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She was later adopted by Hugh Boyd.
533. Lloyd Walter CHISHOLM III
Lloyd Walter Chisholm, III, is named after his father Lloyd and his great-grandfather Scott Walter Paris.
He is now retired and living in Tulsa Oklahoma with his wife Debra. His mother came from an influential and prominent family in Oklahoma where they had a very lucrative construction business. He was only three years old when his parents got their divorce. His mother, Peggy, had returned to Oklahoma and the security of her grandfather Scott Walter Paris. He was the main character in all that was positive in her life and perhaps Lloyd's as well. Lloyd describes his great grandfather as the proverbial glue that held all things together. However within a year Scott Paris died of a heart attack in November of 1955.
With his death, Peggy's world, her security and her future collapsed. She fell into a deep psychological abyss from which she never recovered. She became a violent alcoholic. She was no longer able to have a normal relationship, and as a result she had many men in her life. Many of these were merely adventures in lust and pain. Six or seven times she married, but no one ever stayed with her.
Her life was out of control and she never recovered. She died at 43 years of age.The type of life style Peggy maintained didn't offer Lloyd very much security or stability. Therefore he was moved about among various family members. They were both viewed as a hardship to the family that they would have to endure. Peggy had been so accustomed to being a little rich girl, pampered by her grandfather, that she began to write bad checks to cover her activities and pay for the good times she craved. At first the family tried to cover these bad checks to avoid a scandal on the family. Eventually they turned her out. From that time on she lived in a constant drunken stupor in near poverty.
Lloyd spent his life on a merry-go-round, never knowing where to go, what to do, and how to act. The only constant in his life after the death of his great-grand father was his wife, his great-grand mother - Maude M. Paris. She didn't have much money after the death of her husband. Her kids had managed to take most of it after he died. She loved and cared for Lloyd III as much as possible.
7310 E 24th St
Tulsa, OK 74129-2204
Tel.: (918) 664-9198
Scott Ryan Chisholm went to College on a Football scholarship. He got his degree in the field of Criminal Justice. Now he is working with the Brinks company as an investigator.
He has the personality of his mother: Thinks things through, not gregarious, kind and considerate of others.
Laura Lianne Steinmetz surprised her family when she was born with a full head of strawberry blonde hair. But after being married 10 years, Kent & Angelle were very happy to welcome a sweet little baby girl. Laura was known as a very friendly and out-going child. She loved to write stories and use her imagination. In school she won awards for her typing skills as well as her writing of poetry.
Laura had the distinction of having her poems included in a theatrical production by professional actors two different times. The shows were put on at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, PA to large audiences. In advertising the production on T.V., it was Laura's poem "Mom's On a Diet" that was performed in a comic way by the troupe of 4 players. Later for one of the productions we attended we were able to meet Harold Prince, the Broadway producer of "Hello Dolly" and others back-stage. He just happened to be in town and attended the theater.
After Laura graduated from high school, she moved out on her own. Her family deeply missed her, but when her little boy, Jeremy was born, we were delighted by the joy he brought into our home. Laura was 21, and was a devoted mother, in spite of being single. Jeremy usually stayed with his grand-parents each week-end and Grandpa Kent became his male-figure hero. He plans to become Grandpa's electrician's helper and take over his business someday. When his Nanna Angelle says to now 8 year old Jeremy, "Oh, my precious boy, soon you'll be too big for me to hold you in my lap," Jeremy replies, "That's all right, Nanna, then I'll hold YOU."
When Jeremy was 4, Laura married Jason Fauth. They now live in York, PA, where they recently purchased a home in the historic district. Jason has his own rock music band, "Bullet." They have their own CD and a number of fans who follow their appearances. Laura is a supervisor of a commercial cleaning service. She and Jeremy have a daily custom of reading a scripture text from the Bible.
Paula Marie Steinmetz was born at home---on purpose. After only a 3 hour labor, the mid-wife delivered a sweet little girl with a good amount of dark silky hair. She actually smiled minutes after her birth, and was known as "the smilingest baby" many had ever seen. As a child, Paula deeply loved her doll "Andrea", whom she named after her young cousin. Later a large "Bugs Bunny" became her constant stuffed companion. He even went with Paula, her sister & Mom on a long 2-day bus trip to Texas.
Paula enjoyed sports, Barbie dolls and learned to play the piano. She mastered "Fur Elise" and loves to play "Send in the Clowns." Paula held tightly to her faith and was fiercely loyal to her parents during the dark days when her sister first left home. She became quite adept at sign-language and enjoyed communicating with the deaf and interpreting for them.
