Back Ground: Cardston Temple, Cardston, Alberta, Canada
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By Robin G. R. Forrest II ©
I was born on 5 April 1938 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, and we lived in Detroit for about 9 months and then my father was transfered to Cincinatti, Ohio, by his employer, the U.S. Rubber company. We lived here for about a year and then went to Denver, Colorado.
While in Denver we lived in three different places. I remember a large house with a big porch and going out and collecting leaves with my mother here. Dad also made a nice slide but the girl next door got a large splinter in her bottom and we stopped using the slide.
I believe that it was here that I got bit on the lip by a large dog that lived accross the street. This was about the time I road the electric busses to the doctor for shots. Probably something to do with the dog bite, and may have been rabies shots.
The house I remember most was at 503 South Bryant. There were severial fields around the property and I remember most one with a work shack on it. I would go to the fields and collect insects and other things. One time I went out bare foot while I had a baby sitter and I was wadding in a puddle and cut mu foot on a piece of broken bottle. I don't remember what my parents did when they got home, however, I believe that they were mostly just worried because I was hurt.
I started school while living here I was age 6 and I remember a large sign with pictures of Hitler Musellenie and Hiro-Hito on it advertising the war effort and pictures of the enemy. I also had a good friend Julian Lambie he and I would play together alot. I remember one time I was at his home and no one came to get me so Julian and I walked home about 1 1/2 miles we also had to cross the highway we made it and I believe mother took Julian back home. It was quit a hike for a couple of six year old's.
When mother got pregnet with my sister my grandparents moved to Denver and Grandpa got a job in a powdered egg plant. They, mostly grandma, would baby sit me when mother went to the doctor. One time I was riding my trycicle and did not want come in when she called and she chased me around the block.
My sister Sharon Lee was born 29 November 1943.
At Christmass time we would go and see the displays in the store windows. They had animated figures in these displays.
After the war was over Dad was transfered back to Detroit Michigan. All I remember was that we moved in the winter and the roads were covered with snow and I think we were traveling through a blizard. Dad also remembers it being very bad traveling weather.
Mother, Sharon, and I were left at her parents home in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and dad went on to Detriot to work and look for a Home for us. Aunt Helen and her children were also living here at the time, and I enjoyed playing with Mickey McCook, she had two brothers Jonnie and Jimmie.
Grandma Eva McCook had a large grey stucco home two story, it was on a court so there was not much traffic. It had an old Juke Box it played paper rolls like a player panio. We could not touch the rolls but she would put one on and play it for us if she had time. She also would put bonami on the windows and let us paint pictures on them. I remember she had a very nice mountain scean on one of the windows and we were always very carful not to erase it. When it was bed time she would come in and tell us stories about when she taught the Indians in Washington. I wish I could remember them now. She canoed most of the Puget Sound rivers.
My dad found a house located at 50 Kensington in Pleasant Ridge Michigan. My mother went and looked at it liked it and they bought it. Dad brought her back to Grandma's and he went back to Detroit to work. We then followed by train. This was a very nice home and my sister and spent the rest of our child hood in this home.
My first friends were the Webbers they lived across the street. The Detroit Zoo was about 4 blocks away and many a summer day was spent there. Other friends in the neighborhood were Mike Smelt, Norman Ford, and Jerry Watson.
I went to the Presbyterian Church Camp on Higgins Lake one summer, and my parents liked it (the Lake) so we spent several summers there. We stayed at Dunlops Cottages for several years. (click on link to see pictures of the place mentioned) The last year was in 1953, and we went home by way of Kalamazoo to visit my grand parents and cousins. When we got to the Loomises, Uncle Louie said come with me I want to show you something. So we did. He took us to a lake called Huzzy Lake and he said "be carfull when you get because you are walking on my new lake property. We really liked his property and bought the lot next to his.
We used the money that mother had earned being an Avon Lady.
I was just starting High School that Fall and the year before I had joined a Nature Club sponcered by the Detroit Zoo's Nature Cabin.
CHILDREN of Robin Gae Richard FORREST and Susan Ellice HANCOCK:
+ 14111. 1. ELLICE GAYE b: 9 Jun 1967; Royal Oak, Oakland, Michigan.
md: 1 Feb 1985; Orem, Utah, Utah.
W V TAYLOR.
+ 14112. 2. KARIA LYNN b: 8 Jan 1969; Provo, Utah, Utah.
md: 20 Aug 1987; Manti, Sanpete, Utah.
Michael Doyle ADAMS.
+ 14113. 3. STEVEN BLAIR b: 24 Oct 1970; Windser, Essex, Ontario,
Canada.
md: 1 Nov 1996; Provo, Utah, Utah.
Traci Annette LEE.
div: Jun 2002; Provo, Utah, Utah.
14114. 4. DAVID HANCOCK b: 28 Mar 1973; Avon Twp, Oakland, Michigan.
+ 14115. 5. PHILIP DOUGLAS b: 23 Nov 1976; South Haven, Van Buren,
Michigan.
md: Jun 2004; , , Florida.
Terri Lynn GARY
CHILDREN of Susan Ellice HANCOCK and Name Unknown:
Born in the Covenent before the Temple Divorce was started.
+ 14116. 6. KRISTIN SUE b: 19 May 1982; Provo, Utah, Utah.
md: Dec 1901; Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah.
Jeremy ERICKSON.
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