Married 2 Sept 1928 Roswell, ID Harold R. Walsmley, m 2nd brother-in-law Wilfred Walmsley 17 Apr 1987.
I was born June 4, 1903 in Butler, Missouri. My dad was a farmer. After three years of crop failures due to flooding from too much rain, my mother felt that we should move to Idaho where her brother operated a livery stable in the little town of Parma.
My dad worked in that livery stable for three years, 1906 through 1909. Then he rented a ten-acre peach orchard in Roswell for one year. That fall we moved into a little homestead house on 120 acres of sagebrush one mile south of Roswell, where my two brothers, two sisters and I attended grade school and high school.
I receeved my high school diploma in 1921. Then I studied for one year at Albion Normal School where I earned a Three-Year Teaching Certificate. For the next three years I taught the intermediate grades at Ten Davis School. Then I went back to Albion Normal for one more year, graduating in 1926 with a Life Diploma in Teaching.
By that time, I had become interested in a young man who had grown up in Parma, Harold R. Walsmley. He was interested in becoming a Chiropractic Doctor, and had been taking college courses in Los Angeles, California. Nevertheless, I taught in the Boise City Schools for two years and then on Septembeer 2, 1928 Harold and I were married at my home in Roswell. I was suddenly Mrs. Walmsley instead of Miss John.
We traveled in our Model T Ford on graveled roads to Denver, Colorado where Harold took two more years of training at Carver Chiropractic College. After he graduated in 1930 we retuned to Idaho, settling in Nampa, and opening his office on August 4th. After thirty-three years of successful practice at the office and in peoples' homes, he retired. Two years later he died in December of 1965.
Through all those years Nampa was good to us and our family. We have two wonderful children: Fred John Walmsley of Hagerman, Idaho and Janet Cruikshank of Bend Oregon. We have five grandchildren and eight great grand children. I am proud of every one.
When our two children (Fred and Janet) were ages of eight and four, my father-in-law, whose wife had died, married my mother who had been a widow for ten years.
In 1983 I moved into a room at Sunny Ridge. Then on April 17, 1987 I married my brother-in-law, who also was my stepbrother, Wilfred Walmsley. His grand children did not know if they should call me "Grandma", or if "Aunt Lela" would still be acceptable. All the Relatives had to stop and think of who is who to whom? Wilfred died May 28, 1988. His family is still my family.
By Margret Koolhof as told to her by Lela Walmsley.
I was born June 4, 1903 in Butler, Missouri. My dad was a farmer. After three years of crop failures due to flooding from too much rain, my mother felt that we should move to Idaho where her brother operated a livery stable in the little town of Parma.
My dad worked in that livery stable for three years, 1906 through 1909. Then he rented a ten-acre peach orchard in Roswell for one year. That fall we moved into a little homestead house on 120 acres of sagebrush one mile south of Roswell, where my two brothers, two sisters and I attended grade school and high school.
I receeved my high school diploma in 1921. Then I studied for one year at Albion Normal School where I earned a Three-Year Teaching Certificate. For the next three years I taught the intermediate grades at Ten Davis School. Then I went back to Albion Normal for one more year, graduating in 1926 with a Life Diploma in Teaching.
By that time, I had become interested in a young man who had grown up in Parma, Harold R. Walsmley. He was interested in becoming a Chiropractic Doctor, and had been taking college courses in Los Angeles, California. Nevertheless, I taught in the Boise City Schools for two years and then on Septembeer 2, 1928 Harold and I were married at my home in Roswell. I was suddenly Mrs. Walmsley instead of Miss John.
We traveled in our Model T Ford on graveled roads to Denver, Colorado where Harold took two more years of training at Carver Chiropractic College. After he graduated in 1930 we retuned to Idaho, settling in Nampa, and opening his office on August 4th. After thirty-three years of successful practice at the office and in peoples' homes, he retired. Two years later he died in December of 1965.
Through all those years Nampa was good to us and our family. We have two wonderful children: Fred John Walmsley of Hagerman, Idaho and Janet Cruikshank of Bend Oregon. We have five grandchildren and eight great grand children. I am proud of every one.
When our two children (Fred and Janet) were ages of eight and four, my father-in-law, whose wife had died, married my mother who had been a widow for ten years.
In 1983 I moved into a room at Sunny Ridge. Then on April 17, 1987 I married my brother-in-law, who also was my stepbrother, Wilfred Walmsley. His grand children did not know if they should call me "Grandma", or if "Aunt Lela" would still be acceptable. All the Relatives had to stop and think of who is who to whom? Wilfred died May 28, 1988. His family is still my family.
By Margret Koolhof as told to her by Lela Walmsley.
