Our dear home! Gee, you can't even tell where Janice put the whole in the wall
at the bottom of the stairs where they took a turn and went down a couple more steps!
The foundation sure doesn't look very big, maybe part of it has already been removed.
These pictures are taken from the drive way we once used also.

This is a picture of the new, modern, house. The front of the house looks out over the pasture towards Chehulpum Creek.

As usual I am too late for taking pictures of things I wanted too! DARN!
The next few pictures and posts are what remain of the house we once lived in on Erb's Dairy in
Jefferson, Oregon. These pictures were taken yesterday, 18 December 2010 on my way
home from visiting Dad at the hospital in Lebanon, Oregon. A teenage girl answered the door
and said their parents were not home but thought they wouldn't mind my taking a couple
of pictures. I might of been braver to take more and ask other questions had parents been
home. As I drove by I was surprised to see the house in rubble so went back to get a picture
of the rubble. Guess that will be about as close to a picture of the house that we may get! Maybe
some day I'll stop in again.

Maybe one of you has a picture of the house? If so you have been holding out all these years! Jill

This post is in relation to the pictures of the Albany Ward building:

This is the ward building we attended from November 1968 until the Jefferson Branch was started in the early 1980's. This building was a white color during our teenage years and has just in the past couple of years been changed to the red color. This is the building that has an upstairs and downstairs on the east wing of the building. This building is located near Geary Street and SE 28th - probably 1615 SE 28th Ave. Albany, Oregon. Some fun memories here! I remember doing a Primary Pioneer Parade down the sidewalk and around the church once! Kids used to crawl out the bathroom windows that are downstairs! I remember walking upstairs that first Sunday for Sunday School which was in the morning then, and walking into a classroom full of boys and they they loudly said something to the effect "ew, a girl!" Sister Adams, the teacher commented "I'm a girl aren't I?" I think it somewhat quieted them down some! There is a baptismal font in this building (was then anyway) so Jay and Jon were probably baptized here. Greg and I had our wedding reception here. When we started attending church here it was just the Albany Ward. Some years latter it was divided into two wards, Albany 1st and Albany 2nd. We were in the Albany Second Ward until the Jefferson Branch was started.

I took a quick side trip into Albany this past Friday while down visiting Dad and Cloene. Mostly Dad as he has been in the hospital this week due to bowel complications relating to hand
surgery done in relation to cutting it with a table saw.

If you have any memories of attending church in this building and would like to add to this just let me know and we will do that! Jill

Sidwell Cousins - August 2010 Jolley's Ranch, Provo Canyon, Utah
Back Row: Vicki Rowe White, Sonja Sidwell Orton, Carlene Sidwell Jackson, Vaughn Rowe,
Elaine Sidwell Redmond,
Front Row: Pat Rowe Carter, Carol Riendeau Kershaw, Max Sidwell
The following are siblings: Pat, Vicki and Vaughn - Sonja and Elaine - Carlene and Max -
then Carol Kershaw

Sidwell Cousin Reunion 2010

Hi One and All!
The Sidwell cousin reunion this past August in Springville, Utah was great! I learned a thing or two about our family! Here was a new one to me: Saturday morning oh, about 11am or so when we
arrived at the park a few overnighters and early birds where playing 'May I?'! I have never come
across anyone else who has ever heard of this card game let alone know how to play it!!! So seeing these cousins playing along with a daughter-in-law learning how was quite the surprise. I have always thought 'May I?' to be a Riendeau card game; Grandpa and Uncle Dee were so competitive when playing! Grandpa would hold onto the card he knew people were waiting for, he would get just the right cards to lay down and then discard the one everyone was waiting for! One didn't win very often when playing with Grandpa and Uncle Dee, especially if one was a child! Anyway, the cousins said that Homer and LuEthel Sidwell, (their grandparents, great grandparents to me) used to play this game all the time! All their children and a lot of the grandchildren learned how to play and play they did almost every time they got together! So we figured that Grandpa (Joe) Riendeau learned to play it when he married his wife, Annie Elvira Sidwell, a daughter of Homer and LuEthel! They must have been good teachers because he learned well!

For those of you who haven't been taught this card game of 'May I?' by your parents...nag them till
they do! Family traditions pasted on are important!!!!!!!! To play the game in more modern times it is very much like 'Phase 10' with out the "May I?" part!

