Katheryne Hail Travis

 Found a few paintings by KatherynenTravis.

Wanda Aday Smith

Wanda Aday Smith(1943 - 2017)

In memory of a faithful daughter, mother, sister, wife.


Wanda Aday Smith passed away Friday, May 13, 2017. Wanda was born to parents George and Pearl Aday in Dixon, California on December 5th 1943.

She was raised in central California primarily in the town of Maricopa, California where she graduated from Maricopa High School then later attended Taft Community College in Taft, California.

In the mid 1960s Wanda and her sister Conda moved to Santa Barbara where they both worked in retail. In 1964 following the death of their mother the sisters took custody of their four year old brother Leroy Aday and raised him into his early adult years.

In June 1968 Wanda married Richard T. (Dick) Smith in Santa Barbara. Wanda worked at Lerner Shops clothing store where she started as a window dresser and was promoted through the ranks to the manager position, becoming the youngest Lerner manager in the state of California. Dick was a Deputy Sheriff with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's department where he worked until retiring in 1991 at the rank of Sergeant. Wanda later went to work at Hallmark shops in Santa Barbara and Goleta, California where again she was store manager until her retirement in 1992.

On June 6, 1973 their daughter Julie was born in Goleta, California where she attended schools in the Santa Barbara Public School System, graduating from San Marcos High School. She continued her education in the field of nursing and has been a nurse for the past 20 plus years.

Dick and Wanda retired in 1991 and moved to Durango in 1992 where Wanda worked as co-manager of the London Fog store and later worked at The Galloping Goose gift shop. Dick worked at the La Plata County Sheriff's Office as a Civilian Civil Process Server from 1994 to 2006.

The Smiths enjoyed travel and visited several states including Alaska and Hawaii and several countries including Canada, Mexico, England, Scotland, Panama, Costa Rica, and several Caribbean islands.

Wanda had many interests beginning with God and family and including cooking, gardening and reading as well as the fun filled monthly get together with the ladies in her Bunco group.

Wanda is survived by her husband of 49 years Dick Smith of Durango, their daughter Julie, sister Conda, brothers George and Leroy Aday, three grandsons and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her parents George and Pearl Aday, infant sister Regina and brother Robert Aday who was killed in combat in 1969 while serving in Vietnam with the Army's 25th Infantry Division. He died trying to save a wounded soldier and was posthumously awarded the Silver Star and his fourth Purple Heart.

A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. at Florida Mesa Presbyterian Church, 1024 County Road 230, Durango CO, with Pastor Dan Straw officiating.

In Lieu of flowers friends may want to remember Hospice of Mercy.

Sally and Nola Miles

Nola and Sally Miles were sisters, daughters of William Edward Miles and Sarah Elizabeth Cody Miles.  (Sarah Cody was Lee Cody's sister, Lee Betty Blevins' husband).Nola married Robert Roberts and Sally married Alfred Bess.  Nola and Robert Roberts are on the left and Sally and Alfred Bess on the right.

Robert Roberts was born July 7, 1888 and Nola Miles July 30, 1897.  They were parents of R. J. Roberts, who was the father of Steven Roberts.  Steve's partial obituary:  Steven Roberts, age 60, of Omaha, Arkansas, passed away Friday, April 17, 2015, at his home. He was born January 14, 1955, in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, the son of Robert Justin “RJ” and Jeanie (Pugh) Roberts, who preceded him in death. 

 I found these three pictures that relate to the first old photo at Ancestry.  First, one her porch is Nola Miles Roberts.  I think the picture was taken in Ok.  Below, is her husband Robert Justin Roberts (he was called Bob).

This last photo is of the Nola and Bob's grandson, Steve, when he was in High School in Tulsa, OK,  1971. 

Aday Land Records Stone County Missouri

These are first entry land patents from BLM records online

http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/

Names	Date	State	Twp - Rng	Aliquots	Sec. #	County
ADAY, JAMES I	2/12/1902	MO	021N - 024W	SE¼SW¼	13	Stone
			021N - 024W	E½NW¼	24	Stone
			021N - 024W	NW¼NE¼	24	Stone
ADAY, JOHN	2/17/1890	MO	021N - 024W	SW¼SE¼	22	Stone
			021N - 024W	NW¼	27	Stone
			021N - 024W	W½NE¼	27	Stone
ADAY, MARTHA	2/15/1876	MO	021N - 024W	S½SW¼	22	Stone
ADAY, WILLIAM G	11/25/1879	MO	021N - 024W	NW¼SW¼	22	Stone

And a map showing the location of sections 22/27, John Aday land along Indian Creek.

Memories

A little stream flows through the hills,

Above it sings the whippoorwills.

In years gone by it heard the squeal

Of childrens merry laughter peal,

As they would skip and slip and slide,

And watch the sunlit fishes glide

Over rocks and down the sandy side

Of the banks of the stream where the children bide

Their time on shimmering, summer days

And splash and play in the summer haze.

But a single strand of memory frays

And breaks the bonds of bygone days.

On the banks of the creek no one stays

Where the children played in the summer haze,

They all grew up and moved away

From the banks of the creek and children's play.

But sometimes, on a sunlit summer day,

Surely, thoughts return and memories stray

To the banks of the creek and children's play,

On a shimmering, sunlit summer's day.

Memories Copyright © 1988 by Fleta Aday.

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