Volume 12 , Issue 28

Carmen Children Home Memories

Phyllis Lund (Email: phyllisnsf@aol.com) "My mother and her siblings were in the Carmen IOOF Home you featured on your web site. They were Hattie, Irene, Milton and Ernest Cox. They would have lived there for several years, beginning in the early 1920s. Any info from anyone who would remember or have any connection would be great. Hattie and Ernest are still alive and always wanted to come back to visit. Hattie (84) and in great spirits and health. Mother speaks of carrying lunch to school in a lard bucket and being called the home kids. Also, getting hard candy at Christmas. She has lots more memories if anyone "My daughter in law is into genealogy and has discovered the Home my mother and her siblings were in was in Carmen, Oklahoma. It is on the net, under OkieLegacy - Carmen Odd Fellowage Orphanage.

"I had hoped to possibly reach others who had lived there (or their progeny). I know my mother, who is 84 but very bright and alert, would love to hear from anyone. My grandmother took the children out of the home when she remarried and they all moved to California. My mother married my dad and were married for 60 years, had a busy life as a navy wife. As I mentioned, mother would love to go back and visit the home, but with times so uncertain, I am not sure that will happen."

Patricia Mills (Email: bettyboop_1956@hotmail.com)"My mother (Velma McCann), her sister (Alma McCann) and their brother (Eugene McCann) were placed in the IOOF Carmen Children Home in 1938. If there are any living people who were there when they were, I would like to hear from them. I am doing a family genealogy on my family. I would like to know more about the Carmen Children's Home as I am a member of the IOOF Rebekah's in Kansas and need the history of it. Also, the Checotah IOOF Home where Eugene went when the Carmen Children's Home closed. Thanks very much."

Jim Wilkinson (E-mail: runningman@pldi.net) "Real interesting about the Carmen Home. As I grew up in Carmen in the 1950s. It was run by a family named Mahoney. I do not recall the church sponsor though. My grandpa was in the IOOF and lived out there as caretaker when the tornado destroyed the dairy barn. Later Rev. Lemmon administered it as a nursing home until its close."

Nathan Wallin (Email: nwallin@saber.net) said, "My Grandfather and his brothers were put in the home a few times, due to family hardships at the time. Would love to add more things to my genealogy of the home."

Emil M. Bergquist (Email: werblsd@afo.net) said, "My mother and her 4 siblings were at the Carmen Home for some time in the early 1920s. Time was split between the Checotah Home and this one. She and her younger sister were in Odd Fellows homes until the last half of the 1930s."   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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