CRW: Anyway thanks to all of you. Come on in, you guys. 

audience chatter

CRW: Thanks to a you know we can just put that right here. It's an unbelievable sight to see this happen and for at lest three years we've talking about this. I wanted to one day Louise said, why don't we get everybody together and then I think she wrote a card to some of us. and said, "Lets' get this whole group together."

CRW: so this is really the first reunion of descendants of Nanny and grandpa that you ever had. in my case every single one of my descendants is here today which is really kind of incredible. as some of you know we had a family picture just before so every one of the descendants of me were there. and so it's I feel very fortunate that uh we have two wonderful people as our uh parents and uh they think of nanny as incredible extravagant as uh beautiful and she used to always say I think a thing of beauty is a joy forever. that was kinda her trademark and grandpa was incredible worker and he always said if a thing is worth doing it's worth doing well. and that was kinda his trademark . he was a very hard worker and he uh would stay up half the night many times with asthma wand uh he would uh go to work the next day. an incredible worker and credible person. to do things things correctly and properly . so i think we're all very fortunate to have them as our uh our parents, grandparents and great grandparents. 

CRW: and so in preparation for this event and we've been preparing some things that we hope will be of interest and useful to all of you. and the first thing I wanted to show you is the pedigree chart which my grandson Steven Tate has prepared. and it is all the ancestors of Gilbert Winder Williams and all of the ancestors of Florence Campbell Williams. and the case of Gilbert Winder Williams they go back to the year 1300. so that's 600 years of direct ancestry. i'm not talking about cousins like Rex and JD. by the way, JD called yesterday and said, "I wish you all the best. Send my love to all of you."

CRW: so these are direct descendants from whom we get our blue yes and red hair and big noses

laughter

CRW: whatever we have we can possibly trace it back because somebody in Scotland kept probably had the same the same appearance.

CRW: and uh, it's fascinating to read this because we're talking about going back to 1300 in the case of my father and back to 100 1100 in Switzerland int he case of nanny. so that is uh 600 and uh 800 years.

CRW: ok so if you take that's why i didn't major in math. so if you take average 700 going back and 20 years per generation. How many generations is that? a

Someone calls out: a lot

Someone calls out: 12

CRW: 3500 generations of people that are showing up. there are 7500 names in here. and these are names who are you direct ancestors. and from whom you probably have received some genetic traits. potential or possibly or something that has to do with you.

CRW: and the royalty does not show up. not even Roger Williams. I was hoping he would show up here, but he does not. 

CRW: one of the most interesting things that i found as i read the back of this book is that he listed Stephen has listed the names of all those that we have found. We I mean, the LDS church--has the best records in the world of this type of thing. So Stephen is used that those records. And they are very incomplete but we still have 7500 names.

CRW: it was interesting to note that in these names in the back here, over half of your names are in these ancestors. over half. that's kind of interesting. that they just haven't happened by chance. but, Susan Winder Williams was named after another Susan who was named after another Susan. and so these names of Susan and Rchard and William and all these names go back along time. you are all welcome to a copy of this if your'e interesting in knowing about 

CRW: here's this genetic pool we have here. it really comes from the 

CRW: of these people who go back 

CRW: We have in addition to that these books we gave to the four brothers and sisters. wich is a photographic history of our parents. Nanny and grandpa. and then we have the original books that for you to order from if you want pictures. the original books we started at christmas time and we've been putting them together of nanny and grandpa and your ancestors and they are available for photocopying or if you want to make negatives from the original copy. 

CRW: and then they go back also to Susan and Thomas Williams, Rachel and Robert Campbell, John R Winder, Serge Louis Ballif, Robert Lang Campbell. so we have pictures of them so we have the pedigree charts and the pictorial records to offer you if any of you are interested. 

CRW: so i just wanted to introduce that and then we'll each of us has 15 minutes that I felt give a little presentation.

CRW:so uh, we decided well go from the youngest first, so I'd like to ask  my whole family, everyone of us who belongs to me. 

CRW: Part of the program. Elaine

CRW:all you guys come up and we'll 

CRW: Interview with Nanny when Nanny was 87, by Clayt and Denise. And, I want to play you the last few words that she said in that interview back in 1981. 

Playing portions of audio recording of Interview in 1981:
CCW and Denise: well just to finish up, we just want to ask one more question. If you had any advice to give to your posterity or you know something that has made a big difference in your life or some kind of 

Denise: Key to happiness

CCW: key to happiness or something that is enriched your life what would you tell your kids or your grand kids.

