"Dick" Arnold was the second child born to the marriage of William Bunyon Arnold and the former Mary Alice Powell. Besides his older brother, Walter Jack, there would be two sisters and two more brothers to complete the family unit.
When the United States entered The Great War in 1917, Dick Arnold joined the Army. He fought in the trenches of France before being wounded by enemy fire. Eventually, his parents were notified that he was wounded but would survive and would be coming home. The war ended with the signing of the Armistice on November 11, 1918, and Dick came marching home to the joy and relief of his worried parents.
In 1923, Dick Arnold was married to Miss Mary Ethel Webb. It took 16 years but the time element only made their joy greater when they welcomed to the world a daughter, Norma Sue. A few months after Sue's fourth birthday, their second and last child, another daughter they named Janey Lee, was born.
The Arnold family happily settled into a little house that Dick built on Deering Drive in the White Settlement area of Fort Worth. He put in a wonderful peach orchard, a great place for the little girls and their cousins to while away the summer hours in an enchanted place. The life was idyllic until tragedy struck. The family would never be the same.
Early in May 1945, Ethel succumbed to the ravages of cancer, a battle she had fought long and bravely. Little Janey was not quite two years old.
Undoubtedly, the bereft widower was beside himself, trying to hold down his job in an aircraft plant and keep his household running as smoothly as possible. He had lots of help from Ethel's younger sister, Nona, and her husband Johnny Bullard, who lived next door, but all the support in the world could not compensate for the loss of the wife he had treasured.
Although brought up a Baptist, Dick, as do many husbands, accepted the faith of his wife. Ethel was a devout follower of the Church of Christ. It was through their church that they became acquainted with another couple, Berta (née Yeary) and William Calvin Allmon, owners of a mom-&-pop market in the neighboring town of Weatherford. William Allmon, who was nearly three decades his wife's senior, died at age 72 in August 1945. The 41-year-old widow Allmon soon put aside her widow's weeds in order to bring comfort to the grieving Dick Arnold. Someone swept someone else off their feet and, before the end of the year, Dick Arnold married Berta Allmon.
Dick sold the pretty little river rock-trimmed house on Deering Drive and, with his two pretty little girls in tow, set up housekeeping with his new bride in Weatherford.
Twenty-two years following the 1945 death of his spirit, Dick Arnold's body completed the transition to the next life. He was laid to rest, not next to his beloved Ethel, the mother of his only children, but in Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Weatherford.
The widow died in 1990.
When the United States entered The Great War in 1917, Dick Arnold joined the Army. He fought in the trenches of France before being wounded by enemy fire. Eventually, his parents were notified that he was wounded but would survive and would be coming home. The war ended with the signing of the Armistice on November 11, 1918, and Dick came marching home to the joy and relief of his worried parents.
In 1923, Dick Arnold was married to Miss Mary Ethel Webb. It took 16 years but the time element only made their joy greater when they welcomed to the world a daughter, Norma Sue. A few months after Sue's fourth birthday, their second and last child, another daughter they named Janey Lee, was born.
The Arnold family happily settled into a little house that Dick built on Deering Drive in the White Settlement area of Fort Worth. He put in a wonderful peach orchard, a great place for the little girls and their cousins to while away the summer hours in an enchanted place. The life was idyllic until tragedy struck. The family would never be the same.
Early in May 1945, Ethel succumbed to the ravages of cancer, a battle she had fought long and bravely. Little Janey was not quite two years old.
Undoubtedly, the bereft widower was beside himself, trying to hold down his job in an aircraft plant and keep his household running as smoothly as possible. He had lots of help from Ethel's younger sister, Nona, and her husband Johnny Bullard, who lived next door, but all the support in the world could not compensate for the loss of the wife he had treasured.
Although brought up a Baptist, Dick, as do many husbands, accepted the faith of his wife. Ethel was a devout follower of the Church of Christ. It was through their church that they became acquainted with another couple, Berta (née Yeary) and William Calvin Allmon, owners of a mom-&-pop market in the neighboring town of Weatherford. William Allmon, who was nearly three decades his wife's senior, died at age 72 in August 1945. The 41-year-old widow Allmon soon put aside her widow's weeds in order to bring comfort to the grieving Dick Arnold. Someone swept someone else off their feet and, before the end of the year, Dick Arnold married Berta Allmon.
Dick sold the pretty little river rock-trimmed house on Deering Drive and, with his two pretty little girls in tow, set up housekeeping with his new bride in Weatherford.
Twenty-two years following the 1945 death of his spirit, Dick Arnold's body completed the transition to the next life. He was laid to rest, not next to his beloved Ethel, the mother of his only children, but in Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Weatherford.
The widow died in 1990.
