As a boy born in 1932 to Galen and Tempest Johnson on the Jim Holmes Ranch
  in the Union Chapel Community, I remember the routine of life's race in those
  Gyp Hills of Barber County like most lads through the eyes and life of their
  Dad. So, in poetic-prose here I go wandering down Reminiscent Road -
     I REMEMBER LIFE IN THE SPRINGTIME: With fences to mend and boys to tend,
  it seemed like Dad's task would never end. Thru depression fears, dust bowl
  days, and wartime years - I was just a lad but I remember Dad thru the Spring
  Years.
      I REMEMBER LIFE IN THE SUMMERTIME: Dad's presence was hardly seen for the
   yellow wheat bending low must be reaped to become our winter clothes. Labor-
   ing hard from dawn to dusk for all of us, he barely had time for a movie or 
   two and maybe a day at the Hardtner Fair. I was just a sun tanned youth
   growing and hoeing, dippin in 'ole Mule Creek, snitching a watermelon: - 
   these were the daze of Sumertime when our hearts were light and cares were
   few there on the old Homes place in those Gyp Hills. It seemed like we'd
   never finish the race as we lumbered along thru the Summer Years.
      I REMEMBER LIFE IN THE FALL: With wheat to drill and a silo to fill Dad 
   gave his hands with a ready will. Meanwhile, we four kids were learning the
   three R's to the tune of a hickory stick in old Elwood School. But, one by
   one we spread our wings and flew away to find our niche to do our best. Now
   a young man, I remember those fleeting years of Fall.
      I REMEMBER LIFE IN THE WINTERTIME: Up at five to milk the cows then out
   thru falling rain and blowing snow, Dad would go to feed the stock without
   much talk. golden years and retirement days came to call, then bugle call and
   curtains fall - But, that's not all, for as the years come and go thru Summer
   sun and Winter's snow I'll remember Gyp Hill life and my 'ole Dad, who never
   set the world on fire but struck a match and lit a light to show us what was
   good and right.
      Since leaving the Union Chapel Community in 1946, I have graduated from
   Midwest Christian College in Oklahoma City. Got my start with Jesus when I
   was 12, there at Union Chapel in a Revival preached by a Rev. Rundus. have
   preached now for some 30 years in Christina Churches and presently serving
   as a traveling evangelist, living in Arkansas City, Kansas.
      Married Imalee Barrick of Moreland, Oklahoma, in 1951, and the Lord 
   blessed us with two sons and three daughters. Our oldest son, Lynn, was 
   killed in a car accident when he was 198. Terest, our oldest daughter, is 
   studying in Kansas City to be a Medical Doctor. Our second son, Galen, is
   studing forestry at OSU in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Rebecca, daugher #2 is
   majoring in music and Christian education at KU and Manhattan Christian
   College in Manhattan, Kansas. Lisa, now 19, is a special education student
   at Winfield and lives at home.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 254 
     Submitted by: Wilbur S. Johnson