Yesterday Pat and Molly and I went to a reunion for Shirley and Tim Hollingsworth, it's been 15 years since they have been to the Mansfield area. The party was at the home of one of Shirley's sisters and it is on the property of the old dairy farm where Shirley and her two brothers and two sisters grew up. Shirley's other sister lives next door in the old homestead house with a barn. So Shirley also came from a family of five!
We were welcomed with open arms and Molly was a hit. She got to meet Honey, a miniture long-haired dachsund, and she laughed when Honey licked her face. Molly is used to dogs since at home, she has Bear, a 100 pound Black Lab, and Brook, a 60 pound yellow Lab.
We sat with Tim and Shirley during the meal and caught up on family news. He asked about all my brothers and sisters, Mom and Dad, and my children. They now split their time in Petaluma, CA, where their son Jasper lives (Jessee lives in Thousand Oaks, CA near LA), and St. Petersburg, FL. Jasper is a child psychiatrist and Jessee is a VP of a firm which sells pharmaceuticals to groups of doctors. Tim and Shirley have three grandchildren and love them dearly.
It was good visiting with them and they may come to see us in Key West in January. Tim expressed an interest in meeting my family, and of course they are always welcome.
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That's really neat Steve, that you were able to re-connect with Tim. Is he about your age?
Tim is a little older than Mike. I remember Tim when I was little, when he lived with Aunt Viv and Uncle Harry Hollingsworth, on Millsboro Rd. I reminded him of a story I remember about Tim wanting to remove the sparrows from the garage and he used a shotgun - but he blew a hole in the roof of the garage! He smiled when he remembered it. He also was the one - with Mike - who told me the boogey man lived in a hole in Cunning's field (which I later learned was a groundhog hole).
Tim was born in August of 1942. He and Mike spent quite a bit of time together. I remember once at Lakeside they were together in the park when Mom or Aunt Viv called them to come to the cottage for some reason. When they arrived Mike was crying. When asked what had happened, Tim said, "He didn't want to come, so I had to choke him." Tim, by the way, was a graduate of the Culver Military Academy.
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