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More Memories of my Sister Christine

Came across some more pictures - ones that Christina had me scan for her.  Thought I'd post them in case anyone might be interested.

as a toddler

Tommy, Christina, and Cyril (c. 1942)

the three with mom and dad c.1945

Mom and dad must have been able to afford pictures more when there were only three kids - when the rest of us (8 surviving of 10 births) five came along we didn't get professional pictures taken except an occasional individual picture or group picture taken at school.

holding baby Cyril 1942

Being ten years older than me, Christina graduated from high school and left Garden Valley to live with some friends of the family (usually single mothers that needed someone to watch the children while they worked) or with family (Great-Aunt Kate (Sarah Catherine Tuttle Moore) who was in her 80's and still living in her home in Emmett.  She was living there when I was in high school in the mid 1960s.

At my baby shower, 1968

Christina met Frank Williamson in 1968 and they married in Winnemucca MV on July 19th, 1969.

Christi and mom

Christina and Frank

 

On trip with Christi abt 1989

At Reba's 1993 wedding to Lyle

I seem to be missing pictures from the late 1990s and early 2000s.  We just both got busy with our lives and families and only got together for family reunions, high school reunions and deaths.  Here's when our mom passed away in 1993...

Cyril, Jerry, Chris, Adrian, Me, Tom and TIm (Roger missing)

And when our brother Adrian died in 1999....

Cyril, Tom, Chris, Jerry, Me, Tim and Roger

Here are class reunions in GV...

2005

2010

Sunday, May 20, 2001 - London

Resuming my posting of my vacation in London and Ireland 2001

Cloudy on occasion – some sun, warm.

Up around 6 am, breakfast at 7 and off early – an all day pass on the ‘tube.’  First stop – Notting Hill and Portebello Rd.  Everyone had assured us that the markets were open on Sunday, and either they didn’t know or we were too early (many shops said they opened at 11am and we were there at 9:30).  The streets were deserted and strewn with garbage from Saturday market.  We asked directions from many citizens and finally found the Travel Book Store and what we believe was the blue door (which is now brown).  Nice neighborhood on a Sunday.

The ‘tube’ lines were being repaired in the direction we wanted to go, so we had to ride a ‘double-decker’ bus a ways (Edgeware Rd to Baker Street).  There we saw the long lines for Madam Tussauds’ but Brenda asked around and found we could go right in to the planetarium, then into the museum – cost £5 and saved us over an hour in line.

The Planetarium was good, but we went through a lot of film in the wax museum – we both had to pose with all our favorites.  The ride (London Thru Time[Spirit of London]) kept breaking down on us, but we finally got through.
 [Spirit of London – Hop into a black cab and take a journey back in time. Our special, mini versions of London’s world famous taxis have room for two and will drive you through the historic and cultural events that have shaped London into the great city it is today. So sit back and enjoy the ride! Your journey begins in Tudor times where Sir Francis Drake is riding the high seas. Quill in hand, Shakespeare is busy working on one of his masterpieces so don’t expect him to look up when you drive past. You’ll rush through a London haunted by plague and fire, slowing down just in time to see the new city being built by architect Sir Christopher Wren. Queen Victoria reigns over the London of the industrial revolution and you’ll hear the air raid sirens before you enter a London at war. But don’t worry; your cab will drive you safely through the blitz and into the swinging sixties, dropping you back off in today’s Madame Tussauds.]   

Back to the ‘tube’ and on to St John’s Wood to get a picture of Abbey Rd (Beatles’ album cover) – a popular spot with lots of tourists around.  A quick walk back up to the ‘tube’ and on to St Paul’s Cathedral.  It is closed on Sundays and we had limited photo opportunities cause it too was under repair. 

Next stop, Liverpool Street.  Brenda wanted a photo by a sign so she could surprise her friends – something about a popular song they all like about sitting in Liverpool all alone and depressed.  First we had to eat cause we were getting cranky.  Liverpool Street is a large ‘tube’ and rail station with lots of shops and cafes.  We got fish & chips at a pub there (JD Witherspoon Freehouse).
 