"Dick" Arnold was the second child born to the marriage of William Bunyon Arnold and the former Mary Alice Powell. Besides his older brother, Walter Jack, there would be two sisters and two more brothers to complete the family unit.
When the United States entered The Great War in 1917, Dick Arnold joined the Army. He fought in the trenches of France before being wounded by enemy fire. Eventually, his parents were notified that he was wounded but would survive and would be coming home. The war ended with the signing of the Armistice on November 11, 1918, and Dick came marching home to the joy and relief of his worried parents.
In 1923, Dick Arnold was married to Miss Mary Ethel Webb. It took 16 years but the time element only made their joy greater when they welcomed to the world a daughter, Norma Sue. A few months after Sue's fourth birthday, their second and last child, another daughter they named Janey Lee, was born.
The Arnold family happily settled into a little house that Dick built on Deering Drive in the White Settlement area of Fort Worth. He put in a wonderful peach orchard, a great place for the little girls and their cousins to while away the summer hours in an enchanted place. The life was idyllic until tragedy struck. The family would never be the same.
Early in May 1945, Ethel succumbed to the ravages of cancer, a battle she had fought long and bravely. Little Janey was not quite two years old.
Undoubtedly, the bereft widower was beside himself, trying to hold down his job in an aircraft plant and keep his household running as smoothly as possible. He had lots of help from Ethel's younger sister, Nona, and her husband Johnny Bullard, who lived next door, but all the support in the world could not compensate for the loss of the wife he had treasured.
Although brought up a Baptist, Dick, as do many husbands, accepted the faith of his wife. Ethel was a devout follower of the Church of Christ. It was through their church that they became acquainted with another couple, Berta (née Yeary) and William Calvin Allmon, owners of a mom-&-pop market in the neighboring town of Weatherford. William Allmon, who was nearly three decades his wife's senior, died at age 72 in August 1945. The 41-year-old widow Allmon soon put aside her widow's weeds in order to bring comfort to the grieving Dick Arnold. Someone swept someone else off their feet and, before the end of the year, Dick Arnold married Berta Allmon.
Dick sold the pretty little river rock-trimmed house on Deering Drive and, with his two pretty little girls in tow, set up housekeeping with his new bride in Weatherford.
Twenty-two years following the 1945 death of his spirit, Dick Arnold's body completed the transition to the next life. He was laid to rest, not next to his beloved Ethel, the mother of his only children, but in Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Weatherford.
The widow died in 1990.
When the United States entered The Great War in 1917, Dick Arnold joined the Army. He fought in the trenches of France before being wounded by enemy fire. Eventually, his parents were notified that he was wounded but would survive and would be coming home. The war ended with the signing of the Armistice on November 11, 1918, and Dick came marching home to the joy and relief of his worried parents.
In 1923, Dick Arnold was married to Miss Mary Ethel Webb. It took 16 years but the time element only made their joy greater when they welcomed to the world a daughter, Norma Sue. A few months after Sue's fourth birthday, their second and last child, another daughter they named Janey Lee, was born.
The Arnold family happily settled into a little house that Dick built on Deering Drive in the White Settlement area of Fort Worth. He put in a wonderful peach orchard, a great place for the little girls and their cousins to while away the summer hours in an enchanted place. The life was idyllic until tragedy struck. The family would never be the same.
Early in May 1945, Ethel succumbed to the ravages of cancer, a battle she had fought long and bravely. Little Janey was not quite two years old.
Undoubtedly, the bereft widower was beside himself, trying to hold down his job in an aircraft plant and keep his household running as smoothly as possible. He had lots of help from Ethel's younger sister, Nona, and her husband Johnny Bullard, who lived next door, but all the support in the world could not compensate for the loss of the wife he had treasured.
Although brought up a Baptist, Dick, as do many husbands, accepted the faith of his wife. Ethel was a devout follower of the Church of Christ. It was through their church that they became acquainted with another couple, Berta (née Yeary) and William Calvin Allmon, owners of a mom-&-pop market in the neighboring town of Weatherford. William Allmon, who was nearly three decades his wife's senior, died at age 72 in August 1945. The 41-year-old widow Allmon soon put aside her widow's weeds in order to bring comfort to the grieving Dick Arnold. Someone swept someone else off their feet and, before the end of the year, Dick Arnold married Berta Allmon.
Dick sold the pretty little river rock-trimmed house on Deering Drive and, with his two pretty little girls in tow, set up housekeeping with his new bride in Weatherford.
Twenty-two years following the 1945 death of his spirit, Dick Arnold's body completed the transition to the next life. He was laid to rest, not next to his beloved Ethel, the mother of his only children, but in Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Weatherford.
The widow died in 1990.
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