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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