My fond Memories of Aunt Bert - by William 'Bill' Burdette.
Bertha Leola Dodson was known as 'Aunt Bert' to my siblings and me. During her lifetime, she was the unofficial family historian for the Dodson and Yancey branches of our family. Aunts Bert and Mary were sisters of my Grandmother, Sophronia Elizabeth (Dodson) Cabe. Aunt Bert was never married and during the many years I knew her, she and her widowed sister Mary (Dodson) Vaughn lived together. Aunt Bert worked and retired from a textile mill in Avondale, GA. In their later years, she and Aunt Mary loved to travel.
In June of 1961 the two of them rode a bus to visit their brother, Uncle Will, who lived in Roland, OK. Several weeks later, on the way home from Oklahoma City, I picked the two of them up at Uncle Will's home and drove them back to GA in my worn out old Dodge auto. (We lost the car muffler on that trip home and they thought that that was 'fun' and found me a wire coat hanger to tie the muffler back on!)
Later, Aunts Mary and Bert decided to take a cross-country tour bus trip from GA through Yellowstone Park and on to Washington State!
Bertha Leola Dodson was known as 'Aunt Bert' to my siblings and me. During her lifetime, she was the unofficial family historian for the Dodson and Yancey branches of our family. Aunts Bert and Mary were sisters of my Grandmother, Sophronia Elizabeth (Dodson) Cabe. Aunt Bert was never married and during the many years I knew her, she and her widowed sister Mary (Dodson) Vaughn lived together. Aunt Bert worked and retired from a textile mill in Avondale, GA. In their later years, she and Aunt Mary loved to travel.
In June of 1961 the two of them rode a bus to visit their brother, Uncle Will, who lived in Roland, OK. Several weeks later, on the way home from Oklahoma City, I picked the two of them up at Uncle Will's home and drove them back to GA in my worn out old Dodge auto. (We lost the car muffler on that trip home and they thought that that was 'fun' and found me a wire coat hanger to tie the muffler back on!)
Later, Aunts Mary and Bert decided to take a cross-country tour bus trip from GA through Yellowstone Park and on to Washington State!
My fond Memories of Aunt Bert - by William 'Bill' Burdette.
Bertha Leola Dodson was known as 'Aunt Bert' to my siblings and me. During her lifetime, she was the unofficial family historian for the Dodson and Yancey branches of our family. Aunts Bert and Mary were sisters of my Grandmother, Sophronia Elizabeth (Dodson) Cabe. Aunt Bert was never married and during the many years I knew her, she and her widowed sister Mary (Dodson) Vaughn lived together. Aunt Bert worked and retired from a textile mill in Avondale, GA. In their later years, she and Aunt Mary loved to travel.
In June of 1961 the two of them rode a bus to visit their brother, Uncle Will, who lived in Roland, OK. Several weeks later, on the way home from Oklahoma City, I picked the two of them up at Uncle Will's home and drove them back to GA in my worn out old Dodge auto. (We lost the car muffler on that trip home and they thought that that was 'fun' and found me a wire coat hanger to tie the muffler back on!)
Later, Aunts Mary and Bert decided to take a cross-country tour bus trip from GA through Yellowstone Park and on to Washington State!
Bertha Leola Dodson was known as 'Aunt Bert' to my siblings and me. During her lifetime, she was the unofficial family historian for the Dodson and Yancey branches of our family. Aunts Bert and Mary were sisters of my Grandmother, Sophronia Elizabeth (Dodson) Cabe. Aunt Bert was never married and during the many years I knew her, she and her widowed sister Mary (Dodson) Vaughn lived together. Aunt Bert worked and retired from a textile mill in Avondale, GA. In their later years, she and Aunt Mary loved to travel.
In June of 1961 the two of them rode a bus to visit their brother, Uncle Will, who lived in Roland, OK. Several weeks later, on the way home from Oklahoma City, I picked the two of them up at Uncle Will's home and drove them back to GA in my worn out old Dodge auto. (We lost the car muffler on that trip home and they thought that that was 'fun' and found me a wire coat hanger to tie the muffler back on!)
Later, Aunts Mary and Bert decided to take a cross-country tour bus trip from GA through Yellowstone Park and on to Washington State!
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