by Priscilla H Wilson | Jun 17, 2011 | Aging, Family, Travel
Fred and Nancy remained in Chikale (village in India) getting ready as one of the visit sites from the IERD (International Exposition of Rural Development). They arrived in India in September, 1983 in the midst of the monsoons, spent a week in Maliwada at a council...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Jun 13, 2011 | Family, Writing
By Rodney Wilson Three bugle notes caught my attention “C – C – E”. It was just 9 PM and I was sitting on the barrack steps. The barracks of Company 332 5/44 US Navy Boot Camp San Diego, California will be my home for four weeks. How proud I felt to be a...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Jun 12, 2011 | Family
Rod Wilson Rodney to Priscilla. Quiet strength, Iron resolve. Humble….not seeking the limelight. Present. When our global initiatives stretched us beyond comfort, It was good to know that Rod was there. Rotary recognized that as well. Rod was a Rotary man, which means...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Jun 6, 2011 | Family
Rodney Wilson retired from the Santa Fe Railway in 1986 after forty-three years with the company. When he retired, it was the first time in the 20th Century that no member of his family was working with the Santa Fe. Rodney died at KU Medical Center Sunday evening,...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Mar 24, 2011 | Family, Writing
It can be wonderful when your offspring plot against you. Daughter Mary insisted my birthday dinner had to be on the date. When I explained that we were signed up for a class at church, she offered to write me an excuse note. I gave in. Yes, we would go to dinner on...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Aug 6, 2010 | Family
As I dust the pictures on our bedroom wall, memories of long ago swirl. Mary, now forty-six, is one-year-old sitting in front of Duke on the kitchen floor handing him his food from his dog bowl. My mind slips back to 1962. Rod and I have two sons but yearn for a...
