seated: Art and daughter Sally Burgh. Standing: Marilyn, Sally's husband Wally, Marian, Janine
Showing posts with label Chester Arthur Lusk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chester Arthur Lusk. Show all posts
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Monday, January 18, 2010
Walker, Greenlee, Lusk, Spriggs - reunion about 1987
I found a package of negatives from a family reunion. The pictures are taken in Portland, Oregon at the home of Art and Marian Lusk. Barbara remembers this as being Art and Marian's 40th or 45th anniversary. If it is their 40th, that would make the year 1987. Sorry about the dots on the photos - I thought the negatives were old, but Alicia found glitter on the scanner - I'll rescan them and add them again later.
Ron Walker and second wife, Sue; Ken MacLean and wife Marilyn Walker; Janine Lusk Thompson; Larry Walker and wife Gloria; Sally Lusk Burgh and husband Wally.
This is Art's brother Ivan and his wife, Corrine
Janine Lusk, Marian Greenlee, Corrine Lusk, Marilyn Walker, Evelyn Greenlee, Barbara Keister
Front row: Art's daughter from first marriage, Sally Lusk, Ron's second wife Sue, Larry's wife Gloria
Ron Walker, Ivan Lusk, Wally Burgh, Larry Walker, Ken McClean, Harold Spriggs, Art Lusk, Jack Walker
Wally is Sally Lusk's husband; Ken was Marilyn Walker's second husband, Harold is Barbara's husband
Jack Walker is Ron Walker's son
Art, Evelyn, Marian, Janine - Ken and Marilyn are in back. Portland Oregon street art trip.
The sisters : Evelyn and Marian Greenlee Hixson in Portland Oregon
Art and Marian Lusk and their family
Art, Janine, Larry, Marian, Marilyn, Ronald
Art and Marian Lusk and their full family
Larry, Janine, Ronald, Sally, Art, Marilyn, Marian
Walker-Lusk kids with their spouses (photos are missing Janine's husband Frank who wasn't there)
Ron Walker and second wife, Sue; Ken MacLean and wife Marilyn Walker; Janine Lusk Thompson; Larry Walker and wife Gloria; Sally Lusk Burgh and husband Wally.
Walker-Lusk kids with their spouses (photos are missing Janine's husband Frank who wasn't there)
Ron Walker and second wife, Sue; Ken MacLean and wife Marilyn Walker; Janine Lusk Thompson; Larry Walker and wife Gloria; Sally Lusk Burgh and husband Wally.
Jack Walker, step-mother Sue, and his father, Ronald Walker
Marilyn Walker and Ted Whisler Wedding Day
This is from a very rare color slide of Marilyn Walker and her parents Marian and Art Lusk. September 4, 1949, Medford Oregon. There is a black and white photo of this event elsewhere on the blog.
Dwayne Taylor ??, Earl Whisler, Jr., Ted Whisler, Marilyn Walker, Ted's father Earl Whisler, Sr.
Ted's sister Edna Whisler, two other girls
Friday, January 8, 2010
I am Looking for my Horse by Art Lusk
I Am Looking For my Horse
by Art Lusk
I was in the 7th Traffic Regulating Group of the Transportation Corps., of the U.S. army in France during the war (World War II). Our duty was to oversee the American Army's interest in the French railway system. My first post was in the town of St. Breuc, France railway system. I was in a group of about fifteen men, we were billeted in a four story stone hotel. It was on a street named Rue De Fere Legoff translated to the Street of the Legoff Brothers. Out of our own pockets we hired a French woman to cook for us. We were living the good life there.
One day a group of us were standing on the sidewalk outside of our building just having conversation or chewing the fat when a young man dressed as a French peasant asked us in perfect English if we had any American cigarettes and could spare a few. We were amazed because he looked like a French peasant. Here is his story: he and his wife had a beauty shop in Saint Louis. She was French and her mother and father lived on a farm about three miles out of St. Breuc. Her father had died and her mother was ill. "We delayed going home and leaving her. When she died and we could go home, it was too late. The Germans were here, so we buried our American clothes and dressed as French peasants."
