Grandparents by Martha (Belle Moore)Rutherford

I was named for my grandmothers. Martha was my father’s mother. She died when he was about 13 years old. Belle was my mother’s mother. My mother had a half brother a couple of years older than me. (His name was Charlie.) He was more like a brother to me than an uncle. We played cowboys and Indians as children. Read and discussed the same books and movies. Attended BYPU (Baptist Youth something) together & had charge of many of its activities. I stayed with my grandmother when we all worked at the corn canning factory. He (Charlie) never got to collage for financial reasons – his father died when he was in high school. He married the woman who was my college room mate when I was a freshman at Normal (now the Univ Ill ). I’m the one who broke up the close relationship by marrying a Colorado man and moving to the Colorado dust bowl. (more later)
(added by RLR)