NANNY: just love each other. Love is the base of everything.

Denise: she's exlempflied that

CCW: she certainly is. Well, thanks Nanny.

Nanny: don't mention it Clayt.

Denise: we appreciate everything you've been to us. We ll just treasure this. It'll be neat for our kids and their kids have this. What their nanny was like.

Nanny: well that's great

CCW: well, you know. And, we're going to make a copy for all our brothers and sisters.

Nanny: oh wonderful.

Nanny: Get in their and sing something. 

Laughter. 

CRW: Following her advice we're going to sing. Being obedient children and grand children we're going to sing a few of her favorite songs.

CRW: okay, alse fobe by children under 10. Then, Ching Ching by everyone of my grandchildren. Then Steve's going to sing "Valley Home" which our ancestors moved from Europe to this valley. So he'll sing that in memory of them. Then, we'll sing "In the Garden," nanny's favorite song. 

CRW: Are you kids ready?

Kids sing. 

Applause

Doug Williams (Son of GWW and FCW):

Carolyn: Well, we're the non talented part of the family.

Carolyn: You think?

DOUG: forgot the music

Carolyn: go dancing with dad and you'll really understand what we're talking about

Carolyn: I remember about nanny a lot having to do hair dad. every-time I'd get together especially when i was 14-16 and you really wanna look cool she'd said, "oh Carolyn, I love it when you pull back and put those big bows in your hair.

Carolyn: big smile and comb my hair and come out with a big bow, and she'd go, "oh that's perfect!"

Carolyn: then she'd trot you around town to see all her friends and i know they all thought I was 12. 

laughter

Carolyn: and you know, but my egos okay, I guess. and uh, I remember one time it was for the 50th. I think I remember this correctly but I don't know. but you can understand that with age thing s kind of change. but she had that gown. that gorgeous white gown. and it didn't have she had didn't have sleeves and of course she was thinking anybody could do anything she always told you, you can do whatever

Carolyn: she said to me, I don't like this gown. I don't like my arms showing oin this gown. and so uh, she said, uh Carlyn just sew the sleeves in. I was like 16 and i was I can't sew the sleeves in! she having all these people from slake. and so I just sewed the sleeves in.

Carolyn: and she was happy. and I just thought I hope they survive the evening. and I don't remember. and if they didn't she didn't tell me.

Carolyn: but anyway those are some of the fond things that I think

Carolyn: I just remember walking into her house. it was so magical. because living out of state we didn't have the opportunity to always go there so come ing to slt lake was special. in fact, my daughter my just asked me today if we could dirve up to the aves to look at nanny's house.

Carolyn: walking through those doors. you always knew something was going to happen. You always knew there someing special. You always knew there was love. 

Carolyn: that's what I remember about Nanny.

DOUG: are you done? 

Carolyn: yeah! 

Dick: Wilma, Clayt, Doug, Adele, and myself. There were the only people that lived there. What kind of building was like....When Nanny and Grandpa were married they in apartment an duh they took their honeymoon in San Diego. Governor Spry made grandpa in charge of the Utah State fair program. at the World Fair. Whatever you call it

CRW: exposition

Dick: whatever you call it. they had a great time down there and they came back to sal t latk and they moved into an apartment. adele and i were born ahead of L Street.  Mother and Dad still lived in apartment when we were born. and when we moved into L street, when I was approximately a year and a half old. now L street was composed of too many holes. Uncle Rex Williams and Dad. Grandpa Williams was fortunate , important enough to give their sonS these homes. They were beautiful little bungalows. They were approximately 1800 square feet. and they were a gift. Can you imagine that? Being married and having a new bungalow to move into. That was pretty choice.

Dick: and the across the street lived uncle john hardy. now aunt clare was dad's oldest sister. so we had clan. we called it the Williams clan. and we all lived on L street. and uh the home itself was 3 bedrooms. One large living room. One bath. dining room. and a kitchen. and it you can imagine 6 of us, and wilma, also, trying to get into that bathroom. upstairs. that was quite a organization to get off to school every morning.

