GRAMMY SAMMY

BILLIE JO!

2014-01-29T15:51:00.002-06:00

This is Billie Jo our precious daughter-in-love. Billie has been seriously ill for a couple of weeks and we feared she would be taken from us. We had her name on prayer chains. We waited for updates on her condition. No visitors were allowed as Greg sat in her room day after day. She is home now and I imagine she was so glad to get into her own bed and have her little companion with her. If I can find one I will post a picture of her little dog.

CHRISTIAN FRIENDS ARE SPECIAL

2014-01-18T11:54:00.001-06:00

I am so fortunate to have Christian friends who when I am in need of prayer I can turn to. These two
are the first to respond. I have known RAMONA HARPER KESTER LOGAN for many years and her son TROY is now my friend on FACEBOOK. PTL !

FAMILY HISTORY

2014-01-17T10:29:00.001-06:00

My brother BOB who lives in Booneville, Indiana has told me he likes Family pictures so I thought I would post this one and identify each person. Left to right are....Rolland Hickman holding his son David. Then Floyd Dean Bailey who died in World War 2 in the Battle of Coral Sea, Then our dad Clyde Rohrer with me Shirley Rohrer Miller and my little sister Margaret standing in front of Dad. Then is Uncle Les Phillips and his wife Helen Bailey Phillips.

WELCOME !

2014-01-16T20:46:00.005-06:00

WELCOME TO GRAMMYSAMMY BLOG. I have had some very nice comments about my return. I would encourage you, my readers to leave comments. Click on at the end of one of the posts. I will not publish anonymous comments. If you have a memory you would like me to post about you can send it to me at shirleyrohrermiller@gmail.com .

GOING TO THE BEEF HOUSE!

2014-01-15T19:03:00.002-06:00

Tuck and Evelyn invited us to go to the Beef House on Route 63 in Indiana. He had a gift card for being Santa for a local business. We knew we would be on our own because the Gift Card they had would just pay for their meal. We went to the Westville Library for the monthly movie and they had so many delicious goodies that we decided not to get a meal at the Beef House but just get the Salad Bar and rolls. I am glad we did. Going there however brought back a memory of when my mom, my sister Jan and I went there for lunch. As we were leaving I passed a table and I heard a woman say "THERE GOES HELEN PHILLIPS AND SHE DIDN'T SPEAK TO ME!" I had been accused before. In fact I went to a TOPS meeting once and a woman came up to me and said "You have to be some relation to Helen Phillips." I asked her how she knew my aunt and she said "I am Sharon's mother-in-law." Anyway back to the lady at the Beef House; I told Aunt Helen about it and she replied......"now, someone is mad at me and I have no idea who it is!"

UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN

2014-01-14T19:17:00.000-06:00

This is the last picture taken of the ROHRER FAMILY. It was taken to celebrate our mother Buelah Bailey Rohrer's 90th . birthday. Our dad Clyde Rohrer and our baby sister Janice Kay Rohrer Harvey had stepped into Heaven. Left to right in the back row are Me ((Shirley Rohrer Miller) WILLIAM CLYDE (Bill) who last year joined Dad and Jan. Our younger sister MARGARET died in 1941 when she was 3 years old. Next in the photo is Robert (Bob), Then Thomas (Tom) Then Richard (Rick) who died in March 2009. Sitting in the front row is mom with Daniel (Danny who died in March 2009 just the next day after Rick. We did not tell Mother Rick and Danny had died but we know there was a grand reunion in Heaven on April 9, 2009 when Mom reached her promised home.
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

REMINISCE AWHILE WITH ME!

2014-01-14T18:55:00.000-06:00

Now that I am near my 80th birthday I am reflecting back in my life. I was one of 8 children born to my parents. My sister Janice used to like to remind me that our parents had perfection twice. The first was my birth the second was her birth 12 years later. My sister JANICE KAY ROHRER HARVEY died in November 1987 and I miss her. She was the light of our family. She weighed only 4 pounds when she was born. I liked to take her for a buggy ride when she was old enough to enjoy them. Last year her husband Larry Harvey died and I like to think there was rejoicing in Heaven when she joined him.

