We never tried that trick again! Another time I remember was when we started out the Galveston, Dad had an old Model A Ford and he tied all the camping gear on the running boards, top and even had some on the front on the radiator. Celeste and Pearl were to go down with us but when they saw the car they decided they wanted to ride the train down, so with their Sunday best clothes, hat and all, caught the train in Houston.
We met them in Galveston. They were quite embarrassed when they came out of the railroad station up town and had to get into that loaded down car.
Not only did we not have TV or radios, but we did not have washing machines or dryers, nor running water in the house, nor an indoor bathroom. Mother had to heat all our bath water on the wood stove in the kitchen. We bathed in a galvanized tub. Me being the youngest would always get to bather first.
Mother washed all of the clothes outside in galvanized tubs with a wash board and an old iron put that was heated over coals. We hung them on a clothes line.
We had to go outside to the outdoor privy. Boy was it cold in the winter! Mother and Dad were soon able to have the house remodeled and then had running water put in and a bathroom. Also they got a kerosene stove in the kitchen. Dad got a job at the Post Office so gave up farming as he felt he could better support his growing family. John Leonard was born Jan 22, It was freezing cold day. Dad and Celeste took Mother to the hospital, but on the way, she insisted that they take her by the beauty shop to have her hair washed and curled.
We did not mind as the pond was frozen over and we got to go ice skating. Something we were very seldom able to do. Grandpa and Grandma Janowski having so many children of their own and no place for them to go to school, at first had school in their home and later Grandpa deeded the county a piece of land to build a school on.
They built a one room school and as the community grew and other children cam, they had to add on to the school.
Celeste, Marie and Raymond all went to it until it was outgrown again and the district had to build a larger school. It was Luther Burbank on Tidwell Rd. It was from grades one through nine. I started to the new school and the other kids were transferred over there. Janowski School was closed. Years later a new Janowski School was built on Bonham St. Early one morning in February , Dad had gotten up to fix breakfast and had put the coffee on and went back to finish getting dressed when he smelled smoke coming from the kitchen and went in.
The whole kitchen was on fire. We were all able to get out safely. The Lyerlys came down to help us. By the time the fire department arrived the house was too far gone for them to do any good. Celeste saved some of her clothes, but the rest of us just had our things we had on. I had to borrow clothes from my cousin Marie so Aunt Lois could take me to town to buy me new ones. Mary Catherine was born when we were living there, on Jul 17, It was while living there that I met my first boyfriend, Ernest Ploeger.
He lived next door. I was only 12 years old. While living there I went to Hamilton Jr. High School. Celeste returned from Chicago and we moved to 16 th St, we lived there a while and then moved to Royder St, just off Fulton.
When I reached the tenth grade, I had to go to Jeff Davis. Raymond graduated in and I graduated in We then moved to 20 th St back over in the Heights, while our house was being rebuilt on Montgomery Rd. Marie and Celeste were working at the Fashion. I worked at the Fashion the summer before I graduated addressing and enclosing envelopes and then after I graduated, I went to work there full time as assistant cashier on the first floor and later became head cashier in the sports shop.
It was while I was working at the Fashion that I met Gene Sammons, who worked in the shoe department. We double dated with Tom and his girlfriend. A week later Tom called me wanting a date to go to his Senior Prom Dance. From then on we started going steady. Gene would then double date with us quite often, but most of the time it was just Tom, Gene and I. He and his brother Comer had joined the Houston National Guard.
Tom was a sergeant. In the Guards were called into active service. Tom left the Humble Oil Co. He and Comer were stationed at Brownsville, Texas. Tom came home nearly every weekend to see me. Upon returning from our honeymoon to Beaumont, Tom had a letter waiting for him to return to active duty at Brownsville. This was due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, He left in November and I returned to Houston to stay with his mother and step-father. Due to the war, Comer had been sent overseas and Tom remaining in Benning, where I joined him in Feb We first lived at Mrs.
We just had a room with kitchen privileges. There were two other girls living there also, Jenny and Margaret. We later found a house to rent so moved into it. The th Tank Battalion received orders to go on maneuvers to Louisiana and I was not able to go with Tom, so I went back to Houston to stay with his mother once again. I found out I was pregnant and was very happy.
We lived at Blackburn, several miles from the camp. It was not long before the Battalion was sent to Fort Knox and again I could not go with Tom so returned to Houston to stay with his folks. When Richard was 6 months old Tom came home on leave and the three of us drove back to California in our little maroon Ford coupe. We could not find a place to live so stayed at a motel. We then found a little house in Salinas but it was away from most of our friends so we moved to Carmel and again lived in a motel.
It was rather small. The lady that ran the motel had a house in the valley for rent so we moved out there. It was beautiful, mountains on both sides of us and a pretty drive out there from Carmel. We loved it but again it was quite a ways from the rest of the gang so we moved back to Carmel. During the war gas, tires, some appliances and some foods were rationed. We had to have coupons to buy any of these items. Each family was given so many according to size and needs of the family.
When Tom and I started out to California, we had to get extra gas stamps for the trip. Mama and Grandpa Walker did not use too many of their coupons as they had a cow and chickens and he did not have to drive very much so they sent us all their extra ones. We had plenty. We lived in Carmel until Tom received orders to go to Berlin, Germany.
By this time Tom had been promoted to 1 st Lt. I could not go with him, as once again I was pregnant, this time with Tommy so I sold the car and Richard and I returned to Houston and again stayed with Mama and Grandpa. In Jan we received orders to go to Germany so the three of us set out for Berlin. It was freezing cold when we got to New York. It took us 14 days to get to Bremerhaven, Germany and from there we caught the train to Berlin. There was snow all over the ground, it was 18 degrees. When we finally got to Berlin, Tommy had a very bad ear infection and was put in the hospital.
He had to have 52 penicillin shots, one every 3 hours, all in his little buttocks. It looked like a pin cushion. When we were finally able to bring him home he would cry every time we started to change his diaper thinking he was going to get another shot. Rosie, a girl from Romania lived with us and took care of the household duties, washed the clothes and took care of Richard and Tommy whenever we wanted to go anyplace. Lather we had an extra bed put in there for her.
Frau Naugett came in each day to help Rosie with the housework and did some cooking. I did most of the cooking and they cleaned up after me. Herr Kuniz kept the yard and furnace going. We would have parties at the house quite often and after everyone left and we had gone to bed Rosie would go downstairs and clean everything up so that when we got up the next morning everything was clean you would never know anyone had been there the night before.
While in Germany, Tom and I went to Switzerland. We left Richard and Tommy in Berlin with Rosie. We were gone ten days and I think I cried 9 out of the I was so lonesome for my two boys and was so scared something would happen to them while we were gone, or that something would happen to us.
We saw Zurich and went down to Locarno, Switzerland, right on the Italian border. It was beautiful. Rainess Holmes, 36, has been arrested and faces several charges in connection with the fatal home invasion, including first-degree murder. Police identified Holmes as a suspect Monday. According to the police narrative, three or possibly four men broke into a residence in the block of North McLean around a. The suspects told the five people in the house to not look at them.
Rainer was told to enter the password to his iPad. When he was unable to enter his password, he was shot. Rainer, according to the court documents, struggled with Holmes over the gun.
In the struggles, Holmes fired the gun a second time, striking a female victim in the hand. Holmes and the other suspects left the house with video gaming systems, phones, and other electronics belonging to the victims. When paramedics arrived at the scene, Rainer was found at the bottom of the staircase with a gunshot wound in the center of the chest. He has also coached soccer athletes from youth to professional levels. Powell now lives in Cordova, Tennessee with his wife Ashley and daughter Isabella.
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