Photo album

My sister Sherry with a neighbor girl

konki47 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:07:14 GMT

I had a crush on the neighbor girl who is on the left.

cute Sherry

konki47 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:07:14 GMT

Look at those curls. She was treated like fragil glass.

Sherry

konki47 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:07:14 GMT

as a toddler

The whole Murdock family

konki47 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:59:24 GMT

Here we are after Tim was born. Tim was born at a bad time. Three years later, Mom and Dad were divorced. It wasn't his fault. Family and doctors tended to interfere. Going in a circle, Elva Louiese Bonine holds Timothy Elija, Oliver Bradley Murdock, Estel Bradley, Sherryle Dean, and Olivia Anne.

Young Mom and Dad

konki47 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:59:24 GMT

Here we are as a family before Tim was born. In a circle, Elva Louiese Bonine, Oliver Bradley Murdock holding Sherryle Dean, Olivia Anne, and me, Estel Bradley having my ears held because I wouldn't hold still for the picture.

Aunt Nellie holding me

konki47 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:59:24 GMT

Nellie Harriet Bonine still calls me Bradley. I loved going through her stuff and playing her records, but she got really angry when I broke her doll. Everyone in my family calls me Brad, outside my family, Estel, my grandfather's name, her father's name.

Me, Estel Bradley Murdock

konki47 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:59:24 GMT

I was aggressive, hyper and gregarious. So much happened to me that I became shy and not having friends.

Henry and Morgan Murdock

konki47 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:48:49 GMT

They outlived their brother Oliver Boyd who died when my dad was only 4.

Henry and Oliver Boyd Murdock

konki47 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:48:49 GMT

Oliver Boyd Murdock was my grandfather. He and his brother Henry owned a farm in Chaves County, New Mexico before they got married.

The Harpers

konki47 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:40:44 GMT

Dad's next door neighbors when a lad, in Redrock, Grant, New Mexico. They were Mormons up from Mexico to escape Poncho Via. On the right is Granny (Agnus Ozella Singleton) and Granddad Murdock (Oliver Bradley) who is holding Uncle Tom, with Aunt Margarite and Dad at his feet.