He told us this story: "A Canadian airman had been shot down in the neighborhood. Afterward the neighbors brought him to us because they knew we spoke English language. We hid him in the hay mow in the barn. Then we decided to get him to safety. We buried all of his clothes and everything that wasn't French and dressed him in peasant clothes. We then coached him in French to say, 'I am looking for my horse.' We gave him a horse halter and told him to act like a retarded man. If the Germans suspected he was an airman, he was in deep trouble. Then we briefed him on the route to the Spanish border. About four months later, we got a note in the mail that he was with his people and thanked us."
This was written by Art Lusk after 1996. Before the 50th anniversary of D-Day, Art would very seldom speak of his actions in the war. Around the 50th anniversary, he began to tell more of the stories of the things that happened to him during the war. This is one of those stories.
by Art Lusk
I was in the 7th Traffic Regulating Group of the Transportation Corps., of the U.S. army in France during the war (World War II). Our duty was to oversee the American Army's interest in the French railway system. My first post was in the town of St. Breuc, France railway system. I was in a group of about fifteen men, we were billeted in a four story stone hotel. It was on a street named Rue De Fere Legoff translated to the Street of the Legoff Brothers. Out of our own pockets we hired a French woman to cook for us. We were living the good life there.
One day a group of us were standing on the sidewalk outside of our building just having conversation or chewing the fat when a young man dressed as a French peasant asked us in perfect English if we had any American cigarettes and could spare a few. We were amazed because he looked like a French peasant. Here is his story: he and his wife had a beauty shop in Saint Louis. She was French and her mother and father lived on a farm about three miles out of St. Breuc. Her father had died and her mother was ill. "We delayed going home and leaving her. When she died and we could go home, it was too late. The Germans were here, so we buried our American clothes and dressed as French peasants."
He told us this story: "A Canadian airman had been shot down in the neighborhood. Afterward the neighbors brought him to us because they knew we spoke English language. We hid him in the hay mow in the barn. Then we decided to get him to safety. We buried all of his clothes and everything that wasn't French and dressed him in peasant clothes. We then coached him in French to say, 'I am looking for my horse.' We gave him a horse halter and told him to act like a retarded man. If the Germans suspected he was an airman, he was in deep trouble. Then we briefed him on the route to the Spanish border. About four months later, we got a note in the mail that he was with his people and thanked us."
This was written by Art Lusk after 1996. Before the 50th anniversary of D-Day, Art would very seldom speak of his actions in the war. Around the 50th anniversary, he began to tell more of the stories of the things that happened to him during the war. This is one of those stories.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Lusk Family possibly 1882
On the back of the photo is a note that this was taken in Silverton Oregon taken at the time Mother Lusk died. There is a scribbled subtraction 1964 minus 1882, indicating this photo was 82 years old at the time Marian received it.
Names at bottom in Marian's handwriting:
Cal, Hugh, Tom, Bill, Mary, Emily
the photo is mounted on black covered heavy cardboard embossed with :
Drake Bros. Studio
Silverton Oregon
Whisler family return to visit Medford 1964
The Whisler family traveled to Medford from Montana in 1964 to visit Grandma and Grandpa. By this time, Grandma Bendixen (Georgia McIntyre) had moved to Medford as well. Charlotte was taking this photo.
Earlene standing in front.
from left: Georgia McIntyre, Marian Greenlee, Art Lusk, Janine Lusk, Sandra Whisler, Ted Whisler, Marilyn Walker
Walker, Lusk, Gerrue, Greenlee Christmas 1963
This Photo was taken at Art and Marian Lusk's house in Medford, Oregon on Christmas 1963. It was the year that the Whisler part of the family moved to Montana.
In front are Pam and Jack Walker
Starting on the left and going around the table :
Janine Lusk, Georgia McIntyre Greenlee (Hixson), Pearl Lusk (Art's mother), Art Lusk, Marian Lusk, Louise Gerrue Walker, Louise's Parents Louie and Lena Gerrue
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Marilyn Walker on wedding day
Marian Greenlee Lusk with daughter Marilyn Walker and Marian's husband Art Lusk on day of Marilyn's marriage to Ted Whisler
September 4, 1949 in Medford, Oregon
September 4, 1949 in Medford, Oregon
Marian Greenlee and Art Lusk on wedding day
Marian Greenlee Hixson and Chester Arthur Lusk
Married April 10 1947 in Elko, Nevada
Married April 10 1947 in Elko, Nevada
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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