Audrey Robbins

AUDREY CATHERINE RAE ROBBINS- I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN ROUNDUP AND GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL IN 1942. WENT TO SAN FRANCISCO AS POP KERN AND MY MOTHER SARAH WERE OUT THERE. HE WAS IN THE NAVY. I MET HERSHEL IN SAN FRANCISCO AND WE WERE MARRIED IN 1944 AND WE HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR 54 YEARS. AFTER THE WAR WE MOVED TO AUSTIN, TX (HERSHEL'S HOME WE CAME TO ROUNDUP ON VACATION IN SEPTEMBER OF 1947 AND WE STAYED. I DID NOT LIKE TEXAS. IT WAS TOO HOT THERE AND HUMID WE HAVE SEVEN DAUGHTERS HERSHEL'S PARENTS PATRICK AND MARGARET PRYOR HAD THREE SONS, CARL, HERSHEL AND JIMMIE. CARL AND JIMMIE NEVER MARRIED AND THEY LIVED IN TEXAS AND BOTH ARE GONE NOW. JIMMIE OWNED A WRECKER SERVICE IN AUSTIN AND DIED IN 1994 AND CARL DIED OF CANCER IN 1985.

PATRICK AND MARGARET DIVORCED WHEN THE BOYS WERE YOUNG AND SHE MARRIED ERMIE HICKMAN AND HAD TWO CHILDREN, MARVIN AND IRENE. MARVIN MARRIED ROSEMARY STERNADO AND THEY HAD ONE DAUGHTER ETHEL. ETHEL HAS ONE DAUGHTER APRIL AND SHE LIVED WITH MARVIN AND ROSEMARY, THEY LIVE IN AUSTIN, TX AND WE ALL CALL MARVIN "PIGGY". IRENE MARRIED HARLEN TAYLOR AND THEY HAVE THREE CHILDREN, KENNETH MARRIED TO CAROL AND THEY HAVE FOUR CHILDREN, DARREL MARRIED TO PAM AND HAVE TWO CHILDREN AND PATSY MARRIED TWICE BUT NOT MARRIED RIGHT NOW AND SHE HAD TWO GIRLS AND THEY EACH HAVE ONE CHILD AND LIVE IN DALLAS. WE ALWAYS CALLED IRENE SISTER AND HER AND HARLAN LIVE IN BELTON, TX. MR. HICKMAN DIED AND MARGARET MARRIED MR. BILLINGSLEY. THEY DIVORCED AND GRANDMA WENT TO AUSTIN AND LIVED WITH CARL AND JIMMIE. WE VISITED IN TEXAS AND GRANDMA CAME TO MONTANA QUITE A BIT. SHE LIKED IT HERE. SHE DIED QUITE YOUNG IN AUSTIN. I DON'T KNOW A GREAT DEAL ABOUT HERSHEL'S FAMILY. HE DID NOT REMEMBER HIS DAD BUT WE DID MEET HIS AUNT MOLLY IN AUSTIN WHEN PATTY WAS BORN. SHE WAS A HALF SISTER TO GRANDMA. HERSHEL MET TWO OF HIS UNCLES AND TWO AUNTS IN LULING, TX. CICERO AND BILL ROBBINS AND CORENA AND LORENA (OLD MAIDS). THEY WERE HIS DAD'S BROTHERS AND SISTERS. THEY WERE QUITE OLD. HERSHEL'S DAD IS BURIED IN LULING,TX. HERSHEL WAS VERY ACTIVE IN POLITICS. STARTED OUT AS CITY COUNCILMAN, WAS MAYOR OF ROUNDUP, ELECTED TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE, COUNTY COMMISSIONER AND FINISHED OUT A TERM FOR STATE SENATOR. HERSHEL IS RETIRED AND HAS DONE A LOT OF WOOD WORK. OF COURSE WHEN HE MAKES ONE THING HE USUALLY HAS TO MAKE SEVEN. HE JUST HAD TOO MANY DAUGHTERS.