Happy Birthday to her
Ramona celebrated the 11th anniversary of her 39th birthday a few weeks ago on July 23 errr…June 23. Hope I got THAT date correct. Yep, she turned 50 and yes, I have to say she is the youngest looking 50 year old I know.
Ramona the Birthday girl
Our cousin Liz Etheridge is also a very young looking 50, but her husband, my cousin Burr is even older than me. Liz and Ramona celebrate birthdays one day apart. Liz is the older 50 year old. Just had to say it. Another cousin, Janice Werst is right there in that same age range.
I’m the typical husband who rarely remembers birthdays, but I am getting better at it. I can remember son Joe David’s birthday because I attended his actual birth. Took pictures and everything. I remember several others including strangely, two friends who celebrate July 12 as birthdays. One of them lives in Texas, and another in California.
Liz Etheridge
If I really was pressured, I might remember several others. I remember my own birthday only because it falls on December 25. I have a friend who calls me every Christmas day and asks, “Were you REALLY born on Christmas Day?” Not sure what he is hinting at there.
But hitting the big 5-0 is a milestone of sorts…or maybe a millstone. I really stepped out of character and bought a cake, called a bunch of friends who lived in the area to come and help celebrate Ramona’s 50th. We met at a place in San Angelo called Sealy Flats. Our friend T. Gozney Thornton was playing that night and we had a table full there. We served chocolate cake to our table and several other tables who were there.
I even got a card for Ramona.
She said it was the best birthday she ever had. It wasn’t because of the card or the cake. It was because of the friends who showed up and helped us celebrate. It was because of all the friends well wishes on her Facebook site.
July 23, 2010. It was a good day to turn 50.
Ramona and David
Janice & Mark Werst
Mario & Rosalinda Martinez
Robbie Luxton
T. Gozney Thornton
(l) Pam Thornton & Friends
Mike & Mary Lou Elkins
J.B. & Pat Bitner
Laura & Mikel Jones
Lu Worsham, Dr. Karen Cody and friends
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Uh, July 23 hasn’t arrived yet. Oh well, Happy Birthday, Ramona, and the rest of you.
We have lots of July birthdays!
Of course, I did that on purpose just to see if any of you caught it…….thank you Linda (if I want Ramona to see this, I’ll mention it to her).
Happy Birthday, “LITTLE GIRL”.
Hey David, thanks for the birthday remembrance and the “young looking” comment…….but seriously…….THE OLDEST 50??? I know you just had to……I would have done the same……but you’re too much! Thanks for picking a “good” picture of me as opposed to others you could have picked!! haaa haaa…..I find it very ironic that this “forgetting birthday” problem you guys have appears to be genetic; or is it geriatric??? (Sorry….just had to do that!) Give the Birthday Girl a hug for me and thanks again for the remembrance!!
Thank you David! I lova you! It was the best birthday I could have ever hoped for!
David didn’t tell you that we got up at 4am to get to Kerrville to have my fasting bloodwork and teeth cleaned. What a way to start a birthday.
Then we went to Fredericksburg, shopped, ate lunch at Bajas, and bought some Freestone Peaches. It was such a wonderful birthday already!
Then we went to Sealy Flats to listen to T. Gozney Thornton and this is the part that makes me smile each time I think about it. Many of our friends where there to celebrate MY birthday! You don’t know how much that means to me!
Usually we see this many friends at funerals. lol I’m just a young chick…hahaha and hope to see our friends more often!
Thank you all for making this a birthday I’ll never forget! When was my birthday, David????
Glad to know that I’m not the only one who lies about my age.
I don’t really lie, I just have those who ask to guess and if it is “in my favor” I’ll reply, “you’re close.”
I can understand why a friend would doubt whether you were really born on Dec. 25th. You always tried to be so secretive about your personal life when you were younger. Like, you enjoyed keeping people guessing!!
BTW, were you REALLY born on Christmas day??
Yes. Ron Cameron.
David really was born on Xmas Day in 1948.
At about 04:30.
His horrorscope reveals a lot, more than he would want anyone to know.
Mike drove back to Big Lake before dawn to greet us, Beth & Thenolia Titus & myself, etc.
I was only almost 4 yrs old, but when Mike presented the little red scooter, I said “where’s the motor”.
Being sleep-deprived and all, he didn’t have a good answer.
But, I’m guessing , he wanted to be there on Xmas morning, because they had lost a two-year-old named Michael to hit & run driver in Temple, TX at GrandMa Bradford’s on 8th & French, when Beth was only 8 yrs old. What a vision to live with, for her nearly 54 years!
(Mike was used to being sleep-deprived for about 10 years, 1938 to 1948, from double shifts as a LinoType operator, Taylor Printing in Dallas, etc.
I still have the Texas Almanac edition from before WWII, Dallas Morning News, (Mike picked up extra shifts), & San Angelo Standard-Times, Houston Harte got his deferment from the Navy, during WWII.
It’s been fascinating going thru my GrandDad’s tax returns from 1943 & 1944, while they were feeding illegal T-Bones to the pilot trainees out in Alpine.
Anyway, our LinoType ancestors saw the News of the World pass before their very eyes, daily.
cheers, jwerst