Dick: so what happened was they finally decided that it was mother needed more help. so wilma came down to work with us. she was from Oakley. if you ever new where Oakley is, it's a wonderful big town. 

laughter

Dick: 500 cows

Dick: and so that's how where we started that area

Dick: so we went to school ensign school. Now ensign school was 8 blocks from our house. where we lived. Nobody had cars. we walked to school.we walked home for lunch. and we walked back to school then we belonged to the 21st ward. in 21st ward was 7 blocks from home. that was all downhill then uphill going back. we were in an isolated area of the very corner of the avenues. right next to Linsey gardens.

Dick: and when uh, in the home, another thing i wanted to mention. to start out with we had gravity hot water heater. but the only problem was it was a hand fire slow boiler. we had to stoke the fire every morning. twice a day. then we finally put in a stoker and then we put in natural gas. but we had what ew called a little monkey stove and that monkey stove I had to take care of most of the time. and that was to make our hot water. and anyways, we'd go down to the basement. and break up the coal, and beat that, and then throw it in. that's how you got your hot water. unfortunately when dad Williams died we didn't convert that so i had to go down and stoke that I and make the fire in the morning and get the hot water going

Dick: well, then, they had put in nature gas but they hadn't thought the area around the stove. so i went down and ai was able to crawl back upstairs and dad said, "What's the matter with you?" And, I passed out.

laughter

Dick: what had happened it was carbon monoxide that had leaked out of the furnace. I finally put me in the bedroom and laid me down on the bed and opened the windows and i came to and i was all right. That's one of the hazards of going through the experience we did

Dick: our neighborhood was quite unique because we a were very closely knit. we had this corner gang that we played all kinds of games at night. run sheepy run. all these wonderful games. and we had wonderful neighbors. we had the mills and i can't Vanders

Adele: Vanders

Dick: Vanders across the street. Bywaters down on the corner and then who lived across the street

Adele: unintelligable

Dick: anyway, were all very close knit together. and uh, what we had quite a few events happening. at that time. dad had to go to the hospital. He had a goiter He had to have it taken out. and so, when he was under repair, he used to take his exercise and in the Salt Lake city cemetery and tomb stones. then when he'd come back he'd give us the history. and uh, mother, uh, lost twins. 

Dick: when we living there and that was quite a sad event and uh, so, and uh, i think Doug was born no, i think Clayt was born, I remember I came home ready to go to this Friday night show . we used to have ward show up at the 27th ward. we'd walk over there and go to shows. dad said, "You better hurry and go to the show"

Dick: and it was an hour and a half show I think. My dad said, "You better get outta here."

Dick: and then, that was when Clayt was born.

Laughter

Dick: and we had two dogs. what happened to them? we were holding onto Sunday night and uh, some fellow stopped his car and brought in a this cardboard box and there were two little polly dogs. and they were all comfortable. Covered with salt. He brought them in on his boat on Antelope island and he'd given us those two dogs. so we took 'em down to the basement. I was about 10 and they whined all night long. Nobody got any sleep. So we had to name them. one was a male one was a female. Naturally we named the male, Flip. and we named the female Flop. 

laughter

Dick: all our lives and they were wonderful dogs. so what all do, I'll have all our kids come up and give further report on Flossie.

Dicks Children:

Tom: I feel like Steve, I'll be glad when this is over except we don't have to sing. We won't make our attempt at that. 

Ann: we just wanted to share some memories that each have of nanny of grandpa and our love for them. 

Jane: Why don't you start off Tom

TOM (DICK'S SON):

Jane (Dick's Daughter):

Adele: I am so sad about Jan she just called on her 17th wedding anniversary from Florence, Italy and she was crying cuz she wants to be here. So, I want a lot of videos because she wants to be here. But, she wanted to be in Florence. So that's that. 

Adele: Now, I'm going to start with a Dick told a lot of things I was going to tell. But, I have a few others. About two things. 339 L Street and Pinecrest.

Adele: Now none of you have ever been to Pinecrest and you have to go. That was our first cabin. But, I have to tell you about 339 L Street. One thing that Nanny did, she made you do things. She loved homemade potato chips because when you catering in Salt Lake Mrs. Johnson made them. And Nanny said, "I can make home made potato chips." so she had Dick and me go down to the basement. She had a little gas stove and we would fry packages of homemade potato chips for her parties. They were paper thin they were so good we made 'em from scratch. 

Adele: And then Dick tell me about the Crystal set. We you know grandpa always had a crystal set. And didn't he have it in his ear?

