Jim G, Thanks for sharing. Your Dad will have another Buddie to enjoy. Tom Heath,TX >From: "Jim Giddens" <jimg@cox-internet.com> >Reply-To: TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com >To: TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [TXREDRIV] Fw: Dad (Aubrey Roberts) >Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 13:52:23 -0500 > >I wanted to share this with my Red County Web-site family also. >Below is my message in regards to the e-mail below it. >Jim Giddens >Paris, Tx > > > >To Giddens Family: >(I got the e-mail below just this today.) >Just wanted to share it with you. Dale's father was Aubrey Roberts. A >dear and lifelong friend of Dad's since childhood at Hopewell. Dale and >his Dad have been living in Az for many years. Aubrey and Dad were also >in Colorado City, Tx together and rode together when visiting back home in >Red River Co back in the 1920s. I have letters and pictures Aubrey sent >to Dad over the years and heard Dad tell stories about him & Aubrey & >Aubrey's brother Grady many times. >Over the last 10 years at Regency I would help Dad call Aubrey on the >phone. Dale and I made e-mail contact about 5 years ago and would send >messages back and forth for Aubrey & Dad. >Dad would always grin and laugh when telling me the story of Grady falling >out a tree when they were all boys. >Aubrey & Dad were with in a few weeks of being the same age. > Dale (from his dad) always called my Dad "Cap" just as Vivian did >because of Abeline. I was shocked the first time Dale e-mailed me about >"Cap". I had never heard anyone call him Cap except Vivian. > By the way, I called Weldon and asked about Vivian (daughter of Uncle >Abeline) just a couple of weeks ago. She has been in the nursing home >there in Georgetown (Tx) for 7 years. > >Jim G >----- Original Message ----- >From: Dale Roberts >To: Jim Giddens >Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 12:37 PM >Subject: Dad > > >Jim, > >I'm sorry we haven't spoken in a while, the last time was when your dad >passed on I believe. Well, I thought you might like to know that my dad >died this morning. Like Cap, he died peacefully in his sleep. His body just >gave up the fight. > >I hope things are well with you and your family. I still hope to make a >trip to NE Texas to visit dad's beloved country. I will let you know >when/if that ever happens. > >Dale > > >==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus