This was taken in
front of our house on Ward Avenue on Easter Sunday, April 5, 1942.
We had some really quiet neighbors; the building across the street is
LaFarge
Funeral Home. :-)
| My
Family Photo Album Caruthersville, Missouri Page One - |
| This is me, Jerry Ray Stilley, age 9....in Caruthersville |
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This was taken in
front of our house on Ward Avenue on Easter Sunday, April 5, 1942.
We had some really quiet neighbors; the building across the street is
LaFarge
Funeral Home. :-) |
The
only "baby picture" of me I have....(me-about 1 year old)
 Here, my Dad, Tom Stilley, is holding me and talking with my Grandmother Brooks,
my Uncle Lonnie Brooks and my sisters, Lee and Betty.
My grandmother and her son, Lonnie lived in the care-takers little house at the back of Little Prairie Cemetery in Caruthersville in 1934 where Uncle Lonnie worked, and where this picture was taken . |
 This is my favorite picture of my mother, Maggie BROOKS,
taken before she married my dad in 1920.She is about 12 here...(look at the hope and expectation in that face!) She was born in Cardwell, MO on August 31, 1905. Her father was James Albert BROOKS and her
mother was Laura BRANTLEY. She had two older brothers, John and Jack. John's picture is next. He died mysteriously in a house fire in Caruthersville in June of 1945. I wrote a story about this incident, called "Summer Lightening". |
This is Uncle John. |
Uncle John Brooks with the hat, wife Rosie
(RILEY) Brooks and son 
John and Rosie had one son, William "Bill" Brooks, the youngster wearing a tie standing next to his mother. Bill served in the Army during WW II. |
 Mother's
other brother, Uncle Lonnie, and my sister, Lee talk things
over... taken by my Dad some place near the levee in Caruthersville around
1928. |
 Lee and a friend try another form of
transport.. but not enjoying it much.
Like,
"Isn't there
something else to do that's more fun?" (Note the old wooden
houses in the back ground...)
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 Ah, this is much better! As
the wagon tells, my family had already been to Flint, and in 1942, like many
other families in our area, we moved there for good to work in the
automobile factories. |
My
Mom and Dad Maggie (Brooks) and Thomas ("Tom")
Kinchen STILLEY.
Mother worked many years at Brown Shoe Co.
in Caruthersville. Do any of you have relatives who worked there? |
Dad's three sisters (standing, left to right), Rhetha and Myrtle and Mary (seated) All lived in Caruthersville until they married and relocated.
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The next page has photos of my sister, Levenia, and her classmates at Caruthersville
Elementary. Click here... 
Updated 10-08-2002
Lynette's Family History Pages�1999
(pictured here) who had come across the Mississippi River from Lake
Co., Tennessee to Dunklin Co., MO to
farm.