Florence Blocher graduated from eighth grade , at Seabrook grade School in Topeka . She asked her father , Noah Blocher , she called him Papa , to let her go to high school for two years , and to what was known as Normal School for two more . After that , she could get a teaching certificate . Her greatest desire was to be a school teacher . In those days , very few girls went on to school after eighth grade . It was assumed they would get married and have a family . All of their schooling , would be wasted , as the husband always made the living for the family . Noah told Florence that he would make her the same deal he made the other girls . He said , " I will send you on one condition : You study hard and promise not to date any of the boys until you are finished with your schooling . " Florence was so happy to get to go that she would have promised anything . She kept her promise , studied hard , never dated , and after four years she received the prized certificate . She was offered a teaching job in a one room school house at Ravanna , in western Kansas . She would earn seventy - five dollars a month and be boarded at the Byler ranch . A horse would be furnished for her to ride to school . Her first job at the start of each school day Florence was to build a fire in the stove . In her wildest dreams , she never thought she would meet a cowboy in Western Kansas that she would give up teaching for . Florence had grown up in a staid , hard working , religious family . She was not prepared for the easy , open life on the prairie . It seemed like everyone wanted to meet the new " School Marm " from Topeka . She was invited to all the parties for miles around . One Saturday night , she went to a get - acquainted dance , at the Torson ranch . The Torsons had a large house . One room was bare , except for a large player piano along one wall . That is a piano with rolls of music and all that is needed to get music , is to put a roll in place and pump the pedals . The rest of the room was cleared for dancing . All the young folks from miles around made Mel and Mom Torson 's ranch their second home . There were four pretty Torson girls , so of course , all the cowboys liked the arrangement . When she took the job , so far away from home , Florence Blocher was afraid she would get homesick . After she met Jenny Torson and Lucy Reed , she was glad she had gone . Of course , all the cowboys wanted to take her out , and when Lucy 's brother Ralph asked her to go to the next literary meeting at the school house with him , she accepted right away . Roy Goodman told this story of their meeting years later , " I could have married any of the girls I grew up with , " he said , " They all seemed like sisters to me . When I met Florence at the Torsons that night , I knew she was the one I had been waiting for . She was pretty and had a quality about her , that set her off in a class by herself . I set about trying to beat out all the other cowboys . They say , " All is fair in love and war . " " " I got her alone , and told her about a place I knew , called Curiosity Hollow . It was a pretty place out on the prairie . For some unknown reason , the ground was hollowed out in a large circle , with cottonwood trees all around it . Some of the folks thought a large meteorite had fallen there thousands of years ago . I made it sound like she just had to see it , it was such an interesting place . She could not resist my spiel , so the next day , we rode our horses out there . When we got to the " Hollow " , we spread the picnic lunch we had out on a nice grassy spot . While we were eating , told her all the stories I had ever heard about the place . When I couldn 't think of any more to say , I sang a song to her . The name of that song was , " On The Grass of Uncle Sam " . It was a popular song around the time of the first World War . I still remember the words , I don 't have a strong enough voice to sing it anymore . When I thought I had Florence in a romantic mood , I asked her to go to the school doings with me the next week . I was sure surprised when she said " Yes " . " " On the way home , I caught hold of her horse 's bridle and held her horse close to mine . Then I got the first kiss , from the girl I intended to marry . When her horse heard that kiss , he must have thought I was clucking for him to get up . He started to run off . I kept hollering " Hold on , hold on , " to Florence until the horse stopped . I have always been glad I courted and won " The School Marm " for my wife . " Florence added her side of the story , " I did not have a chance against Roy , because I had never met anyone like him . He could charm the birds right out of the trees . He sure had the Irish gift of Gab . I forgot that I already had a date with Ralph Reed , until later . Then I was in a real pickle ! I just had to find a way to break my date with Ralph , so I didn 't hurt his feelings . Before I saw him , someone else told him about my date with Roy . He broke the date himself . Much later , he forgave me and we were all friends again . " Roy spent the summer on the rodeo circuit . He thought of Florence , and wished she was with him . He was in her thoughts all summer too . She couldn 't wait until school started that fall so she could see him again . They had missed each other so much , they knew they would get married right away . That finished her teaching career . A married woman was not allowed to teach school at that time . They were married in 1920 , and moved