After the photo we went on to the British Museum.  We got help from a girl from Oxford who’d moved into the city – she directed from the station, but having spent 2 whole days together, Brenda and I decided to go through the museum on our own and meet back outside in 2 hours (6pm when it closed).  My feet were really sore so I only went through the Egypt, Greece and Roman exhibits (Brenda paid to see the Cleopatra exhibit).  I looked for souvenirs but found none.  When we were done we went through a shop across the street having a close-out sale.  There were kilts in there but I didn’t know the McMillan plaid.

My collection of CATS found in London architecture

On the way home we stopped at Picadilly Circus, bought souvenirs and ate at a steak house.  The ‘tube’ ride was a welcome relief – to sit down and chat for a while.  At the motel we sat with Richard and Sue while they finished dinner and all recapped our day.  Sue had a ‘Bailey’s ‘ Irish drink and I had an ale.  We’re leaving early in the morning so we spent a while packing and getting ready.

Memorial To My Sister - Christina Winne

Christina Williamson

Christina Winne Williamson, 73, of Emmett, passed away on October 22, 2010. She was born March 18, 1937 in Cascade, Idaho, the third of ten children of Cecil and Rachel (Crawford) Logue. Christina attended several grade schools as her father followed jobs across ID and WA. The family grew larger so they settled in Garden Valley, where Christina graduated from high school. After several years of providing nanny and elder care she met Frank Williamson and they married on July 19, 1969 in Winnemucca, NV. Christina and Frank settled in Emmett where she raised animals while he worked at the sawmill in Horseshoe Bend. After Frank passed away in 1988, Christina centered her life around her daughter and grandkids. 

Christina is survived by her daughter, Christiana and grandchildren, Amethyst and Devin of Emmett, brothers, Cyril and Roger Logue of Boise, Tim (Mary Jo) Logue of Caldwell, and Gerald Logue of Albuquerque, and sister, Reba (Lyle) McMillan, of Nampa, numerous nieces and nephews and many dear friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a sister, Miriam, and three brothers, George, Tom and Adrian Logue Memorial services will be held at Potters Funeral Chapel, Emmett, on Wednesday, Oct 27, 2010 at 4pm with an informal gathering following.

 posted in the Idaho Statesman newspaper, Tues, 26 Oct 2010.

 

From notes by Christina Williamson:

In Cascade we lived in a collapsible house.  Then at McGregor, in a tent (Dad was piling brush for Boise Cascade).  In Emmett Dad bought a trailer house.  Cyril was born May 13, 1941.  His doctor was CE Carver and when mother named Cyril the nurse, who was the doctor's wife, came in and asked if she wanted to give him the rest of the doctor's name - CE = Cyril Ellis.  Mother had found the name Cyril in a book and liked it and Ellis is the only name she could find to go with it, so he wasn't really named after his doctor even if it might have looked that way.

Trail Creek in a trailer house on Salmon River three years, wintering in Cascade.  Then Emmett, in a house across from the storage building.  Dad helped Grandpa Crawford build a house below the cemetery.

While living in Boise, when Dad was going to sheet metal school, Christina had measles and then pneumonia and was in the hospital in Emmett.  A lot of her stuffed toys were lost while they lived there.  When they moved to Walla Walla, Christina fell off a sign board and tore a large triangular gash in her arm.  She remembers going to the carnival while there, but not with Dad.

When they moved to Lewiston, Mom left Dad.  Christina started school in the first grade at a church school.  It was about six weeks after school had started, but because of the war and so many people moving in to work on the air bases, they weren't letting six year olds start school.  When they moved to Payette, Cyril had measles, mumps and whooping cough all at the same time.  It enlarged his tonsils.  There are pictures of Christina's birthday, with Tommy, Cyril, and a boy friend (yes, she did have boy friends).

