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- Faye Havens, at the time of Social Security cards were issued in 1936, she worked at a tomatoe cnning factory in Anneheim, California.
One story I can remember Granny telling is, when she was very young girl, she and her sister Ruby were great rivals. One time she threw a fork at Ruby, the fork missed Ruby, instead it hit and stuck behind her brother, Elmer's ear. Upon hearing the yells and screams of the injured Elmer, their mother Cassie "Olie" came to his rescue. When she realized how the accident had happened,( my grandmother Alma "Faye" had also realized she was in great trouble). Upon this realization, she conveniently "FAINTED" on the front porch of their Arkansa home. But much to her surprise her mother jerked her up from her fainting "SPELL" and gave her a lashing anyway.
Another Story she always told , a boyfriend was coming to call' on her one evening, she wanted to impress this suitor, and had worked all afternoon building a " make shift" sofa for them to sit on.
She accomplished this by using boards, supported by bricks or rocks from their yard. She said Ruby was always jealous if she wasn't the one to be "called on" by the fellers. When the young man got comfortable and relaxed enough to talk, along came the jealous sister, Ruby, and kicked the bricks out from under the boards and sent them tumbling.
But this wasn't all that granny would be embarrased over before the evening came to an end. Ruby quietly went outside and smeared chicken manure all over the young mans saddle. So upon seeing the predicament he was in, he acted as tho no one was watching him, slowly reached under himself and wiped away the chicken manure. Having no place to put it he then swiped it onto his socks. And went on his way. I just wonder if that fellow ever visited the Stafford girls again.
Another time I recall her telling of she and Ruby sneaking out and going to a barn dance at someone's
house. The tow girls were grown and both married at this time. They were having a big old time, (even wearing two fellows cowboy hats), and showing off, when in walked their husbands (to do the same probably) but she said the hats came off MIGHTY quick, and that was the end of their dancing for the evening.
She told this of the first time she ever saw Alonzo Edward Havens, "Mutt" or "Lonnie, as he was known by friends and family, She and her sister Ruby was walking down the sreets of Porter, Oklahoma. They spotted two good looking boys accross the street, and she pointed to the tall thin lanky one, and said to her sister, "HE IS MINE IF I NEVER GET HIM". Well, she did get him and they were later married in Porter, and sister Ruby married the other man with him. The other man was his cousin Bill Moses.
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1906 - 1985 (78 years)
