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Family of Orene Love McKinney

From left: Cousin Donald Anderson, Betty Lou McKinney, Curtis Kay McKinney, Peggy Sue McKinney, Friend Patsy Titsworth, Robert Earl McKinney, Ellie Latheal McKinney, Aaron Edgar McKinney.
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This photo was taken at Lonnie and Aunt Julia Anderson's home in Sabinal at Center St. and old San Antonio Highway.  Photo taken next toTitsworth Grocery & Feed store which was on the corner next to their home. This was a Sunday afternoon with Uncle Albert and Aunt Ector's car in the background. The other car was Barton and Shirleen's Anderson Robertson's car. Memories of playing Tiddly Winks, Kick The Can and climbing the pecan trees in the front yard. Not showing to the left was a persimmon tree that puckered up the kid's mouth when they tried eating them green. The Andersons had a martin house in the fenced chicken yard behind the house. We never tired of watching those beautiful birds flitting about. Family get-togethers were common on Sundays after church, with fried chicken the usual fare, with a lot of good 'ol country eating. Aunt JuJu's pecan pies were famous. She supplied the area restaurants with those and other kinds too. Mouth-watering thinking about the lemon, chocolate, pecan and berry pies she made. Good old-fashioned Cobblers and home-made ice cream were not unusual at these events. Relatives seldom announced their coming and it was amazing how the women could put together such a feast without notice. Grandmother Mollie Barksdale was bed-ridden and we children had to play quietly around her bedroom window. The manicured carpet grass lawn and the pecan trees were Uncle Lonnie's pride. The day of his funeral they buried a pecan nut at the head of his grave. A large pecan tree now shades the Anderson cemetery lot. It sprang from that single pecan planted many years ago. Uncle Albert Halbert made Donald a train made of tin cans. It was a marvelous toy that could be pulled with a string. He made figurines out of paper mache' and painted them a bronze color. He was quite an artist. Some of it is in a museum in Uvalde. Uncle Albert lived across the street from the old Uvalde High School and worked at the Post Office for many years. His house was like an art gallery with his work displayed. Western statues of chuck wagons with intricate pans hanging on the sides, horses and riders, marvelous, beautiful work which all should have been in a museum. Unfortunately a lot of his work was discarded after his death.--Robert McKinney