We moved to the family ranch the year Verna was 3 years old.
To help my Grandparents with the ranch.
Her Great grandpa was 83 years old Verna and him were quite a pair
he called her Poncho, he was almost hard of hearing,,lol. They would be helping me work the cows by watching the gate while I cut the calves off into a pen, if a cow tried to run back thru the gate grandpa would yell Poncho and throw her towards the cow, now it needs to said here that 95% of his cows could be milked and every one of them would eat out of your hand so him throwing her at a cow wasn't what it sounds like,,
The year he passed away she was 10 , she went to work on a neighbors ranch as a
$10.00 a day ranch hand, she worked every summer and all school holidays for the McKinley' ranches scattered around the state. She worked till she was 16 and was a 20.00 a day hand
she was old enough to work in town for 'real' wages and took a job at the Charlie Meyers Livestock Auction in Belen. She worked there till she was 20 and then started driving a Peter built with a Bull wagon hauling Livestock out of Oleane,MS. to Colo.
she was about 2 weeks away from getting her CDL's when a drunk driver ran her off the road one day in October 2001.
We moved to the family ranch the year Verna was 3 years old.
To help my Grandparents with the ranch.
Her Great grandpa was 83 years old Verna and him were quite a pair
he called her Poncho, he was almost hard of hearing,,lol. They would be helping me work the cows by wacthing the gate while I cut the calves off into a pen, if a cow tried to run back thur the gate grandpa would yell Poncho and throw her towards the cow, now it needs to said here that 95% of his cows could be milked and every one ofthem would eat out of your hand so him trowing her at a cow wasn't what it sounds like,,
The year he passed away she was 10 , she went to work on a neighbors ranch as a
$10.00 a day ranch hand, she worked every summer and all school holidays for the McKinllys who between the dad and two grown kids had several diffrent ranches scattered around the state. She worked till she was 16 and was a 20.00 a day hand
she was old enough to work in town for 'real' wages and took a job at the Charlie Meyers Livestock Auctin in Belen. She worked there till she was 20 and then started driving a Peterbuilt with a Bull wagon hauling Livestock out of Oleane,MS. to Colo.
she was about 2 weeks away from getting her CDL's when a drunk driver ran her off the road one day in October 2001.
