A Trip Through the Caverns

Alene, Delbert, and Dora came to visit Edwin and Denece while they were living in El Paso, Texas.  Edwinna was about a year old.  They brought Grandma Baty with them.  They all went to Carlsbad Caverns.  Delbert was carrying Edwinna and she liked to lay over his arms.  People would comment, “look how that man is carrying that baby.”  So he’d try to hold her another way and she would howl.  While going down into the cavern, Lettie Baty started to lean backwards.  Her son told her she was leaning and to stand up straight.  She said, “I am, Delbert.  I am standing up straight as I can!” A tour guide said they should take her out of the cave before she fell over backwards.

 

 

(1953 Denece Perkins, Dora Argyle, Lettie Baty, Alene Argyle, Edwinna Perkins, and Delbert Argyle)

 

 

(1953 Carlsbad Caverns Brochure)

 

A Knife For Christmas

One year at Christmastime, Edwin brought home his pay, while they were living Texas.  Denece lost the cash, she couldn't find it anywhere.  Denece wrote letters to everyone that she mailed packages to for Christmas, to see if she mailed it to them by mistake.  Elaine wrote back wondering why she had included the butcher knife.  She was concerned that Edwin and Denece wanted to sever ties with the family.  Denece found the money five years later in the big dictionary.

 

 

(1953 Edwin and Edwinna Perkins)

 

 

 

(1953 Denece and Edwinna Perkins)

 

 

(1953 Edwinna Perkins)

Green, Green, Green

Evelyn remembers visiting Edwin and Denece in Denver after Edwinna was born.  “Everything was green, the sheets, towels, dish towels, everything.” Edwin had done the laundry and had washed Denece’s green blouse and dyed all the laundry green.

 

 

(1953 Edwinna and Edwin Perkins)

 

 

(1953 Edwinna Perkins)