This spot becomes the first place to remember...
Not exactly a scraping baby boy, however possessing most of the essential parts. I can’t remember much about the early years living in Eureka, South Dakota. My father Barney (Bernhardt Johannes) had returned from the service and was working with his father (Grandpa John) as a stone mason. Mother (Mary Elizabeth) was a nurse at the local hospital. There are vague recollections of a little room and a soft pillows. It turns we lived in a garage and a lot that was destined for a house one day but while in Eureka we never made it. There are also memories of the living in the garage and walking across and down the street to the second house from the corner where Grandpa and Grandma lived.
I remember Grandpa John’s garden. It seemed like a forest to me with green everywhere taller than I was. Grandpa was a big man and his lap reminded me of those soft pillows in my little bed.
Grandma Elizabeth was a little lady and always seemed to be the translater for Grandpa.
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