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Harold & Ovaline Andrews

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Married since 12 February 1954, we've made our home at Mobile, AL since 1970. Retired since December 1989, after a career of nearly 38 years with the U. S. Army, Corps of Engineers, we've been enjoying life in our "golden years", doing most anything we want to, which is primarily pickin' and singin' Bluegrass Music, visiting relatives & friends, and just rambling about the country in our motorhome.

Harold & Ovaline
at First Freewill Baptist Church,
Sneads, Florida, April 2002

We use our motorhome for traveling in connection with our Bluegrass Music as well as traveling just for the fun of it. In addition to visiting various attractions, we have to make sure we see our children and grandchildren often and they are somewhat scattered. We average running the RV about 14,000 or 15,000 miles each year and it's a great way to travel.

We were blessed with three sons, Danny, Mark and Richard, and a daughter, Karen. We have eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Danny & Brenda

        We lost our eldest son, Danny, in 1979, at 24 years of age, to leukemia. He's shown at left with his wife, Brenda, on their wedding day.

         At right is shown Danny & Brenda's daughter, April, and her husband Casey Oliver, on their wedding day. With their young daughter, Mallory, they live near Mountain Home, Arkansas, where Casey is a registered nurse and April a medical technologist at a hospital in Mountain Home.

April & Casey Oliver

Dawn, Shay & Mark

Mark works hard at their very demanding screen-printing business, Coastal Imprints, in Saraland, AL. Mark's wife, Dawn, manages a large medical office in Mobile, AL. Mark and Dawn have a son Christopher, who is making his way in the world as an electrician, and a daughter Shay, who is currently attending college.

At right is Mark's eldest son, by a previous marriage, Mark II (Alan) with his wife, Ashleigh, along with their young son, Mark Alan III (Trey). Trey also has a little brother, Michael Alexander (Alex) and a little sister, Abby.

Alan, Ashleigh,& Trey

Richard, Nancy, Danny & Courtney

Richard, shown at left with wife Nancy, son Danny, and daughter Courtney, is in Customer Relationship Management with a large computer software company in Huntsville, Alabama. He is a talented singer and musician, and is into playing pool, playing golf, working with deaf persons, playing pool, surfing the net, and playing pool. He recently was runner-up for the National Amateur Pool Championship. See a 19 May 2004 article in the Huntsville, AL Times about Richard's pool playing.

Karen, Randy, Clinton & Cody

Karen makes her home in Marietta, (near Atlanta) Georgia, with her husband Randy and her son Clinton. Besides working with Randy in their clutch manufacturing business, she also operates another separate related business. In addition, she looks to the needs and activities of youngest son Clinton, which takes a lot of her time. Her eldest son, Cody, recently moved back from his father's home in North Carolina, to attend Georgia Perimeter College in Atlanta on a baseball scholarship. With all Karen has going, she still finds time to occasionally visit her dad & mother, Harold & Ovaline. At left is a picture taken during such a visit which included a very pleasant day at Bellingrath Gardens near Mobile, Alabama. At right is Karen cutting up with her grandmother, Ovaline's mother, Pauline, whom all the kids call "Meemaw".

"Meemaw" & Karen

Family Gathering - Mobile, Christmas 1997

The picture at left was taken at a family gathering at our home at Christmas 1997. All our kids and grandkids, at the time, except our deceased son Danny's daughter April (see picture above), are included. Also shown is Ovaline's mother, Pauline "Meemaw" Mercer.
From left to right, back row is Nancy & Richard, and Mark & Dawn. Next row is Mark's son Alan, Ovaline, Harold, and Karen. Next Row is Mark's daughter Shay, Karen's son Cody, Ovaline's mother Pauline, and Mark's son Christopher. Bottom row is Karen's son Clinton, Richard's daughter Courtney, and Richard's son Danny.

Family Gathering - DeSoto State Park, AL

We try to get together when we can work out the details for a rendezvous. Here's a picture taken when those shown were able to gather one weekend at the De Soto State Park near Fort Payne, AL. This is at the Little River Falls in the scenic Little River Canyon south of the state park. The kids kept us pretty tense when they got near the falls. The drop is considerable and they'd have landed on rocks. Of course, they all had a ball!
From left to right, standing are Randy, Christopher, Mark, Shay, Dawn, Ovaline, Richard, Nancy & Harold. Seated are Cody, Clinton, Danny, Karen and Courtney.

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