WESTVILLE SENIOR CITIZENS

2014-01-13T09:44:00.000-06:00

Westville takes care of its own . First of all Seniors get in Westville School functions free of charge. Then in November there is a dinner at the High School for Senior Citizen. A great lunch of Turkey and the trimmings served on trays and brought to us by Westville High school students who also keep filling our coffee or lemonade . Then students from Judith Giacoma, Westville Junior High serenade us with Holiday music. Santa and Mrs Claus are there. After lunch there are gifts. Everyone gets a gift. We all were given a ticket and that is how your gift is selected for you. The high School students select a gift and the principal announces the persons number that it is to go to. As we were leaving I told the principal this would be our last one we could attend because we are moving to Danville to be near our kids. I was told we would always be welcome to come to the annual dinner.

HELLO BROTHER BOB

2014-01-12T20:11:00.003-06:00

I had a message from my brother Bob telling me how much he likes to read my blog. I told him I never know how to get here or if I will be able to come back so since I am here I thought I would post this Bailey Reunion Picture and he can see himself many years ago .

THE BAILEY GIRLS!

2014-01-12T20:04:00.002-06:00

I love old stories and even better old pictures! In the picture above left to right are Hazel Bailey Parker, my mom Buelah Bailey Rohrer, her younger sister Helen Bailey Phillips, and her next to oldest sister Loreene Bailey Hickman. My mom, Aunt Helen and Aunt Rene grew up together not aware they had a sibling until Hazel came to Danville to meet her dad and stepmother and her sisters and brothers. My grandfather Carl Bailey had been married before and his wife died and her parents wanted to help raise his little girl. So, Grandpa Carl moved back to Champaign and I am not sure just how long it was before he met Nellie Lucinda Groves. My mom said my grandmother did not want her children to know about Hazel so she didn't tell them. I don't know how long ago Hazel first came to Danville to meet them but I do know my Grandfather Carl Bailey died in 1935 shortly after my first birthday. I have one more picture that I can post but have several others that are not available.

Left to right....Helen Bailey Phillips, Hazel Bailey Parker, Loreene Bailey Hickman, Buelah Bailey Rohrer.

2014

2014-01-02T19:53:00.001-06:00

I must admit I have missed posting on my blog and really don't know how I got here and don't know if I am able to come back. First of all I am going to steal the idea from my #2 son known as Mac to his friends. On his blog he wondered if people referred to the new year as Two Thousand and Fourteen or as Twenty fourteen? I hadn't given it much thought but now that it has been presented in his blog I will say "TWO THOUSAND AND FOURTEEN."I do have to say in the past century I gave the number as "Nineteen Thirty Four" as the year I was born so maybe I should say "Twenty Fourteen" . NOw I am confused . That is not too surprising though!

GRAMMY SAMMY IS RETIRING!

2013-09-17T20:31:00.000-05:00

I am retiring my blogs. Tuck is going to make me a nice book of them . I am running out of things to write about that I can't just put on FACEBOOK. I have a larger audience there. When I started my blog I did not have my Facebook place. Thank you for all the fun I have had here.As I leave I want to give a
large THANK YOU to someone very special in my life.THANK YOU KIMA for all the help!

AMAZING GRACE!

2013-09-17T16:15:00.002-05:00

What a mighty God we serve; Amazing Grace! HOW GREAT THOU ART!

Channa went to Carle Hospital to visit Kourtney and found her walking with a therapy aide in the hall! It makes me want to tell Kourtney "YOU'VE COME A LONG WAYS BABE!" Just a short time ago Kourtney was not expected to live very long. We were all asked to put her on prayer chains. She is just 32 years old. She and Johnathan have 3 children.We don't know how long she will live but God does.

PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME !

