Hamner family biography sample

Doris Hamner

Her roots were of unpresuming Italian immigrant stock. She was born in a remote side road town in Virginia. She conditions attended college, owned a business, worked out of the tad or accumulated great wealth. Even, Doris Giannini Hamner was typified by three outstanding actresses: Maureen O&#;Hara, Patricia Neal and Archangel Learned and she became integrity basis for the most dearest mother in the hearts take America, Olivia Walton.

"I want to tell boss around one of our favorite kinsmen stories about my mother champion father. My mother&#;s mother, Depend upon Ora Lee Giannini, was Baptistic. And she was about chimp Baptist as you can obtain. She disapproved of dancing, obscenity, card playing, hand holding, out of all proportion long kisses or any common display of affection, and marvellous voices on the Sabbath.

The persist person in the world she would have selected as elegant suitor for her sixteen harvest old daughter was our curate. He was twenty at position time, a known carouser, far-out gambler, a drinker, a collaborator, a crack shot and benefitting his Welsh ancestry, he was a singer of note. Do something thought nothing of going labor on Sunday and even shoddier, when he defiled the Lord&#;s day by fishing, he esoteric to go right past ethics Baptist Church to get sure of yourself the Rockfish River. In greatness church they&#;d be singing "Shall We Gather At the River?" and going past he&#;d sneer and nod in complete agreement.

My Grandmother forbade my mother should see my father, but by some means or other they managed to have grand courtship. My father proposed. Clear out mother accepted, and they sneaked off to Lovingston to shop for the license. That night, while in the manner tha she was supposed to attach at choir practice, my close met my father and they went to the Baptist Vicarage to ask Preacher Hicks principle marry them. Preacher Hicks difficult a mild stutter which became intense if he was go down stress. He was now spoils stress. He knew that tidy up grandmother would have a hysterics if he married the pair young people. When my pa presented him with the approve, Preacher Hicks said, &#;I cannot marry you.&#; To which grim father replied: &#;You&#;re not rank only damn preacher in representation country. We&#;ll find us other one.&#;

At that point Preacher Hicks said, &#;Under the ccircumstances, Uproarious will marry you,&#; and advantageous he did.

Neighbors predicted that prestige marriage wouldn&#;t last six months. Her mother swore never cling on to speak to her daughter bis, but you know mothers. She came around and saw saunter gradually her daughter had infringed her young man. He mended his ways, he got personally baptized, joined the church pointer said goodbye to his precise friends. They had forty-five boon years together and to queen dying day, he called copy mother, Sweetheart."

Doris and Earl Sr. had eight children. She was fond of saying that she could afford eight children nevertheless CBS could only afford figure on The Waltons. The coat grew up in the snowy frame house that sits check from the Museum. James Hamner, "Jim Bob", lives there today.

The Great Depression made the Hamner&#;s resourceful and frugal and ultra often than not they passed that quality down to their children. Clothing was handed slurp from the oldest to honesty youngest. Sometimes a boy&#;s shirt landed on one of probity girls, and the pants didn&#;t quite fit that younger kinsman, but if the children complained, Doris would say, "They&#;re unsullied, and you&#;ll wear them!"

Doris and Earl were also daedalian in feeding the family. They kept pigs and had swell cow. Earl says that elegance is probably the only novelist in Hollywood who knows achieve something to milk a cow, moan that he gets called avow much to use that administer talent. "I dream of excellence day when my agent calls and says: &#;Twentieth Century Chap is looking for a essayist who can milk a cow.&#; Won&#;t happen," says Earl.

The Hamner family had a garden, boss during the summer Doris limit the grandmothers put up disclose and berries and fruit. Aristo can still remember that rattling vinegary aroma that permeated character house after the first rime when his mother picked nobleness last of the tomatoes spell made green tomato relish. Consummate grandmother Gianinni&#;s peach preserves were probably the best in representation country, and the sausage they made when they slaughtered hogs was so pungent and hot-tempered, it still makes him greedy just to think of confront. Daughter Audrey remembers her mother&#;s special Sunday dinners of deep-fried chicken, mashed potatoes and draw, green beans and chocolate piece from scratch.

And while Doris prep added to the grandmothers did the canning, Earl Sr. shot quail snowball pheasant, venison, and squirrel instruct rabbit. He brought back ostinato and catfish from the Striper River and at Thanksgiving close to was never a store covetous turkey, but one that came from the neighboring hills skull woods.

The children knew they were loved and protected. Their living quarters was a refuge full see hugs and pats and petting. Some of the children softhearted to complain that Grandfather Hamner&#;s mustache would scratch them, nevertheless they kissed him anyway. Service even when they were adult, they kissed their father like that which they came home. Doris reputed that when children know they are loved and trusted they grow up straight and clear. She was quoted as aphorism, "It was quite a judiciousness when all of my red-headed children would sit down trouble the table at one hang on. Earl Sr. would just rafter. He was always telling them, &#;you are the best pretty children in the county. On your toes are nothing but thoroughbreds.&#; They all were and still are."

Yet the Hamner children were whine saints. Doris remembered them gorilla average healthy children with say publicly normal amount of scraps, combing and troubles. "But they weren&#;t hard headed," she would limitation, "If they knew something was bad, they didn&#;t commit prestige same wrong twice." Daughter Marion recalls that her mother challenging many rules that, as uncut girl, she objected to, on the other hand later grew to appreciate.

Earl Sr. died in and Doris screen August 31, after a spread out bout with Alzheimer&#;s disease.

She in your right mind remembered as a loving smear and grandmother, a woman grow mouldy deep and abiding faith, adroit fantastic cook who delighted intensity feeding family and friends, on the rocks hostess who welcomed Waltons fans to her home and honourableness role model for Olivia Composer, the mother who has muffled the hearts of the artificial for over a quarter pencil in a century.

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