Think Jimmy is right

This picture Florence sent me shows our house number as 1408 8th Street and we were across the alley from the house that later become Grandma Mae and Big Earl Huntington's house. Grandpa Ode and Mae lived to the left of this house when this picture was taken. Funny I don't remember much about Ode but I was scared of him in what few memories I have of him alive. But then I was scared of my Grandpa Charles Dunwiddie too. I guess grandpas were scary in those days and not like the PaPa s of today.

Oh ya that is my Dad Glen, me and Mother Opal.The greater family may have had its drama but few of them were lazy and they figured a way to stay afloat. My mother's sewing ended when we moved to Deadwood (1945) and that quilting frame was left in the house basement at 36 Wabash Ave. The pottery shop was her next thing after this. I panned for gold in the dirt basement and the stream of water that run there. Never found any gold, darn. My Mother fell into this basement and broke a tip of a vertebrae. It was slow healing and caused her pain but there was no surgery or anything in those days. This is the back problem that Jerry Huntington mentions in a later post.

18th Street and Rushmore Road

I believe the address for Grandmother Huntington was 1414 8th St. Rapid City, SD

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MARRIAGE OF GEORGE KURT GOESCH AND AMY BAKER0001. SINCE THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN GEORGE AND AMY HAVE A 3 YR OLD SON, GRANT CHARLES GOESC AND A GIRL 2 ON JUNE 27, GRACE ELIZABETH GOESCH. MY STEP GRANDSON,CARSTON AND WIFE KATHY HAVE AMELIA AND GEMMA STEHR. ROSEMARY AND SAM GRIESIER'S DAUGHTER ABBY HAS HAD KYLEIGH ROSE GRIESER BORN NOV 18, 2006 AND DAVID AND MEG HAVE HAD DALE DUNWIDDIE. WE ARE A CURRENT GROWING GROUP.

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This photo has no date, Holly was between 2 & 3 years old. Her mother Glenna had made her little suit, I remember this day. The photo was taken at Harms Studio in Rapid City. She was so sweet and cute, since I had no sister of my own to love I loved Holly instead and she knows I still do....Love ya....Corale

Jimmy's family 1970

Linde took this picture of the Big Bend cabin 2006

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Sophia is the only child of Chris and Tamara Goesch Stehr. She attends Rensselaer Polytechnic in Troy, New York. This summer she is in Phoenix, AR working as an intern in a engineering firm, living with her half brother, Carsten Stehr and his family,Cathy, Amelia, age 5 and Gemma age 3. She loves where she lives but hates the heat and the 70 minute drive to work and back . Sophia was born Aug 21, 1987 in Corvallis Oregon. Her parents are Christian and Tamara Stehr. Chris is a doctor of German at OSU. Tammy has her own business distributing German and foreign language films through out the US.

~~Dick D. I added my pictures of Tammy and Chris and will remove them if they want me to~~

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Glee was the first child, only girl born to Jack and Florence Huntington on Oct 14, 1937. There were only 4 grand daughters born to Oliver and May Huntington, Corale Steele, Glee Huntington, Holly Huntington and Jolene Huntington. Glee had beautiful naturally curly hair, she was very special to me. Glee, Dick and me(Corale) were together a lot of the time as we grew up. I remember when she made her dressing table for her 4H project, I remember how she hated to milk cows, I remember how she and her brothers had to walk through the blizzards to get to school in Big Bend, I remember her when she was Miss Black Hills Teachers College in the Miss South Dakota pageant. After I married we lost contact with each other, which I continue to regret. She was a very pretty girl, her hair and snapping black eyes are with me to this day as if it were yesterday. May God Bless you my darling Glee, you will be in my heart forever.......Corale ~~Dick...please put in just what I have written...this is my tribute to Glee....Thank you Corale

Email from Cindy Huntington Lanning - June 19th 2007

Thank you both for contacting me.