2013-09-16T11:06:00.001-05:00

Harvey brought in the old reel to reel tape recorder and I couldn't help looking at the tape titles. There was no MILLER DAY at Galloway Chapel so I must have taken my smaller recorder for that. In the meantime there are some "OLDIES BUT GOODIES" One that is a classic is when THE GAITHERS came to FIRST CHURCH OF GOD in Danville. It was the origional GAITHERS that came Bill, Gloria and Bills brother and sister. I remember asking them if I could tape the concert and Bill smiled and said "Sure go ahead." I sat on the front row beside the reel to reel in case it squealed. It didn't. That was back in the days they didn't charge but merely passed the offering plate.I think it was about 1959 or so. We followed them to different churches and I remember at one place all the windows of the church was open and chairs were set up outside because all of the seats inside were packed. At another place there was no room for the MAYOR of that town to sit so they put him up with the Gaithers at the side of the platform . To me that was the best seat in town and I am sure the Mayor was used to sitting on platforms.

YOU WANT THAT OLD THING?

2013-09-15T17:23:00.001-05:00

Sometimes you don't realize you have something valuable to someone until it is casually mentioned. We were at Tucks for our weekly Euchre session when the subject of our reel to reel tape recorder came up. It has been gathering dust in our garage for years with us thinking that the modern conveniences of computers and other devices made the reel to reel obsolete. Not so! Today our two sons let us know that they would like to have it and bring it into the modern world. They can actually hear their grandfather Rev William Goebel Milller and their uncle Rev Frederick Alden Miller preach the word.They can hear my baby sister Janice Rohrer Harvey give her testimony. They can hear their Grandmother and Grandfather Clyde and Buelah Bailey Rohrer sing together. Grandpa had a couple of kids songs he did for fun and playing his harmonica was special to everyone.They can hear their dad Harvey Miller sing Family OF God at Galloway Chapel Miller day and hear my poem Galloway Chapel read to the congregation. Aunt Eva and Uncle Ramon singing at Miller day. The old Chapel is gone but the poem is hanging on the wall in the private home where the Chapel once stood.The poem is also in the archives of Western Indiana Poets Corner.As for the old reel to reel recorder it has found a new home. It will be at Greg and Billies and Greg and Tuck can enjoy listening.

LOCKS OF LOVE

2013-09-14T23:40:00.002-05:00

My daughter Channa Cales donated 11 inches of her hair to LOCKS OF LOVE for cancer patients.

I have heard of people doing this and am proud of her.

GRANDMA KNOW BEST

2013-09-13T15:24:00.002-05:00

Thanks for all the e-mails and suggestions to regain my hearing. I went to Carle once and had my ears cleaned of wax professionally and was scared when the audiologist said "Please hold very still because I am very close to your ear drum and I don't want to puncture it" Well, you can bet that I was very
still . later when I told my friend about it she told me she has problems all ,of the time and she just uses her "Grandmas solution" She told me her Grandma always put drops of Peroxide in her ear and the wax comes out. I tried it and it works so when I have hearing loss out comes the brown bottle! I have heard of Peroxide Blonds but had never heard of Peroxide Ears.

WHAT DID YOU SAY?

2013-09-13T09:13:00.001-05:00

I have always said "I would rather be deaf than blind". Today I am deaf. This happens now and then but I think it is worse on other people than it is on me. I can't hear Harvey when he tries to talk to me. I cannot hear the phone ring. I can still communicate on the computer though.We have an answering machine so Harvey can get the messages when he comes in from painting the deck.

Tabitha and Rob

2013-09-09T11:59:00.003-05:00

The diamond on her left hand is to let everyone know that on September 7th, 2013 Rob & Tabitha
became engaged. They plan a wedding on September 7,2014 somewhere between Detroit and Danville.

GOODBYE SMILEY FACES

2013-09-06T10:14:00.000-05:00

Tabitha and her fiance Rob came by with their dog Pharough. I had invited her to come down when she was in town to get as many smiley faces in my collection that she wanted. I let her pick some and then I talked her into some more. I will find a home for the ones she didn't take. I also gave her our wedding gift to them. It is service for 8 of gold plated ware and a tablecloth to match. I explained to her that it is to be soaked and polished but never scrubbed or the gold will come off. They are to be married in Chicago. they wanted to pick a place so both the Illinois and the Michigan people could meet. I think she said in Sept 2014.

GOING....GOING....GONE!