Married 2 Sept 1928 Roswell, ID Harold R. Walsmley, m 2nd brother-in-law Wilfred Walmsley 17 Apr 1987.
I was born June 4, 1903 in Butler, Missouri. My dad was a farmer. After three years of crop failures due to flooding from too much rain, my mother felt that we should move to Idaho where her brother operated a livery stable in the little town of Parma.
My dad worked in that livery stable for three years, 1906 through 1909. Then he rented a ten-acre peach orchard in Roswell for one year. That fall we moved into a little homestead house on 120 acres of sagebrush one mile south of Roswell, where my two brothers, two sisters and I attended grade school and high school.
I receeved my high school diploma in 1921. Then I studied for one year at Albion Normal School where I earned a Three-Year Teaching Certificate. For the next three years I taught the intermediate grades at Ten Davis School. Then I went back to Albion Normal for one more year, graduating in 1926 with a Life Diploma in Teaching.
By that time, I had become interested in a young man who had grown up in Parma, Harold R. Walsmley. He was interested in becoming a Chiropractic Doctor, and had been taking college courses in Los Angeles, California. Nevertheless, I taught in the Boise City Schools for two years and then on Septembeer 2, 1928 Harold and I were married at my home in Roswell. I was suddenly Mrs. Walmsley instead of Miss John.
We traveled in our Model T Ford on graveled roads to Denver, Colorado where Harold took two more years of training at Carver Chiropractic College. After he graduated in 1930 we retuned to Idaho, settling in Nampa, and opening his office on August 4th. After thirty-three years of successful practice at the office and in peoples' homes, he retired. Two years later he died in December of 1965.
Through all those years Nampa was good to us and our family. We have two wonderful children: Fred John Walmsley of Hagerman, Idaho and Janet Cruikshank of Bend Oregon. We have five grandchildren and eight great grand children. I am proud of every one.
When our two children (Fred and Janet) were ages of eight and four, my father-in-law, whose wife had died, married my mother who had been a widow for ten years.
In 1983 I moved into a room at Sunny Ridge. Then on April 17, 1987 I married my brother-in-law, who also was my stepbrother, Wilfred Walmsley. His grand children did not know if they should call me "Grandma", or if "Aunt Lela" would still be acceptable. All the Relatives had to stop and think of who is who to whom? Wilfred died May 28, 1988. His family is still my family.
By Margret Koolhof as told to her by Lela Walmsley.
I was born June 4, 1903 in Butler, Missouri. My dad was a farmer. After three years of crop failures due to flooding from too much rain, my mother felt that we should move to Idaho where her brother operated a livery stable in the little town of Parma.
My dad worked in that livery stable for three years, 1906 through 1909. Then he rented a ten-acre peach orchard in Roswell for one year. That fall we moved into a little homestead house on 120 acres of sagebrush one mile south of Roswell, where my two brothers, two sisters and I attended grade school and high school.
I receeved my high school diploma in 1921. Then I studied for one year at Albion Normal School where I earned a Three-Year Teaching Certificate. For the next three years I taught the intermediate grades at Ten Davis School. Then I went back to Albion Normal for one more year, graduating in 1926 with a Life Diploma in Teaching.
By that time, I had become interested in a young man who had grown up in Parma, Harold R. Walsmley. He was interested in becoming a Chiropractic Doctor, and had been taking college courses in Los Angeles, California. Nevertheless, I taught in the Boise City Schools for two years and then on Septembeer 2, 1928 Harold and I were married at my home in Roswell. I was suddenly Mrs. Walmsley instead of Miss John.
We traveled in our Model T Ford on graveled roads to Denver, Colorado where Harold took two more years of training at Carver Chiropractic College. After he graduated in 1930 we retuned to Idaho, settling in Nampa, and opening his office on August 4th. After thirty-three years of successful practice at the office and in peoples' homes, he retired. Two years later he died in December of 1965.
Through all those years Nampa was good to us and our family. We have two wonderful children: Fred John Walmsley of Hagerman, Idaho and Janet Cruikshank of Bend Oregon. We have five grandchildren and eight great grand children. I am proud of every one.
When our two children (Fred and Janet) were ages of eight and four, my father-in-law, whose wife had died, married my mother who had been a widow for ten years.
In 1983 I moved into a room at Sunny Ridge. Then on April 17, 1987 I married my brother-in-law, who also was my stepbrother, Wilfred Walmsley. His grand children did not know if they should call me "Grandma", or if "Aunt Lela" would still be acceptable. All the Relatives had to stop and think of who is who to whom? Wilfred died May 28, 1988. His family is still my family.
By Margret Koolhof as told to her by Lela Walmsley.
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