HELEN VONDELL

Vonnie is buried at Memorial Gardens in Farmington, New Mexico. At the time of her death she was married to Doug Florance.  She always hated the name Helen Vondell and insisted that when she died she was going to known as Vonnie B. Florance.  

Vonnie and Jack had one son: John Carmichael Cauthen III.
Vonnie and Gene had two girls: Teresa Jean and Holly Vondell Hall.

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BYRL RAY

Byrl Ray is buried in the Riverside National Cemetery in California.  Riverside is a military cemetery located across from March Air Force Base.  Byrl is a twin of Myrl Ray that died at birth in1925.  He named his second son after his twin.  He was a Tech Sergeant in the Army during WWII.  When the war was over he married Pauline Gray, his childhood sweetheart from Dolores.   They lived in Dove Creek, Dolores and Farmington before moving to California in the early '50s.  He went to night school and became a machinist when the aircraft industry boomed, as well as the space program, making parts for the new jet age and for the space rockets and eventually the Space Shuttle.  He was very well know as one of the top men in the machinist field.  Had a lot of good, fun times with Byrl.

Byrl and Pauline had three children:  Kathy Jean, Dennis Ray (deceased) and Myrl Ray (deceased).

I was unable to obtain a photo of his headstone marker and I don't have any good photos of him.  If someone has any let me know and I will update this when I get them.

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DOROTHY DARLENE

Dorothy Darlene McCarty

Birth: 2 Aug 1923; Death: 7 Jan 2008 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah; Civil: California; U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014

Darlene was married to Jimmy McCarty and no children.

They lived in  the Salt Lake City area since the early sixties.

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VIRGIL RUSH

Virgil is buried in the Summit Ridge Cemetery in Dolores, CO.

Sorry I didn't have better pictures of him.

Virgil was married to Maureen and divorced, no children.  Then married to Marion.  

One daughter, Virgie Ray Landowski

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VENCIL LOWELL

Vencil and wife Velma are buried in Pleasant ridge Cemetery in Carmen, OK. 

Vencil was born October 10, 1919.

They had four children:  Lance Edward Berry, Launa Diane Jenlink, Bruce Clayton and Bradley Dee Berry
Vencil was my fishing buddy, along with Virgil.  Vencil taught me how to river fish on the good old Dolores River where I spent so many happy hours.

                                        

                                         

                                         




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LEROY IVAN

Roy is buried in the Summit Ridge Cemetery in Dolores.

Roy was married to Doris Noe.

They had two children, Cheryl Lynn Stackhouse and Johnny (?) Berry.

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BURNESS CECILE

Cecile and Merton Taylor are buried in the Summit Ridge Cemetery in Dolores.  Before moving to Dolores I remember her living in and running the telephone office in Dove Creek in the 1940s with her two boys.  She later met and married Merton Taylor.  Not sure of the year.  Cecile was very active in the community and was one of the people responsible for getting the Anasazi Ruins and Heritage Center developed.  
Cecile and Merton didn't have any children.  Cecile had two boys from a prior marriage:  Cecil Dean and Oscar Eugene Gustin.

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FERN MAXINE

Fern and husband Homer Roush are buried in the Eagle Chief Cemetery southwest of Carmen, Oklahoma.  Fern was the second eldest of  the twelve.  Even tho I didn't know her very well, she always seemed to be a a fun loving person.  Wish I could have spent more time with her like I did with Vonnie and Ann.
Fern and Homer lived in Oklahoma City, for as long as I knew them, and had 4 kids, all boys.  Don & John (twins), Jerry and Gary Gene.  (Sorry I didn't have a picture.)