Dick: No. well we had the one he had in his ear. then the one on L street this equidine which was had two dials on it and it powerful radio receiver. and it light up these two dials and then he'd stay up until 2 or 3 o'clock in tht morning so we could get Chicago, BBM

Adele: yep, gov BBM

Adele and san francisco KFI

Adele: no television just the radio and we loved it.

Dick: what

CRW: 4 quartz?

Adele: all right the next thing that Dick mentioned, Nanny and Grandpa had a big in with Santa Claus. I mean, Christmas was the thing. So one Christmas we all marched in , the way all of you do, that's a family tradition, one time we marched in and for Dick, Doug and Clayt there was this enormous mountain made out of metal. All painted with trees on it, bushes, houses, just like Switzerland with a huge tunnel that an electric train could come and it was great big board and the train would come around blow whistles, stop and right and Doug reminded me right where it stopped was fish pond. when we marched in the gold fish jumped out of the pond.

Laughter

Adele: oh it was terrible.

Adele: and then I , the same time, they couldn't forget me. I walked over to my little station and I had a real electric stove with green beans and bacon frying and cooking on the stove. and a great big doll. oh, what a every christmas. Nanny was a wild christmas woman. And she knew Santa . Okay. I have a few more things.

Adele: uhm, Dick didn't mention a few things about L street. Uncle John Hardy across the street was a really important banker. He was vice president of National City Copper Bank which is now First Security. They joined with 'em. He was a banker and he got to come home every night at 5 o'clock. so there family would get to eat at 5. Our dad, because he was such a hard worker. he didn't come til 6:30. And our dining room was right on 7th avenue where we played kick the can, baseball, every game every night. We'd be sitting here eating and these would be out playing and we couldn't even walk out til we'd eaten every bit of our dinner.

Adele: and then we have to tell you about Decoration day. that was a really neat time. uh, dad would get in the Buick car, in the morning and go up and get blue bells. early, early in parley's canyon. in those days you could pick anything. they didn't care. we would pick buckets of blue bells. and then we had rose bushes like crazy. and all year Nanny would save the wrappings on the hand soap and it was foil. and she'd save them. so we'd tear back to uour house about 8 oclock and sit on the porche and on the lawn making these gorgeous bouquets and wrapping them with foil. then we'd rush over to the city cemetery. and we'd sell 'em. for a dime, a quarter, and we made $2.00, didn't we?

Laughter

Dick: on year on a fallen and I had cut my chin, and I big bandage on. I wore that over, and I was ellingson

laughter

Adele: that's the truth

Adele: We must tell you about Nanny, the reason so many of you are so musical. Nanny really had a lovely sweet voice. and she and aunt Helen Williams and L street. I want you to go up there. they hired a bus and took him to all of houses and his wards and everything but you can all go. we could touch aunt helens house, almost, the driveway was so small in those days for those little cars. so nanny decided she wanted to take voice lessons. so they got Edna Evans Johnson and nanny and aunt Helen our grand piano, oh she had a beautiful one that DAD gave her for Christmas, a Steinway and it was right by these windows. She would sing stand there and aunt Helen would be right across the way, and she'd be singing and they'd do their scales. They'd go back and forth, back forth, singing like mad. And then something happened, Nanny got pregnant. She had to quit. 

Adele: She couldn't sing anymore.

laughter

Adele: So that was that

Adele: And then on that we had oh our grandpa and grandma Williams had Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years dinners. there were 40 of us. and, they seated everyone of us. I have so stories that June hardy, our cousin, has given me. books on our family and the things that grandma Williams used to make in her basement. All the mincemeat pie the crocks of pickles, everything. and on those holidays we'd all go down there. We'd have dinner and she had good help. so we didn't have to do all the dishes. So 40 of us would be eating. Then we'd all go to show in the afternoon, maybe, and then come back. But, we had a marvelous time.

Dick: Adele don't you remember, we had our drinking notes. It was uncle Frank. 

laughter

Dick: and he would be very nice to grandma and he would sneak in and put a little brandy in our mincemeat pie. Sparked it up.

laughter

Dick: Don't you remember wilma? You used to help him!

