LITTLEFIELD, Verdie Morine (Sis) (1916 -)

Red Charles and Verdie

Red and Sis met in 1942 in Lubbock TX on a blind date.

Verdie was working in Lubbock at Dr. Able's Sanatirum. Two of her girlfriends went out walking and found 2 guys. They said next time they would bring a guy back for Verdie. They brought Red back! He was at Reese AFB in Lubbock.

Later she went to work in Ft. Worth building airplanes. Red was transfered to Bryan AFB near College Station. They got married in Ft Worth and moved to Houston when Red was transfered for his job. He was later transfered to Lubbock. He worked in Commercial Heating and Air Conditioning.
 -- as told to Sherry by Aunt Sis.

Red had a tattoo of a naked dancing girl on his fore arm. He wore long sleeves.
( told by Norma)

Mary Jane, Lucy, Tommie and Sis

Sis, Tommie and Docia

William Thomas and Sarah Jane (Jennie) Littlefield moved to Fisher Texas Exie and Gerald were the only children. Aprox 1907 They moved to Terry Co. Texas within the next year Tommie and Maude & Merle were born. Moved in aprox 1910 to Lovington NM Bernice was born in Territory of NM which was Eddie Co. at the time. NM became a state and Lea County. Bernice lived in all these places and never moved. The rest of the children were born in Lovington, Lea Co. NM. We went to Hag__man in 1923 to pick apples and cotton and different jobs. Went back to Lea Co.

We moved to Terry Co. Tx in a covered wagon (10 kids and Mama & Papa). First farm was n the Bradshaw Place, "Cheatie Bolin" lived there before we did. Papa (William Thomas) freighted from Tohaha to Segraves from about 1915-1919. He used 3 wagons trailed together pulled with 10 horses. hauled our cotton to Tohaha to gin about 1916.

Exie, Gerald, Tommie, Maude, Bernice, Herschel, Clayton, Verdie, and Bud all went to school at Prarie View in NM Papa sang and whistled all the time. He tried to teach all of the kids to sing but no luck.
 --Written by Verdie (Sis) Harris

Bad car accident with Verdie, Annez and Gerald in one car. They were caravaning with a couple more cars. It was a small town nearby. The car rolled and all 3 were hurt. Verdie was thrown from the car and in the hospital for a couple days. Gerald stayed longer in the hospital and afterwards one leg was shorter than the other. He wore a platform shoe. Annez was hurt the worst and in the hospital longer. She was the one driving.
 -- told to Sherry by Verdie.

I met a woman named Bea that lived in the same retirement home as Aunt Sis. She said the "Littlefield Boys" were always in trouble in school. Bea's brother brought a rattle snake skin to school one day. One of the Littlefield boys thought of putting a clothespin on the skin and talked the teachers nephew into clipping it to the back of the teacher's dress. She really screamed. Verdie still remembered the event and laughed pretty hard!

She also told of the toys tieing a gunnysack of cow chips to a cat's tail. The sack caught fire as the cat was running around and the cat ran under the school house. Bea found the boys standing at the fence looking at the school. They were afraid it would burn the school down, but fortunately it didn't!
 -- Sherry Snyder.