Art School and worked part-time at the Civic Education Service. She later held positions at A. Sloane Furniture Company and in the Federal Government, HOLC Offices. On July 4, 1937, she was married to Robert W. Gordon, a Marine Major. His work took them to Quantico, Virginia, where Rhona Kathryn, their first daughter, was born, and to Charleston, West Virginia, where Diana was born. After retirement, Robert did free-lance writing and editing and they were residing in Chicago, Illinois, when Robert died in November, 1954. Myrtle and daughters returned to Winfield where Myrtle was employed at the First National Bank until December, 1963. She was then married to Leslie Taylor Whitson, an old school friend, and moved to Santa Ana, California. Rhona was married in September, 1961, to Ray Adams, an architectural designer and they make their home in Wichita, Kansas. They have one daughter, Jennifer Ann. Diana married Charles E. Cox in July, 1963. He is a Computer Programmer. They live in Englewood, Colorado. They have one son, Kevin Charles.
If Dad were to read these "Memoirs" he might exclaim: "Gee Whillickers", or "I'll Swan", or even "Who in Sam Hill would have remembered all that".JOHN KROTH
John was born September 19, 1874, at the Kroth homestead near Buck's Grove. Most of his education was received at Buck's Grove Rural School. In those days, boys would go to school two or three months in the winter, until they were 21 years old. Discipline was a problem, and he told of one teacher throwing one boy over the stove pipe, which ran the length of the school house. He also told of one boy who had trouble with reading, writing and arithmetic, in exasperation the teacher asked, "Son, do you know how to harness a horse?" Sonny was on his feet immediately. "Now, you have your horse here". And he went on in great detail to explain how to get the harness on the horse.
John and several other boys spent a term at Campbell College and hatched in some upstair rooms. One professor (Shattock) made the comment of being surprised how well the boys looked when they came out of their quarters.
John, with Harry Loughmiller, farmed the farm southwest of the Charlie Kroth homestead but they wanted to look farther afield. In 1897, John and Jim McLink traveled to Custer County, Oklahoma, to a pioneer town named Arapaho. They rode in a covered wagon which served as their bed at night while stopping at livery stables. Land was cheap, as many failed to prove their claims, after the opening of the Cherokee Strip. John lived several years In a dug-out and in addition to farming, taught two terms of school in a rural district.
On one of his visits home, he met Edna Tweddy, the upper room teacher at Buck's Grove School (Lillie Mohler taught the lower room). In 1906 they were married in the Presbyterian57 Next Page
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