I grew up in Tishomingo, Oklahoma on a dairy farm. I was fortunate enough to know and spend time with my living great-grandparents, who were Clarence E. & Jemima Rose Knapp Cales, Ada, OK; Martha Jones Johnson, Sulphur, OK; Nannie Belle Laney Rodgers Titsworth, Bakersfield, CA; Those who were already deceased or died while I was too young to know them were Evie Virginia Wilson McCabe & George William "Riley" McCabe, Wilson, OK; Thomas Johnson, (husband of Martha Jones Johnson), Sulphur, OK; David R. Rodgers, OK.

I grew up in Tishomingo, Oklahoma on a dairy farm. I was fortunate enough to know and spend time with my living great-grandparents, who were Clarence E. & Jemima Rose Knapp Cales, Ada, OK; Martha Jones Johnson, Sulphur, OK; Nannie Belle Laney Rodgers Titsworth, Bakersfield, CA; Those who were already deceased or died while I was too young to know them were Evie Virginia Wilson McCabe & George William "Riley" McCabe, Wilson, OK; Thomas Johnson, (husband of Martha Jones Johnson), Sulphur, OK; David R. Rodgers, OK.