June Baker Kendig

October 23, 2011

I had lost track of all of my Dad's relatives as most of them, to the best of my knowledge had moved to California.  Facebook brought some of us back together, so to speak.  My cousin, Elizabeth Schinke (daughter of June Baker Kendig, one of my Aunts on my Dad's side of the family) contacted me on facebook to tell me that she was doing a family history thing.  She e-mailed me tons of information about my Dad's side of the family and many, many pictures to go along with it.  It was great to learn family history that I never had heard of before.

At the time of this writing, my Aunt June, (only two Aunts now alive out of all of my Dad's siblings.) who is 93 years old, has just come home from the hospital and has possibly life threatening complications.  So I have decided to try to go visit her for a short time----possibly Sunday the 30th of October.  They live a short distance north of Prescott, AZ and my brother Richard  is living at the Pioneer Home in Prescott.  So I intend to drive about 4 hours to Prescott, pick up my brother and then journey on to where my cousin lives---spend a few hours visiting and then return my brother to Prescott and by that time I will probably be exhausted, so may stay the night in Prescott in a cheap motel.  (Is there such a thing????)  After rest, I will contemplate the trip from Prescott to Tucson.

Today, I drove to Globe, AZ and returned (about 5 hours driving time).  I met up with my lady friend, Betty Gilbert, and we had lunch at Judy's Cookhouse.   If you ever visit Globe, be sure and stop at Judy's Cookhouse to eat.   You won't be sorry!!  I checked on my property in Miami, AZ (Globe-Miami is almost one big settlement).  I have a 1988 Toyota pick up still in the yard at my former living quarters.  It needs a rebuilt engine put in it.  Anyway, I verified that I still do have a key to the vehicle.  It has been setting for several years now under a carport type thing so has been pretty much out of the sun.   Glass is still all intact as of today----so I want to see if I can get it hauled to Tucson where I might be able to make a couple of dollars on it.  (OR NOT!!)  Anyway that is my current ambition.

GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU....THE CAN MAN, VIRGIL BAKER