While at the reunion I took opportunity of a lull and pasted out 4x6 index cards and asked each cousin and spouse that were there at the time to write down 2 or 3 short memories about their
grandparent, Homer and LuEthel Sidwell. Here are their responses:
Aunt Carol Kershaw:
1. Grandpa used to ride his bicycle to town.
2. Grandpa and other men used to sit on the sidewalk in Fariview- called the "Spit and Whittle Gang".
3. I learned to ____(can't read writing) and crochet from Grandma.
Carlene Jackson
1. Grandma Sidwell made good sugar cookies and homemade candy. At Christmas they would make 100 lbs of sugar into candy, and they dressed up as Santa Clause and visited every family and left a bag of candy and an orange.
2. At eight o'clock each night as the bus went through town he was ready for bed.
3. Also, grandpa had a temper, but as he grew older he mellowed out.
Max Sidwell
1. Homer was the founder of the Spit and Whittle Gang that always met at the old Travel Inn Cafe.
2. He would always ride his bike to town because it was down hill. Then wait for somebody to take him and his bike back home for him.
Elaine Redmond
1. Grandpa would go to town and sit in front of the store talking and whittling with the Spit and Whittle Gang.
2. Grandma wouldn't share sugar with Grandpa.
3. Grandpa like playing the punch board for candy bars.
Sonja Orton
1. They took their cows on the mountain (Flat Canyon) and let the kids stay up there to milk the cows.
2. Grandpa like the punch boards and won the candy bars, then he would give them to us kids (Sonja, Elaine, and Leon) on his way home so Grandma wouldn't get mad at him.
Pat Carter
1. Grandma taught Grandpa to drive although she never did drive. (LuEthel never learned to drive.)
2. Going from Fairview to Springville took about 1 1/2 hours. (I think that was with Grandpa driving!)
Mike Carter (Spouse to Pat. Looks like the only spouse that wrote!)
1. Grandma Sidwell yelled at me for driving too fast in their car.
2. Just after me and Pat were married we stayed with them in the winter and had so many covers on us we couldn't roll over.

It is interesting that some of the same memories were given. It is so fun to read/learn these little
tidbits about our Great Grandparents, Homer and LuEthel Sidwell.

Just to help you understand these comments a little better (maybe):
Fairview, Utah is home to Homer and LuEthel Sidwell.
Sonja, Elaine and Leon (Fay and Arlene Sidwell-parents) grew up in Fairview and still live there.
Carlene, Max and Keith (Blaine and Emma Sidwell-parents) lived in Fairview I think till Carlene was an older teenager, at least a teenager.
Pat, Vicki and Vaughn (Steve and Cleone Rowe-parents) grew up in Springville, about 45-60 minutes north of Fairview.
Carol, Jackie and Dee (Joe and Elva Riendeau-parents) grew up in Yakima, Washington and the family would go down in the fall for
deer hunting season and maybe another time during the year also.

Aunt Nola (Ernest and Nola Quinn) is the other child that lived to adulthood. She and Ernest never had children. Here are a couple of fun things I learned about her - some I have heard before but hearing again is always good!
1. Nola didn't like it if anyone ever called her Tryphena - her middle name! She is the only one of the 5 children to be called by her first name, the rest all went by their middle names.
2. She eloped with Ernest Quinn to Ellensburg, Washington- why there the cousins don't know!
However, Nola's sister Elva was mad when Nola told her a few days later! (Ellensburg is about an hour or so from Yakima where Elva was living.)
3. The Cousin's said that Ernest must have had 'Gypsy' blood as they moved often - Utah, Oregon, California, Texas and probably others. (They settled in Texas and are buried in El Paso.)
4. Nola worked at a cleaners in El Paso.
5. Nola was a Bookie (took bets for horse races) at one time.
6. Nola changed a bet on Ernest without him knowing - the horse he bet on won -he quit his job as he must of won big. Nola had to tell him when he got home of the change!
7. Ernest was quite the better on horse races and Nola wasn't far behind him.
Needless to say Nola was sort of the black sheep of the family but well loved none the less.

Well, that is enough for now, hope you enjoyed! Jill