https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2 en-us 2022-02-06 18:50:25 UTC 2022-04-26 01:55:56 UTC hello@padlet.com pettitm41 https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2031731611 2022-02-06 18:57:54 UTC https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2031731611 pettitm41 https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157530748 "My first memory has to be when I got a tricycle for Christmas around the age of 3. I am not sure why this was my first memory, but I can always remember my older brother and sisters riding it and I never got to. 

Another early memory I have was playing bingo and other games with my grandma. I also remember baking Christmas cookies with my grandma, where I would stand on a chair in her kitchen since I was too small to reach the counter."]]> 2022-04-26 00:29:15 UTC https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157530748 pettitm41 https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157532513 Born in 1932. ]]> 2022-04-26 00:30:29 UTC https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157532513 pettitm41 https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157546479 "As someone who was born in 1932, I spent my beginning years living in the Great Depression. My family was poor, but I didn't know we were poor. I didn't know we were poor because everyone was in the same boat. I remember my Dad being sick, which led him to working his job on and off. My Dad was an electrician and he worked with people who were just starting to use electricity in their homes and barns. With this, he didn't bring home money, but rather he brought home food, vegetables from gardens, and even one time, a dog! My Dad also worked on the church and helped build a bridge in our town. Another memory I have is my Dad telling us a story about the grocer saying, 'if you clean turkeys for me I will give you one for Thanksgiving.'" I think this shows what it was like living in the Depression.]]> 2022-04-26 00:41:27 UTC https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157546479 pettitm41 https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157591139 "I knew that there were bad things going on somewhere else. I knew that there were people in trouble and I remember praying for the children who may be in danger.

A family activity we had was listening to the radio on Sunday nights. I was 9 years old, and they announced that Pearl Harbor had been bombed. While I didn't know what Pearl Harbor was, I remember listening to the president talk and realizing the bombing was bad.

At school they started selling savings stamps. These could be made into bonds, they cost $18 and in 10 years would become $25. Every week we would take in 1 dollar. The money we brought in was to send to the government in preparation for war.

My brother was going to be drafted, since he was 19. He decided to join the Navy Air Force, but was unable to go in right away as he had a hernia that required surgery. In the meantime, my Dad decided to join the Navy to be with my brother. My Dad joined before my brother did.

I remember dropping my Dad off in Toledo and feeling sad having him leave but at the same time being so proud of him. He went into war in 1942 and was done in 1945, and had some time off while in boot training.

My Dad trained as a radar person, and during his time he went to school, flew planes over the Gulf to test equipment, was sent to Pennsylvania to teach other sailors, but he never went overseas.

My brother ended up in the Air Force eventually, where he became a navigator after pilot training. He went overseas after the war and made flights to Japan and was stationed in Guam.

Another was we prepared for was gathering cans that would be used to make other things out of along with newspapers.

As for rationing, each week everyone went to get a book of stamps for sugar, gas and butter, among other things. There were limits on how much each family was able to buy.

My Mom got a job at Erie Proving Grounds, where they tested guns over Lake Erie. She drove 40 miles each way to work her job, which makes me thankful that my grandma lived next door to keep an eye on us."]]> 2022-04-26 01:09:28 UTC https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157591139 pettitm41 https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157599684 "After the war my Dad got a job with General Electric which led us to moving to Schenectady, NY my second semester of my Junior year of high school. We were only there for a little while, as we moved to Cincinnati at the beginning of my Senior year of high school. While these moves were difficult, I was able to make friends in both places, and my parents would take me on trips back to Tiffin, OH, where I grew up."]]> 2022-04-26 01:13:50 UTC https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157599684 pettitm41 https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157603456 "I went to college at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, OH. I was a cheerleader and I went to school to become a teacher, something I always wanted to do."


]]> 2022-04-26 01:16:37 UTC https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157603456 pettitm41 https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157608420 "As a kid on Saturday afternoons we would go to the movies where it cost on 10 cents to watch one. The most I remember a movie costing was 50-75 cents.

In high school we would go to the Y-Teen, where we could drink cokes while playing cards and listening to music.

In college we would play pool, listen to music and occasionally go dancing at the bar. Not many people had cars, so we didn't get to go far very often. There were no sororities so parties happened within literary societies, which could be compared to a sorority of fraternity."]]> 2022-04-26 01:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157608420 pettitm41 https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157612080 "After school I became a teacher in Parma, OH teaching the 4th grade. I was with a friend who was teaching kindergarten in a church while I taught a class of 38 kids in the gymnasium. My second year I worked in Fairborn, which was the summer before I met your grandpa. I eventually ended up in Worthington, OH where I was a special education teacher in the Worthington School District up until retirement."]]> 2022-04-26 01:22:52 UTC https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157612080 pettitm41 https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157621022 "I met your grandpa through my sister. He had just gotten out of the Navy and was going to be going back to school at The Ohio State University to finish getting his degree. Our first night together was on a double date. From there, he would come and visit Cincinnati. One night he called me to tell me that he was coming to visit Cincinnati. We were both Cincinnati Red's fans, so I was confused why he was coming as the Red's weren't in town. He told met that he was coming to see me!

One weekend he invited me to Pataskala. I went and after being together, he got into a car accident after falling asleep at the wheel. He had a punctured lung and went to a hospital in Columbus. I went to see him and that is when he told me he loved me.

We were long distance for a year, then got engaged for a year in 1957 and got married in 1958.

We loved to travel together and watch sports, especially football and basketball, together.

Your grandpa growing up worked at a gas station. He served in the military in radar in the Navy for 4 years during the Korean War. He was at sea for a long time, but he always loved the water. He worked in cryogenics, building units to test thing going into outer space. His company worked with NASA in the beginning of the space expeditions, where they would build units and send them to Houston and Cape Canaveral. He loved to fish and going to anything that the kids were doing."]]> 2022-04-26 01:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157621022 pettitm41 https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157624794 "We had four kids, and I had always wanted a big family. Ginger, your mother, was the extra, although whenever she would ask if she was an "accident," he would reply with, 'you were all accidents!" When your mom was born my mom and dad were living with us, which  made for quite tight corners.

Pictured above is the Frankenberg family, before my mom was born!]]> 2022-04-26 01:32:35 UTC https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157624794 pettitm41 https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157627251 "The best part about aging is having young people around you. I have my kids, grandkids and great grandkids who are all loving people.

I am able to learn more about myself every day and find myself learning constantly.

The best part about aging is that there is no expectation that I need to always be on the move."]]> 2022-04-26 01:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157627251 pettitm41 https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157628964 "I want to continue traveling. I had so many places to see! I also have so many books that I would like to read.

Most importantly I want to see my kids, grandkids and great grandkids happy."]]> 2022-04-26 01:35:57 UTC https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157628964 pettitm41 https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157637668 2022-04-26 01:42:49 UTC https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157637668 pettitm41 https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157653390 2022-04-26 01:55:34 UTC https://padlet.com/pettitm41/9xmlsti8s3v1otj2/wish/2157653390