William Cicero Nix -Daddy

 



6/1/1893-11/2/63

He was in his

60s by the time I was born. I was the youngest of his 3 marriages and 8 children. 

His only son and a daughter both died young of heart disease. He never got over that loss.

I was anything but wanted. 

Typical of his running away from problems, when I was 15 he put our house in Medford up for sale, packed our only car and decided it was time to move to Garrison, Colorado where he died. It cost my mom and I everything to return his body and have a funeral. She didn't drive or have a job and was ill. 

We went years without a car.

My knee was dislocated in PE class playing tennis. For 8 weeks I walked 2 miles to and from school with a cast from my ankle to my ass while the school bus passed me and everyone laughed and pointed.

Then I walked to the grocery store.  My family NEVER TOOK GOVERNMENT AID. NEVER!

MAMA and I took in old dying people to pay the bills, mowed lawns, ironed, babysat... whatever it took to feed us.

My dad was an alcoholic..a mean drunk who abused my mother.  I wish I had killed the Sonofabitch. But he was right about a lot too.  Politics.. brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. B

He Read constantly. He was a bigot, or acted one. I never saw him discriminate against anyone. 

I hated him for it.  I once got in his face and told him I was going to marry a black man. 

Medford schools have always SUCKED AND SO DID THE KIDS!

ALL turned out to be spineless selfish leeches to society. You still suck! Not one of you will stand up for this country. I ran the credit bureau! I know who you jerks are. 

Picture Filer Idaho with my sister Linda. I would have been a baby. 


If I recall correctly this is the day they got married  

I was told May 7, 194?


Near Phoenix Arizona.

I have never found where they were married.


This blog will be my biography

 and story of my family. 

We all deserve the truth. 


Comments

  1. BAugust 20, 2024 at 10:05 AM

    It was a sad and frightening time. My mother was devastated and out of her mind but when he died. I couldn't understand it then. Why didn't she hate him?
    After Dan Milich, I understand.
    We had to bury him in a cheap coffin and we paid for the funeral plot for years.
    I will be the only person in my family not given a funeral. Oh there's plenty of money... they just don't care.
    It's takes my breath away that no one cares enough about me to say goodbye

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