Adele: One thing, one cute thing, about grandpa Williams, my grandpa, he was adorable. He loved his grandchildren. He loved the theater. and every Saturday, not every Saturday but very often. anyone who wanted to go on the street car. and iv'e got to tell you about that. we could go on the street car when we were 8 years old downtown. I mean now, no one can go any place practically. But we'd get on the street care and meet grandpa at Keely's for the best lunch then we'd go to Fanscio and Margo at the Orphen theater and another show at the Capital theater. And he loved to take us and that was Saturday afternoon.

Adele: but the street cars we adored because we could run down and put pennies on 'em and they'd flatten 'em. We'd save all of the pennies from that. 

Okay now I'll quickly tell you about Pinecrest. Grandma and Grandpa Williams built a 3 story, 2 and a half story cabin at the head of Pinecrest. And, you can drive up there right now. And the cabin was beautiful. Tina has made pictures of it. And she (referring to Grandma Williams) had the most beautiful Croquet court and that's why the croquet is out there today, because she loved croquet.

And all the families would go up and each would have a room. One room for each family. with a basin in it. There were 5 bedrooms on the 2nd floor and we would have a ball. We would play Pit every single night around the dining room table. And would get in their swings, they had huge punch swings on the front porch and we'd swing all day. And the fun thing that you children can do, is go down to the quarry. We'd walk down to meet our dads. they'd come up, take about an hour to get there, they'd come up from work. We'd open up the fossils and we'd, today they still have 'em, you can find ferns, and fish. You can find and then we'd go to Pinecrest Inn to dance and to have dinner. Pinecrest was a really fun thing. 

ADELE: And Wilma has made one. (referring to the 12 layer cake Flossie used to make). Wilma is here all of you. (Wilma was on of Flossie's "working girls" or maids).

ADELE: now I want to introduce Jay's daughter, Tina from New York. And, my daughter. She's the best daughter you've ever known.

ADELE: I want her to read something, I've made these with tinia help, and plenty, these are this is the painting of Holliday park cabin and Clayton and I have really worked on this, but mostly clayton, and you may all buy one these from clayton. I've had one framed for each of my kids.

ADELE: but Tina is going read a little bit of information about the cabin that is so interesting.

ADELE: Tina and her mother, Jay's wife who died, uh, we used to go to Holiday Park. Eddie and Tina and her kids and my kids. And she loves Holiday Park. She goes all the time now, anyway. so she loves it. And she has a little history on this and you can all get a copy. Alright Tina, you're on.

Tina: My favorite thing about this whole thing is to understand why Adele now everywhere she goes takes provisions
laughter

Tina: I don't care where she is, she can feed herself and anyone near for 24 hours. She used to take roasts to New York. Roasts back to New York. and you got that from Nanny.

Dick: and 12 layer cakes

Tina: I now understand why

Tina: well there's lots more on holiday Park. I don't know if anybody'wants me to read all of it

Adele: stand up because we can't hear

Tina: I'll start by reading the most interesting. the first european to explore the Weber area around holiday park was probably Jim Bridger, of Fort Bridger fame, in the 1840s. shortly thereafter he told two St. Louis novice travelers about an untapped Weber Canyon. these two men and Mr. Summers first name we don't know and his partner Jack set off from Fort Bridger for the Beaver Bonanza. At that time Beaver hats were very popular in the east and also in England. These two men only spent one winter in now what we call Holiday Park.

Tina: They built a five sided cabin. Rather unusual, high up on gravel mountain looking over yellow lake. and down the canyon.  a vantage point enabling them to avoid being discovered by local indians. they must have arrived very late in the fall. the trees they chopped down to build the cabin are cut 3 feet and more off soil ground. As sure that heavy snow had already fallen when they arrived. the cabin foundation is still extent for any of you who feel like a day's climb straight up.

TINA: summers told his pelts by himself all the way back to st. louis to cut any middle man charge. it must have been very dangerous to be traveling with such a rich cargo for her traveled only at night. hiding out during daylight hours. he must have had enough adventure for a lifetime for he sold his furs he bought a big farm, got married, and lived happily ever after. Or at least so his wife says.

Tina: He wrote a memoir about this history. Uh, most of this history comes from Dan Freed. Dan Freed was in the south pacific during WWII. uh, there was nothing to do onboard the boat. He went through the library very few books and found the book this widow about this valley. Unnamed valley. Unnamed canyon. And uh, he went I guess for years thinking about a canyon that sounded so familiar that topography what it sounded like, where the river was, where the mountain was, he finally in the uh 1960s or 70s went up looking for the five sided cabin and he did find it. Any of you want to go up and look, we've all been.

