_"I admonish all families: search out your heritage. It is important to
know, as far as possible, those who came before us. We discover
something about ourselves when we learn about our ancestors. -President Thomas S. Monson
A note to cousins...about this site....
-Enjoy Grandpa's Glove Story. -Watch for the Recipes coming by Mary! -The theme this month: Christmas Memories: Please ask your parents about a Christmas memory growing up. (Tom, Jan, Julie, Jim, Dave, Diane, Dan, Kathy.) Encourage them/or write for them the story on the "Duffin Stories" page. Simple. Short. No Stress. Thank you! The going plan is to have 12 (months) x 7 (family members) = 94 stories by 2012. Each month there will be a new theme. Thank you for your help! -Google Duffin Family History and see what you find! Share with us! -MORE TO COME!
Thank you Mary for your help in starting this website!
The Christmas Gloves
To show the love of Mother and Father and their devotion during the economic time of the Great Depression in 1932 through 1936, I came to observe the sacrifice that they were willing to make for the benefit of their family. I realize we had little money and Mother and Father certainly were not able to bestow nice gifts and presents for the family at Christmas time. The first time I remember, probably when I was five or six years of age, was when Mother tenderly gave Father a brown pair of gloves at Christmas time. I was so proud of Mother that she saved and was able to give Father this gift, which was very substantial at that time. The very next year Mother presented Father with a new pair of leather gloves and they tenderly embraced each other and were so appreciative of my Mother's efforts and contributions. This continued on until the third year. Then I realized that those carefully wrapped brown gloves were the same gloves that she had given him in each of the prior years. Later, on one occasion, I looked in Mother's bottom drawer of her dresser and saw those leather gloves. Then, I realized that after each Christmas, Mother would carefully re-wrap those leather gloves, place them in the bottom of her dresser, and then bring them out for the next year. Since that time I have had tender tears in my eyes realizing that there was nothing that my mother and father would not do and there was nothing that wast too great to sacrifice for the best good of the family, as there are many sacrifices that occur in such a responsibility. -Tom Duffin