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Deborah Hudson (Grace) (1968)

I was 11 and in the sixth grade at Coop Elem.  I remember the family leaving to go to Dripping Springs Tx to stay with my Mom's parents and turning around because the wind and rain were so bad.  We slept on a mattress in our parents room because we had a very tall pine tree outside of my sister and my bedroom and Dad was afraid it would blow over on the room.  No electricity for over a week.  We read, played board games and cards - that was fun. We had just bought a new freezer and it came packed with frozen goods and we lost it all.  The company was good enough to refill it at no cost after we got electricty was back.  We had kerosine lights to see by and flashlights tosee our way outside.  How would our children and grandchildren fair now?  Mom cooked on an old coleman camp stove, plenty of canned goods that my Mom and grandmother put up, and we had a camp coffee pot so Dad was happy.  It was an adventure for us but probably not for my parents.  Since we did not have air conditioning yet we were ok to no fans pretty quick.  Not too much damange on Hardwood Lane - just a lot of limbs down and sticks to pickup.

Judy Maxwell (1971)

Deborah #2607 ~ Sounds like your family was a lot like ours. We enjoyed then and still do enjoy board and card games. It was like being on a camping trip. We lived across the street from Debbie Husband and family on Lakewood. I mention that becasue I remember you saying you and Debbie were good friends. I sure miss all the Husband family!

Nancy ~ I just read your profile and see that is your maiden name ~ I enjoyed your life story and you are a good daughter for taking care of your Mom. We are lucky enough to still have ours (93 this past July) Your granddaughter Addison is a cutie ~ and i'm sure your looking forward to the next one in January. Also appreciate the years of service with HPD from your husband and son. 

Judy

Bettie Stroman (McCallay) (1971)

To: Judy Maxwell #2589  One of the fellas taking pics at the reunion was my husband. He was taking pics with an iPad. 

Judy Maxwell (1971)

Hey Bette ~ There was a man there with a camera and he went to all the tables and then he would go over when anyone used the picture frame by the black and gold balloons. I thought he might be a hired photographer. Martha just text me she had asked about him and is emainling me some of the pictures. I will check my emails and let your know.

Judy Maxwell (1971)

Bettie, Your the Historian that sat with us Saturday night for a while right? Just trying to get everyone straight.

I have gotten a few messages from people sinve the reunion and want to try and keep it all in my head.

That's a job in it's self!!! HaHA

Judy Maxwell (1971)

Cynthia Pavlicek 71 ~

Welcome to the SAM Site. Please feel free to join on on our crazy conversations or strike up a new one with us. Were you at the reunion Saturday? I am seeing who all was there ~ I sighed up for a list of attendees but have not gotten one or any pictures posted as of yet.

Hope you can join in with us sometime ~ they hold a 5th Friday Luncheon and that happens to be this Friday the 30th. So you are welcome to join us. Do you still live in the Houston area?

Judy

Judy Maxwell (1971)

Terry Herring (Carley)

I see where you grew up on McDaniel ~ I bought a house on McDaniel just off Irvington end. SOld it when we moved to Centerville, I sure understand about the neighborhood changing. SO many of the old neightborhoods are nothing like when we grew up in them. I guess they call that "progress" although most of them look like they are "regressing"

Judy

Lynda L. Voswinkel (Boehm) (1962)

Judy Maxwell (1971)

Lydia, #2614

Wow that is the first death that  I have heard of from Carla (other than new reports) I'm sure that was a terrible time for that neighborhood, Where did your sister live.

It is a miricle that more people did not die that way. I know we played in the streets and I know that the power lines were down so we were lucky to not have  this happen to whole neighborhoods of kids, My sister, Shirley and I have talked about how Mom let us play in the water and we never were allowed to do that. I guess with so much water everywhere there was no choice but to let us. The street got so deep that to cross it to go to the neightbors house it was thigh high or deeper!

Our house did not flood then but after the Hardy Toll Rd was built it started flooding and Flood Control finally bought out my Mom and tore that whole side of the street down to make  a retention pond.

Judy

Judy Maxwell (1971)

Mel Moy 2580

I understand not wanting to have politics on here ~ that is all the new talks about these days. I understand we need a place where we can come and talk about stuff and leave that whole mess out of it

Have a good day!

