My Dad's Siblings

My dad’s siblings were: in order of age with birth years in parentheses. Harold (1912), Earnest(1915), Hazel (1919), dad (1922) and Lois (1928). There appears to be one more brother, Jimmy, born and died on the same day in 1934. He would have been a late pregnancy for my grandmother - quite a risk in those days

Uncle Harold was married to Madge and had Barbara and Jo Lea. He worked at the Magnolia refinery after WW II and helped get daddy a job there. He finished his career at Mobil Oil.

I am the photobomber in this photo.

Harold, me, Grampa Golden and Renee on the porch of the Kountze house.

Earnest served in the Civilian Conservation Corps before WW II and then in the US Army in the Philippines during WW II in an engineering battalion. He made full bird colonel in the Army reserves. He went to LSU on the GI bill and got a degree in forestry. He and his wife Margie had three boys: Bruce, Michael and Barry. He and Margie lived in Huntsville, TX, where he worked for Champion Paper. He died of cancer in the 70’s or 80’s at MD Anderson.

Hazel married Pete Hart and had three daughters: Renee, Nancy and Judy. After Uncle Pete died, Aunt Hazel remarried – but I cannot recall his name.

Renee with me.

Renee

This is me with the lawn mower at the Kountze house. I could not budge it unless it was upside down. My cousin Nancy Hart Ricks is with me. She and I are close in age and we loved to play 20 questions when we got together.

The baby of the family, Aunt Lois, was married to Harold Morgan. Harold worked in the oil drilling business in south Texas.

They had two children, Randy and Becky.

Lois Golden Morgan

Becky, Mom, Janice, Terry, Lois and Randy around 1960