Tina: and it s up about 3/4 of the way up gravel mountain.

Tina: uh

Tina: information about the area it stands for the next 20 years. We do know that the area was used rather wild game and gambling stag parties. in the 1860s. or 1870s. It was about the time that the tern called commissary was probably the canyon began to be used for summer pastures for cattle and sheep.

Tina: the tern, called commissary was probably built in for the site used to provide the lonely herders. 1877 was Legrand Young began to be interested in the area and brought or was given land there. The trip from Salt Lake City took two days by horse and buckboard. And tents were set up all over. White tents for lodging. Other families began to use this area as summer camp to avoid the heat in Salt Lake City. Eventually families began to build more permanent houses. The current williams cabin must have been about the earliest built maybe as early as 1882 or 1883.

Photo of JT Harwood painting, 1898

Tina: we do know that the Lyon's family was in Weston when the Utah artist, JT Harwood, painted the cabin in 1898 after a family photograph. 

Tina: Everybody wants to buy this picture. but, he's not interested in selling.

laughter

Tina: the original

laughter

Tina: for any price.

Tina: uh, the cabin was purchased by Gilbert and Fossie Williams from Frank Davidson of Los Angeles in 1929 for the grand total of $750. 

TINA: It was extended at that time to an inside bathroom and an attached kitchen. Electricity was not put in until the late 1950s. 

Tina: we don't know when the bunk house was built. But probably early 20th century.

Dick: I would say that 1920s

Tina: and I want to put that Dictions and the Willows should be the first offical game of the park. because of everybody has had more fun with that than anything.

APPLAUSE. 

Ann Larsen

Background:  Adele and Ann chatting about who will say what

ANN: Now that I'm a grandmother I realize the traditions that Nanny has set and believe me I can't even begin to hold a candle to try to do them all. With it being the 4th of July, I remember when we used to drive up to the cabin we'd all be there. She'd pull in, you know how they'd pull the car; she'd open the trunk of the car and there the flag, the kerchief, the cowboy hats, the pop guns, the whole 9 yards. And we'd have a wonderful celebration.

ANN: Your turn Rick.

RICK:  Well, uh, Doug and I were always the gophers. You know we kinda 

ADELE: Here's Doug

RICK: Hey, there he is. We uh, we always. Well, let me tell you a remind of a typical day at Holiday Park. It would start with sun came out. Doug and I would be out in the bunk house. We get up and we'd start the fires. Then, that meant we already had our kindling wood. and for many years we had the Linoleum from the old floor from the cabin, it made good good starter.

laughter

RICK: then we'd uh, start the fires, in the coal stove then we'd lay in coal shutter for coal and then the next thing we'd get water hot. so we'd haul water in from the cold spring. porcelain buckets. a couple of buckets beside the stove and we'd load up the dish pans so they'd be ready after breakfast. for doing the dishes

RICK:  then we'd uh, go muck out the bunk house with clean it out room to room 

RICK:  later in the day we would come in and fill all the lanterns

RICK:  during that time, Nanny would direct us, if she needed more fire, more water, more anything.

RICK:  she was good at directing.

laughter

RICK:  and uh, two kind of lamps. we had the Coleman lamps which took the white gas. we had the filled and pumped. then there were a bunch of kerosene lamps which we had to keep the wicks trimmed and had to keep them ready to go. uh, and we would then light those and keep them for the night.

RICK:  that was kind of a typical day for us

RICK:  then we were always the gophers when it came time to make candy.  And if you needed ginger-ale we ran downstairs and took up the ginger-ale. And when it was time to make current jelly and strawberry preserves, what is it? Not preserves? 

RICK:  Jam? The whole

RICK:  Doug and I did a lot of running around and we loved every minute of it.

RICK:  and uh, as far as grandpa goes one of the things that i remember best was a glass of cold water sitting on the table in the cabin with a hardy gut leader. grandpa day you had, liters were made out of cat gut. you had to wet them before you uh before you could use them. he had teach me what a perine real was. and that's something you don't see anymore. that's an automatic fly real. and I had a complete education in the pots care fly line. Usually starting with a sanding. and then like everybody else has already said we all remember grandpa sitting on the porch in the afternoon with a cocktail.

laughter

Jane:  And when I think of Nanny I think of a person who in my opinion every day would wake up and think of something she could for somebody else. I've never seen a better example of somebody who gave service to others. I remember when I used to go shopping with her she always had a bag of caramels sitting on the seat. of the car next to where she sat. and as we go Auerbachs and pull in the parking lot she'd hand a handful of caramels to the parking attendant 

Jane: I remember too, when my brother Tom was in a the Primary Children's Hospital he had surgery and uh we were all concerned and we would go to visit him and one day Nanny came and she had a pocket just filled with little um they gold footballs on a key change and she see these little children she'd pull out a key chain and put in her hand . 

