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By Kimberley McGee

LAS VEGAS SUN

It was a story of western pioneers: babies born in wagons, farms wiped out by violent rainstorms, guns, horses, land squabbles and untimely deaths. It was my story, but I didn’t own it.

by Lynn Ruth Miller

December 26, 1999, Jerry Franks got a hole in one. It was an accomplishment he has been working toward since he moved here in 1936, when he was six months old. Franks, 63, was born in San Francisco. As he recalls, his interest in golf did not begin in the city. It was the atmosphere that surrounds the Pacifica Golf Course that molded his attitude toward the game in his infancy. Franks didn’t actually begin playing golf until fifteen years ago, but his life has always revolved around the Sharp Park course.

By DeAnne Petersen

I never believed in reincarnation mostly due to my upbringing. When we die we go to Heaven or Hell. In these last few months my beliefs haven’t changed towards the Almighty God, but I have begun to see how those loved ones that have passed on can come back to finish what needs to be finished and say what needs to be said.

Wedding Photograph of Juan Jose Mazariegos and Polly Wagaman.

By Polly Mazariegos and Myra Riley

June is usually a graduation and wedding month. My wedding was to be a June wedding, but when my

fiancee asked me what I wanted for my April 4th birthday, I said, Why not get married now rather than wait until June? The following is how the wedding got off the ground. The first part is documented by Myra Riley, my mother.

Written by Myra Riley, 20+ years prior to her passing.

Plain Dressing for Chicken or Turkey

1 cup stale bread crumbs

1 tablespoon chopped parsley

Grated rind of half a lemon

1 teaspoon mixed herbs

1/3 cup melted butter or suet

1/2 cup scalding water or milk

Salt and pepper

Crumble the bread finely, add the parsley, lemon rind, herbs, salt and pepper. Chop the suet and add to the other ingredients; or if butter is used, melt it in the water or milk and add, mixing well. Fill the body of the bird with the dressing.

For stuffing turkey, double all the ingredients.

Jack Dale Asher entered the US Army August 17, 1949 at Evansville, Indiana. He was attached to the 3rd. Armored Division and served his basic training at Fort Knox, KY. From there, he was assigned to Fort Benning, Ga. where he served as an M.P.

1908 Instructions for the preparation of a Turkey, Duck or Goose

Poultry should be cleaned and dressed as soon as possible after being killed. Pinfeathers are best removed with a small knife or by the aid of a tong-shaped strawberry huller.

By Jeff Durham

Apart from the cemeteries and memorials, to the trained eye there is little sign of where the front lines were. Occasionally though a shallow depression, a crater that has remained unfilled, fragments of metal, shrapnel or pieces of barbed wire are still reminders. Scenes that to this day remain vivid to the veterans who were there.

Most of the time when researching your families, you find information which has been provided by others. This information can be found as notes left at your genealogical or historical society or library, published information which was taken from other records, (such as church or cemetery records), or actual published genealogies. All of this information is valuable, although care must be taken in accepting some of this data.