Robert G. Jenkins of New Haven Missouri
| THE JENKINS OF Virginia By Robert Gene Jenkins Chapter 1 As a young boy of say 4, we lived on Grant St. I remember a little green house with chickens in back yard and a big catalpa tree in front. Not much else!. The day of moving boy! with my fathers log truck! quite A sight big flat wooden bed 4 ft. off the ground. I really don’t remember that much about the moving, but I do remember a couple of friends of Tommy Raymond Manias and mine. Tom and I got along best! Raymond was kind of bully with Tom and me. Hambrow, that is the street we moved to right next to a Dairy cream or hamburger stand as they were called back then. The mayor Lewis smelts owned it. It was quite exciting for a young boy of 6. I use to watch out the window of our upstairs, and watch kids make out in the back seat of cars, you know kiss and stuff, nothing more but for a 6 year old not bad. I think we moved there in about 1958 or 59. In 1961 right after my big brother George's 12 birthday, he suffered of appendicitis and died It really devastated us all! Kind of broke us apart, we never really talked about it very much, but you know I think it bothered my older brother Charles the most my mother and father came home and told us kids every body was crying, but for me the tears just did not seem to come. I wanted to but just did not happen guess I was in denial still could believe God would let my older brother die. At the time I was only 8 years old and to me it just did not make sense. Chares being the oldest, he took on a big responsibility like it or not I guess he found himself taking Georges place, which was a big load considering he to had lost a brother, and he was only 10 himself . I could remember almost every day after school when I got home mom was crying for about the rest of the school year. My mother is about 77, now on dialysis for her kidneys and has lost 3 more children, Amy Loufor bad heart, Judy diabetes, and my sister Barbara got electrocuted . I just had surgery around Thanksgiving. The Parkinson DC installed 2 what they call deep brain stimulators. Theywork pretty well actually, sitting here falling a sleep, time for a nap. Well I am back feeling better ok lets get serious I would say when I was about 14 I started my first job $15 a week at Union bowling ally seemed like Iwas a natural when it came to mechanics been at it ever fence .but I did like to bowl! and that came pretty easy forme to the first summer after school let outat 14 all I real wanted to do was go fishing I mean I had the fever really bad it was Saturday morning about seven or eight I was just started to unlock the doorwhen around the corner came all my buds fishing pole in hand . It was just too much temptation for a fourteenyear boy . I told the guys just a minute so I unlocked the door grabbed my pole which I kept there just in case you know a fourteen-year-old boy just never knows when a situation might ariseso out the door I went next thing I new was is that we were on our way . It was a nice spring day almost summer school had just ended for summer about end of may I think the birds were singing sun shining little breeze a blowing . we had ab | Robert G. Jenkins of New Haven Missouri Updated May 7, 2004 |
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