[AT] Re: Floyd River

[Dean VP]

Gene:

I don't recognize the name but I sure didn't know many people from Akron to
begin with and I have essentially been gone from that area since 1958. Good
friends are a treasure and I'm sure you miss him. I suspect only "good"
pilots survived very long!  :-) 

I flew in the AF ROTC program and then later wanted very much to get a
private pilots license but the responsibility of 4 children delayed it long
enough until the burning desire went away. 

Now I'm too old. Having spent way too much of my working life on commercial
airplanes I tend to stay away from airplanes and airports altogether. Same
as motel rooms. My wife would like to travel more, I don't, except to hunt
for antique tractor parts. A different objective. 

Dean A. Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA 98290

I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key to the
storeroom door 


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-----Original Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Gene Dotson
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 1:59 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Re: Floyd River

    Dean;
    I had a good friend and fellow pilot from Akron, Ia. He was
a practicing doctor in Akron for many years. his name was
Leonard Brooks. Unfortunately he passed away 2 years ago. We
would always attend our July fly-in at Starbuck, Minnesota. He
was a fine gentleman and god pilot. I do miss seeing him there.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean VP" <deanvp at att.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
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Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 4:14 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] Re: Floyd River


: Ron/Kathy:
:
: I agree, good to hear from the folks close to the old
farmstead. Keep it
: coming. Lemars is only 12 miles South of where I was born and
raised. Played
: Baseball and Fast Pitch softball in Akron many times. Akron
suffered from
: the same Malaise due to the Big Sioux as did those towns next
to the Floyd.
: When both flooded and dumped into Sioux City at the same time,
it was
: trouble right here in river city.
:
: We used to take a highway from our home place along the Big
Sioux River into
: North Sioux City (Prairie Creek Road?) to go to a place called
the Normandy
: Restaurant, an eat all you want kind of place. That was a very
rare and a
: big treat for us farmers. I have no idea if it is still there
or not.
:
:
: Dean A. Van Peursem
: Snohomish, WA 98290
:
: I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key
to the
: storeroom door
:
:
: www.deerelegacy.com
:
: http://members.cox.net/classicweb/email.htm
:
:
:
: -----Original Message-----
: From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
: [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
Ronald L. Cook
: Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 7:54 AM
: To: Antique tractor email discussion group
: Subject: Re: [AT] Re: Floyd River
:
: Hello, Kathy.
:          I enjoy hearing of the Floyd and Big Sioux rivers.
It is nice to
: visit about familiar places and events.  Don't be shy.  Just
post away.
:
: Ron Cook
: Salix, IA
: >Hi ya'all, We have been here for a rather long time, but have
been to shy
: >and too busy to post. My mother grew up along the Floyd just
south of
: >LeMars. She used to tell of all of the times that "a wall of
water" was
: >rolling down the river. They would scoot out and retrieve the
cattle to
: >prevent their drowning. The buildings were about a quarter of
a mile from
: >the river. She had many pictures of the water right up to the
buildings.
: >My husbands Mother lives on the Big Sioux right across from
Akron, Iowa.
: >She Has been underwater sooo many times. She has told of the
8' wall of
: >water that came down in 1923. Their horses drowned. And of
course, there
: >are flash flood watches and warnings for this night and
: >tomorrow.    Signed by the wife of an antique tractor addict.
Kathy
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