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VERNITTA VELOISE

Vernitta and Faris Brown are buried in Wichita, Kansas. She is the eldest of the 12 siblings.  They moved to Wichita where both of them worked for, and retired from ,Dole Packing Company,.  She was first and I was last.  There was a 27 year age gap between us so I didn't get to know her as well as I would have liked to.  Spoils of a large family.
Vernita and Faris had one son, Eddie Dean Brown.  (Deceased)

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CHILDREN OF GARRISON CEMETERY

The following children of B.C. and Alice Berry are buried in the Garrison Cemetery in Oklahoma.  These graves went unmarked up until 2010.  I don't know why there was never any markers put on them.  I always thought it was a shame for them to be remembered is this manner and I always got a weird feeling when I thought about them being there but not known.  So I started researching death records of Alfalfa County and recruited the help of my late nephew, Ed Brown.  The only death record was for Elsie Pauline when she died in an accident and the remaining three were found by searching cemetery records.  I found their records but no dates to go with them.  Thankfully Ed's mother, Vernita, had kept records of all of them, names, month and year.  Ed had to do a lot of searching through things Vernita had left but finally we came up with everything.  Along with that, Ed, God bless his soul, made four or five trips from Wichita to the Garrison Cemetery and met with the caretakers  for us to make the final arrangements for these headstones to be put on them.  I couldn't have completed all of this without Ed's help.  Alva Monument was exceptionally nice to us and even gave us a special price when he found out what we were doing.  Anyhow, now they are very nicely marked and will always be remembered.

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BURNESS CECIL & ALICE SCRILDA BERRY

Burness Cecil and Alice Berry are buried at the Sunnyside Cemetery (Summit Ridge) in Dolores, Colorado.  They were married June 12, 1909 in Yewed, OK.  Mom was only 15  and my dad turned 21 in August.  My mom's whole life was about having kids  and raising a family, she had her first child at age 15 and her last at age 45.  They are the beginning of our immediate family that produced 16 children and so many grandchildren I don't even know the count.  The one count I do know is, there are 29 first cousins.  Dad had four brothers, Herbert, Melvin, Loren and Clint.  Mom had one sister, Amy (Rush) Delano.
They moved to Dolores in the winter of 1947/48 and we lived on the northeast corner of 9th Street and Hillside Avenue in Dolores.  Whenever I look at these pictures I see two people that were very humble, but proud and gracious.  My mom's eyes reflect the love she always had and my dad's seem to reflect the sadness and hardships in his life.

1964

50th Wedding Anniversary 1959

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BENJAMIN F. & FANNIE F. RUSH

Benjamin Franklin and Fannie F. Rush we my grandparents on my mother's side.  This is where I got my middle name of Franklin.  Fannie's maiden name was Gillis.  They were married May 23, 1889 in Crawfordsville, IN. They are buried in the Pleasant Ridge Cemetery north of Carmen, Oklahoma.  They originally had a farm northeast of Alva and I think they stayed there until after the Dust Bowl.  Unlike the Berry side of the family, they did not leave Oklahoma. How they survived and how they wound up in Carmen I don't know.  Mom talked a lot about sister Amy and her growing up in Indiana but never very much about their life in Oklahoma.  Being the last of the family is hard in trying to remember things that you weren't old enough to remember in the first place.  ?  The things that mom did say about him made me believe that he was more of a business man than a farmer.

                           Believe to be Great Grandfather.

                           Believe to be Great Grandmother.

                           Mother & Father of Fannie.

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JAMES T. & OLIVE MAY BERRY

James T. Berry is a brother to my grandfather, Emmons.  James and Olive are buried in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery north of Carmen, Oklahoma.  I have no information on either of them.  When I found their headstone I asked my sister Anne about them but she was like me.  Nothing.  And I don't ever remember mom and dad talking about them.  They may have and I just wasn't paying attention.  Anyhow, they are some part of the equation.

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EMMONS L. & LENORA T. BERRY

Emmons and Lenora Berry are my grandparents.  They are as far back as I have traced the Berry family.  They are buried in Bellevue Memorial Park in Ontario, California located on the northwest corner of Mountain Avenue and West G Street.  They moved to California in about 1936 during the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma and took up residence in Upland, just north of Ontario.  I'm not sure what he did to make a living.  He was a farmer in Oklahoma and I can't recall my dad ever saying what line of work he was in.  I remember visiting their house once but I think that was after he passed away.  When they moved there Upland and Ontario were just towns scattered throughout the valley.  Even in the early '50s there wasn't much there.  I remember going from Downey, where my Uncle Clint lived, to Upland and we traveled through a lot areas that didn't have anything.  Now it's just one big city from the mountains to the coast.

 This was their house in Upland, CA

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