Coffee with Clark, and Curry

Susan and I had a great visit yesterday with friend and 1993 UCO grad Steve Curry, USN, and his fiance, Marti Powers of Houston. He wanted the Coffee with Clark photo, and here it is...alas, we neglected to get a photo of him and Marti. But we'll have to visit, also to see my blood red painting of the Alamo hanging in her home. I do think Starbucks ought to pay us for this, don't you?

And, here's the 1993 graduation plaque hanging in our UCO building with Steve's name on it. This is the guy who got me the Tiger Cruise on the USS Abraham Lincoln three years ago.

Memories of Mom in photos

Francis Faye Culp Clark, 1949, Fort Worth

I have more photos, of course, but these span the years.  With my somber Mothers' Day trip coming up tomorrow to her grave in Waurika, they hint at her, better than the sparse letters on her gravestone--a life is so much more than a name and dates. With memories of a recent family reunion, and old photographs, I wonder at the years and stories untold. We know so little, don't we, but we love more than words can tell.

Oldest photo of Mom--1909?

East Texas girls, from left, Ima, Faye, Gladys, Vera

The Culp kids,  early 1930s? (Old car in background). From left, Vera, ET, Faye, Ima, J.C., Gladys

Faye, I don't know the year

Southwest Bell basket ball team, 1929--Faye at right, front row

Ima, Vera, Faye, dated 1931

Easter Sunday, Albuquerque, 1950s, Dad, Jerry, Me, Mom

1950s in Dallas...Mom, Sissie, Grandmother, Gladys, ET

Mom, Houston, late 60s

Mom's retirement at MD Anderson

Grandkids, late 70s, Waurika...Travis, Dallas, Mom, Becky, Derrick, Vance

Waurika, Oklahoma