Volume 10 , Issue 13

Waynoka Cousins

"I have enjoyed looking through your Okie Legecy website. Although I did not live in Oklahoma, I remember going to visit my aunt and uncle and two cousins that lived on a farm outside of Waynoka. Don't remember the highway they lived on but it was the first farm on the right past the airport outside of town.

Visits in the 50's & 60's included going to the movie theater in town and driving through the cemetery at night after the movie, buying "Waynoka Railroaders" sweat shirts at the dime store, going to the sand dunes and seeing the five legged calf and fainting goats and taking a ride in the dunes in a home made dunebuggy, sand burrs, going to the hardware and grocery store for goods, swimming at the city pool, sand burrs, home made ice cream, riding their two horses "Popcorn" and "Peanuts", more sand burrs, riding on the 1953 Case tractor, watching my oldest cousin come home dirty after working in a nearby oil field, and watching the family milk the cows every morning and night.

The aunt and uncle and the oldest cousin are gone now. The youngest cousin lives in Peru, SA. My uncle was one of the telegraph operators at the RR station. The oldest cousin was a high school band teacher in Kansas and Alva before moving to Colorado. My aunt farmed the family farm and worked at the diner until she met her second husband. They farmed west of town. And as I said, the youngest boy is living in Peru, SA. Keep up the good work, I enjoy the stories about the past." -- Dennis Rittenhouse - Email: dritt2@hotmail.com
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