Christmas Memories in Sperry, Oklahoma
(s/o Oma Louis Jobe, gs/o Jesse Logan Jobe, gt gs/o Abraham S. Jobe, 2nd gt gs/o Logan Jobe, 3rd gt gs/o Elisha Jobe, 4th gt gs/o Enoch Job(e) Jr., 5th gt gs/o Enoch Job Sr., 6th gt gs/o Joshua Job)
"All Christmases were special for kids, of course! I remember one Christmas, 1933, when I was heartbroken that I didn't get a store-bought gift in my stocking. It was in the middle of the depression then. All I got was some homemade peanut brittle that Mom made. We had no money for gifts. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I realized how bad my parents felt that year when they couldn't get a gift from the store.
When I was 3 1/2 years old, I clearly remember that my Granny gave me a wooden monkey on a string--you pulled the strings and the monkey would 'dance'. My parents gave me a little drum. I was playing the drum in the bedroom and my mom noticed after awhile that it had gotten very quiet. She was naturally curious so she came to see what I was doing. I had taken scissors and cut the top of the drum off because I wanted to know where the sound was coming from!
We always had a tree, Dad would cut down a cedar. My brother and I would pick up discarded cigarette packages around town and on the roads, all thru the year--Camels, Chesterfields, Wings--just to get the shiny tin foil from the package. We would smooth out that tin foil and cut and make tinsel for the tree. We made popcorn garlands and construction paper chains. I can remember staying awake all nite trying to catch Santa, but never did. We'd rush in to see what was under the tree and in our stockings in the morning. After we would open our presents, we would go visit our neighbors and relatives to see what they got. You'd knock on the door and when they opened it, you tried to yell 'Christmas Gift!' before they did! I don't know how that custom got started but people were still doing that even after we got married in 1948."
Special Christmas in Oklahoma
(s/o Louis Preston Jobe, gs/o Oma Louis Jobe, gt gs/o Jesse Logan Jobe, 2nd gt gs/o Abraham S. Jobe, 3rd gt gs/o Logan Jobe, 4th gt gs/o Elisha Jobe, 5th gt gs/o Enoch Job(e) Jr., 6th gt gs/o Enoch Job Sr., 7th gt gs/o Joshua Job)
"When I was 6 (almost 7) my brother David (age 8) and I got full football uniforms for Christmas, including helmet and pads. Other kids in the neighborhood had them, too, so we really had a great time playing football. We were so excited to get them that we went to Mamaw and Papaw Jobe's to show them--we stayed the night (they lived close by). Papaw and Mamaw (Oma and Florence Jobe) had twin beds. David and I slept with Papaw, with our uniforms on--helmets and all!--in that twin bed. Papaw wasn't a big man, but still--one man and two kids in full football gear, that's a lot for one bed!"