into a sod house , near John and Estella Goodman 's ranch . Noah and Mary Blocher were not happy , having a cowboy for a new son - in - law . They had an image of a rowdy , dirty , and uncivilized person . I took them a few years to come around . In the end , they couldn 't resist Roy 's magnetic personality . They eventually welcomed him into the family . Their first son , Clifford , was born December 31 , 1920 in Eminence , Kansas . When he was old enough to travel , Roy and Florence , with his brother , Bob and his wife , Bertie , all went following the rodeos . They traveled all over the West and had many adventures . Like the time an Indian sneaked into their tent and started to kidnap Clifford . Bob happened to see him . He hit that Indian so hard he broke his jawbone . They learned later that some of the Indians were kidnapping children and holding them for ransom . Most of the time the roads were dusty . When it rained , the mud was hubcap deep . Very few of the roads were paved then . Roy and Bob kept on the move , driving their old car from one rodeo to the next . They camped in a tent at night and cooked over a camp fire . When the coyotes howled at night , Florence picked Clifford up and slept in the car the until daylight . The others laughed at her . They had been hearing coyotes all of their lives , and were not afraid of them . Sometimes Roy or Bob would win a lot of money at the rodeos . But , more often than not , they were broke flatter than a pancake . They were young , and were out to have all the fun they could . This was the pattern of their lives for the next four years . Roy was working in Grand Island , Nebraska , when their daughter , Josephine June was born on June 17 , 1924 . Roy was so proud of her , he hurried home from work at night so he could take her out in the baby buggy and show her off . As Josephine grew , she was a tow headed little girl , a bit stubborn , and sometimes she got herself into real danger . For instance , the time Roy heard her say , " Woa , Doker . " He looked over and saw her walking under the belly of an outlaw horse , named Joker , patting his belly as she went . There was not a cowboy around that would have been able to do that without getting kicked . Old Joker , just looked around at Josephine , and stood real still until she was gone , then he went on eating . Another time , at a rodeo in Cody , Wyoming , Roy had a steer fall on him during the bulldogging event . He was hurt real bad . Florence was selling hamburgers to make a little extra money . She had told Josephine to go to the back of the tent and stay out of her way while she was so busy . Of course , Josephine saw her chance , and slipped out of the tent and went over to play with the Gypsy fortune teller 's children . She had not been out of the tent a minute , when a car went out of control and ran into the tent . The cowboys had just pulled Florence out of the tent when it burst into flames ! Roy was at the other end of the street , and when he ran up all he could see was Florence , lying on the ground . She was all covered with raw hamburger and it looked like she was seriously hurt . He was sure his daughter was burning up in the tent . He was so relieved when he found out Florence only had a broken ankle . Then the Gypsy woman walked up , holding Josephine by the hand . The Gypsy had been busy picking up the money off of the street , where it had spilled when the car hit the tent . When they counted it later , all the money was there . That was an honest Gypsy ! That was one time Josephine , was hugged and kissed for disobeying her mother . Because Roy had all the ribs pulled loose from his breastbone in the bulldogging accident , and Florence had a broken ankle , they both had to drive the car to the next rodeo . He worked the foot pedals , and she steered the old Maxwell Touring . This was a car open on the sides , and it had curtains that snapped into place , instead of windows on the sides . Sometimes , they had to hurry and put the curtains up if it started to rain . Roy could not compete at the rodeo at Wolf Point , Montana , but they went anyway , just to be where the action was . At the next rodeo , in White River , Montana , her parents were still sleeping when Josephine woke up . She quietly put her dress on , the same dirty one she had worn the day before . Then she put her shoes on the wrong feet . Roy said , " Josephine wore her shoes out on the wrong feet . " She sneaked out under the tent , and went out to look the town over . When she came back , she had on a new dress and a new pair of shoes . The strangest thing of all , the new shoes were on the right feet ! Roy and Florence asked Josephine where the new things came from . All she would say was , " A nice man buyed them for me . " Later in the day , they met the " Nice Man " and he said , " I thought your daughter was a poor little girl who did not have any clothes , so I took her into a store and dressed her up in new ones and sent her home . " Roy offered to pay for the clothes . The nice man just laughed and said , " Forget it . " Roy never did though , and told the story many times to embarrass Josephine as she grew up . Roy wanted to enter the bulldogging event in White River . Florence tried to talk him out of it , because she was afraid he would get hurt again . Roy promised her if he got hurt again he would quit rodeoing , forever . He had tried to quit many times before . It seemed like it was a fever in his blood . He just could not