I graduated on Nay 14th from Ellston hi (sic) school and on May 18th Lawrence (Bud) Brown and I were united in marriage at
Grant City, MO, in the Methodist Parsonage by Reverend Olsen.We lived in or near Ellston for the next twelve years, where
our four children were born, Harlan, Bonnie, Mary Anna and Lee.
Bud got a chance to operate a ranch in South Dakota on
the shares, so he came to South Dakota and I and the kids were to join him a few weeks later. But our youngest son, Lee,
got polio and was confined to the Blank Memorial Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa, until March of 1949. After he was dismissed
we moved to South Dakota near Wood. We lived there until the fall of 1974. We had bought the ranch in 1963. We sold it and
retired on ten acres near Winner, South Dakota.
Our children are as follows: Harlan E. Brown married Sharon Engel. They have
one daughter, Nancy, who will be a junior in Winner hi school. Harley graduated from Wood hi school and went six months
to Nettleton College in Sioux Falls where he took basic accounting. Then he enlisted in the Navy. He has now worked for
the State hiway department since 1957.
Bonnie graduated from Wood hi school and took some nurses training at Mitchell,
South Dakota. Later she married Kencel Robinson and they have three children. Sheba has worked in the medical records
office since the fall of 1970 and is now the head of medical records here in Winner. Shane graduated from Wood, South
Dakota and took two years of mechanics at Springfield, South Dakota. He now works for a contractor of the
State hiway (sic) department. Shawn graduated from Wood hi school and is now married and has a son, Derrick. They also live at
Winner. She is married to Greg Ulmer. Mary Anna graduated from Wood and went to college in Rapid City. She met and married
Eddie Blankenship who was in the Air Force at Rapid City. They went back to Ohio where Eddie came from and have lived
there since 1975. They have three children. Lee graduated from hi school and works in a sooper (sic) market. Michelle will
be a sophomore in hi school and the youngest, Bonnie, is a freshman.
Our youngest son, Lee, lost his life in a tractor
accident two miles south of Ellston on August 19, 1961. We had gone to Iowa on our vacation. He would have been fifteen
years old on October 24 and would have been in his sophomore year at Wood hi school.
We both enjoyed very much being with
all my classmates at our 50 year class reunion at Sun Valley Lake. The first one we had been to since I graduated.
Submission by Karma Dixon, February of 2014
