MARVIN LEE was the oldest of the ten children. Marvin married Blanche Thacker and they had two children that lived past 2 yrs old. Evelyn was born in 1916 and Chess'L Harper was born 20 SEPT 1021. (*Chess L Harper married Etta May Roberts in 1942 and he went to war (WWII) shortly after. He and Etta had six children and they lived in San Juaquine Valley, CA... Michael, Laura, Randy, Teresa, Kathy and Cynda Sue "Suzie" Harper. The next oldest of the children was Monger. He had five children, the oldest being Lucille who lived in Odessa, Texas, followed by Sylvia of Seattle Washington, followed by R.B. who lived on a farm within 150 Mile radius of us. The next was the two twins, Vernell and Verdell. Vernell lived in Odessa andVerdell who lives in Illinois and spend her summers on R.Bs. farm. All of these are dead except Verdell. Next would be the Charels Lee Harper family. He had five children all of which are dead except the oldest, Edward There were three boys and two girls as follows; Dorothy of San Antonio, Waldo of Austin, Harvey of San Antonio and Wanda of Nevada Next would be (my father *still Choice ODale's info:) Choice Randell . There were four children in our family all boys. 1.) My oldest brother was C B harper (Initials only He died at the age of 69 in 1987. He had three children, two girls and a boy. His youngest girl, Ginger, retired from the real estate as a broker and now lives in Kerville, Texas. The oldest girl, Annita Sue, was working at a book store when she retired and lives here in San Antonio, The boy is a Colonel in the Air Force here in San Antonio and is getting ready to retire from the service and teach at one of the universities here in town. My brothers widow, Latriece, Lives in Kerville on her husbands pension. My brother was a railroad engineer forthe Southern Pacific until he retired. 2.) I am the next oldest and we had two children, a boy and girl. I retired from civil service. I was department head at the time of my retirement. I had forty six people in my department. I had sixteen engineers, twenty five logisticians, and five clerk stenos. I had a budget ranging from one hundred and fifteen million dollars to one hundred twenty five million dollars. I retired January first ninereen eighty five.. Next would follow William Harper who had five children to the best of my knowledge, three girls and two boys. I only knew the two oldest girls, Billy Rose and Linda Lou. Billy Rose last lived in Portland Oregon and is dead. Linda lived in Odessa and is still living so far as I know. Next to follow was Kenny Angus (Shorty) and he had three children, two girls and a boy. One of the girls is dead, Helen, and the other girl lives in Houston but is moving back to California to be with her children. The boy owned a car lot in Reno, Nevada. He also owned his own airplane and flew it all over the country buying cars and shipping them in to his car lot. On ;many occasions he took his family, wife and three children with him and on his last flight he was taking off from Las Vegas airport when an Air Force airplane hit his plane and killed all five of them. The next in line would be Jack Harper who had four children, three boys and a girl. all of which are still alive and three of them live in Dallas. Jack is dead but his wife is still living and is in Dallas with her children. The oldest boy Freddy Gene is a minister, the second boy Charles Louis, retired from the navy as a Chief Petty Officer, the daughter Vanita June is a retired school teacher and the youngest boy lives in Arkansan and is a retired professor at the University there. Fannie May was next and is dead. She was married to a doctor and they had one child which is still living. The only name I knew by was "Sonny" and I don't know his where abouts. The next would be Winnie Dean who died in child birth in Los Angles California in 1930. The youngest was Ted who died at young age of approximately 15 years old. Thats all for now. Your cousin, Odale **Thank you Choice Odale Harper for helping us put our family together. E-mail for Choice Odale Harper: choiceo@juno.com |
| Information from our cousin Choice Odale Harper: on ALL the children of Charles Lee Harper and Frances Roberta Gause-Harper |