They then moved to Emmett and lived in a small house on River Street, right next to the canal.  There was and still is a pipe across the canal there and a very small shallow spot where they played in the water a lot.  Tommy, Cyril and Christina stayed alone a lot and went to sleep listening to western music on the radio.  A kid who was allergic to poison oak had Christina and Tommy rub some all over them.  But they never broke out but the boy who told them which leaves to pick really got a bad rash.

Mom went back to Dad because she couldn't get any help from her family to help support them.  Her parents wouldn't even take care of use so Mom could work.  Dad fathered a son to a woman in Boise - it must have happened while he was there going to school because from leaving Walla Walla to going to Mountain Home was all one school year.  In Mountain Home they rented a place while Dad worked on the air base.  It was a tent in a place like an unkept trailer park, with whatever kind of temporary housing they could put up.  It was across the road from a service station and motel just south of the underpass.  Dad had friends named Bennett.  Christina learned about colored people.  She had a red headed friend who's parents whipped him until his legs were a mass of sores.  Then babied him and doctored them until they healed.  They would put money on the railroad tracks so the train would run over it and flatten it.  An older lady lived in a very small trailer house with a Boston bulldog.  She was very upset and cried a lot when FDR died.

Christina had a spell where she couldn't see and had to set on the curb until she could see before going on home after school one day.  her eyes were checked but they weren't bad (I know now it was a sinus problem).  Mom was the one who needed her eyes checked.

Peggy and Jim H  lived in the same park for a while and their son, Gary, killed our goldfish with a fork.

Cyril disliked eggs and if Tommy told him that cake had eggs in it, he wouldn't eat the cake.  Cyril didn't talk much.

We lost out first pet dog, a small black and tan about the size of a Chuhuahua.  We were playing in the park next to the service station and motel and the dog was setting back a ways from the road, waiting for us to come home.  A car came along and went clear off the road to hit him.

Christina cracked a bone in her arm falling out of a tree in the service station park.

Mom tried to teach Christina to dance.

Jim H got drunk and told Dad the hunting story of shooting the deer and the deer shooting him.

Cascade - rented a house across from school.  It was one of Johnny S's houses.  Adrian was born March 23, 1946.  Christina didn't sleep good because of Tommy's wetting the bed and would come home after school and go to sleep in a chair.  Donkey Campbell lived next door to Grandma and Grandpa Logue.  He got the name Donkey because he worked on a machine that was called a donkey.  It used cable to haul logs up the mountain and Donkey to do to a cable what a good cowboy could do to a rope - like making loops and braiding it back into itself.   Later Dad bought a 8' X 16' cabin on South 4th Street (pictures).  Christina accepted Christ as her Saviour at the Community Bible Church during a revival.

High Valley - Dad worked for Art Hanson.  He built a tent frame and we lived there summers - the first year by ourselves then Earl Allen moved in just up the creek from us.  He was married to one of the Pattons.  The pastor from the church at Cascade visited us that first year but he had moved from Cascade by the time we went back to school that fall.  Reba was born in November, 1947.

Wash days were a real chore when we had to do the whole wash on the wash board, but the second year we were in High Valley, Dad wanted a power saw and Mom wouldn't sign for the loan until he agreed to get enough and get her a washing machine.  It was still alot of work but so much easier especially when all Reba's messy diapers had to be soaked and rubbed on the wash board.

There was fishing, hunting - bear, deer, grouse - huckleberry picking and trips to town.  

 

 

As the family grew and moving around was not helpful to their education, they moved to Garden Valley in 1950 and there Christina graduated from high school.

She then left Garden Valley and stayed with different single mother families, watching their kids while the moms worked.

Christine stayed with Aunt Kate after her husband died.

 

 

 

 

Finally she met and married - Frank Williamson.

Then came Christi.  And later, the two grandchildren.

Ame

Devin

Saturday, May 19, 2001 London

Although we were to bed early, we managed to sleep until 7, getting up and showering.  I woke about every 2 hours.  Our rooms are tiny and the tub/shower is small and deep.  The view from our window is the dirty bricks of the backs of other buildings.  (I woke with no voice – laryngitis)

Sean gave Brenda and I a personal talk on what tube lines to take to the sites we want to see (the London Eye, Tower, etc).  Took tube to Westminster, walked over Thames [via the Westminster  Bridge] to London Eye (long lines).   We paid £4 for a day pass on the tube – Best Bargain.

