1910s Decade and before

This is a photo I scanned from Jean's pictures.

Willie with farming machines (possibly Ken in picture, also).

These are items I scanned from Bob's information and photos

This is from the Bible of John Behem (a letter between two cousins). John Behem is probably Ben's father, Leah's grandfather, Willie's great grandfather. The Uncle Ben and Aunt Matilda (married in 1848) mentioned in the letter are Leah's parents (Leah is Willie's mother). These two boys (Allen & Oscar) presumably are Leah's cousins.

Postcard caption is "the home place"

Postcard caption is "Granpa Phillip's place"

According to Bob these are their horses ~ Belmont & Dugan. Belmont could be ridden. Dugan could not ~ Ken could ride Dugan if horse wanted him to. Willie could always ride Dugan but he carried a 2x2 two feet long. Alma drove the team ~ she was driving this team when Ken got his leg wrapped around the axle and broke his leg. Alma was able to get the team stopped.

Willie Walter Phillip

Marriage license for Willie Walter and Alma, 1909

Postcard to WW Phillip regarding his sister's funeral (Lula May, born 1883, died 1920, married to Ernest Schultz)

These are pictures I found in Dad's photos with dates between 1910 and 1919. Obviously, most of them are of Ken, prior to others ~ Jean, Bob, & Leo, being born.

Ken & Jean, 1917












Postcard, Springview High school, where Ken went to high school, dated 1911.





Willie Walter and one of the boys






Ken












Ken (when my son Dennis saw this picture years ago, he said "That looks like me, but where did I get those clothes!" Dennis looked just like Ken at this age).











Ken












Willie Walter plowing, Springview, NE

Ken on horse

Ken on horse

Ken and horse

Ken

Willie Walter, plowing, Springview NE

Ken and Aunt Jo (Sister Elma)

Ken on "infamous horse". Roberta has this horse now. Bob refurbished it.

3/10, Postcard (ranch scene near Tripp County South Dakota) to Mrs. Will Phillip, Brocksburg, NE, "Dear Sister & All: How are you getting along. I am going to town today, will write later and send my picture to you. Did you get the package that I sent to you. What have you been doing. I would like to see you. Answer soon. From your loving Sister " can't read signature but looks like F.D. or F.O. (possibly sister Frances).

Alma and Ken

Ken Phillip

January Birthdays

This year I'm going to try something different ~ to let you know the birthdays and a short paragraph of information of the 1st generation (Harriet, Jean & Maxine, Bob, & Leo) and 2nd generation (Ray, Jary, etc) and a little bit about their lives at present. Any info you can provide in advance of the birthday month would be very helpful.

You can click on the underlined words for more information.

January 4. 1918 ~ Maxine ~ lives in Alliance with Jean. They live at the Crossroads in Alliance. They have two children (Jary & Judy), four grandchildren, and eight great grandchildren with one more due in July. Anytime you are in Alliance for a visit, give Jean & Maxine a call...you can have lunch or dinner with them at Crossroads with a couple hours advance registration.

January 12, 1942 ~ Jary ~ lives on the Stone Creek golf course in Omaha with wife, Dee. Both Dee & Jary are retired. Jary retired twice ~ once in 1998 and again in 2007. They have two children (Jennifer & Alison), and five granddaughters. Golf is one of Jary's retirement hobbies as well as Nebraska football, tennis and Bible study.

January 18. 1955 ~ Jim ~ lives in Green River, Wyoming with wife Kathi. They have three children (Nick, Brittany, & Cody). Jim has been employed at Solvay for many years and will be eligible for retirement in one year. Golf is one of Jim's hobbies as well as do it yourself jobs around the house. Anyone know a good place to retire, let Jim know....so far I don't think they have settled on a place.

Other extended family birthdays are:

1/5/1969 Alison (Jary's daughter)

1/6/1971 Christine (Don's daughter-in-law, Terry's wife)

1/18/1925 Zetta's birthday

1/20/1941 Tony (Sharon's husband)

1/21/1946 Verlene (Don's wife)

Merry Christmas Greetings

Merry Christmas from Jary and Dee

Merry Christmas from the Cory Manns

From Judy and Larry

Above are some Christmas Greetings and Christmas pictures I have received from members of the Phillip family. If I get more, I will post again before Christmas! Below are Christmas notes and letters from Judy & Don

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM

THE LARRY MANNS

The most exciting news of 2009 is that Jared and Melanie are expecting their second child in July. Keaton will be a great big brother and we are so happy for the three of them.

Colter is 7, Chloe is 6 and Keaton is 3. They bring so much joy into our home. Colter and Chloe do really well in school and we are so proud of them. Keaton just spent two weeks in “school” with the high school students in a child development and family science course. The only thing I heard about that was when they asked all of the little kids to move to another area of the classroom, he said “No, I want my mom.” But, he did make it through the two weeks without much resistance.

All of us keep busy with the farming and livestock. This year was exceptionally challenging for the farming side—a whole lot of rain and cooler weather made it almost impossible to keep the crops growing at a rapid pace. Sherry and Melanie are often here driving a tractor or doing whatever is needed. I wish I would have had my camera when I walked into the barn one day during calving. Sherry was milking a cow and Melanie was hanging onto the cow’s tail to keep it from slapping Sherry’s face. They were great help during calving and spent most days watching the cows and tagging the calves.