At age 16 she was home-schooling and putting in full-time hours of volunteer work with her Christian congregation. Her new buddy at home was Treenie, her cat. At age 19, romance entered her life when she met her best friend's brother-in-law. She insisted on an honorable courtship, always being chaperoned. Paula wanted to set a good example for the other young single girls who looked up to her. Soon, she and Kevin Gonzalez were married with a beautiful wedding attended by around 300 guests from 10 different states. Two years later they were blessed with the arrival of Nina Anne. She had thick dark hair and a dimple in her chin.
Sadly two years later Paula and Kevin's marriage broke up. After therapy and support from her family & friends, Paula entered the work force as a single Mom.
She did secretarial work, and received commendation as a valued employee. Soon another romance led to a second marriage with Daniel Murrell. His Mother Cathy cherished her new daughter-in-law and they became close up until her death with cancer. Unbelievably, Dan acquired other interests that led to yet another end of a marriage.Now Paula lives 2 blocks from her Parents and is content with her beloved Nina by her side. She has her own 7 room apartment, which they share with 2 cats, Zachary & Cooper. Paula had obtained her license as an insurance agent, and worked for State Farm for 2 years. At present she decided she didn't want to be behind a desk all of her life, so she has her own cleaning business. Her joys are her sweet little 5 year old daughter, her family, and her active faith in serving the true God.
At the end of 2001, Paula organized a huge surprise 40th Wedding Anniversary party for her parents. She wrote the program which included skits enacting how they met, and comedy sketches about what their life yet-to-come may include. Tears flowed when Paula read a beautiful poem thanking her parents for all they had done.
Emily has been very strong from birth. She started at 8 lbs, and then gained 2 lbs per month for the next three months. This put her weighing in at 14 lbs., which is more than her older sister Eileen weighed at 6 months. By her second week she turned over in bed for the first time. This wasn't just a fluke either, because she continued to turn over from her stomach to her back every day after that. However she had an Achilles heel. Her first week of life she threw up - it was that horrible "projectile" vomiting. There was no reason why, but the next week she did it twice. It wouldn't go away. Pretty soon it was every day.
Then at 3 months her it began to impact her health. When her older sister got the flu, she got the flu also. By the time she got over the flew, she got a throat infection, then the next week an ear infection, then the cycle started over again. The most upsetting thing that happened is that during that third month she stopped gaining weight. Whereas she had been gaining at the rate of 2 lbs a month, she had a cushion to fall back on. At first the doctor didn't believe it was even true when it was called to his attention. So the doctor began weighing her on the same scale every time she came into his office - which by now was twice a week. At the beginning of the week she would run a fever from a throat, ear, or stomach infection. The doctor would give her a penicillin shot and have her return later in the week for a second shot. As a result by the weekend, she would be pretty good, only to start running a fever again after the weekend was over.
By the time she was 6 months old, however, she was throwing up two out of three meals a day, she was still weighing 14 pounds as she had weighed at the end of her third month of life, and she had lost all her strength, not even being able to hold her head up out of her vomit. In fact just when it seemed that she was content and asleep in her bed, she would simply be heard to cough, but when checked she would be laying in her own vomit. Finally, by the end of the sixth month, when she seemed to be near death, her doctor finally decided to take seriously the pleadings of Emily's young mother. So he put Emily in the hospital for tests.
To everyone's surprise and relief, her problem, that had by this time almost killed her, was easy to control and she would soon grow out of it. The x-rays had found that when she ate, her stomach valve, which was supposed to be a one-way valve, accepting food, but not allowing it to return, wasn't working. So that explained why when she fell asleep the food had drifted back up her throat and she would literally have to cough it up. On her return home, all that was needed was to feed her while she was propped up in her infant seat. (Remember she was too week to even hold her head up.) Then she would have to remain in her infant seat, sitting up for at least 20 minutes so that the food had time to get out of her stomach and into her intestines. Then she could go on her way. Within two weeks she was back on track again. By then she could sit up on her own and there was no more vomit.
Emily didn't talk until she was three. There was no need since her older sister Eileen always would speak up to tell what she wanted. For example, they shared a large bedroom. In the bedroom were the two single beds her mother and aunt had shared when growing up. Ever since she turned two, and about two months before the birth of her sister, Eileen slept in one of the beds. The other bed lay empty awaiting the time when Emily would be old enough to occupy it. Emily occupied Eileen's old crib, which sat adjacent to the vacant bed. By 18-months, Emily had learned to climb in and out of the crib using the vacant bed as a stepping-stone. One afternoon they were sent to their bedroom for their nap. When their Mom arrived to tuck them in, she found Emily already tucked in the sleeping in the vacant bed. Quickly big sister Eileen explained that, "She wanted to sleep there today. Although she seemed too young to sleep in a full sized bed, it wasn't worth the argument since she seemed content with her decision. At night it was their Dad's job to put them in bed, read them a Bible Story, and say their prayers. Being busy in the kitchen, Mom had forgotten to warn him of the afternoon incident. Suddenly Mom heard Emily hysterically crying and ran to the top of the stairs to intervene. Sure enough there was no way she was going to get back into that crib ever again. She loved her big bed just like her sister had. In fact she loved doing everything just like her sister.
