SOME THINGS I REMEMBER  ABOUT ELMER AND VERNA KARNS
SOME THINGS I REMEMBER ABOUT ELMER AND VERNA KARNS .  .  .
by Melva Jean KARNS LADD, daughter
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About Elmer--
. . . His habit of checking the car for flats in time to change a tire and still be on time.
. . . Always stopping the machinery on the Sabbath--even though the crops were ready for harvest and storms might threaten.
. . . Always dependable.
. . . Starting the day with family Bible reading and prayer following breakfast.
About Verna-
. . . Christmas programs at church . . . white sheets on the platform to look like snow; angel costumes.
. . . Curling hair with a hot curling iron heated over a kerosene lamp--or making long curls by winding on rag rollers.
. . . Teaching Sunday School and leading evening young people's service.
. . . Gardening for vegetables.
. . . Flowers for the yard and cut flowers inside our home.
. . . Cooking for Sunday guests--or a harvest crew.
. . . Winter projects of quilting, sewing clothing.
. . . Summer canning of grapes, and "fuzzy" peaches.
. . . Varnishing floors--and the fun it was to walk from carpet to carpet bridged over the varnish with table leaves.
About the family-
. . . The yearly trek to church assembly in August--sometimes staying in homes of community people, a few times sleeping in a tent,
      always meeting old friends from earlier years.
. . . Trip to Colorado to see Pike's Peak and crossing the Divide--first time to see a mountain.
. . . Trips to take Grandmother Allie Dawson to Missouri to visit relatives--always looked forward to roasting ears and visiting the well 
       to draw water with a bucket at the home of Roy and Audra Dawson in Sarcoxie, Missouri.