Judy

Jacquelin Burnaman (Young) (1972)

Judy Maxwell,

We had ditches in front and back of our house. Whenever they overflowed, all the kids got to play in the dirty water except me and my brother. She always told us we would catch polio in the water. Of course by then I had had the vaccine but that's what she believed. I'm sure there were plenty of other nasty things. 

Jackie 72

Judy Maxwell (1971)

Jackie 71 ~ Your Mom sounds just like ours. And your right no telling what was in that water. We had ditches in the front but our back yard was on the edge of the bayou, so all that bayou water was in our yard. It got so deep that you could not see our fence and it was a cyclone fence taller than us!

What area of Parker did you live? We had Parker on the other side of the bayou from us, by Shady Lane Park. Parker and Jensen area.

Judy

Cynthia Pavlicek (Chandler) (1971)

Yes Judy Maxwell I was at the reunion on Saturday night.  I would love to attend some luncheons however I live in Arkansas now and am not always in Houston at the right dates.  Had a good time at the reunion.  Where did you sign up for a list of who was there?

Judy Maxwell (1971)

Cynthia #2619

I didn't see that you lived out of state. I can underdstand not being there I live 120 miles north of Houston and I too can't be there for the Friday Lunch ~ I still work

When we first got there they had the tables set up to sign in and get name tags. One of the Ladies sitting there said sign this sheet if you want a list of all who attended and then had a stack of sheets for us to check to make sure they had our correct contact info, and the little slip of paper for your name for the drawings. No telling what I signed up for! lol

I will have to check on it and see how the pictures and the updates on attendence to going.

Sorry I didn't get a chance to talk to you Saturday, I wish there had been more interaction with people by giving us challenges or trivia on people but the committee did a great job getting us there. I heard we had over 111 that prepaid and then several paid at the door.

Where on Parker did you live? We lived the other side of the bayou from Parker, played many days at Shady Lane Park

I will have to look you up next time!

Judy

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Jacquelin Burnaman (Young) (1972)

Judy 2618

I lived west of you on Parker between Hardy and Airline. Specifically Bauman and Airline. My back yard was across the street from Dechaumes Elem. My dad put a gate in back there and built a bridge across the ditch so I could walk out the backyard to the school. There was a school crossing right there.  Later after my dad died my mom split the lot and built a smaller house facing the school on Cooper Rd.  She lived there  until she died in 2000. It's so sad how the neighborhoods on the Northside have gone down. 

Jackie

Judy Maxwell (1971)

Does anyone know what happened to Nelda?( on the right) I can't think of her last name ~ Her and her husband had a place out of Ratcliff and that was the last time I saw her ~ This picture is from a Multi year reunion, Me _ Bobby Hopper and Nelda......I have been thinking about her and would like to see how she and  Larry ( think  was her husbands name) are doing. She was class of 70 I think ~  Her husband was a nephew of our neighbors when we lived on Fitcher.

Carla Lee (Stagg) (1968)

I was in Guadalajara, Mexico; and boy, did I get some ribbing! Friends would  jokingly say things like..."Watch out, here comes Hurricane Carla"!  Even when I returned to Houston in 1965, kids would call me Hurricane Carla!

Marie Grabow (Pittman) (1959)

Judy Maxwell #2603, thanks for the memories of hurricane Carla.   I had forgotten the details of dates/etc., but Carla made us very conscious weather watchers during hurricane season.  Always think of Carla when 'hurricane season' is announced by weather reporters.  Aug. 6, 1961, Gene & I married and lived in garage apartment in the East End in the 4800 blk of Gulf Freeway [think actual address was 4831 Gulf Fwy?].  Being young & newly wed, we didn't give any thought about hurricanes, in fact don't remember a hurricane before Carla.  The Friday before Carla came on shore, we stopped by Samperi's Deli on Telephone road for snacks [I love deli foods].  Had potato salad & other goodies that evening and I became very ill the next day and stayed in bed for a week.  Don't know if it was food poisioning or a virus or ?, but I was sick in bed while Carla visited Houston.  I was working at Shell Oil downtown and was off several days after the hurricane.  Rumors were floating around that everyone was counting 9 months forward predicting the due date of the "supposed baby".  Did I fool everyone!  Five years later, I had my first child!  She was born on my birthday which was last Tuesday [celebrated last weekend]!  Cannot believe married 55 years, daughter just turned 50, & I won't tell my age:).  Life has been good!  Blessed with wonderful hubby,  2 children & 5 grandchildren.  Thanks Connie for this forum where we can once again mentally walk the halls of SHHS and we can update the years in between graduation and the present.  Have a good weekend everyone.  Enjoy the cooler days!

