This is my Grandmother, she was born in Alabama, and is the daughter of George Washington McDonald and Sarah Emily Coin. She and her husband, James R. Hilton, and children; Ralph, Dan, and Marion moved to California in 1930. Lois was born later.
I remember her as a strong, independant, Christian woman. She loved her church and had complete faith. My dad told of when we where in Yellowstone park and grandma, who lived at 247 E. 105th St. in Los Angeles, during the Watts Riots, was outside telling the rioters to stop! Her next door neighbor was killed by police.
She had a big car, a Edsel, I think, and she had a problem backing out of her drive way and put a big hole into her church that is across the street! My dad and his construction friends patched the 10x8 foot hole. If you google map her house you can see the out line of the patch to this day.
She would also drive from East L.A. to our house, in La Mirada, for Christmas. One Christmas she made it around the block went up a driveway, across a lawn, between two trees scraping both of them, and hit the Holcomb's brick planter. My dad fixed the planter and took her license!
In her small Spanish style house, she raised four kids. How they could lived in such a small place must of been interesting. I remember the green overstuffed chair and couch. She always had mints in a bowl on the table. They finally moved her to a bungalo apartment but she always lived alone with her song bird. I have many pictures of her friends at church.
I remember her as a strong, independant, Christian woman. She loved her church and had complete faith. My dad told of when we where in Yellowstone park and grandma, who lived at 247 E. 105th St. in Los Angeles, during the Watts Riots, was outside telling the rioters to stop! Her next door neighbor was killed by police.
She had a big car, a Edsel, I think, and she had a problem backing out of her drive way and put a big hole into her church that is across the street! My dad and his construction friends patched the 10x8 foot hole. If you google map her house you can see the out line of the patch to this day.
She would also drive from East L.A. to our house, in La Mirada, for Christmas. One Christmas she made it around the block went up a driveway, across a lawn, between two trees scraping both of them, and hit the Holcomb's brick planter. My dad fixed the planter and took her license!
In her small Spanish style house, she raised four kids. How they could lived in such a small place must of been interesting. I remember the green overstuffed chair and couch. She always had mints in a bowl on the table. They finally moved her to a bungalo apartment but she always lived alone with her song bird. I have many pictures of her friends at church.
This is my Grandmother, she was born in Alabama, and is the daughter of George Washington McDonald and Sarah Emily Coin. She and her husband, James R. Hilton, and children; Ralph, Dan, and Marion moved to California in 1930. Lois was born later.
I remember her as a strong, independant, Christian woman. She loved her church and had complete faith. My dad told of when we where in Yellowstone park and grandma, who lived at 247 E. 105th St. in Los Angeles, during the Watts Riots, was outside telling the rioters to stop! Her next door neighbor was killed by police.
She had a big car, a Edsel, I think, and she had a problem backing out of her drive way and put a big hole into her church that is across the street! My dad and his construction friends patched the 10x8 foot hole. If you google map her house you can see the out line of the patch to this day.
She would also drive from East L.A. to our house, in La Mirada, for Christmas. One Christmas she made it around the block went up a driveway, across a lawn, between two trees scraping both of them, and hit the Holcomb's brick planter. My dad fixed the planter and took her license!
In her small Spanish style house, she raised four kids. How they could lived in such a small place must of been interesting. I remember the green overstuffed chair and couch. She always had mints in a bowl on the table. They finally moved her to a bungalo apartment but she always lived alone with her song bird. I have many pictures of her friends at church.
I remember her as a strong, independant, Christian woman. She loved her church and had complete faith. My dad told of when we where in Yellowstone park and grandma, who lived at 247 E. 105th St. in Los Angeles, during the Watts Riots, was outside telling the rioters to stop! Her next door neighbor was killed by police.
She had a big car, a Edsel, I think, and she had a problem backing out of her drive way and put a big hole into her church that is across the street! My dad and his construction friends patched the 10x8 foot hole. If you google map her house you can see the out line of the patch to this day.
She would also drive from East L.A. to our house, in La Mirada, for Christmas. One Christmas she made it around the block went up a driveway, across a lawn, between two trees scraping both of them, and hit the Holcomb's brick planter. My dad fixed the planter and took her license!
In her small Spanish style house, she raised four kids. How they could lived in such a small place must of been interesting. I remember the green overstuffed chair and couch. She always had mints in a bowl on the table. They finally moved her to a bungalo apartment but she always lived alone with her song bird. I have many pictures of her friends at church.
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