It was in the midst of a blizzard that I arrived at the home of Lee and
   Violet Marr Simpson, March 16, 1928, assisted by her sister Pearle 
   Herrington, R.N., on a farm about seven miles northwest of Medicine Lodge.
     My brother, Lucky, was born one year later and we were constant companions.
   Once when we were playing out in the pasture a sandy bank fell and covered
   my legs, a few toys and my shoes. Lucky let me wear his shoes back to the 
   house while he walked barefooted through the stickers in the field we had to
   cross to reach the house.
     We often played with Vera (now Mrs. Jack Warwick) and her brother, Harold
   Moore, our nearest neighbors.
     In 1937, we moved to the place south of the Herb Gress ranch. We were
   dellighted to have a baby brother, Roger, in 1939.
     Some of the good times included holiday dinners at our grandparents, Warren 
   and Mary Simpson, or at her parents, John and Mattie Clarke. Also neighborhood
   gatherings at Forest City Church, Riverside Church, Mingona School, Reutlingler
   (#10) School, Elm Mills, and Fourth of July parades and picnics.
     For three years I attended Mingona School. After the move we went to #10
   School, often riding horseback the 2 1/2 miles, along with Georgi Gress (Dawson)
   and Marjorie Mae Elliott. During my eighth grade I attended the Seventh Day
   Adventist Church School at Wichita. High School days were spent at Enterprise
   Academy, Enterprise, Kansas; followed by a year at Union College, Lincoln,
   Nebraska.
     It was while at the academy that I met Dale Mohr of Otis, Kansas, whom I
   married September 19, 1948. We have lived at 25 different addresses. It has
   been hard to leave friends in all those places. Five of those years were spent
   at Medicine Lodge.
     Dale is superintendent for List and Clark Construction Company at the La
   Cygne Power Plant, La Cygne, Kansas.
     We have two sons, Milton (born in Great Bend) who lives with us and Russell
   (born in Medicine Lodge) who is married to Cheryl Wilson of Enterprise. She
   is a senior nursing student and he operates heavy equipment where his dad
   works.
     When we lived west of Medicine Lodge on the Moore place I helped my mother
   her print shop and published a small journal for an amateur printers association.
   We had many happy days together. Later I worked in a large print shop in 
   Wichita and spent some time working at King Radio in Olathe.
     For twenty-five years I taught kindergarten classes at church and was
   kindergarten division leader at our statewide camp meeting two years.
     It is with pride that I say I am from Barber County. Many of the older folks
   who worked hard and made it what it is are gone but Barber County will continue
   to be a special place for me.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 333 
     Submitted by: Dawn Simpson (Mrs. Dale Mohr)