Memory Lane - d/o Mary Augusta Myers and Eddie Clarance Puckett, gd/o Sarah Ann Jobe and Simpson Myers and gt gd/o Edward Jobe and Isabelle Fincher http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajobebrown/jobe/letters_copple_myers.html by Mary Alice (Puckett) Null Hoskins February 5, 1988 Alma Gail (Puckett) Forbes (see photo) Alma Gail married Ralph Forbes during her senior year of school, so she did not graduate. He first son was born in Elgin in 1927. My folks moved to Independence where he (Dad) had a job in a grocery store. Gail and Ralph later followed us and lived with us at 1101 N 8th St. till he got a job working at the Mitchell City Park. Later he drove a bread truck for Mitchell Bakery and they lived on Sycamore Street about the 1100 block. By then my folks had moved to Sedan, Kansas to put in the �Wager Wall Paper and Paint Store.� Later Gail and Ralph moved to Sedan and Ralph worked in the oil fields, lived on farm and raised pigs and worked at Boeing in Wichita during WW II. They lived in Winfield, Kansas. Larry (their youngest son born in Sedan) attended grade school and C. D. (Clarence Dean) the oldest attended high school and worked as projection operator at the Zile Theatre. He joined the Navy at age 17 ( and didn�t finish high school, but later did thru G. E. D..) He was an aviation ordinance mate in aircraft carrier Antietam. He didn�t go to Guam till he was 18 in August of 1945. After the war they bought a farm south of Sedan and lived there till Ralph�s health forced them to sell and they moved to Casa Grande, Arizona for awhile. Ralph hated it there and they moved back here to live. Larry also joined the Navy and aboard an aircraft carrier after he graduated from high school in early 50�s. Larry played football, was in class play junior and senior year, worked delivering ice in summer time. Gail moved to Wichita and lived with C. D. and Ruth after Ralph died. Then she came back to Sedan and lived with Alfred and I for 2 - 3 years then went back to Wichita. She met and married William �Blue� Masters. They lived in McCook, Nebraska for awhile where Larry and his family lived. Later they moved back to Wichita. Gail loved to play bingo and her and Blue went to Bingo games all the time. She was playing bingo the nite she had her heart attack and died at age 71 years. Freida Wells