September 27th
On this day in 1940, Stella Baxter married John Connley in the parlor of the local preacher’s home with the preacher’s wife as the witness. A year later, the nation was embroiled in a World War, later to be popularly known as WWII, and in January 1942, they welcomed their first son, Ron, my dad. John, my grandpa, was drafted into the Army in 1943 and my grandmother, Stella, and their two sons, went to…
