Christmas Memories
(s/o Joseph Walden Jobe, gs/o Charles Oliver Jobe, gt gs/o Joseph W. Jobe, 2nd gt gs/o Elisha Jobe, 3rd gt gs/o Enoch Jobe Jr, 4th gt gs/o Enoch Job Sr., 5h gt gs/o Joshua Job and Margaret MacKay)
"Max was born to Joseph and Mary(Thompson) Jobe in Grundy County, Missouri in 1931. He had no recollection of Christmas when he lived in Missouri. With seven children in the family, a depression going on, who knows, Christmas might not have been a special occassion. The only Christmas memories that he had was after the family moved to Michigan then Ohio in the late 30's. Max remembered one Christmas when his Grandpa and Grandma Pence (his Mother's parents) drove all the way from Trenton, Missouri to spend Christmas with them. He remembered that his Grandma had made a special date/pecan roll and he thought that was about the greatest treat ever.
His other memory about Christmas was when he was in the second grade and he was to be Santa Claus in the Christmas Program. As the teachers were helping him into his Santa Suit, they noticed that he was wearing long underware and told him that he should remove it as it could make him too warm under the heavy Santa Suit. Well, they discovered a fiesty Santa on their hands when he refused to strip down. The show did go on with Santa in his Santa Suit and all of his clothes. I often think about the consequences today if a teacher demanded that a student strip down."
