[RKDinOKC]

I can do the Cushing, OK memory lane stroll.

My Mon was born in Cushing, OK in 1919. My Grandad worked for an oil company and they lived on an oil lease.

Somehow, I don't remember anything about it.

Mom said that when she was young she took a trip to visit her grandparents in Nebraska in a covered wagon.
She also said she went to a church camp called Falls Creek around the same time in a covered wagon.
It was the first time she went anywhere without her parents. She helped cook to pay her way there.
Falls Creek is a popular Baptist church camp in the Arbuckle mountains near Ardmore, OK. it's still there today.

I just barely remember visiting Mom's aunt and uncle, Aunt Minnie and Uncle Chubb that ran a funeral home in Cushing.

Uncle Chubb passed away when I was 2 and aunt Minnie moved to a Masonic old folks home in Guthrie, OK. We visited her in the home in Guthrie and she stayed with us often as I was growing up. She had a replacement hip and barely got around on crutches. Their son, Gene Bavinger played the clarinet and it got him a scholarship to OU. He became an artist and the senior art professor at OU. He also built a funky house East of Norman OK, called the Bavinger House that was designed by Ben Goff. Aunt Minnie didn't visit her son Gene very often because his funky house had too many steps in and around it that she couldn't manage with her crutches.