Mom and Dad are doing quite well and seem to enjoy living at the assisted living center.

Only one camping, fishing trip was enjoyed by us. Larry and I went to Angostura Lake in South Dakota for several days after Memorial Day. We enjoyed the time away from home and did catch some fish.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Love, Judy and Larry ~ 4jmann@bbc.net

Merry Christmas to all the Phillip relatives.

Verlene spent most of her time working on her Woods family book. Don drove me to Rushville, NE in July for a reunion on the family farm.

Then in Aug, we went to Clarinda, IA for another Woods reunion and a 90th birthday of a 2nd cousin.

Don spent the summer driving Verlene to Woods reunions and Bob and our sons and grandson to several Masonic reunions. Alliance, Lincoln and Omaha

Robert Phillip now has 4 generations in the Alliance Mason Lodge.

Best Wishes to all in 2010.

Don and Verlene

Phillip Family Newest Addition, YouTube

The newest member of the Phillip family

Mae Kumiko Sugatani

Parents ~ Karla & Toshi

Sugatani

Grandparents ~ Bill & Janet Phillip

This is Toshi's handwriting of Mae's

name written in Japanese

Born December 14, 2009, 4:30 a.m.

Height 18 inches

Weight 6 pounds 13 ounces

Where Swedish Hospital, Seattle, WA

Picture to left is Toshi (Dad), Karla (Mom), Mae, with a Teddy Bear given to Mae by her Uncle Tom (one that he had when he was a baby).

Dani (Ray & Judi's daughter) posted some pictures of Mae and family at this site ~ guess you can tell that there hasn't been a newborn baby in the Bill Phillip family since 1980. You don't have to join this web site ~ just scroll down and click on "view album".

Some have been asking about the YouTube video of Bob and the well-trained Daisy Mae (or is it that Bob is "well-trained"). So here is the YouTube address

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4mNvx9iN5I

Anyone who wants Christmas greetings posted on the web may send them by email to me for posting to the Phillip blog. singo2@verizon.net

Christmas Greetings from Sharon & Tony

This is our Christmas letter for 2009, written by Tony. If anyone would like their Christmas letter to go out to all the Phillip family on the blog, you can email it to me. If you send me a Christmas letter and don't want it to go on the blog, let me know. Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Hi you guys and a Merry 2009 Christmas,

We’re here again in front of the computer trying hard to remember all the things we’ve done this past year and why we did them. The first three months we spent in Arizona as before, this got us away from the harsh Idaho winter and into the far warmer conditions near the Mexican border. Boon docking or dry camping, as its known, out in the desert for half of that time is rather nice especially with our own car and ATV and friends to go on long rides and adventures with. Having said that we had to be towed across the desert because our ATV broke down with serious transmission failure thus meaning a complete strip down when we get back home. But by the beginning of April it began to get too hot so back up North we came.

Sadly this year we made two long trips to Nebraska for two funerals of Sharon’s aunts Despite the sombre occasions it was really good to get to see some of her friends and relatives out there – her mother and all her three uncles and aunts are in their late 80’s and early 90’s and have been married 65 years or more.

I finally finished making an oak pedestal desk for our office, a project started last year in an attempt to hide away all the cables of the computer and printer. Then Sharon wanted something similar to match it but not quite so lavish – she now has an oak "skirt" round her desk which seems to fit the bill.

There was so much rain and snow here during the winter our back lawn was flooded when we came home. This coupled with the risk of our motor home sinking into the mire prompted us to get a friend to excavate a large area about 15 inches deep and fill it with aggregate so we could have a reliable place to park it. Then we opened up the workshop to create enough space for a medium sized centre lathe for me to "play on".

Sharon made preparations for family gatherings on Easter Sunday, Mothers’ Day and of course the 4th of July. On one of these events there were 28 people trying to sit round our 12-seater dining table. She continues to paint pictures, blog, crochet, and cross stitch. She convinced me to make her rails to hang on one of our hallway walls so her paintings could be displayed. The grandchildren are here often ~ which keeps her young.

When time permits we still love to go camping to our favourite Meadow Creek spot. I’m afraid swinging an axe to split our quota of winter logs is getting just a touch too difficult so we had to give in this year and buy some from one of our camping friends. I then made a mechanical log splitter.

We spent a really nice week with my cousin Linda and Mike up in Glacier National Park, Montana. Not to see the glaciers, they’ve all gone, but to see how they totally reshaped some of the mountains up there. On the way we visited a pottery shop, a coffee bean factory and a drive round a black bear park. Later in the year we drove out into the wilds of Idaho to a little place called Dixie from where we took a lengthy ATV ride down some 4000 feet to a remote area beside a swift river where they actually had a small sandy beach. People really lived down there and their only access was by small plane or ATV across a narrow bridge.

A week over Thanksgiving at Sharon’s brother’s homes in Riverton WY and Green River WY was a lot of fun and we were fortunate with the weather. We have a Christmas party planned here at home and one more small trip planned to Leavenworth WA for the Christmas lighting festivities with friends the week before Christmas. We look forward to visits from UK relatives next year after our return from being "snowbirds" in Arizona & California.

Retirement is still good to us but we’re all getting older so drink the good wine first!

Happy Christmas
Sharon and Tony