Mother's parents, the RIcketts

This is how my grandparents looked late in their lives.  Grandmother RIcketts lived to be 90.  That is her in the first picture.  Second is Mother with them both, then Donald and Ruth in 1959, and last Grandmother in her own home in Hooks, Texas.

They lived for many years in a tiny house in Hooks because Granddaddy worked for the Red River Arsenal nearby.  By the time these pictures were made, he had retired.

Both were fond of me and treated me with respect.  Their home was small but they always welcomed as many of us as could squeeze into it.