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Life in the Beginning: In your Neighborhood: School Days: Off to work: Romance and Marriage: Leisure and Travel: Places of Worship: War and Peace: Change, Triumph, and Disappointment: Words of Wisdom: Families favorite jokes/ traditions/food: What were you most grateful for: What are your best qualities: Working hard, when you give your word you keep it. What good qualities do you see in your children that you want passed on to future generations? June-very smart, teaching her children to be the way they want to be. Mary – supports Jack in sports. Both teach children to live healthy and work hard. Horse. Leo Nughbauer. Bought two trailors off Grandpa and did not pay. He was Okla City. Said he would pay in horses. Lois and Grandpa went down in car. Whole big field, no manure. Guy went to pull his sweater up. Grandpa was watching the shadows and said “Drop your guns where you are at right now or you die.” Bob Castell saw this guy in jail. Racketeers wanted to unload meat or other stuff from trucks. They charge very high prices- $70 to unload truck. Grandpa was always unloading his own stuff. One time grandpa was unloading meat in Pittsburgh, guy said you are going to get a molitove cocktail. Grandpa said that was all right, the one who throws it dies. Grandpa drove two days and two nights to get east. He could out work guys who had had sleep. Played croquet on the farm. Reuban and John put the green building up piece by piece. Reuban probably slept at the hotel.
 * What were your parents and grandparents full names, dates of birth, places of birth.
 * Wha t were the occupations of your parents?
 * How many children were in your family? Where were you in the lineup?
 * What was your childhood like?
 * What one or two stories do you remember most clearly about your childhood?
 * Are there any particularly happy, funny, sad, or instructive lessons you learned while growing up?
 * What was your house like, that you grew up in? 8 rooms, two bathrooms, big yard. Played in the attic. Played ball with Shag in the yard.
 * Who cooked and cleaned? What meals did your family eat together? Not really, mother got supper when he got home. Ate breakfast on his own. Rice pudding. A little Wheaties.
 * Who came to visit? Lawle, Emma Bell-another army nurse.
 * What was it like in the neighborhood where you lived? Nice and peaceful.
 * Describe your most important friendships? Did not really have til he joined the air corp with his friend.
 * Where and how did “news of your neighborhood” usually flow? Paperboy. Did not hear any gossip. Mostly talked about getting food to eat.
 * What were the names of your grammar, high, college, trade or technical schools? Include dates you attended.
 * What are your earliest memories of school?
 * Are there any teachers or subjects you particularly liked or disliked? Hated French in the Military Academy. Teacher passed him because he thought he would whip him. Algebra really hard on him.
 * What did you like about school? Liked the shop classes, to tinker and make things work.
 * What did you learn in those first years of school that you would like to pass along to the next generation?
 * What were you involved in? Sports, Music, Drama, or other extra-curricular activities? Worked all the time. In Military Academy liked drilling and stuff.
 * Liked shooting on the rifle team. Uncle Dave and Dad went shooting on the farm. He was machine gunner. Dad gave him shotgun to shoot with and he used 45. Dave shot three times and missed. Grandpa got rabbit with one shot. Uncle Dave was sad.
 * Grandpa hit bumble bees when he was building fence in the back of the farm.
 * What did you want to be when you grew up?
 * What was your first job, and how did you get it?
 * What was your first boss like? What did you learn from him or her?
 * Did you leave? Quit? Get promoted? Get fired?
 * Were you ever out of work for a long time? If so how did you handle it?
 * What were some of your most exciting days at work like?
 * What did you like about your job?
 * What did you dislike about your job?
 * How did you force yourself to do what you did not like to do?
 * How did it feel when you started your own company?
 * Were there ever days when you did not want to get out of bed and go to work?
 * How old were you when you started to date? 18
 * What do you recall about your first date? Prom. Went to Military Academy-roommate brought his sister for Dads date. He did not dance and neither did she. Where did you go on dates? Movie with Jackie.
 * How did you know when you were really in love? You do not want to be away from them. He took Joyce home and she lived with his mother. Grandma had a big house.
 * How did you “pop the questions”? or how was it popped to you? Grandchildren need to have a job and like the person they are with more than anyone else.
 * What was your wedding ceremony like? Went downtown to get married. It cost two dollars. When was it? Where? How many attended? Did you get a honeymoon? In the truck.
