Grandpa Doak loved his chickens and his pigs.

Family History Trip

Upper - Doak family probably Sylvia & Ruth & a brother in Colfax, Washinton with Alexander & Emma. The Doak family in front of a home.

We got to visit 2 of Sylvia Doak Meacham's neices Betty Ruth Doak Lindsey and Lois Doak Faunce and her husband Grant Faunce. They both lived in really nice retirement homes in Pennsylvania. It was great visiting with them. Thought they may like some more family pictures.

Alexander with produce from his truck farm in California.

Doris has a wonderful day

Kenneth, Larry, Shirley Doak are pictured with their mother on her 100th birthday.

Larry reported that Doris had a wonderful time as she was honored with an open house with near to 30 long time friends and family in attendance. Doris was Ashley Neil Doak's wife and she has been lovingly attended by her children in her illness for nearly 3 years. Jolynn is not in the picture. She goes to Florida with her husband each winter. Doris was so happy and smiling all day long. There have been very few family members that have lived to be 100. In the Doak family several generations back there was an ancestor Letita Cline Smith who lived to be 106.

Doris loved to play the piano and played for the senior dances.

Alexander Doak and all his children

This is a picture of when the family all got together in California. Sylvia brought a couple of the children and Erma is there with Gordon or david as the baby. Virginia and Audrey are first, then Alexander, Sylvia, Everett, Ruth, Howard, Arthur and Ashley Neil Doak.

Pearl Meacham going strong at 88.

This is a clipping from the Provo Newspaper with Pearl in the front. She does Ti Chi three days a week and hates to miss this time. She also enjoys many nice gatherings and dinners at the Eldridge Center in Provo, Utah. She is a daughter in law to Sylvia Doak and Merritt Meacham. She enjoys her grandchildren (about 25 of them). Also she has about 58 great grandchildren. Living in Provo has given her the opportunity to know many of the grandchildren who have attended Brigham Young University. For the last 20 years she has nearly always had at least one grandchild who visits her. She is a source of stability and love to them. Her son Douglas Meacham lives close and she can enjoy many special occasions in Doug and Trudy's home. She keeps healthy by taking on her mother in law's tradition of studying health and trying to apply what she has learned.

Ashley Neil Doak's Family

Sorry I don't have everyone but these are a few photos I was able to get off facebook to share with you. Don't ask why some are big and some are small. On the left is Larry's daughter Angela Bakos and her family. In the middle is Larry Doak and his brother Kenneth. On the right is

their mother and grandmother Doris who is around 98 going on 99 I believe. There are 4 generations in the picture and there would have been five if Doris daughter Jo Lynn had been in the picture. I'll try to post a picture of Shirley's family later. Doris lives in Seattle with Kenneth and who ever else is around to help care for her. What a loving, attentive family she has.

Our Visit with our Aunt Erma Meacham See

On our trip from Mt. Vernon Washington to Yerington, Nevada we decided to take a detour by way of Sisters and Bend, Oregon to visit our Aunt Erma whom we hadn't seen in maybe 6 years. We found her in good health and her usual happy disposition. Her hearing is very poor and she doesn't want a hearing aid. Her memory is not what it used to be as she is about 89. She couldn't even remember who I was at first but it seemed to come back to her. She enjoys walking around the Ranch and they were just finishing up with a nice gentleman who was entertaining the 5 ladies with song. She lives in a Christian home and it is nice she is in the country where she can get out and enjoy nature. She is very dear to all of us and had such a prominent place in Sylvia and Merritt's family as she was smack in the middle of 6 boys. We also got to visit Katie, her daughter, and her husband Ken. They just got a renter for their house and are almost on their way to Santa Barbara for reasons of employment and to be close to their three grandchildren. He is a very good builder but needs to change because of the economy.