I was lucky enough to have grown up living just across the driveway from my Hamblock Grandparents, seeing them almost everyday of my life.Got tosee many relatives other family members didn't. I new Great Aunts & Great Uncles. Livng where we did had it's percs, but when Gramma Tena passed away in 1979 it was devasting. I had nightmares for many a month & told no one, for 11 years it ws kept inside.I wept while alone. Grampa Le Roy 3 years later wasn't much easier.

Gramma Maysie I never met since she died 4 years befoe I was born. There'l always be an empty space there. Grampa James I got to see, how many times I don't kow. I remember him being at our house & looking at my stamp album with him. He had sent me a lot, mostly from Uncle Charles letters.That's the only real memory of him. Thanks Uncle you helped make a memory for me

On my Mothers side, unfortunatley we didn't get Grampa (Le Roy) Hamblock to put down his memories of growing up and of his parents Jacob and Anna, or anything by his sister Lucille. There have been things wirtten up on my Gramma (Tena Johnson Gullickson) Hamblock's side, but not of her personal memories.

I'm glad to have interviewed my Uncle Mark Whalen by use of a tape recorder, I have the raw tapes if anyone wants a copy. A year or so ago he and his wife Kay, were in a car wreck. He had a tripple heart bypass in 1995. He had us all scared, it took longer than normal to come out of it after surgery. Any relatives reading this, please write about yourself and your memories before it's too late. What if I hadn't talked to Mark, it would all be lost.

I started on the family history going on some what over two years ago, gathering and putting together all the information that I could find myself and or from other relatives to hopefully be put together in one book. Not only for myself, but for other family members who might know of some skeletons in the closets. But espically for those who will be after we in the present are gone.

My kindergarden teacher Miss Margurite Donahue is still alive and living in the Eagles Manor in Havre. My education started with her around 1965, she is up in her  90's now. I managed to graduate from Havre High School in 1978 and with two years at Northern Montana Collage.My work is our family history, if you can call what you enjoy work, Aunt Frances (Whalen) Crummy has titled me the family historian for this generation. It's been a lot of work just gathering the information and a lot more putting it down in an readable and understandable way. I'd do it all again if I had to.

This is for my Grandmother"Maysie"
(Sinnott) Whalen whom I never had the chance to meet, she passed away before I was born at the young age of 62 just 19 days short of her 63rd(August 31) birthday at the family home ouside of Stephen, Minnesota in 1955. I have a copy of her handwritten work on the WHELAN side of the (original spelling) FAMILY HISTORY Her writing is one of my most valued possessions, and one way of knowing her a bit. Thank You Gramma, I wish we could've met.

Daniel Keith Bonnie

OUR ROSE   Fluff   Mugsie   &       Klyde

And for my Momma. Thank you, you are the best.

When I started doing some work on the family history I needed something to do. It seems to me that I've kind of learned to write (sort a), as times gone on I've learned how to phrase things better. I've had some help with puctuation, grammar and spelling that my computer didn't pick up from my then girlfriend & now wife Bonnie. Could some writing ability been passed down the line?

Some of the comments I have received from my Aunts and Uncles have paid for all the time, work, and hair-pulling, frustrating times of being stuck. Maybe when the book comes out, well
 

I still will be broke. I ain't in it for the money. All this on my Aunts, Uncles, other ancestors, and those who read the history can thank my Dad (DANIEL). He mentioned that Uncle Charles' birthday was the same as mine; I sent a card and wrote a letter. Uncle Charles and I have been writing since that time.

Aunt Frances - You can be proud of your "Aunts & Uncles project". Each Christmas letter I receive from them expresses their pleasure that anyone would think of writing up their histories, let alone actually doing it. With all those compliments to you, pass by me; I thank Keith Whalen, the historian! Well, I had letters from him before he became famous.

Aunt Bette - all the family histories were wonderful, but I especially enjoyed Mark's war stories written in his own words. You did an excellent job.

There have been others, each time brings tears to my eyes. Tears of JOY. Aunt Frances has sent me photo copies of pictures and other things, each time I got shook up. I was so excited to see things. Some day somehow I'm going to Minnesota and visit Grampa (James) and Gramma (MARY ELLEN "MAYSIE'S") graves. Here I wiil leave a copy of what I wrote on them. I hope they like it, do they know what I've been doing already?