 * Tell us about starting your family, your children, etc. Never decided how many children to have, they just came a long.
 * What did you do for fun when you were not working?
 * What did you like doing with your children? Liked to play in front year with Susie and Ginny til neighbor came speeding in year.
 * What were your favorite, most memorable family vacations? Trip or two with father but it was never a vacation. With kids it was a truck trip. Grandpa enjoyed traveling and kids were along in the sleeper.
 * Babysitting the kids: Not a problem-you exist with whatever happens.
 * Do you follow any religious traditions? Methodist. Go across the street and go to church. Grandpa used to climb the back steps and then get on the roof. Grandma H saw him up there a lot but could not go up there and catch him. Janitor saw him up there and hollered but never went up to get him.
 * Have you ever changed faiths? With Lois went to Lutheran church. Liked Pastor Jacobson.
 * What role do your beliefs play in your life today? Don’t smoke, don’t fool with dope, work hard, Don’t drink. Keep your word, do what you say you will do.
 * What would you like to tell your family about your faith? I believe God and Jesus are there and pray to him a lot even when he was alone driving. Prayed for his family, get by the next scale. Lois believed very strongly in Jesus Christ.
 * Were you a volunteer, or were you drafted? Volunteered right away but they had a waiting list. V 5 program.
 * What did you do in the Navy Air Corps? Went up in a couple of planes but they would not train him when he was getting the headaches. All the guys he went through training with, got squished. They had hundreds of wrecks in the beginning. Planes were not that good in those days.
 * What were the best times you had in the service? Most memorable? Most disappointing?
 * What would you tell your family about them serving in the armed forces today? I am scared it is going to be a mess. The way the country is run is not good. Afghanistan is going to be the one.
 * Cards: 7 card stud. The guy in the next bed said those guys are robbing you. He taught Grandpa New deck, pretend to shuffle, second and fourth card to yourself comes off the bottom. Straight flush.
 * What were the most joyous fulfilling times of your life? (1964) When Lois and him hauled the first 62 feet boat to California. The buyers took him out to dinner and they came back after inspecting the boat and paid him with a check.
 * Any challenging or disappointing times you’d care to share? Only thought to get to hospital before you passed out. And I did not get there. 1993. He was getting ready for the auction at the yard and cleaning the yard. They had a huge hive and he thought it was paper and picked it up and it broke in half. Steve was brushing the bees off John and they came back by the hundreds. Steve brushing them off, saved me. Grandpa told Steve not to come with him to the hospital but he only got half way there driving himself. Grandpa, put flashers, waved hand, told someone to call ambulance. Steve came to hospital and Grandpa told him to go get the car. Another medical challenge-when he had to get the pacemaker. He thought he had had a stroke but once it was in there he felt better. Another was stroke: might have been 92, saw white car in drive way and asked Lois who’s it was. Lois said we were going to the hospital and they went. All hospitals were Alexian in these stories.
 * What lifelong lessons did you learn from these tough times? Joyous times?
 * Were there any moments you recall as true breakthroughs in any area of your life? Hauling boats, when the navy started calling him all the time. Whichever coast they were stuck on they called him. Biggest Navy boat: LCM8 landing 74 long 20 ft one inch wide. Average stuff for Navy 15 4 wide.
 * If you could do one thing differently in your life, what would that be? Nothing. Did what came on to move forward, make out and get by. Guys were waiting in life. Remember get the money first.
 * What major changes occurred in your family? What impact did these changes have on the family? Lois was more than a wife she was a partner. She found the yard, and thought of the idea to do the Recreational Storage business. Store campers and boats. She used to have her office in an old trailer.
 * How did individual family members react to these changes? Lewis Blider got along real well with grandpa. Danny and Bob, Lois’s brothers are very nice people.
 * What are the positive patterns in your family? That they do what they are supposed to do and keep their word.
 * What patterns would you like to change? Smoking, dipping, not exercising, picking better husbands and wives. I hate to see people break up.
 * What have you learned over your lifetime that you’d like to share with the younger generation?
 * What were your family’s favorite jokes or pranks? Who is, or was, the family comedian?
 * What is the funniest family story you remember?
 * What are some of your favorite family traditions?
 * What are your favorite foods someone in your family cooked for you?
 * How did you demonstrate these qualities?