselves! We crossed the creek on a foot log, barefooted! Help garther and can veggies and worked in the fields and garden and milked cows before catching the school bus at 7:00 am....sure had to get up early to get everything done before the bus came to pick us up for school at Bunker Grade and High School! Lots of memories! My youngest daughter works at Cape Giraradeau cleaning rooms at the Victorian Inn and lives 10 miles farther south at Benton, MO! My oldest daughter is a hospice nurse and lives with her husband and youngest daughter and two grandsons at Ste, Genevieve! My son lives in Lemay...five miles from me...and works ever since he left home but did live in Ellington and Van Buren for awhile where my ex's family lived and some still do! Sure a small, small world isn't it?? My prayers are for God's blessing and healing touch for complete deliverance from cancer in Jesus' precious name! Amen!
Ma Betty