Dear Kinfolk,

And it all started about 100 years ago when our grandparents insisted that their four girls get teaching certificates and two sons obtain professional degrees.

So here is a little test for you,  see how many occupations you can match up with your cousins names:

__________ U.S. Director for Compassion for Migrant Children

_________   Camera operator for the motion picture and TV industry.

__________ Executive Officer for the Carinos Itallian Restaurants.

__________ Former District Attorney in Oklahoma

__________ Professor of Medicine, Nephrology at Oregon Health Science Univ.

__________ Training officer for the Center of the Support of Child Welfare Professionals.

__________ Award winning Lapidary and Gemologist.

__________ Former Deputy Director of the Texas Dept. of Mental Health and Mental Retardation.

__________ Assistant to Orthopedic Surgeon.

__________ Owner of automotive body shop.

__________ Senior Computer Design Engineer for Loren Cook Co.

__________ Line Operator for Kraft Foods Premier Co.

__________ Gravity and seismic prospecting for Molybdenum and Gold.

__________ Wrote free-lance articles for the Boston Globe and New York Times.

__________ Director for medical labs specializing in pathology.

__________ Vice President  for the National Speakers Bureau.

__________ Former pilot for the USAF Thunderbirds national aerial demonstration team.

__________ Radiologist and owner of Breast Imaging of Oklahoma.

__________ Graduate of Hotel and Restaurant Admin. and career in hospitality industry.

__________ Director of Budgets for Sonic Drive In Corporate Office

__________ Career as money management for Texas Charitable Organization

__________ Retired Major from the U.S. Army artillery

The final two cousins are in heaven with our grandparents.  Judy Anderson, daughter of Marjorie and Bud Anderson and William Scott Caffey, son of Bill and Jan Caffey.

WILLIAM SCOTT CAFFEY  was born in Mangum, Oklahoma.  A wonderful description of Scott was written  by his cousin Jolaine Caffey Smith.  “As youngsters we were wild and crazy, loved to play practical jokes and were always in trouble with my dad.  Once we had a water fight on our front porch and decided to put plaster of paris in the water balloons……….and it landed all over my dads truck.  We  had a lot of cleaning up to do.

We lost track of each other growing up, only to hear about what was going on in our lives by our folks.  We reconnected as adults when my husband was in the hospital in Tulsa having back surgery and Scott came to sit with me and we had a good visit.  Scott was just in the beginnings of fighting his oral mouth cancer.  He was upbeat and more worried about my husband than himself..  Never lost his sense of humor through his long fight.  I can say by the huge turning out at his funeral he was an outstanding man and loved by many!  My favorite name for him “Scottywottydodo” because I loved to irritate him as kids.  He was known as Ziggy by his close friends.  At his funeral they played “Spirit in the Sky” by Norman Greenbaum……he picked it out and it was beautiful. ”  Joey

JUDY ANDERSON  was born in Washington D.C. in July 1951 and died February 1977.  Her parents, Marjorie and Bud Anderson had the opportunity to live in several countries while Judy was growing up.  Bud was in the government service, Central Intelligence  Agency,  and the family had tours in Germany, Japan and Greece.

Judy was a pretty red-head with hair the same shade of red as Granddad Elmer J. Guernsey.  When Jane and I would go to visit Sis and Bud, we found Judy to be a bright, energetic niece who was out-going and fun to be around.

It was a sad time for the family when Judy died of a tragic homicide in Washington D.C. at the very young age of 26.

Till Saturday,

Jim Lee