Friendship is such a wonderful thing. After a series of career moves over the
years, we’ve chalked up a healthy list of people we consider good friends –
from Iowa and Oklahoma
to Mississippi and Pennsylvania
Except for Nebraska
We’re intrigued by the fact that so many people of our
parents’ generation were often life-long friends. People with whom they went to school, worked,
and grew old. Friends who confided in
one another and – during good times and bad – helped each other.
Such was the special and long-time friendship of Lettie
Miller and Gladys (Warren
We’ve heard stories of how these ladies, hard working but
fun loving, used to celebrate Halloween to the fullest extent – dressing up in
some remarkably innovative costumes.
It tickled us recently when we came across this old photo –
taken in about 1947 on the Vince Braddock place north of Chadron. We don’t think it was Halloween, although it
may well have been in October. No doubt
about it, they were in costume!
This image, we think, captures the light-hearted antics that
these two ladies shared with one another. Perhaps folks who’ve known them and their spouses -- John Miller and Warren Beamish -- might contend that the girls' tomfoolery was a way of
complementing the more reserved (some might say dour) personalities of their
husbands!
Far be it from us to assign such motives. In any event, these two ladies did have fun!
Lettie Miller passed away in Chadron in 1998 at age 77. Gladys Beamish still lives in Chadron and
remains quite active for a young lady in her 80’s!
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