Iola, moran, and osawatomie
When I was born my older brother, Brad was not quite 14 months older than I. Mom, Dad and Brad had been to the movies the night before and left early to go home since was was worn out from Brad crawling all over her during the movie. They barely got to the farm north of Iola until they turned around to go back to Iola to the hospital to have me.
Before my brother Tom was born our family had moved to Moran, KS where Dad was part owner of the Chevrolet dealership. He had already gotten a house in Osawatomie, KS and bought the Ford dealership to move his family after Tom was born. The folks lived in the same house in Osawatomie for 17 years and all 3 of us kids graduated from Osawatomie High School. Dad sold the dealership in the mid 60’s, but had different used car dealerships, farms, sold life insurance. aerial sprayed, ran cattle, and had his realtors license or combinations of work, for 15 years or so.