get it out of his system . That day in White River , he was so sure he would win , he taped up his sore ribs and entered the bulldogging event . He jumped off of his horse and caught the bull by the horns . That bull fell right on top of his chest ! Roy knew all of his ribs were broken again . After the doctor taped them back in place , Florence reminded him of his promise . Right then , he got down on his knees and swore to , " Almighty God , " he would never compete in another rodeo as long as he lived . He never did . All the rest of his life , he told tales of the rodeo days . Roy was a good storyteller , and everyone found his stories interesting . His children and grandchildren liked them best of all . The next two years , Roy worked on a large cattle ranch near Valentine , Nebraska . This ranch was owned by W . T . Bachelor . It was here that Josephine and Clifford decided to go swimming in one of the many lakes on the ranch . It was lucky for the children that Roy and Ted Bachelor , one of old W . T . s ' sons , were fixing fence nearby . The men saw them before they got in the deep part of the lake . Roy rode his horse into the water and pulled both children out . Josephine started to laugh and said , " My dolly is fimming , my dolly is fimmin . " Sure enough , her doll was floating on top of the water , out in the middle of the lake . After they had rescued the doll , it started falling apart . In those days , dolls were made of pressed sawdust . They were not made to go swimming with their owners . Josephine cried all the way home because her doll was ruined . When her mother asked , " Why did you take your dolly swimming ? " all she gave as a reason was the same answer she always gave when in trouble , " Clifford let me do it . " Florence went to Gordon , Nebraska to stay for awhile when Josephine was four years old . When she came back , she had a new baby . Josephine did not like that one bit . She was very jealous of her new baby brother because up until then , she had been the center of attention . They named the boy Francis Dwayne . Since Roy had a brother named Francis , they always called their boy , Dwayne . After he grew up , he spent many years in the army . He was nick - named Frank there . None of the family could ever remember to call him , Frank , however . Roy found a steer hide in a haystack while feeding cattle one day . He didn 't think very much about it at that time . Later this same hide was found by a range detective . He was hired by a neighboring rancher , named Birthol Brown . The hide was wearing Brown 's brand and he accused W . T . of rustling and butchering one of his steers . The two ranchers had been enemies for years , and that fact came out at the trial . Roy testified that he just saw the hide . He didn 't know at that time it was branded with Brown 's brand . He said he never helped with the butchering . As long as he was at the ranch , he said he never saw a steer butchered with a bar T brand . As it well known around there that W . T . Bachelor and Brown had been accusing each other of rustling for many years , the jury thought Brown could have planted the hide in the haystack . Old W . T . got out of the rustling charge . Telling of the incident years later , Roy said , " I am sure neither one of those old ranchers ever butchered one of their own steers . They would not have known what one of their steers tasted like . " Roy quit working for W . T . Bachelor , and moved Florence and the three children to Cheyenne , Wyoming . He and his old buddy , Phil Meyers , went to Yellowstone Park to work . Their job was building roads and cabins , to develop the park for a tourist attraction . They never thought this park would be as popular as it turned out to be . Florence received a wire , telling her that her father , Noah Blocher , had a mild heart attack . He wanted Roy to come to Topeka , and help him in the blacksmith shop . If Roy was interested , he could take over the shop when Noah retired . Roy thought he would like that kind of work , so he left his job in the park . Florence took the children and boarded a train for Topeka . Roy met them there , and they had high hopes for the future . After working with Noah for awhile , Roy learned a lot about blacksmithing . Noah would not slow down , and the next heart attack cost him his life . He died in 1930 at the age of sixty - nine . It was at the start of the great depression of the thirties . The farmers felt the pinch first . When they did not bring their work in , Roy did not make any money either . As the depression deepened , money became scarce . Roy and Florence , left the table hungry many times , so the children would have enough to eat . He took a job at night , as a bouncer at a night club . A bouncer is the man hired to throw out the trouble - makers . Prohibition was in full swing , and it was illegal to sell alcoholic beverages . Anyone could buy it , if they were willing to buy bootleg liquor . Roy was approached by some bootleggers , and offered a lot of money if he would let his house be used as a warehouse for their liquor . They said they would truck it in and store it in his house until the owners of the speakeasies in Topeka could come and get it . Florence was expecting their fourth baby at any time , and Roy was desperate . He needed money to pay bills and feed his family . So , he said he would do it . Everything went well for awhile . The baby was born on October 22 , 1930 . It was a boy and they named him Dale Galen . He was born one day after his daddy 's birthday . The Federal Agents found out the liquor was coming into town from the west , near Sims Avenue . That was the street Roy lived on . The Feds blocked off the street at both ends . The owners of the clubs could not get in to get their orders . A way had to be found to get rid of it before the agents found the house it was stored in . It was lucky there wasn 't very much of the stuff in the house at that time . Florence saved the day . She lined the bottom of Dale 's baby buggy with whiskey bottles . She put the mattress in and laid Dale on top . She covered the whole thing with baby blankets . She then wheeled the buggy right by the noses of the Federal Agents . She made several trips that day . One trip , the minister of her mother 's church gave her a ride . He never suspected he was helping a bootlegger ! Clifford even got in the act . He put some liquor in gallon jugs , and telling everyone it was kerosene , he carried them right out in the open . Who would suspect a ten year old boy of bootlegging ? Josephine helped too , she pushed the baby buggy , when her mother got tired . The agents gave up trying to catch the suppliers , and began searching the houses one night . A friendly neighbor tipped Roy off that they were coming . He and Florence dumped all the rest of the liquor down the kitchen drain . They took the bottles out behind a shed and broke them . They had a problem with some home brew they were making to drink themselves . It would not go down the drain . Roy carried it out and fed it to a pig he was fattening in the shed . That poor pig was drunk for a week ! The Feds could smell the liquor when they came in the house . They could not take a smell to court as evidence . Roy and his wife were not charged with bootlegging . It was a close call . Josephine was old enough to know that if her parents were caught , they could be taken to jail . She had been cautioned , time after time , never to tell anyone about the liquor being in the house . She heard enough that night to have nightmares for a long time . Roy didn 't think the money was worth the risks , and after that narrow escape , he never did anymore bootlegging . When Roy was riding in the rodeos , he had his boots custom made , at the Hyer Foot Factory , in Olathe , Kansas . His boots , saddle and belt were all made of hand tooled leather . They were decorated with a western design he had sketched himself . He had kept his saddle , moving it from place to place , hoping some day he could buy a horse and ride again . In Topeka , he had to sell it for a few dollars , to buy food for the table . The children cried , when the pretty saddle was taken away . They liked to sit on it and pretend they were riding a bucking bronco . Roy wore his boots out . He kept his belt for many years , the last memento of his rodeo days . Then all that was left were the stories . He used to amuse the neighborhood children . He took a rope and showed them how to make a lariat out of it . He tied a honda in the end , that is the eyelet that is used to form the loop . He lassoed them as they tried to run away . He could also do rope tricks . He made a large loop and twirled it over his head , jumping in and out of it , as he twirled . All the other kids in the neighborhood called him , Uncle Roy . They envied his children because , they had a real cowboy for a father . Josephine was never happier than when she could dress up in Clifford 's old castoff corduroy knickerbockers , short pants that ended just below the knees , and a pair of his old boots . She went tagging after him everywhere he went . Clifford could do no wrong in her eyes . In 1930 , little girls were still supposed to wear dresses and not , heaven forbid , boys pants . They should wear their hair long and in curls , not cut short like a boy . A neighbor woman told Florence , if Josephine was her girl , she would not be such tomboy . Florence looked her right in the eye , and said , " well , she is not your girl , she is mine and I will let her dress any way she wants to . " Poor Grandma Blocher , to have a tomboy for a granddaughter . She thought she would try to get her interested in girlish things . She tried to teach Josephine to sew . She would teach her to make a quilt . It would be a nine patch , that was an easy one to piece . Well , Josephine tried and tried , but the thread tangled , the stitches were too big . And , besides , it was so much more fun to climb a tree , or go fishing with Clifford and his friends . The quilt turned into a disaster . Grandma gave up the attempt to teach her tomboy granddaughter to sew . Grandma would have been surprised if she could have known that Josephine did learn to make quilts . She made many of them when she was a Grandma , too . Never , never nine patch though . Aunt Eva even tried to do something about the tomboy 's hair . She waved it every day with sticky lotion , hoping it would grow out and be wavy . The next day , it was a mess again . After all , if a girl had to be thinking about her hair all the time , how could she ever learn to hang by her heels in the trees ? William Falwell moved in with his daughter , Mary , after his wife died in California . He was born in 1846 , near St . Joseph , Missouri . The greatest thrill of his life , was when he was a teenage boy . He shook hands with President Lincoln . He told his great - grandchildren of this event , several times . As William grew older , he was a little childish . He