I am now a member on the Huntington site and plan to post soon. For now, I will catch the two of you up quickly. As I mentioned, my dad is Jimmy O Huntington.My mother is Jutta. My brother, sister and myself enjoy living close to our parents in Gloucester, Virginia (close to Williamsburg-Yorktown area). We are able to spend a great deal of time together.As for me, I have been married to Steve Lanning for a little over 20 years. We own a business which has allowed me to stay home and raise our three children: Corinne (age 18), Ben (age 14), and Sam (age 7). Corinne recently graduated, and will be attending the University of Virginia in the Fall. Uncle Jerry lives in relatively close and was here for the graduation festivities. We see him several times a year.I am very interested in this site and learning about our family history. I will likely post photographs and details on the site once access is restricted.Again thank you both and I look forward to getting to know about you and your families.

Cindy Huntington Lanning

A family view from Jerry Huntington

Jerry Huntingston's email comment to me about family memories sure add perspective to what we hope to accomplish with this family site."Most of the family drama of the 50's and 60's was over my head, not on my screen. I can remember visits from Uncle Earl and Grandma Huntington, Auntie Marguerite and Gordon to the dairy where we lived, and her funeral, and several of the family get-togethers at the golf course when Uncle Earl worked there. I remember riding with Corale to Hot Springs when brother Mark was born. Auntie Marguerite was always kind to us boys, and gave us Christmas presents. I remember visiting your folk's house in Deadwood, the soapbox derby that came to the dairy farm, and back trouble for your mother. I remember visits to the dairy from Clara, and have some recollection of Boyd as a young man (he wore neat boots). I also have faint memories of your wedding and Corale's wedding, or at least the excitement associated with those events. Finally, I know that there probably are as many versions of an event as there were participants, so I try not to put too much stock in my memory banks."

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Huntingtons Ode, Mae, Vera, Earl, and Opal at Big Bend cabin date not given. Way cool socks Vera!!

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Steele cabin up Lafferty Gulch dated 1940

Gordon A. Steele 1914 - 1981

Corale's father. Here is part of an email she sent me "......my dad gave blood to save Monte from dying.........my dad gave cars to his nephews. I have class mates that come up to me to this day and tell me what my dad did for them when they needed help. I had no idea he even knew them.......my dad put my husband through college and fed and clothed his grandchildren and my husband adores him and to this day gets tears in his eyes when he talks about my dad.,,,,,,,,,,,,my dad bought the Clark St house and your parents and Monte lived there with my parents before I was born...helping them get on their feet.........he also helped his own family...he was an orphan at 4...passed from sister to brother. Sent to live in Ohio with an aunt who hated children....he lost all his teeth at 17 because he was malnourished....but you know what.......he came out on top and returned what he had been given by people not related but he cared for those he cared about......his family and you were all his family....."

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OPAL DUNWIDDIE AND MARGUERITE STEELE, RAPID CITY S.D.0001

September 1983

The Dunwiddies, Glen & Opal and Monte at Newport Beach OR.

My Dad was the most gentle and kind person I have ever known. He worked until he was 80. My Grandson Seth Glen Dunwiddie is very connected to Grandpa Glen who throws coins for Seth to find. Seth keeps them and thanks G/Glen for each find. He found a quarter at the bottom a 14 foot deep swim pool recently and really thought G/Glen sent a big message that day. Glen died peacefully with all of the immediate family was at his side. His sister Vila Dunwiddie Bauer will be 105 this December. She too is a joy and very loving. A year ago she was still cooking for herself. She is now in a nursing home. Her granddaughter Debbie sounds very much like Cindy Lanning and lets me know about Vila.

My Mother was a world class engineer/planner, artist, teacher, and deeply religious. She did a state approved home schooling plan for a friend just before she died at age 95. She completed her Bachelors degree in 1960 after I graduated. She continued working on her Masters until she retired.

Monte was quiet, solaritary, and hard working in later life. He was a loner and spent allot of free time looking for agates on the OR beaches. He was able to find some gem black/white that are extremely rare. He died in his sleep on the day he retired. He was watching TV and that is how they found him the next morning.