Charles J. Spess (1962)

Hello Rex Brown,  re selling Shipley donuts, I also participated as a marketing rep for Shipley donuts on Saturday mornings . (Lol)  Early on Saturday morning a white van would drive down our street and I would hop in.  On some mornings, I would ride with them all the way to Shipley's on N. Main to pick up the donuts.  Like you, my total compensation package was about 10 cents per dozen sold.  I was also about 11 years old at the time.  One morning as I was walking up to a home on Lone Oak Drive,  a small terrier dog ran up and bit me on both ankles.  I think I probably gave up that grand career after that and concentrated more on my recycling business, that being the collecting soda bottles and scrap iron.  The soda bottles were traded for cash at the stores and scrap iron was picked up by the junkman every couple of weeks for a small amount of cash.  All us neighborhood kids worked together on these enterprises. It helped us with spending money and kept us out of trouble... Sort of.

Charles Spess

1962

Cynthia Pavlicek (Chandler) (1971)

Judy Maxwell #2920

I lived on Parker between Northline and Werner.  

Cheryl Alford (Vassar) (1971)

#2622

Judy Maxwell

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Could it be Nelda Doss (Grohman) SHHS '70 ? I do not think I knew her but checking profiles I see her (Nelda)in class of '70.

Roger Bradshaw (1970)

2603 - Hurricane Carla. Yep, I remember Carla. I lived on Art St. 1 block off Bauman Rd. down the street from Baileys on Little York. We had the sheetrock split on 2 walls in the kitchen and dining room area. Our roof didn't leak. After the storm had passed my Dad went out to inspect the damage. Our house sat on concrete blocks He called me out later and showed me the South-West corner of our house that sat on concrete blocks. The winds had blown the house 3/4 inch north on the concrete blocks. The concrete was perfectly white where it was just exposed. Pretty kewl for a 10 year old boy. My dad told me that was when the sheetrock had split, when the house moved 3/4 inches in the storm.

Roger Bradshaw (1970)

2621 - I haven't been to my old neighborhood in probably 30 years. I checked Google Earth. The house is still there. The 10 foot pine tree in the side yard is now a towering pine. Someone finished out the attic. The house had a very steep roof and cover the entire length and width of the house. Duh, of course it did. Anyway there is a window in the attic facing Art street now.

Judith Dunson (Satterwhite-Hilliard) (1961)

I remember Hurricane Carla clearly, very clearly.  Our wedding was Saturday night, September 9, 1961,  I recall seeing my father scrambling to "tape the windows" and I had no idea why he was doing that - I was 18 years old and on Cloud 9 and totally unaware of what was happening other than O/T relatives were arriving and we were getting married tonight.  Our honeymoon departure was delayed so that we could visit the next day with all the out of town relatives that had come for the wedding.  We spent the night in our little furnished apartment in Pasadena and went the next morning to Roy's parents for breakfast only to discover that ALL the O/T relatives (his & mine) had flown the coop and Pasadena Policeman Roy was required to report immediately to work - which he did.  I was left with my new Satterwhite parents-in-law and we did not see their son again for 3 days.  A week later we returned to our apartment to discover that the roof had blown off the building and the ceiling had collapsed into all the apartments.  Fortunately for us, the manager had gone into our apartment and placed all the still boxed wedding gifts and the bedding in the closet and NOTHING was lost or even damaged - but all a little soggy!  We lived with Roy's parents 6 weeks while our loan was being processed and then moved into our little 2-bedroom frame home.  Indeed, I clearly remember Hurricane Carla.  

Judith Dunson Satterwhite Hilliard    

Luke Tusing Jr. (1966)

Luke Tusing, Jr. SHHS '66.  I was at Fonville Jr high. I had a Houston Press newspaper route and had to throw my papers from my parent car because of the wind and rain , but i got it done.