Victor was the son of James Trenton DePreste and Nina Edith Jones. As a youngster his dad nicknamed him "Buck." He was later affectionately called "Vic." Victor was united in marriage to Mildred Nadine Kiser on November 20, 1937 in in Springfield, Greene County, Missouri. Victor and Mildred were the parents of two wonderful daughters, Catherine Lynn "Cathy" and Nancy Ann DePreste, who are mine and my siblings only full first cousins. By the time they were born, our family was living some distance away on a farm southwest of Miller, and in the early summer of 1955 we moved to Texas, then on to California.
Our family always stopped by to see Uncle Victor at his service station in Springfield during our trips to Missouri, and on one or two trips we visited with Uncle Victor, Aunt Mildred and our cousins at their home in Springfield. I also have a memory of Cathy and Nancy coming by Uncle Victor's station when we were there once and seem to remember Cathy was driving a Chevrolet Corvair?, so they must have been in their mid to late teens at that time. The last I knew, Nancy and her husband had moved to Florida and we've sadly lost touch. Cathy married and stayed in Springfield and we've stayed in loose contact through the years via Email and it's been a great blessing and comfort to me knowing we can reach out to each other when important events occur in our family.
In his later years, Uncle Victor delivered medical supplies in southwest Missouri and I believe over into the eastern area of Kansas as well. He reconnected with his younger brother Paul in Webb City who sometimes (regularly?) rode with him on the deliveries. Thank you Uncle Victor, it meant the world to him spending time with you on your route. You are forever loved, remembered, and sorely missed by your family, friends, and associates.
~ A treasured story from Victor and Paul's childhood in Miller ~
A sometimes playmate from childhood remembered the DePreste family in Miller. "In the early 1930's, Victor and Paul DePreste lived in a big house across the street from us and had a huge hedge in their front yard. They made a hole in the hedge to hide in when they were up to their shenanigans. They wrapped up packages to put in the road and waited for travelers to stop and try to pick them up, then jerked the packages back with a string. A few people got pretty angry." [Dorothy, a Baldwin descendant of Cardin, Oklahoma]... Thank you Dorothy for sharing that wonderful story with me about twenty years ago, I'd forgotten about it until recently.
Our family always stopped by to see Uncle Victor at his service station in Springfield during our trips to Missouri, and on one or two trips we visited with Uncle Victor, Aunt Mildred and our cousins at their home in Springfield. I also have a memory of Cathy and Nancy coming by Uncle Victor's station when we were there once and seem to remember Cathy was driving a Chevrolet Corvair?, so they must have been in their mid to late teens at that time. The last I knew, Nancy and her husband had moved to Florida and we've sadly lost touch. Cathy married and stayed in Springfield and we've stayed in loose contact through the years via Email and it's been a great blessing and comfort to me knowing we can reach out to each other when important events occur in our family.
In his later years, Uncle Victor delivered medical supplies in southwest Missouri and I believe over into the eastern area of Kansas as well. He reconnected with his younger brother Paul in Webb City who sometimes (regularly?) rode with him on the deliveries. Thank you Uncle Victor, it meant the world to him spending time with you on your route. You are forever loved, remembered, and sorely missed by your family, friends, and associates.
~ A treasured story from Victor and Paul's childhood in Miller ~
A sometimes playmate from childhood remembered the DePreste family in Miller. "In the early 1930's, Victor and Paul DePreste lived in a big house across the street from us and had a huge hedge in their front yard. They made a hole in the hedge to hide in when they were up to their shenanigans. They wrapped up packages to put in the road and waited for travelers to stop and try to pick them up, then jerked the packages back with a string. A few people got pretty angry." [Dorothy, a Baldwin descendant of Cardin, Oklahoma]... Thank you Dorothy for sharing that wonderful story with me about twenty years ago, I'd forgotten about it until recently.
Victor was the son of James Trenton DePreste and Nina Edith Jones. As a youngster his dad nicknamed him "Buck." He was later affectionately called "Vic." Victor was united in marriage to Mildred Nadine Kiser on November 20, 1937 in in Springfield, Greene County, Missouri. Victor and Mildred were the parents of two wonderful daughters, Catherine Lynn "Cathy" and Nancy Ann DePreste, who are mine and my siblings only full first cousins. By the time they were born, our family was living some distance away on a farm southwest of Miller, and in the early summer of 1955 we moved to Texas, then on to California.
Our family always stopped by to see Uncle Victor at his service station in Springfield during our trips to Missouri, and on one or two trips we visited with Uncle Victor, Aunt Mildred and our cousins at their home in Springfield. I also have a memory of Cathy and Nancy coming by Uncle Victor's station when we were there once and seem to remember Cathy was driving a Chevrolet Corvair?, so they must have been in their mid to late teens at that time. The last I knew, Nancy and her husband had moved to Florida and we've sadly lost touch. Cathy married and stayed in Springfield and we've stayed in loose contact through the years via Email and it's been a great blessing and comfort to me knowing we can reach out to each other when important events occur in our family.
In his later years, Uncle Victor delivered medical supplies in southwest Missouri and I believe over into the eastern area of Kansas as well. He reconnected with his younger brother Paul in Webb City who sometimes (regularly?) rode with him on the deliveries. Thank you Uncle Victor, it meant the world to him spending time with you on your route. You are forever loved, remembered, and sorely missed by your family, friends, and associates.
~ A treasured story from Victor and Paul's childhood in Miller ~
A sometimes playmate from childhood remembered the DePreste family in Miller. "In the early 1930's, Victor and Paul DePreste lived in a big house across the street from us and had a huge hedge in their front yard. They made a hole in the hedge to hide in when they were up to their shenanigans. They wrapped up packages to put in the road and waited for travelers to stop and try to pick them up, then jerked the packages back with a string. A few people got pretty angry." [Dorothy, a Baldwin descendant of Cardin, Oklahoma]... Thank you Dorothy for sharing that wonderful story with me about twenty years ago, I'd forgotten about it until recently.
Our family always stopped by to see Uncle Victor at his service station in Springfield during our trips to Missouri, and on one or two trips we visited with Uncle Victor, Aunt Mildred and our cousins at their home in Springfield. I also have a memory of Cathy and Nancy coming by Uncle Victor's station when we were there once and seem to remember Cathy was driving a Chevrolet Corvair?, so they must have been in their mid to late teens at that time. The last I knew, Nancy and her husband had moved to Florida and we've sadly lost touch. Cathy married and stayed in Springfield and we've stayed in loose contact through the years via Email and it's been a great blessing and comfort to me knowing we can reach out to each other when important events occur in our family.
In his later years, Uncle Victor delivered medical supplies in southwest Missouri and I believe over into the eastern area of Kansas as well. He reconnected with his younger brother Paul in Webb City who sometimes (regularly?) rode with him on the deliveries. Thank you Uncle Victor, it meant the world to him spending time with you on your route. You are forever loved, remembered, and sorely missed by your family, friends, and associates.
~ A treasured story from Victor and Paul's childhood in Miller ~
A sometimes playmate from childhood remembered the DePreste family in Miller. "In the early 1930's, Victor and Paul DePreste lived in a big house across the street from us and had a huge hedge in their front yard. They made a hole in the hedge to hide in when they were up to their shenanigans. They wrapped up packages to put in the road and waited for travelers to stop and try to pick them up, then jerked the packages back with a string. A few people got pretty angry." [Dorothy, a Baldwin descendant of Cardin, Oklahoma]... Thank you Dorothy for sharing that wonderful story with me about twenty years ago, I'd forgotten about it until recently.
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