Being the third daughter of Emil and Lila Heydenreich, born in July 1925
    in Medicine Lodge, some of my earliest memories are visiting our neighbors,
    they Maynards, and playing with a glass paperweight that had falling snow
    when shaken; of being scared by a 'gigantic hog' while walking home from
    school with my sister, Florence, yet refusing to escape by crossing the
    creek on a log; of swinging on grape vines along the creek and falling in;
    pumping water for the circus elephants when the circus was held on empty
    lots across the road and searching for pop bottles and 'treasures' after
    it left; picking butter cups and other wild flowers; and of accidentally
    severing the finger of a neighbor boy while playing with a hatchet.
      When a first grader, I was a prarie flower in the Peace Treaty Pageant,
    and when in high school, a scarf dancer. I attended District 34 country
    school from 3rd through 8th grade which was a fun and exciting time. I
    missed having a classmate during those years but had a close friend, Jessie
    McCracken, who lived on a nearby farm. Jessie rode a horse name "Chestnut'
    to school, and sometime I would get to ride behind her. We pretended to be
    famous movie stars and gave ourselves screen names. Sometimes when allowed
    to visit Jessie, we would go horseback riding in the Gyp Hills and visit
    "Buzzards' Roost."
      I left Medicine Lodge, going around to Wichita to work for Beech Aircraft,
    then on to Topeka where I worked for John Morrell Meats. On V.J. Day I was
    on a bus to Columbus, Ohio, where I attended Post Academy of Cosmetology
    and worked as a beauty operator until a hit-and-run accident caused me to
    change vocations. I worked for Bell Telephone Company in Columbus and 
    attended Ohio State University for a while. Because of my mother's illness,
    I returned to Topeka and worked for Southwestern Bell. I lived with Mr. and
    Mrs. O.A. Shoop, former Medicine Lodge residents. While living there I met
    and married Dean McMurty of Shamrock, Texas, who was a Navy buddy of Darwin
    Shoop.
      While Dean was in the Navy we lived in Honolulu, Hawaii. After his discharge
    he attended Oklahoma A&M College at Stillwater. After graduation and a year
    of graduate work, we moved to LIncoln, Nebraska, where Dean is employed as
    a soil research scientist with the National Soil Survey Laboratory. I work
    as a District Director for Campfire Girls, Inc., which is a rewarding
    profession. I have never lost my love of the out-of-doors.
      We have two daughters: Christine Lee, born August 1954, and Mary Kathleen,
    born in October 1961.
      I enjoy returning to Medicine Lodge to visit family and see old friends.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 307 
     Submitted by:Lucile Heydenreich McMurty