took care of his daughter 's chickens . Sometimes , he forgot if he had fed them that day and he would feed them again . Chicken feed would be several inches deep on the floor of the chicken house , if Mary did not watch him carefully . One day , he took the notion , the roof of the house needed fixing . When his daughter came home ; he was on top of the three story house fixing the roof ! It took the fire department to get him down . William was still looking for his fortune in the mail box every day . He claimed an inheritance from his mother 's aunt . His dreams never were realized , he died a poor man in 1936 , just a few days before his ninetieth birthday . Josephine often remembered the wonderful times she had at Grandma Blocher 's house , near Twenty - first and Gage . The five Blocher girls , as they were called , helped their mother cook the delicious holiday dinner . Uncle Harve Blocher took his brothers - in - law out behind the blacksmith shop for a horseshoe pitching contest . When dinner was ready , everyone went into the long dining room to eat . This room was Josephine 's favorite of all the rooms in the large house . The nice china cabinet that Noah had made out of an old piano was there . The long narrow shelf along one wall held Grandma 's famous plate collection . She had been saving them for years . Everyone she knew would give her a plate , and she had many beautiful ones . Years later , Josephine was given two of these plates . She kept them in her china cabinet . She never looked at them without remembering Fourth of July or Christmas at Grandma 's house . Waiting for dinner , the Goodman and Blocher cousins , large and small , played the games children play . Hide and seek was so much fun . They could hide behind one of the many flower bushes or in one of the outbuildings , if they could run fast enough to get there before the child who was ( it ) quit counting . A good place to hide was behind the blacksmith shop . Sometimes , it was hot , and the girls played jacks on the big front porch . After dinner , the mothers wouldn 't let their children run and play , until their food had a chance to settle . Then they sat in the parlor and looked at the funny picture cards through the stereoscope . The picture cards had two pictures on them . They looked alike , but they were a little different . When they were put in the stereoscope , the pictures merged into one picture . This picture looked three dimensional . Oh ! how the girls laughed at the fashions the people were wearing . Of course , none of the girls dreamed that in fifteen years , they would be able to see moving pictures on a television set in their own living rooms . That would have been thought of as a miracle then . Franklin D . Roosevelt was elected president in 1933 . He put a program of public works into effect and most of the men got jobs . Life was a little easier for the Goodman family . Roy decided to take the family to visit his folks . They went in an old Model T . roadster . Since all of them could not get in the front seat , Roy made a rumble seat in the trunk . He took the trunk lid off of the hinges , then he reversed it and put it back on . Florence padded the lid and they put a seat in the trunk space . They had the only Model T with a rumble seat . Three of the children rode in the back and the other one took turns riding with Roy and Florence . They camped out behind the billboards at night , and a camp fire cooked their meals . One day , a long way from town , the car fell apart . Roy just cut a piece of barbed wire out of a fence and wired it back together again . A little way down the road , the radiator was boiling , so he dipped water out of an irrigation ditch and poured it in . The car would not start again , Roy got so mad he began kicking one of the fenders . When he got back in the car , it started right away ! They saw all the Goodman relatives . That was the last time Josephine ever saw her grandpa and grandma John and Estella Goodman . Roy and Florence visited with a lot of their old friends . The Torson girls were all married , with children of their own . Roy took the children to see the old Ravanna School house . School was not held in it anymore , but it was still in good shape . The old court house was in ruins . This was the same court house that the records were stolen from , so long ago . They drove north to the old Goodman homestead . The corners of the sod house that Roy was born in were all that was left of the house . John had built for his bride , Estella . Roy stopped out on the prairie , and showed the children the graves of old Soc and Mary Ellen Goodman . It was very hot that day and Roy told the children , he would take them out to the old swimming hole . He said it was a deep place in the river . He and his brothers used to go swimming there when they were boys . They used to get wet and then hit each other with soap weed , Yucca Plant , then get back in the water and rinse the soap suds off . One day , as they were swimming nude , they heard a voice calling , " Here I come . " They looked up . It was Lucy Reed , a neighbor girl . She was stripped off too . She jumped in the river and went swimming with them . When he got to the river , Roy looked around . The only water in the river was a little mud puddle , where he used to swim . " Well , " he said , " It used to be deep anyway . " It was a grand trip , even if that old Model T . rattled and shook all the way out there and back . The next addition to the