2013-09-02T17:51:00.000-05:00

I didn't realize we had so much stuff until we decided to downsize. Today Granddaughter Mandy came to Westville to see the annual Labor Day Parade. After the parade they needed a "pit stop" so called and asked if they could come to our house. The six of them lined up. While each one was busy Mandy and I started talking. she could see I was going through a small table. Behind it was our hassock. She said "Can I have that?" I replied "sure but right now it is being used as a chair because we sold the sectional to Channa who gave it to Jan Bethany as an early Christmas present.I gave Jan some plastic dishes . I have something special for Tabitha but won't reveal what because she might read my blogs. It is her wedding gift from Harvey and I.She will be in town this week and they will be down sometime she said.Even if we decide we will stay here I will have a lot of "stuff" given away. I did give away some books and also some tapes. I have a lot of "family movies" that we will watch and then decide which person will get them. Some are priceless Reunion movies and I imagine everyone will want but they can only be viewed on a VCR.I want to tell Tuck that yes, Greg and Billie will get the painting of the house at 713 Franklin Street in Danville.It was nice he mentioned he thought they should get. it. Maybe someone will take pictures of it for the rest of the kids.Hint..hint Tuck.

????? What about this?

2013-08-31T14:41:00.001-05:00

That goes, this stays, what about this? Questions and answers. I am NOT getting rid of that. Oh, Jan wants that, and Tuck will take that. Oh I have to go though all of the pictures. I am so glad I made albums for all of the kids so I don't have as many as I used to have. Tuck wants to scan what I do have and he will give them back.Oh dear, What about the oil painting of the house at 713 Franklin Street.The Angels are gone except one.It is always displayed at Christmas. The snow globes have been promised.Tabitha will take some of the smiley faces. After all she and her mom bought most of them but she said her spaces are limited.Harvey says "You will want to keep that large Smiley Face Ball. Remember the story that Brother Bob told about trying to hold onto it while walking through hurricane weather in Texas." The Family tapes we will keep for now. My diaries will go to Greg and I can just imagine what people will comment after he posts them on Facebook.

STUFF !

2013-08-30T11:51:00.001-05:00

Harvey is really downsizing our possessions. We had a line waiting to buy the Sectional but Channa called me and said she bought it. Sorry Mandy! I cleaned out my Box of RIDGEVIEW BAPTIST HISTORY and it goes to our church secretary this Sunday. The Genealogy material has been divided between Tuck and Greg. Tuck has his dads Dalmatian dog collection.Now, I am going through the rest of the Family History to see what is worth passing on. I don't even want to think about family pictures. This may take awhile!

DOWNSIZING

2013-08-27T11:16:00.000-05:00

I chose blue for this blog because the subject makes me feel a little blue. We are downsizing and I am carting things out of my office first because that is the place I "collect" the most.Harvey has always said he was glad that my office had a door on it that he could make sure was closed. I have genealogy papers, Ridgeview Baptist History, Macedonia Ministry materials,(Harvey and I were involved in that for a long time. ) I am tossing the AM TRACK trains schedules.I have a huge bookcase I would not part with. It was a gift from Harvey when he was working on a Moving van when we lived on Franklin street in Danville. I have home movie tapes that I will distribute among family members. The list goes on and on. This is not an easy task. At least my family are not shy about asking if I am going to give away certain items. I have Smiley Faces that I offered my granddaughter Tabitha first because she and her mother bought most of them. Tuck and Evelyn have asked for my angels and they will get them all except for my one "retired"angel She is a gray haired angel.Billie Jo asked about a table she likes. I have lots more "stuff" to go through.This is not an easy thing to do because sentiment is sitting on my shoulder!

LITTLE MISS WESTVILLE

2013-08-24T21:13:00.001-05:00

We went to a beauty pageant tonight that our Great Granddaughter was in. She was voted the most photogenic.This was her first pageant and I predict that it will not be her last. She is only 12 years old. Her name is Brittney Miller and she attends Westville Illinois Junior High school. Saying we are proud of her is putting it mildly.I think she should have been the winner of the Miss Congeniality also because she has a sweet personality.