80. Henry "Hank" Joseph MULLEN-267
headstone inscription --
MULLEN
HENRY J. FLORENCE A.
1905-1979 1911-
235. Clifford Truman MULLEN-318
headstone inscription --
CLIFFORD T. MULLEN
MISSOURI
CET US. NAVY
JULY 20, 1947 JAN 3, 1969
headstone inscription --
NANCY G.
MULLEN
AUG. 11, 1955
OCT. 2, 1955
85. Lee Patrick WASHINGTON-245
from Janet (Washington) Wheeler:
" I think the girls were more adventurous than the boys--they seemed to go farther away. I never knew my grandfather; he died before I was born, but I remember Grandma. She lived in the country in a little, quite rundown house for many years. We left West Plains in 1949--moving first to Roswell, New Mexico (Daddy had started to Arizona where Aunt Cora was living, but he liked Roswell and found a job there) and then in 1951, moving to Tulsa, where Mother and Daddy stayed until he retired in 1965.
"The story was that Grandma Washington refused to move out of her house--Sarah lived just down the road and saw her almost daily. She was nearly deaf and blind and she killed a copperhead snake in her house, which didn't bother her much, but she never could find the mate and she was sure it was there so she called Aunt Cora and Aunt Georgia and they came and got her and she lived with one or the other of them for several years.
"Daddy's first wife died when Lee, Jr. was very small--almost a baby--I don't know what was wrong with her. Lee, Jr. lived in the country with Grandma and various Aunts and Uncles until after my parents were married. He was sick alot as a child and didn't do well in school. We moved to New Mexico the summer before his senior year of high school. He talked Daddy into signing his permission to join the Air Force and always lived away after that. He grew about a foot and finished his education. After he got out of the Air Force he lived in California and was a technical writer. He married Barbara (?) in about 1956. They had a son David Lee, born September 1963, and a daughter Sylvia born in September 1966. They were divorced in 1969 and he raised the children until his death in 1979 of leukemia. He married again but they had no children. Unfortunately, my folks lost track of the kids in their late teens. The last I knew they were near Santa Barbara, CA.
"Lee, Jr. was very bright, charming, and difficult--traits we always thought came from the Washingtons, but I suspect a lot of it came from Grandma. She didn't approve when my folks married and she and Mother were not close so we didn't see her a lot but I remember her as outspoken and opinionated on everything.
"She collected salt and pepper shakers.
"Uncle Russell's wife, Catherine, lives in the old house. They did a lot of work on it and added a couple of rooms. She and Uncle Bob's wife, Laura, are sisters. Her sons have both bought property and live near her. She probably knows as much about the family as anyone living and lives to talk."
"Speic Seoigheach (Joice's Tune)"
