From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Mar 26 10:59:05 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 k2QHx5jb018558; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 10:59:05 -0700 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 k2QHx4hK025320 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 10:59:04 -0700 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 k2QFRoFI008944 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 10:27:50 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k2QFRoBb008943 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 10:27:50 -0500 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 k2QE94FI008769 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:09:04 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k2QGe6CK028999 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:40:06 -0700 X-Envelope-From: paul_odlesr@yahoo.com Sun Mar 26 09:40:06 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 k2QGe6jb028988 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:40:06 -0700 Received: from web60917.mail.yahoo.com (web60917.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.245]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k2QGdxAi018101 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:40:02 -0700 Received: (qmail 13154 invoked by uid 60001); 26 Mar 2006 16:39:56 -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=fQWKniT7Xm2OXabiF3RA0eJbSoy5YQpoNwp69GdYGEwz0cJXj+6l3yf9gcJPRzq/TMlckMdpI9QmCO7NTw44DjGW50RuNSuAoOMr3hF4tbkVC1lNpPhEm0n+rK8qpoeF78QRhFRJ9amDyIvAVgT9YGzxjIfplN/aAzIH9jTjcMw= ; Message-ID: <20060326163956.13152.qmail@web60917.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.141.90.216] by web60917.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:39:56 PST Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:39:56 -0800 (PST) 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 k2QGe6CK028999 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by roots-l.rootsweb.com id k2QE94FI008769 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] EASTER SUNDY 1939 Easter Sunday 1939 When I think about Easter Sunday in 1939 I think about MABLE FRY, H.B. FRANK, CHARLIE and JO WAGNER, and MRS. JOSE RUSSELL and THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH of Yukon, Oklahoma. I have many fond MEMORIES ¡®ROUND THE MILL town of Yukon and THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH and my GRANDMOTHER MRS. O.K. HOLLIDAY. Miss. Mable Fry and Mrs. Jose Russell were the most loving Sunday School teacher a child could ever dream of knowing. I was 6 years old in 1939 and oh how I loved all of the people I mentioned in this story. Miss. Mable Fry would always bring some of her good sugar cookies for the little children in her Sunday School Class. Miss. Fry, Mrs. Russell and my Grandmother Holliday taught me to know and love JESUS our LORD and SAVIOR. Miss. Fry was the City Librarian at the Yukon, Library located on the south side of Elm Street between 5th Street and 6th Street just across the street of the First Baptist Church Parking lot. Miss. Fry was an old maid teacher She told me one time that she was engaged to be married during World War One and that her fianc¨¦e was killed in the war. The year 1939 our nation and our town were still trying to recover from THE GREAT DEPRESSION. Most everyone was dirt poor, if you had a $100 dollars you were thought to be rich. Most adults had very little money in their pockets. One of the ways the First Christian Church of Yukon, Oklahoma made EASTER exciting for children was the BIG EASTER EGG HUNT behind the church. In 1939 the Christian Church was a small wooden church located on the corner of 6th St. and Maple St. at 601 Maple. The Adults would cook, color and hide real hard-boiled eggs for real Yukon children to find. There were always one or two special chocolate Easter bunnies hid behind the church in the grass or in a tree. The kid finding the most eggs won the prize of a big Chocolate candy egg. Oh how I wanted to win the prize egg or find a chocolate bunny. But at last that was not to be. I think I was too clumsy and blind to win. Poor kids seldom had money to purchase nickel candy bars let alone a dollar for a chocolate Bunny. Usually the winning child was some one whose parents could afford to spend $1 to buy them a chocolate bunny. Times have changed people now have money. Most children have more money today in their pockets than the! ir Grandparents. But wouldn¡¯t in be fun to go back in time for just one more Easter Egg Hunt at the First Christian Church in Yukon and be able to bring Miss Mable Fry, Mrs. Jose Russell, Charlie and Jo Wagner, H.B. and Mrs. Franks, my Grandmother Holliday back to earth! I would like to see Mr. & Mrs. Ball again. I bet James Wagner, Jackie Cooper, Toots Fanning, Betty Smith, H.B. Frank Jr., Joan Frank, Ruby, Marjorie and Denna Lee Holliday, Dick, Marjorie, and Ruth Ball would all be at the Easter Egg Hunt. This Year I am 72 years old and I am so thankful the Good Lord sent his only son to die on the cross for our sins. I am thankful that he is a risen Christ and he chose Yukon, Oklahoma as the place I was born and raised. By Paul L.Odle, Sr. Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center P.O. Box 849 Lawton, Oklahoma 73502 1-580-354-3287 or 1-580-512-4767 Paul_OdleSr@yahoo.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates.