Myrtle

 My Specifics

 

Myrtle Irene Cox Sorge

 264 Ramblewood Parkway

 Mount Laurel, NJ 08054

 856 234 2893

 

 Myrtle Irene Cox, born to Robert and Goldie on January 10, 1944 in Orient, Ohio.

 Third child; First daughter

 

 Schools:

 ? Skyway – First Grade, Teacher – Miss Pride

 

 ? Fairborn Elementary ?

 

 1958 – 1960 – Beavercreek –  9th and 10 grades

 

 1961 – 1962 – Xenia Highschool – 11th and 12th grades

 1962 – Graduated High School –

 

 1962 – 1965 Bethesda Hospital School of Nursing – Cincinnati, Ohio

1965 – Graduated – Registered Nurse Diploma

 

 1969 – 1971 – University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 1971 – Graduated – Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing

 

 1977 – 1979 – University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 1979 – Graduated – Masters Science of Nursing

 

1986 – 1987 – Temple University Executive MBA Program –  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

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Joined Army Nurse Corp in 1964 as PFC under the student nurse program.

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-Went to Vietnam in 1968

 

 

 

 

Married Pasqual Anthony Sorge on Sept 5, 1971.

 

 

 

             

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These are the beginnings of my thoughts and memories – I will expound and actually write them out after I actually sit down to write out each one.  I have to do a little research.  Don’t worry about spelling and punctuation – will all be cleaned up as we go.

 

If anyone has dates, places, people names, and all that, be sure to include them on your posts.

 

 

Family Book and Blog ideas and thoughts

 

Start off with Robert Cox background

 

Grandpa Lee …. Born….  In ……, KY in year ….18..

 

Lived in ….

….. for a living

 

His ancestors came from …. By way of …. Ancestry was … ? English or Indian ….

 

 

Married Flara Gilliam in ……

 

Children were: 

Loyd born in … 19…., birth location

Ethel Mae born in 19…,

Myrtle …born in 19…,

Edra…born in 19…,

Robert Floyd born June 23?  1918.. in Morgan County Kentucky  ?

Edison  born in 19…..

 

Amon Cantrell born …..

Nora …..

Married….

Children:

Lizzie

Pauline

Goldie Mae Cantrell born July 16, 1923

Woodie

Clay

Irene

Maggie

Lundy

 

We have to get all these details and dates cleared up.

 

 

People to write about:

-Robert Fannin – preacher,  bohemian like  wife, Viola?  House behind Holton properties

I stayed with them when Mommy and Daddy went to Grandpa Lee’s funeral

 

Mrs. Jean Bates – one of our Sunday School teachers later after Aunt Ethel.  She was very special and seemed to take a liking to us Cox nuts.  Her husband, Bob, also spent extra time with all of us on Sunday School trips and activities.

 

Sunday school people:

Johnny and Genova Wright

?? Turner

?? Coffee

Glenna Cox

 

 

Incidents to make sure we cover:

Shirley grapevine

 

Bobby getting singed when he lit a barbecue with gasoline?

 

Shirley oven eyebrows singed

 

Shirley Airforce eardrums

 

House fire  – birds perished, sitting in car while …, dog,Ginger? , clothes burned on one side, pictures found,

Shirley throwing her coat in laundry room and it was saved.  I hung my coat nicely and it was burned.  New coats Mom had just gotten for us on a trip I went shopping with her.  My coat had white rabbit fur pompoms on the ties from the neck.  I thought that was the prettiest thing

 

 

 

Daddy helping me plant many pots of begonias and letting them grow out on a table outside during summer at house that burned

 

Mervel Fannin and Bertha – 8 girls?  Finally one boy

 

Breaking beans with Viola Beverley  .  Troy and Viloa with Doris and ???

 

 

Canning outside – tomatoes, peaches, cole slaw, green beans

Daddy did green tomatoes

 

Washed jars outside on big table, then boiled them in big wash tub over fire with tub up on bricks.  We kept sliding pieces of wood up to keep it burning.  Also done for canning

 

Skinned tomatoes for canning by pouring hot water over them and then peeling.

 

Grape juice – daddy did

 

Jelly

 

Digging potatoes – I didn’t do much of that

 

Bringing in coal

 

Painting outdoor toilet at linkhart house

 

Pear tree?  Iris flowers, plum tree??

 

Playing base ball with the little kids and daddy  where house burned

 

Brewers lived behind Holton house – had a garage fixed cars – Jeanie, Carolyn ??

 

Whille living at big Holton house, Me, Larry, Carolyn walking to Fairborn on path along railroad tracks, some man sneaked up behind us as me and Carolyn each have a hold of Larry’s hands with Larry in middle.  We were walking along to the park and library.  Man grabbed our hands that were holding Larry.  Such screaming and scratching you’ve never heard.  The man got Carolyn down and started to get into her pants, but somehow or other I guess all that crying, kicking, screaming, scratching and hollering scared him off.  Needless to say, we ran back home.

Then sometime later, I was out on the front stoop polishing some white shoes when a car pulls up in front of the house and when I looked up – Oh my goodness!  It was that same man!  You never saw such a scramble in your life – I was up and in that screen door so fast….  I told Daddy and Mommy that was the man –Daddy took off to find him  but by then he had driven off.  I can still feel that fear in my stomach when I think of that.  Wonder if Carolyn Brewer is still alive and does she remember that incident.

 

Other Brewer incidences – somebody was watching some love making from an outside window???

 

Playing jacks on Thelma Spencer’s???  front step.  Lived in nice big house to the left of big Holton house in Wrightview.

 

Pat and Bessie

 

Red head – Sue ????

 

Hanging clothes out Holton properties – longest clothes line I could believe – out there standing on a bucket and pinning clothes to the line or helping Mommy by handing her clothes pins

 

10 years old finding a quarter and daddy not believing – I cried he swatted me once on but and said “I’ll teach you to cry over nothing”   That was my one and only time I remember being hit as a kid or ever!

 

Incident with tommy and razor blade cutting news item for school – house across from Sarah Childers grocery store.

 

While living at big Holton house – Roy Rogers and Dale Evans show outside Willie Miller grocery store – we walked down to it.

 

Willie Miller – ? adopted a kid named Muscles.  Willie and wife ??  had Alton,son, and some baby girl ??

 

Red headed kid lived beside Bessie and Pat named Sue Sloan