"ROBERT MILTON STANDLEY was my father, and the youngest of seven children. He was born 7 February 1899. His mother died when he was only fourteen years old, and his father allowed him to go to Wyoming to be a cowboy at a cattle ranch owned by friends. He fudged on his age a bit in order to enlist in the Cavalry when Pancho Villa began to cause trouble, and he later re-enlisted when World War I began. He still had shrapnel in his legs when he died 15 December 1965. He married my mother, Louise Rachel Tatro, 21 March 1923 in Carrollton, Missouri. They went to Niagara Falls on their honeymoon, then up to Lake Louise in Canada, no doubt singing their favorite song along the way - "Every little breeze seems to whisper Louise". They also visited his brother in California. My father was an Electrician, and when the Great Depression began to deepen, my parents decided to move to California. My older sister and I were very disappointed when we did not see cowboys and Indians on the streets of Sacramento."
"ROBERT MILTON STANDLEY was my father, and the youngest of seven children. He was born 7 February 1899. His mother died when he was only fourteen years old, and his father allowed him to go to Wyoming to be a cowboy at a cattle ranch owned by friends. He fudged on his age a bit in order to enlist in the Cavalry when Pancho Villa began to cause trouble, and he later re-enlisted when World War I began. He still had shrapnel in his legs when he died 15 December 1965. He married my mother, Louise Rachel Tatro, 21 March 1923 in Carrollton, Missouri. They went to Niagara Falls on their honeymoon, then up to Lake Louise in Canada, no doubt singing their favorite song along the way - "Every little breeze seems to whisper Louise". They also visited his brother in California. My father was an Electrician, and when the Great Depression began to deepen, my parents decided to move to California. My older sister and I were very disappointed when we did not see cowboys and Indians on the streets of Sacramento."
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