Volume 7 , Issue 2

Arndt, Strickland, Arganbright and Ashley Community...

"My Grandfather was I. T. Strickland who was a school superintendent for I believe the Ashley School District east of Alva. He married Ottie Arndt who lived west of Alva. She was born in 1880 and as a 12-year-old girl had traveled to the new territory of Oklahoma from Harrisburg, PA in a covered wagon about 1892 when she was about 12 years old. I'm related to the Arndt, Strickland, and Arganbright families in and around Alva.
     We appreciate your very informative web site. You've done a lot of work with it. On the college, I remember Grandmother I. T. recalling her college days there. I remember she graduated I believe around 18 years of age which would be around 1898. She then taught school and that's how she met GF Strickland. I remember her telling me about the Class Reunions and how there got to be very few alumni attending them in later years. She passed away in July 1977 at 96 years of age. We were planning her 100th birthday celebration for December 1980 as she had always been in good health.
     I attended Longfellow there in Alva a short time when I came down to live with GM. I was born in Alva, November 26, 1937 at home, on East Barnes Street (I believe). My Mother, Flossie Irene Strickland wrote for the Alva Courier newspaper for several years. My Father, Clifford M. Vickers came from Jet. He ran a small grocery store in GM's house at 714 4th Street during the depression before we moved to Wichita where I grew up. It's always great to talk to someone from or about Alva. Vic "-- Leon Strickland Vickers - Email: vicmarcy@aol.com   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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