The Way We Were

The Way We Were: Dick Barker

The Way We Were: Dick Barker

Publisher’s Note As of the publishing date of this article, Mr. Dick Barker had passed away and is now in the loving arms of his late wife, Claudette. The family wishes to honor his memory with this article and remembrances of the life and times they enjoyed with their patriarch. “He was the consummate, genuine […]

The Way We Were: Phyllis Geiger

The Way We Were: Phyllis Geiger

“Everything in life is sweetened by risk.” That’s the epitaph beneath the photo of Phyllis Geiger in The Williston Northampton School’s 1965 yearbook. How prophetic that statement turned out to be. Nearly two decades later, Phyllis risked everything she had and successfully translated the European art of hand tempering chocolate into an American neighborhood experience […]

The Way We Were: Diane and Bill McFadden

The Way We Were: Diane and Bill McFadden

Diane and Bill McFadden married 66 years ago on a late December day in Illinois while they were college students. The theme of their life has been the joy of being able to travel to many different places and to learn from the people there. Since they married, Bill and Diane have moved 20 times. […]

The Way We Were: Bill and Barbara Ketchum

The Way We Were: Bill and Barbara Ketchum

This month marks the 62nd wedding anniversary of Bill and Barbara Ketchum of Ortega. Although they love being in large groups at clubs and dinners, they have quiet plans this year with friends and family. Included in those plans is time set aside to read this article in The Resident, a paper they consider a […]

The Way We Were: Mary Virginia Skinner Jones

The Way We Were: Mary Virginia Skinner Jones

Mary Virginia Skinner Jones came into the world at St. Vincent’s Hospital in May 1928 as the youngest child and only girl of Chester and Virginia Skinner, natives of Georgetown, South Carolina. Four years later, her father founded Meadowbrook Farms Dairy in San Jose Forest. The family home sat adjacent to the dairy, and so […]

The Way We Were: Martha “Molly” Holmes King

The Way We Were: Martha “Molly” Holmes King

Martha “Molly” Holmes King arrived in Jacksonville at nine years of age in February 1941 from her birthplace in Birmingham, Alabama. “Now, I’m 91 and three fourths,” she said, and she lives in the same house that she had grown up in on Harvard Avenue in Ortega. Molly was raised an only child; two siblings […]

The Way We Were: Hooshang Harvesf, Ph.D.

The Way We Were: Hooshang Harvesf, Ph.D.

Dr. Hooshang Harvesf came to the United States from Persia as a young, educated man in the early 1960s but took his schooling even further by completing the Ph.D. program in economics at The University of California, Berkeley. His father had always stressed this advice: “Get an education first. Then, do whatever it is that […]

The Way We Were: Cookie Davis

The Way We Were: Cookie Davis

Carranna Shirley Faling was quite a long name for such a cute little girl. It was a mouthful for a mother to say, too. The year was 1941, when Dagwood and Blondie Bumstead were popular comic strip characters. They had a daughter named Cookie. So, Cookie Faling it is, her mother had decided. Since there […]