- Vickie
Then Mom and I hid the baskets all over the house for the kids to find on Easter morning. Now mind you, the kids were ranging from babies at one or so up through eleven or twelve – Martha, Vickie, Bobby, Gary, Larry and then Shirley and myself. Carl and Tommy were a couple of years older and I can’t remember if they got Easter baskets or candy or what.
Then after the kids found their baskets, we always had an Easter Egg Hunt. Daddy got a huge kick out of hiding dozens of colored eggs all over the yard in the front and back of the house wherever we lived. Then he would guide the little kids toward an egg or badger an older one for walking right by a hidden egg.
I usually made Easter outfits for Vickie and Martha which were always worn to Sunday School on Easter Sunday. On this page are some of the outfits I made over some of the years. 
Here is me, Myrtle, Susie Bolin, and Shirley in our Easter dresses showing off some bracelet. I have no idea where we got our dresses.
- Larry, Bobby, Carl Williams, and Gary on Easter
Also, I can’t pass up mentioning the Sunday School Easter Egg Hunts. Sunday School kids ( many Coxes) often rode in the back of a truck out to a field where eggs had already been hidden. I particularly remember Mrs. Bates, who taught Sunday School, walking around with the kids to help guide them. Of course we got to keep those eggs too.
We kept those eggs in our baskets for days and days as we gradually ate them, as opposed to putting them in the refrigerator right away as we do today. Would you believe we never even thought of getting sick.
Now I am 67 years old and still miss the fun of coloring and hiding eggs. I would give almost anything to go home to Ohio and join in coloring and hiding eggs with the new batch of little kids such as Daphne, Eli, Madelyn and now little Paul.
But I will say that I have been married almost 40 years and my Mother-in-law has always made an Easter Basket for me. It always contains a chocolate covered egg, a chocolate bunny, jelly beans and some porcelain Easter related figurine. So this year my Mother-in-law, who is turning 100 years old on July 2, was in the grocery store with me and decided she would try to get the makings of an Easter basket. Then we colored six eggs and, even though I can’t say it was fun as it would have been with kids, I got a kick out of making some sparkleyeggs. Of course I had to find a basket and help a little, but I ended up getting an Easter basket now in 2011. Here is a picture of my 2011 Easter Basket.
