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Robert Henry Blain;
Born April 20, 1944; Delaware County, Ohio; son of : Henry Lee
Blain 1889 - 1964 and Martha Jane Eads
Randall Blain 1911 - 1975. Married; August 2nd 1964 to Barbara Louis Wortz; b-
February 21, 1947,
also from Delaware, Ohio. Bob and Barb have made Ringling, Oklahoma
their home. Bob and I were a
team. Born only a year apart and both of us named after dad; Henry
Lee Blain. I got his middle name John Lee and Bob was Robert
Henry. Dad and the 2 of us worked together when we were old
enough. He kept 2 gardens many years and had us in them teaching us
the finer points of gardening. One of the "finer points" was not
chopping off vegetables at the roots with the weeding hoe. Pop would be keeping his eyes on us to make sure we
didn't. I
remember it as backbreaking work, we did so much of it as kids. I have
never wanted to keep a garden, much to Becky's dismay but Bob keeps a big
one for his family, every year. Dad had several jobs in
Kilbourne; he sold spices, kept his gardens and also worked for the
township as caretaker for the cemeteries. Bob and I spent many a day
walking behind lawn mowers and grass whips and we helped dig many a grave.
You can say we lived in a different world than kids do today, we learned
how to work and dad saw to it we were kept busy and out of trouble.
There was no such thing as lazing away the days.
When Bob and I weren't at school or
helping with the cemetery work or working in the gardens, we played. We did
everything together and Judy wasn't far behind taking it all in so she
could tell Mom on just what "the boys" did. We played at a creek not too far behind the house,
just over the hill the other side of the big garden.
We had paths made to it and paths thru the fields to friends homes.
We could run like the wind over the paths to our hide
outs and we could bicycle even faster on the rides we took into town, a
good ride of seven miles. That trip into town was done many times
by foot. It was when we were older and we had bikes that we did the
trip peddling.
Playing, working and keeping tabs on
Judy until she was old enough to have her own interests kept us pretty busy. We were pretty good kids and being raised out in the
country was a good thing. We knew what a cow and a chicken was, where milk and eggs came from and the work made us better men.
3 Children:
Teresa Ann
Robert
(Bobby) Allen
Shelly Renee
10 Grandchildren:
Teresa Ann's
Children
1-Tommy Lee b - September 25, 1984
2-David Thomas b - October 10, 1985
3-Twila Mae b - May 5, 1987
4-Tonya Nicole b - February 13, 1989
Robert (Bobby)
Allen's Children
1-Ryder Allen
2-Robert Chance
Shelly Renee's
Children
1-Halie Michelle b - April 10, 1988
2-Miriah Noel b - December 24, 1992
3-Derek Colby Lee b - August 27, 1995
4-Ashton Tuesday b - September 3, 1998
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