Gladys remembers going to the Baptist church in Surrency. The family would go to church all day, starting with Sunday School in the morning.

 

Gladys enjoyed stringing beads as a child. Gypsies used to come in their wagons and park outside of town. They’d steal from the chicken houses. The girls had to stay inside the picket fence around the yard. (That was also to keep them from the train tracks.) Because Gladys was little and dark, people would tell her the gypsies would get her, but she said she didn’t care, she would have gone with the gypsies in a minute so she could wear the beads.

 

 

 

 

       L-R: Peggy, Gladys, and Lucille Kennedy

 

       Gladys might be 10. Everyone thought Peggy and Lucy were twins.

Top, L-R: Gladys and Juanita
Bottom, L-R: Lucy and Peggy

Riding in a “Hoover Wagon”, so named for the president

L-R: William, Gladys, Lucille, and Peggy