Jane: One little guy, Abraham, was on a flat bed with wheels on it. He would just push himself around on this cart because he was in a cast from the top of his head to his toes. And Nanny went over and started talking to him and making him smile. All the sudden she pulled out one of her key chains and she put it in his hand. 

Jane: And he looked up at her and he said:

"I am the luckiest boy in the whole wide world."

laughter

Doug Worsley's son, Roger, Great Grandchild #1:

Roger: alright um, I don't think this is proper time but I'd like to invite all the great grandchildren up for a picture. I'd like to get a picture of us collectively. I am apparently the oldest great grand child. I think I even date Florrie by one year, is that right? 

Adele: Oh, oh, I see. 

Roger: I would at least if I could take a icture collectively of the great grandchildren. 

Roger: Let's see I'm going to keep this short and simple. Uh, my the uh, i'm going to talk to the dark side of Nanny. I don't think too many people here understand that.

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Roger: one year, it was the funniest thing, ieve ever seen in my life as i was growing up with Nanny. Uh, My brothers and I were invited to her house. I can't remember it was the summer. it was just 3 of us. we'd come walking in, remember you'd come in and B street and you'd walk down into a different area. She sat us down on the coach.
randy was to her left. she was sitting on the coach. ad my brother and i were kneeling n front.

Roger: she insisted we sit there and watch.

Roger: she had this little furry monkey and tambourines and the eyes have you ever seen the eyes that would pop out. she's so excited to show us this. she get up, it was amazed. this is something i've never seen from nanny. our memories at least, the people from California, we only saw her 2 weeks out of the year in the summer. she comes back. I was remember her being stoic is the right word or not, very collected. and nanny to do anything really wild wasn't unbeknownst to me or my brothers.

Roger: indicates the way this thing was activated you turn it on, and somehow you had to hit it, and it would start clapping and the eyes would bug out and bug out.

Nanny: "alright you guys, you gotta see this!"

Roger:  maybe one of you gave it to her, i don't remember, but she sits us down, we were all like, all right what do you want down . turns it on and she slams her hand in it. it skirts across the tables. she jumps up and catches I could not believe it. She grabs it and throws right back down.Then this thing is:

Roger: YAK, YAK, YAK,
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Roger: and Nanny is boom-- hitting it

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Roger: I couldn't believe it.

Roger: we were so shocked
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Roger: then, we lost it. Here's the old woman slamming this monkey thing down it was a completely... anyway... that my most classic memory of Nanny and her side, her dark side, the side you don't see too often.

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STEVE: Doug Worsley Son #2

Doug Worsley's Son, Randy:

Randy: I know Carolyn and Tom have both talked bout Nanny's house and how special that was especially coming from a far place and being that the a the anticipation of seeing Nanny ad the love she always showed us and grandpa too. But Nanny and grandpa had always been so important and so influential in showing how important a family was. and theres one area that I always had a hard time with and i guess being i was young at that time, upstairs there was old picture that had the picture of nanny and grandpa in the center. it had everyone picture there.

Randy:the two youngest were rick and my dad. and i could never I could always try to identify and i could always never truly understand that was truly my dad cuz he had that short butched hair and kinda buck teeth but I uh, nanny would always take me up there and make me this is your family. this is the Williams family and you have to know all of these people. these people are all of your family. that was something that was very important to me. Everytime I was there she d always go through all of the people. Uncle Doug, Uncle Dick, Uncle Clayton, there was always those start others I'd start to miss on but a i wish i would have paid a little more attention as i come to a party like tonight. looking around i'm knowing looking at everyone's name tag.

Randy:But one memory that i haven't heard from anyone was uh the cake that she had. it was the #1 thing that i'd always come to nanny's house. that 11 layer chocolate cake.

audience : 12! 

Randy: 12 layer chocolate cake was always a special thing for me. I always loved it and take a picture.