From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Oct 2 13:13:10 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k92JDAYn015021; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:13:10 -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 k92JD6dn006991 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:13:06 -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 k92GUaFI010196 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:30:36 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k92GUaHA010195 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:30:36 -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 k91NJ0FI007696 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 19:19:00 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k9221F8Z031759 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 20:01:15 -0600 X-Envelope-From: paul_odlesr@yahoo.com Sun Oct 1 20:01:15 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k9221FYn031748 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 20:01:15 -0600 Received: from web60924.mail.yahoo.com (web60924.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.252]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k9220bWp021654 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 20:01:14 -0600 Received: (qmail 57808 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Oct 2006 02:00:34 -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=rxLE+dK6EjXgjBUm3bWSo9Uidzcsu/7RYm9fjZTBgiueMIBFU6LEY9lLELOqljxTWluhKFf/Hq8nLR5hXC5uABHUbXbFBFTi6ihRC7WAiZa55WbiLBIXltH1KerWsjlkA9HXmqIVyZKzZ3x30fm2512hJom4tB2IVo8HQYfiXcI= ; Message-ID: <20061002020034.57806.qmail@web60924.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.141.90.216] by web60924.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:00:34 PDT Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 19:00:34 -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 k9221F8Z031759 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by roots-l.rootsweb.com id k91NJ0FI007696 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] I Remember Cemetary Road I Remember Cemetery Road It was some time in the late 1940¡¯s that this story took shape. There may not be to many living folks that live around the Mill now that can remember Cemetery Road in its glory days. But I remember Cemetery Road! I remember it well! Cemetery Road was also known as 11th Street. Cemetery Road was a narrow almost two lane dirt road with deep bar ditches and dense forests on both sides of the road. You might see a car come down that road about once every forty-five minuets. At night it could be a very dark scary dirt road leading to the Cemetery. This narrow, dark scary road is now a paved four lane GARTH BROOKS BOULEVARD. As I recall it was on Nov. 11, 1949 my best pal Earl Edward Novak¡¯s birthday. There were not any organized things to do in those days in Yukon America. You had to use your imagination. And my best pal Earl Ed Novak and I had very good imaginations. Earls was even wilder than mine. We decide to get some other boys like Gary Johnson with the blood-curdling scream. I think maybe Harold Brady was in on this great adventure. It was so long ago that I honestly do not know whom all Earl Ed drug into this adventure. Our Toys for the evening was one of Aunt Frances Novak¡¯s (Earl¡¯s Mother) best clean white sheets and the straw broom that she used in cleaning her house. We hid in the trees until we saw a car coming down that long dark Erie dirt road, we would drape the broom with Aunt Frances clean white sheet and just as a car got even with us we would throw the broom in front of it and Gary Johnson would cut loose with his blood curdling scream. The car would slam on its brakes and we would run like the wind deep in the woods. The Driver would get out of his car and look all around his car then get back in his car and drive off. We would run out into the road and get Aunt Frances¡¯s now dirty sheet and her broom and patiently wait for the next car. Boys could spend a whole evening entertaining their selves on Cemetery Road! Back in the 1930¡¯s, 1940¡¯s and 1950¡¯s it use to snow in the tiny Mill town of Yukon, Oklahoma from September until past Easter Sunday. The snow would drift as high as an elephant¡¯s ear, at least as high as the windowsills. School was never canceled! Kids walked to school. Most of our parents did not have a car. You put your best foot forward and jumped snow drifts all of the way to school. We only had two schools Grade School (first eight grades) and High School (9th to 12th grades). Grade School was between 6th street and 7th St. and between Maple and Oak Street. High School was on 9th Street and Oak Street. Usually someone in town had a home fashioned sleigh pulled behind a car or horse that let every one ride on it as they pulled us around town. It was a lot of fun growing up ¡¯round the mill town of Yukon, Oklahoma. Some times when the car pulling the sleigh turned a corner real fast you would roll off the sled and into the curb. My old pal Earl Ed Novak and I did many fun things together. We use to love it when the football field would freeze over. We would get out our old ice skates and go Ice Skating together. I miss all those good times we had together both as children and as adults. Earl Novak and I were sworn in blood brothers for life. When we were 9 years old we took our pocketknife and cut our thumbs. We but our thumbs together and made a pack to be blood brothers for a lifetime. We use to love to play back yard football. As children Earl Ed and I always did everything together. If one of us could not go for some reason the other one would not go with out the other. Blood brothers to the end. As adults we even had heart attacks together. I had a heart attack in Lawton, Oklahoma at the Veterans Center and was rushed to the Hospital where I under went five bi-pass surgeries. The same day and time of day I had my heart attack in Lawton, Oklahoma, Earl Ed had a heart attack in Spearmen, Texas. My old pal Earl Ed Novak went to Glory with out me. There will never be another Earl Ed Novak God threw that pattern away! I miss my old Buddy!. I always will until I go to Glory and we meet once again around that big pond in the ski! The adventures of Paul and Earl can now be found in two new books I published titled ¡°MEMORIES¡¯ROUND THE MILL,¡± and ¡°Memories Around Home.¡± Coming soon to the Mabel C. Fry Library in Yukon, Oklahoma. By Paul L.Odle, Sr. Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center P.O. Box 849 Lawton, Oklahoma 73502 1-580-354-3287 Paul_OdleSr@yahoo.com --------------------------------- Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out.