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Alford Jerde
In Memory of
Alford "Al"
Jerde
1923 - 2016
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Stories

Golfing

One thing Grandpa and I always did was go golfing.  He got me my first set of clubs and when I would grow out of them he would always buy me a new set.  He even then bought me a set to have in Oregon because he would refuse to pay the airlines...

Michael Ely
2016-04-01 16:47:50
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road trip

One thing that my sister and I always did with grandpa was go on long road trips.  Usually Grandma and Grandpa would drive down to visit us either in the Bay Area or in Southern California and we would drive back up to Oregon with them.  One...

Michael Ely
2016-04-01 16:34:18
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Summer Trips

I would go visit Grandpa and Grandma for an extended period of time in my youth during the summer.  Once year we took a cross country trip from Oregon to Illinois and back.  I got to see many things on that trip including Mt Rushmore, the Blackhills,...

Erika Chico
2016-04-01 16:10:09
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My cousin Alford

The dust bowl, crop faliures, and no money, it was the years of the great depression in the mid thirties in the northeast corner of South Dakota. It was in this time period were my first memories of Alford. The Jerde's house burned down. Wi...

Wally Bothum
2016-03-29 02:45:52
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Fixing the Pontiac

I remember once when I was in grade school when my dad accomplished what I thought was the impossible.  There was trouble with our car, a 1950's Pontiac sedan. It wasn't running right and needed engine work, a lot of engine work.  ...

Dwight Jerde
2016-03-07 11:20:56
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