Wilda’s Cousins:
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After supper Wilda along with her cousins would have to get their lessons done, whether it was reading, arithmetic or
geography. Edna and Wilda (were the same age) joined the 4-H cooking club. They each had to can five pint bottles of fruits and vegetables. They would win first and second place ribbons on each bottle entered! With her cousins, they would make a ball diamond in the pasture and all the boys and girls in Bitter Creek would come for a ball game! Afternoons in the summertime they would walk down to Fairview and swim in “Big Hole”! They would have bonfires and candy pulls.
One fun experience Wilda had with Edna was going camping with the older girls in Bitter Creek! Alice Barrus took them and a few other girls in a little buggy up Cottonwood Lake. It stormed all night. They didn’t have a tent so they had to take their bed rolls and sleep in the girl’s restroom!
Wilda and Edna were taught to be great Sunday School teachers by observing the way her Aunt Mary would give the lesson and then find an exciting story with a good moral to tell. Mary decided it would be good for Wilda and Edna to tell the story – so every other Sunday Wilda got to tell the story and learned the more real you could make it the better the class was. This was where Wilda began to have a love for teaching the gospel to the little ones.
The man Wilda would fall in love with and marry actually started out by dating her cousin Edna! Her uncle Lyle was
teasing Wilda and Edna and said, “Now when Melvin comes to the door tonight the one that answers the door will get
to go with him!” Edna had a date that night so Wilda got to answer the door and sure enough Melvin asked her out!
Kay-Irene-Edith-Edna-Elenor-Dorthea Millward
After supper Wilda along with her cousins would have to get their lessons done, whether it was reading, arithmetic or
geography. Edna and Wilda (were the same age) joined the 4-H cooking club. They each had to can five pint bottles of fruits and vegetables. They would win first and second place ribbons on each bottle entered! With her cousins, they would make a ball diamond in the pasture and all the boys and girls in Bitter Creek would come for a ball game! Afternoons in the summertime they would walk down to Fairview and swim in “Big Hole”! They would have bonfires and candy pulls.
One fun experience Wilda had with Edna was going camping with the older girls in Bitter Creek! Alice Barrus took them and a few other girls in a little buggy up Cottonwood Lake. It stormed all night. They didn’t have a tent so they had to take their bed rolls and sleep in the girl’s restroom!
Wilda and Edna were taught to be great Sunday School teachers by observing the way her Aunt Mary would give the lesson and then find an exciting story with a good moral to tell. Mary decided it would be good for Wilda and Edna to tell the story – so every other Sunday Wilda got to tell the story and learned the more real you could make it the better the class was. This was where Wilda began to have a love for teaching the gospel to the little ones.
The man Wilda would fall in love with and marry actually started out by dating her cousin Edna! Her uncle Lyle was
teasing Wilda and Edna and said, “Now when Melvin comes to the door tonight the one that answers the door will get
to go with him!” Edna had a date that night so Wilda got to answer the door and sure enough Melvin asked her out!
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