Ozarks Honor Flight, May 10

Gene David and Tracy Bales of Mountain View went on the Ozarks Honor Flight to Washington, D. C.  on May 10.  Gene served in the U. S. Navy in 1945-46.  Tracy was in the Army during the Korean War.

Former Seaman Gene David was accompanied by his grandson, Dr. Andrew Ellett.

Grandson Lance David and granddaughter Karis met Gene in Washington, D. C. 

An Invasion of My Corner of the Ozarks

Over the Memorial Day weekend there was an invasion by the Nuttle family in the Ozarks.  Twenty-some descendants of Edith Flossie Giddings Nuttle Everhart gathered at Mountain View.

It was not easy to organize this clan for a picture.

On Friday before the family arrived, our backyard was a lake.

 But true to the nature of the Ozarks, the water drained away through the sinkhole in the backyard and we played volleyball on the "dry lake bed" on Saturday.

 Graves of family members buried at Mountain View were visited:  Jack & Maxine Jackson and Corliss & Marj Depee.

Can you discover who is giving directions?

This group traveled all the way from Ohio.

This group traveled all the way from Kansas.









The history of this family includes homesteading in western Kansas by John Alonzo Giddings in 1886.  He was Linda's (my wife) great-grandfather.  Three of his grandchildren moved to Mountain View in the 1950's.  I'm glad they did, because that is why I met Linda in the fifth grade.  (And married her while in college.)