Letter From My Grandma Rice

Recently my mother found a letter that I had received from my Grandma Rice back in 1969.


I took these pics with my camera, but will have to scan these two pages later so I can share them.





My grandmother lived with us for about three years while she was being treated for cancer.  I had forgotten that she went to live in TN with Aunt Louise for a time, and while there she wrote me this letter.

memories of school days in the past

School photo from Fall 1962  

Cindy Lee Baggett

8 years old 

October is my favorite month!

 October is my favorite month of the year...not just because the season changes to fall....but my birth month is October.  

Picture at top at 5 months.

Picture in middle at one year old in 1956 with my mom...Martha Franklin

Picture at bottom at 21 months old

My brother, Stephen - looking forward to meeting you in Heaven!

Thanks to all those who donated, my parents now have a grave marker for

their 3rd child, Stephen Anthony Franklin, 

who died shortly after birth in October 1956. 

He was buried next to Grandpa C C Franklin at Thompson Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery in Spartanburg County (SC). 

Special thanks to my son Stephen

(named after my brother)

for heading up this project.  

I especially like the engraving on the back 

with the obit from the newspaper in 1956.

Albert Jerome Dorman (February 20 1910 - September 23 1984)

This young man was my uncle, 

Albert Jerome (Knott) Dorman. 

He was the husband of my dad's sister Annie Mae.  

He served our country in the U.S.Army during WW II and the Korean War.  

Albert and Ann had 

three daughters:

Dianne, Gloria and Barabara.  

Thanks to my 2nd cousin 

Preston Pettit  for the photo 

of his grandfather!

Aunt Ann and Uncle Albert are buried in Cowpens, SC.

View previous post for Annie Mae Franklin Dorman

Memories of a great father

Memories of a great father...

Thankful for J.L.Baggett, Jr who had such a great and lasting influence on his daughter 

Cindy (my wife) 

This photo is from 1977 

on the Galveston Ferry with 

his son and mother - 

Carl and Mildred(Mam ma)

scattered pictures, of the way we were...

My grandmother - Ethel Mae Allen (Rice) in a photo taken
when she was 19-21 years of age...this photo was taken before she married.  


At the age of 22 she would marry 
John Sherman Rice 
and they would rear three children:
Louise, James and Martha (my mom).

Celebrating Easter in 1960

Celebrating Easter 

with my grandparents 

and siblings in 1960

Rev J. Sherman Rice,

Loretta,

Ethel Mae Rice,

Deborah,

Timmy

Remembering Uncle James Rice

 This photo of my mother's brother James "Jimmie"  Rice
is dated March 2, 1952

when he was in the service 64 years ago 

(standing in front of a castle in France.)

Azay-le-Rideau , recent photo of the castle in France