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HONORING SENIORS

Joy

to the World

by Jody Boudreaux Wilson

Not only is ow could it When the family moved to Shawnee, OK, Mama

already be drove the truck loaded with household items. There
laughter good HDecember? were no funds for bus fare so eighteen-month-old

medicine, it is Most folks in Seminole, Joy and Daddy hitchhiked to Shawnee. In 1932
Oklahoma were
Daddy took Joy to the Shawnee Christmas Parade.
great exercise - like planning Christmas. As they left the house, Joy saw a woman with a
black bag enter their gate. A baby brother, Murry,
Julia rubbed her
internal jogging. swollen tummy. was born December 14. Joy adored the baby, but
when he made her angry, she would remind him,
The Park family was
expecting a baby, and “You don’t really belong to us. You were brought to
soon. Little did they us in a little black bag.”
know this baby would
bring joy for a lifetime. She and Murry were close, always together. They
She was born December 3, 1928, and they named were quite a pair with their “Buster Brown”
her Joy. Imagine their delight when she started haircuts, courtesy of Daddy’s barber shop. Saturday
walking at eight months! The content, happy baby afternoons were spent at the movies. Admission
brightened their days. price was two Wonder Bread wrappers. Tom Mix
and cowboy serials filled their Saturdays with
Joy was one year old when the Stock Market wonder. Sundays were spent in church. Grandma
crashed. Money was tight, so Daddy, a carpenter, and Mama saw to that. That all changed when
made broomstick horses to augment their income. Mama became ill.
Times were hard but love and laughter filled the
Park home.

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