The Stout kids had fun growning up in Lake City, Kansas. Our big yard
     accommodated many youngsters; there was someone to play with all the time,
     in our yard or others. Yards were fenced. Cattle were driven from ranches,
     between our house and the railroad track, to the stockyards. We clung to
     the fence or scrambled up a tree for an excellent view of the cowboys
     herding the cattle.
       We attended grade school in Lake City. I remember Beth Armour's programs
     at the church, where there was a staage and room for an audience. Albert
     and Margaret graduated from high school there. Classes were held in rooms
     above the bank and hardware store. A community building west of the hard-
     ware served as gymnasium for basketball games, parties, plays, and movies.
     Graduation was held in the church.
       When father died in 1919 I was eight years old. I remember him as the
     greatest Dad in the world. Albert followed in Dad's footsteps, becoming
     a lumberman. He managed a lumberyard in Oskaloosa, Kansas. We hated to 
     leave friends in Lake City, but for better opportunities, we joined Albert
     there. Wilsey and I finished high school there.
       Wilsey was a dreamer and wanderer with a pleasant personality and honest
     disposition. He had no trouble finding jobs. While driving a truck for Cudahy
     Packing Company in Louisiana he was accidently killed in 1936, leaving a 
     wife but no children.
       I worked for the County Superintendent of school after H.S. graduation in 
     1928. Later I received a bookkeeping degree from a Topeka businesss college.
     I worked i Topeka, then went to Iowa to visit Margaret and Garold. I worked
     in Des Moines as a bookkeeper. Mother joined me there. During the war I was
     sent to North Canada by Kewit Construction Company for six months. It was a
     differnt life and interesting work. I went to Denver, Colorado, and worked 
     twenty-eight years as bookkeepter for Corson Machine Company, remaining there
     after retirement near my friends. I like to drive to the mountains, enjoy
     the many restaurants, plays, shopping malls and Trinity Methodist Church in
     downtown Denver.
       Albert's widow, Catherine, lives in a rest home near her daughter Lolita.
     Her husband is vice president of Cordell, Oklahoma National Bank. There are
     three children and six grandchildren. LaVerne is in the Navy, has two daughters.
     LaVonne's husbnad teaches in Canton High School.
       Margaret attended the University of Kansas two years and taught seven years
     in Kansas. She then graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, 1957. She
     married Garold Stofer, 1936. Following his death in 1957 she married Earl
     Robinson in 1966. She taught twenty years in Perry, Iowa, schools, retiring
     in 1973. Margaret has two children. Linda is married and is a special education
     teacher in Dayton, Florida schools. Jerry was a helicopter pilot in the army
     sixteen years and is presently a test pilot with Sykorski Aircraft Company
     in Connecticut. He is married and has four children.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 443 
     Submitted by: Bernice D. Stout