Emily continued to show her heartiness. When she would see Eileen playing with a toy she wanted, she would rush her, crawling all the way, and not stop until Eileen stood up, screamed as though she was being attached, and dropped the toy. But like most babies, she would soon lose interest in the toy and Eileen would have her change to enjoy her toy.
Little mother Eileen was very responsible when asked to watch her sister in the back yard play ground. By the time they were 18mo. and 3-1/2 years old, Eileen could lift Emily into the swing chair, together they would lower the bar, and then Eileen would sting her. She would watch to make sure that Emily didn't wander out of the back yard as they played. She was always very responsible. But Eileen was very scary. She would only swing her sister, but she had never attempted to climb the Monkey bar next to the swings. One day, however, while their Mom was washing clothes, Eileen came running in the back door screaming, "Emily is at the top of the Monkey bars and she can't get down (The Monkey bar was simply a ladder in the shape of an upside down "U"). Together they ran out to her rescue, only to find Emily wasn't upset at all. She had climbed the ladder to the top, but now she didn't know how to proceed forward, nor did she try to back off. Since the Monkey bar was only about four feet off the ground, Mom showed Emily that all she had to do was hold on with both hands, drop her body between the rungs, and drop to the ground. Emily was so excited that she ran back to once again climb the ladder, which she would now do over and over again every day. Eileen who was scared of the Monkey bars was content to watch her as she climbed up and down, and up and down, and up and down.
When about six we were moving. Everyone was busy putting furniture and boxes in the truck. Suddenly, Emily ran through the house in fright asking, "They didn't take the toilet yet did they?"
Emily too took piano lessons, and she learned very quickly, but she never stood still long enough to master it. She was also quite a good artist, but didn't keep up her talent. She has a lovely voice, but usually declines performing in front of others. She actually has many many talents, but doesn't have the confidence to realize how gifted she is. Her greatest gift is her ability to make others feel appreciated. She has helped many people and is always doing things for others.
Today she works hard to set a good Christian example for her three beautiful children, Sarah Magen, Heather Ann, and Joshua Alan.
He plays the guitar and keyboard and has even co-authored a song with his friend Bob Trahan.
Having worked with his father Ken Bowen doing remodeling as a youngster, and his brother-in-law Kent Trahan doing roofing, now he is a builder. Craig has atistic abilities. His drawing helps him with making blueprints for his homes he builds.
Sarah began to read very early like her father and mother before her. She taught herself to read. One day when she was about 18 months old, she began calling out the over sized letter at the beginning of the Bible Stories as her father Craig Bowen was flipping through the Bible Story book to keep her occupied during a congregation meeting. By the time she was two she was reading names of stores as her mother took her shopping. By three years old she could be found sitting for hours in her room beside her bookshelf as she read one after the other. Soon she was giving her mother advice. i.e. when they bought a guinea pig, she told her mother what to feed the pig. How did she know? She had read a book about family pets found at her cousin's house.
Sarah Megan Bowen plays the violin.
On May 26 through June 1, 2000, Sarah represented her state of Louisiana at the National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. She tied for 32nd place, and just missed getting on television. In 2001 she made a return trip to the National Spelling Bee, but drew an unusual first word, and went no further.
Heather, a natural beauty, had a strong sense of her own beauty when very young. At only 2 years old she would refuse to leave the house until her mother had combed her hair to suit her. She especially liked to have a "waterfall" ponytail on top of her head. By the time she was four she was combing her own hair, and still refusing to leave the house until her hair was just right.
Heather Ann Bowen also plays the violin and is a budding artist.
Both she and her sister are already working hard with their congregation doing pioneer ministry work.
What can I say -- CUTE, CUTE, CUTE. He was born two days after his mother's parents moved from Texas to Louisiana, into a house down the street.
He loves Nicky the cat and Maddie the dog who live with Nana. At first he was scared of them, especially the dog, but after a while he would say they are good, "they don't bite." By age two, he was still not talking too much, and yet he knowns all his colors. If someone is not there, he asks if they are "at work?"