[ The London Eye next to the Aquarium.  What an adventure, viewing that part of London from high above the Thames River.  We were able to see the ‘changing of the guard’ at Buckingham Palace.]

BIG BEN

We visited the aquarium after getting off the ‘Eye, ‘ taking many pictures of sharks, eels, stingrays, etc.  Talked with a family from Sweden.



Dali Exhibit in front of Aquarium.  




Then past Parliament to Westminster Abbey (Brenda went in and I waited for her).  While Brenda was in Westminster, a ‘Media March’ came by – up Victoria Street.  We saw them again at Trafalgar Square [later in the day].  Also running up and down the streets were a motorized sofa (complete w/lamp) and a motorized bed.  They zipped by so fast we couldn’t get pictures.  I went inside St Margaret’s Church (beautiful stained glass, gravestones mounted on the walls.

 Westminister Abbey

Media march

St Margaret's stained glass window.

A quick walk past St James Park to Buckingham Palace.  (Pictures of Diane’s Walk)  The guards changed at 11 am while we were riding the ‘Eye,’ but we got pictures of the guards.

St James Walk

Diana's Walk

 

 

 

 

 

Guard at Buckingham

From there we walked to Trafalgar Square.

[There were large lion statues around the middle – Nelson’s Column, seen in center of photo above.  I had been taking pictures of lions and these I added to my photo collection.]

Note: this was in 2001, but notice the 'Put SADDAM on Trial Now' sign.

From Trafalgar we went to Charing Cross station and took the ‘tube’ to Tower Hill.  We took pictures of the Tower of London and walked across Tower Bridge.  It was too late to tour the Tower so I ate fish & chips while Brenda shopped in the souvenir shop.  (At the aquarium we had bought tickets to a play, ‘Notre Dame de Paris’ which started at 7:45pm, so we had to get back to the hotel and freshen up before we headed out to Covent Gardens area.)

Tower Bridge

Brenda with Beefeater Guard

Tower of London

We took the ‘tube’ to Leicester Square and walked up Charing Cross Rd to the Dominion Theatre on Tottenham Court Rd.  The walk was crowded and busy as many people were headed out to plays and dinner.  When we saw the theatre we still had 20 minutes so we ducked into a lingerie shop where Brenda bought a cute purple number, skimpy with black fringe.  (She’s young and in love.)

The play, a musical, was very good.  See the enclosed brochure for info.  The highlights were the dancers ringing the bells, the dead girls dancing, and the wonder voices of the priest and the poet.  I should have bought a program – they cost £3.
 [It is based upon the novel Notre Dame de Paris by the French novelist Victor Hugo. The music was composed by Riccardo Cocciante (also known as Richard Cocciante) and the lyrics are by Luc Plamondon.
The play, a musical, was very good.  See the enclosed brochure for info.  The highlights were the dancers ringing the bells, the dead girls dancing, and the wonder voices of the priest and the poet.  I should have bought a program – they cost £3.

Original London Cast
•    Tina Arena : Esmeralda
•    Garou : Quasimodo
•    Daniel Lavoie : Frollo
•    Bruno Pelletier : Gringoire
•    Steve Balsamo : Phoebus
•    Luck Mervil : Clopin
•    Natasha St-Pier : Fleur-de-Lys
Female artists who later assumed the role of Esmeralda include American vocalist Patti Russo and Australian singer Dannii Minogue -this was the Esmeralda we saw.]

We got the ‘tube’ right across from the theatre, climbed down steep stairs, and went one stop where we caught another line (Picadilly) back to Earl’s Court.  All the ‘tubes’ were packed all evening – standing room only.  Brenda was tired and cross and went right to bed.  I came down to the lobby to write this.  Now I’m off to bed. (12:10am)