Patricia Ann Trantham was born April 28, 1950, at Nashville, Kansas, with
  Dr. T. Waylan officiating, the youngest of the three children born to Tom
  and Darlene Chance Trantham.
     I lived east of Sharon until I was around 2 yars old, then we moved to
  Medicine Lodge on East Kansas Street. At 3 1/2 years old we moved to the
  country 5 miles south of Medicine Lodge on the old Ed and Daisy Stolebarger
  fam (the Guy Sayer place). The memories of the time we lived here are so
  wonderful, and there are so many of them.
     The house we lived in was up on a hill. The lower land would always flood
  with a hard rain. We three kids would throw together an ol' raft, made
  probably of rotten boards, and float along with the foam. We would always
  collect baby animals; sometimes our house would look like a zoo. We'd keep
  them until they got big or died, whichever came first. My parents were
  always so eager for us to experiment and do things on our own. We never
  lived at a place without a "buckin barrel", around someplace. If you didn't
  spur like Casey Tibbs and have lead in your pants, you were laying on your 
  back on the ground. My brother, Bill, was the best around. We never could
  make him eat dirt! If every kid could grow up with a brother and sister like
  mine - we share a closeness that can't be explained.
     It was at this time in our life when we lost our dear mother, Darlene
  Rose Trantham, in a tragic accident - a time for awhile that wasn't pleasant!
     Now on with the story. I moved back to Sharon where I attended high school.
  In 1968 I graduated and started Professional Beauty College in Wichita.
     In the fall of 1969 (Nov. 15) I married Wayne A. Ditgen. Wayne is the
  son of Monica and Alfred Ditgen, born on Sept. 21, 1949. He is the only son
  of a family of four children and grew up in Sharon. Wayne attended St.
  Boniface parocial grade school and graduated from Sharon High School in 1968.
  He moved to Wichita and enrolled in Kansas School of Business where he studied
  basic electronics and electricity. After completing school he went to Cessna
  Aircraft as a maintenance electrician and has been at Cessna Aircraft for
  11 years, working his way up to the position of Supervisor over Numerical
  Control Division.
     We lived in Wichita for five years. While we were there we started our
  family. Since I was afraid of big hospitals, Kimberly Kay was born in Attica,
  Kansas, on August 13, 1971 and three years later we added another addition to
  our family tree. Since the second-born is supposed to arrive faster, we didn't
  take our chances driving back to Attica, so our little son Brandt William was
  born in Wellington (and it didn't come faster) on August 26, 1974.
     In 1974 we moved to Cheney, Kansas. We live out west of town on an acre of
  land that we hope will be our home forever. Oh, by the way, I'm still fixing
  hair! We put a shop in our home; it's called "Pat's Country Curl."
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 157 
     Submitted by: Patty Ditgen