growing family was a girl , named Myrna Louise . She was born after the trip to Western Kansas , on October 11 , 1936 . Josephine desperately wanted a sister this time . As she left the house to go to the neighbors , she told the doctor that came to the house to deliver the baby . " If the baby is not a girl , I may never come back home . " Several hours later , when she saw the doctor out on the porch , and she knew the baby was born , she went home . The doctor thought it would be funny to tease her a little , so he said , " I am real sorry to have to tell you this but , the baby turned out to be a boy . " Josephine just turned around and started to go back to the neighbors . The old doctor had to talk fast then , and tell her the truth . Then she was so happy ! She treated Myrna like a little doll and spoiled her rotten . When Myrna was about seven months old , Florence sold a lot that her father , Noah , left her when he died . They bought forty acres in Cedar County , Missouri . All that summer they camped out in the woods while Roy and Florence , with a lot of help from Clifford , built a log cabin . They cut the trees on the land and carried the logs on their shoulders to the cabin site . The children mixed straw with clay and chinked up the cracks . It was a snug home by winter time . That was the winter Josephine was thirteen and her brother , Clifford , brought the tall , good looking , hillbilly boy home from town . This boy was named Ray Routh . She did not think much about him for the next two years . Oh , she saw him around town or at the church meetings . She wasn 't interested in him , he was just a friend of Clifford 's . Josephine was not very happy at this time of her life . After being used to the large Junior High School in Topeka , she could not get interested at the little one room school in the Ozarks . When she was not helping her mamma , she took care of the babies , or helped with the other chores . She liked to go walking . Sometimes she took a book into the woods and read , until darkness forced her to go home . That was the only thing that helped her in this difficult time . She begged and borrowed every book he could to read . Reading was a passion with her . She forgot her tomboy ways . Through her books , she could travel all over the world . Explore the jungles , space , meet people of all nationalities , and be anyone she wanted to be . By reading , she could escape the reality of the grinding , poverty , the Goodman family found themselves in that winter . Roy spent all of the money he had saved out of the sale of the lot . Nobody could afford to pay him to do blacksmith work . Soon all they had to eat was some corn . This corn was ground on a hand mill and turned into a coarse cornmeal . Florence boiled the cornmeal for breakfast . At noon , she fried the cold mush in fat until it was a nice crispy brown . When all the fat was gone , it was boiled mush for all three meals , every day for three weeks . This was eaten without sugar or milk . The milk goat gave a pint of milk a day . That was saved for Myrna , she needed milk most . Roy forgot his pride and applied for emergency relief food . He later got a job on the W . P . A . Life was a little easier then . Florence gave birth to her sixth baby on February 2 , 1939 . It was another girl . They named her Shirley Loree . Josephine was not as thrilled about her new sister , as she had been when Myrna was born two years before . She could not figure out why her parents could possibly want another mouth to feed , when they could not feed the ones they had . They welcomed the new baby with love , however , just as they had the other children . When she graduated from eight grade , Josephine did not have a nice dress to wear . She was to make a speech and hated the thought of standing up in front of all those people in her old dress . On the day before the exercises , she came home from school and found her mamma sewing . Clifford had gone to Stockton and worked all day to buy the pretty blue organdy material , knowing Florence , with her sewing skill , could make a beautiful dress . It was an unselfish thing to do . One of the many nice things he did for his sister . That summer , every time Josephine saw Ray Routh in town , he tried to make a date with her . She noticed what a good - looking boy he was , with his piercing blue eyes , wavy hair , and that sexy cleft in his chin . She was a little afraid of him . She thought he was at least twenty years old . He looked so mature . She always told him , " No " It seemed like that only made him more determined to take her out . When Uncle Harve came to see them , he offered to take Josephine to Topeka with him . He would send her home by bus when she wanted to go . She had a good time visiting with her Grandma Blocher , all of her cousins and some of her old girlfriends . The other girls were always talking about their boyfriends . When they asked her if she had a boyfriend , Josephine thought fast . Guess who popped into her head ? None other than Ray Routh , because he was much better looking than their boyfriends . They all looked like children compared to him . Never mind if she was not really going with him . He was always asking her for a date , wasn 't he ? Page specific suggestions and comments are welcome on any page except the home page , and do not require registration or login . All user submitted comments are moderated before being made public . Comments may be edited or deleted at our discretion .