Endnotes for Wilford Loves Lila chapter in
Little Sparrows Fall: One Family's Story
by Betty Ponder
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Wilford Loves Lila
05 You can read Wilford's stories about life on the farm in his autobiography, From an Ontario Farm. See, for example, Chapter Seven, Three Years As a Farmer. Robert
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The photo of the Vienna Public School, which included the high school, was provided by Sandy Graham, curator of the Edison Museum of Vienna, who Barbara and I met at that little museum in April 2007. If you click on the small photo to see the larger version, you can make out the decorative bricks at the corners, which Wilford used one day to climb up the outside of the 2-story building as described on p. 45 of his autobiography. He said of the escapade that "I don't know what possessed me to do it. I know it was a preposterous thing for me to do. I might well have fallen and killed myself. Even now, whenever I think about it, it still scares me."
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06 The third floor room at 18 Grosvenor St. in Toronto can be seen on a photo page in Wilford's autobiography. Robert
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Lila and Wilford wedding photo, September 1926.
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08 A Nov. 3, 1925 photo of the champion Wearever Aluminum salesman in front of the house on Grosvenor St. is included in The Wilford Park Gallery. In the April 26, 1984 interview tape recorded at Warren's house in Minneapolis, Wilford says that during the summer before his intern year in Toronto he quit his Wearever job after 12 weeks (2 weeks early) to marry Lila. At the time he was the leading salesman, but another saleman who worked the full 14 weeks passed him by and got the $100 prize as the summer's top saleman. Wilford got a $50 prize as second best. The previous summer he had received the $100 prize as top salesman. Robert
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Here is the University of Toronto graduation photo Betty describes.
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Wilford's sick bed in the yard in Fairground, Wilford lying and Lila, Leta and Clifford sitting on cot, August 1928.
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Enlarge Back of print: "Our first car.
Bought Feb 18/29, Toronto
in front of Parliament buildings."
Wilford with first car, April 14, 1929.
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The Brownsville house, 1930.After addition of a sunporch above the side door.
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This name plate, which appears to Wilford's right, has passed from Douglas to Warren to Robert.
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This is one of the Brownsville churchs as photographed on 4/18/2006. The cornerstone says Erected A.D. 1885, Methodist Church. (It is now affiliated with the United Church of Canada.)
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15 Emily (Lucas) Marshman, who died on April 9, 1930, was Lila's mother. Her maternal grandmother was Martha (Wood) Lucas. Robert
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The Dodge 6, 1931.Betty at 3 months with Wilford and his mother Lura. Betty with Watson and Lura at Christmas, 1931. See also the first three pictures in The Betty Ponder Gallery.
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Wilford's bee keeping outfit.
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17 Years later in Deep River, I remember Douglas putting a little garter snake in a glass milk bottle and using the bottled snake to chase Betty. Robert
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18 The first few pictures in The Douglas Park Gallery show Douglas as a baby, Kitty Boy the cat, and Trixie the dog. Robert
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19 The doll and doll carriage can be seen in the 3rd birthday photo in The Betty Ponder Gallery. Robert
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Lila's sister Orpha and her husband Howard with Betty and Douglas, 1936.
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Here are some family tombstones in the Cultus Cemetery.Lila's parents.Watson and his wives.Lena and Montie.
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Here is the front side of tombstone in the Tillsonburg Cemetery. Catherine and Winnifred's names are on the other side.
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Ethel with Betty and Douglas, May 1935.
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Douglas and Betty at their mother's grave in Tillsonburg, July 22, 1934.At their mother's grave with their father, July 1935.
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Lura 2 months before her death from cancer.
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