Married: Virginia Mae King Harper on 10 Mar 1925 in Brownsville, Cameron, Texas.
Children:
Raymond Claude Harper Jr.
Charlotte Ann Harper O'Bryan-Mason
John Lawrence Harper
Mary Frances Harper Smith
Billie George Harper
Grandpa had red hair, blue eyes, and wonderful tenor singing voice. He had lung trouble which made him sickly in his last years.
While working for the US Dept. of Agriculture, Grandpa helped develop the Texas Ruby Red Grapefruit. Following is a short history of the Ruby Red.
"The 1929 Ruby Red patent was associated with real commercial success, which came after the discovery of a red grapefruit growing on a pink variety. Only with the introduction of the Ruby Red did the grapefruit transform into a real agricultural success. The Red grapefruit, starting with the Ruby Red, has even become a symbolic fruit of Texas, where white "inferior" grapefruit were eliminated and only red grapefruit were grown for decades. Using radiation to trigger mutations, new varieties were developed to retain the red tones which typically faded to pink, the Rio Red variety is the current (2007) Texas grapefruit with registered trademarks Rio Star and Ruby-Sweet, also sometimes promoted as "Reddest" and "Texas Choice". (published by Wikipedia)
Children:
Raymond Claude Harper Jr.
Charlotte Ann Harper O'Bryan-Mason
John Lawrence Harper
Mary Frances Harper Smith
Billie George Harper
Grandpa had red hair, blue eyes, and wonderful tenor singing voice. He had lung trouble which made him sickly in his last years.
While working for the US Dept. of Agriculture, Grandpa helped develop the Texas Ruby Red Grapefruit. Following is a short history of the Ruby Red.
"The 1929 Ruby Red patent was associated with real commercial success, which came after the discovery of a red grapefruit growing on a pink variety. Only with the introduction of the Ruby Red did the grapefruit transform into a real agricultural success. The Red grapefruit, starting with the Ruby Red, has even become a symbolic fruit of Texas, where white "inferior" grapefruit were eliminated and only red grapefruit were grown for decades. Using radiation to trigger mutations, new varieties were developed to retain the red tones which typically faded to pink, the Rio Red variety is the current (2007) Texas grapefruit with registered trademarks Rio Star and Ruby-Sweet, also sometimes promoted as "Reddest" and "Texas Choice". (published by Wikipedia)
Married: Virginia Mae King Harper on 10 Mar 1925 in Brownsville, Cameron, Texas.
Children:
Raymond Claude Harper Jr.
Charlotte Ann Harper O'Bryan-Mason
John Lawrence Harper
Mary Frances Harper Smith
Billie George Harper
Grandpa had red hair, blue eyes, and wonderful tenor singing voice. He had lung trouble which made him sickly in his last years.
While working for the US Dept. of Agriculture, Grandpa helped develop the Texas Ruby Red Grapefruit. Following is a short history of the Ruby Red.
"The 1929 Ruby Red patent was associated with real commercial success, which came after the discovery of a red grapefruit growing on a pink variety. Only with the introduction of the Ruby Red did the grapefruit transform into a real agricultural success. The Red grapefruit, starting with the Ruby Red, has even become a symbolic fruit of Texas, where white "inferior" grapefruit were eliminated and only red grapefruit were grown for decades. Using radiation to trigger mutations, new varieties were developed to retain the red tones which typically faded to pink, the Rio Red variety is the current (2007) Texas grapefruit with registered trademarks Rio Star and Ruby-Sweet, also sometimes promoted as "Reddest" and "Texas Choice". (published by Wikipedia)
Children:
Raymond Claude Harper Jr.
Charlotte Ann Harper O'Bryan-Mason
John Lawrence Harper
Mary Frances Harper Smith
Billie George Harper
Grandpa had red hair, blue eyes, and wonderful tenor singing voice. He had lung trouble which made him sickly in his last years.
While working for the US Dept. of Agriculture, Grandpa helped develop the Texas Ruby Red Grapefruit. Following is a short history of the Ruby Red.
"The 1929 Ruby Red patent was associated with real commercial success, which came after the discovery of a red grapefruit growing on a pink variety. Only with the introduction of the Ruby Red did the grapefruit transform into a real agricultural success. The Red grapefruit, starting with the Ruby Red, has even become a symbolic fruit of Texas, where white "inferior" grapefruit were eliminated and only red grapefruit were grown for decades. Using radiation to trigger mutations, new varieties were developed to retain the red tones which typically faded to pink, the Rio Red variety is the current (2007) Texas grapefruit with registered trademarks Rio Star and Ruby-Sweet, also sometimes promoted as "Reddest" and "Texas Choice". (published by Wikipedia)
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