From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Apr 23 15:53:30 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3NLrUjb005000; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:53:30 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3NLrTc5012201 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:53:29 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k3NJKZFI012249 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:20:35 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k3NJKZu9012248 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:20:35 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k3NFY8FI011804 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:34:08 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k3NI6q0O005825 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:06:52 -0600 X-Envelope-From: paul_odlesr@yahoo.com Sun Apr 23 12:06:51 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3NI6pjb005814 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:06:51 -0600 Received: from web60915.mail.yahoo.com (web60915.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.179.4]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k3NI6lrx008268 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:06:48 -0600 Received: (qmail 17849 invoked by uid 60001); 23 Apr 2006 18:06:37 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=lp7OKs93005XVlX4/Iu7Ew76Zpf7ycdLnDSbjOc+Lmjkfc4WCf3w0QP55Bq3w5HHd8tWXbsuDgMKfky5L1Kpgqx2Db2vl6Ki9grCVB7QhV4cf1YN97RhZZ37OFcbo0VPqQmh+oMGJbBFRoXRFsHswo/0WbyJMQZ8r7JeP8gznW8= ; Message-ID: <20060423180637.17847.qmail@web60915.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.141.90.216] by web60915.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:06:37 PDT Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:06:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Odle To: Roots Webb MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by lists5.rootsweb.com id k3NI6q0O005825 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by roots-l.rootsweb.com id k3NFY8FI011804 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] LARRY JOE "BIG JOE" ODLE/18 June 1941- 23 April 2001 I Remember Joe I remember my baby brother ¡°JOE¡±. I t was in the year 1941 on the 23 rd day of April that my baby brother LARRY JOE ODLE was born in the front bedroom of my Grand parents O. K. HOLLIDAY Home. The place of birth was located on the corner of Oak Street and 7th Street in a big old two story wood frame house. I was seven years old and in VERNA (COYLE) COMPTON second grade class. My brother BUDDY and I stayed with my Grandmother ADDE ELIZA TICE/ODLE and my Uncle ART ODLE the week of Joe¡¯s birth. My earliest memories of my brother JOE were when we were living on the ¡°GEORGE BASS RANCH¡± at Rosedale, New Mexico near Clovis, New Mexico. There was no electricity in the Country at the ¡°BASS RANCH,¡± my mother HAZEL HOLLADAY/ODLE use to tie me in a rocking chair holding holding both of my baby brothers JIMMIE LEE ODLE and LARRY JOE ODLE while she washed clothes in her Maytag Ringer wash machine with a three horse powered gasoline motor. Mom had to crank that gas motor with her foot and the motor would run a little while and die and she would crank it up again. I guess I remember my brother Joe best when he was two years old and we lived in Aliso Villiage just over the First Street Bridge in Los Angelas, California. Joe had the prettiest blue eyes and he was the cutest little boy. Jim was three years old they were both cute little boys. Our parents Jake and Hazel Odle both worked at Lockheed Aircraft building P-38 Fighter Air Planes for our World War 11 Fighter pilots. Mom worked 8 a.m. til 4 p.m; Dad worked 4 p.m. til midnight. There was two hours every afternoon that I was suppose to look after Bud, Jim & Joe. I was 10 years old. Some times I would talk my 8-year-old brother Bud into baby sitting, while I went Mountain Climbing with my two buddies LARRY SMITH and JOHNNY MORRIS. One day when my Buddies and I returned from our great adventures in the near by mountains I could not find LARRY JOE, my brother Bud did not know where he was and I got all of the neighbors to look for him and we could not find him! Talk about being stressed! I was stress, my mom was due home any minute and I have lost her baby. And I am the oldest; I am expected to be trust worthy. My Mom got home she called the police. We searched everywhere any one could think of, there was no JOE to be found. That baby just vanished into thin air. I thought maybe the California smog ate him for lunch! We were scared to death that he was gone forever! Where could baby Joe be? Someone suggested we search our two-story house again! This time some one found Larry Joe asleap under his baby bed. We had searched for over two hours! My brother Joe moved with our family back to Yukon, Ok. In July of 1944 not to long before World War 11 ended. Larry Joe Odle grew up in Yukon, Oklahoma. Joe looked and acted like our father Jake Odle. Joe was always quiet like the Odle Family. He had the neatest smile. After we were all grown and married, and married some more Jim and I would come to Yukon with our wives and children and we would try to talk Joe and his wife Ruth in to going dancing with us at Czech Hall. Joe would never go with us he would give you that big smile and say, ¡°I DON¡±T GO ANYWHERE AFTER DARK.¡± And he never did! I said; ¡°Well you can¡¯t get into any trouble if you don¡¯t go anywhere after dark!¡± Joe enjoyed his home, his family and his dogs and his foot ball games on TV. After his son ¡°LITTLE JOE¡± was born my brother was forever known as ¡°BIG JOE!¡± Today April 23, 2006 my little brother ¡°BIG JOE¡± has been dead for five years. I still miss ¡°BIG JOE¡± and I guess I always well. I look forward to seeing him again some day soon. Yes I have many memories of my brother Joe growing up ¡®round the mill. I guess one could say ¡°YUKON THE HOME OF JOE ODLE!¡± Joe was born in Yukon, he grew up in Yukon and he was baptized in Yukon. He was a S/Sgt. In the U.S.Army and he served his country well. Today I salute my little brother Joe Odle. By Paul L.Odle, Sr. Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center P.O. Box 849 Lawton, Oklahoma 73502 1-580-354-3287 1-580-512-4767 Paul_OdleSr@yahoo.com