ME
Born
AS AN ADULT
Eyes: green
Hair: dark until age 52, then gray
Weight: 170 pounds - 225 pounds
Height: 6 feet & 0 inches
November 1944: Received my Social Security
Account Number.
22 May 1946: Received military Motor Vehicle
Operator’s Permit for driving a passenger car and a 4 ¾ ton cargo truck.
Jan - May 1947: Attended the Business
Administration School,
September 1947: Received
EYE: My left eye is visually crossed, a
small amount. The left eye of my mother was also slightly crossed. I have seen
the same in descendants.
GLASSES: I started wearing corrective lens
in 1948 and progressed to tri-focal lens.
At different times I have enjoyed the
following hobbies:
Genealogy
Stamp Collecting
Square Dancing
Coin Collecting
Photography
Gardening/landscaping
May 1968: I started the hobby of genealogy,
motivated by a desire to communicate to my deaf son, Gary Dale Speed. I wanted
to communicate to him as clearly as possible information about his relatives
and ancestors. A written record and charts was the best and easiest way to
explain.
1992: The Speed Book that has been referred
to in family history is a book that Blanche Ormond Speed gave to Noble Desmond
Speed and has been passed on to his male heirs. The book is a rare publication:
"Records and Memorials of The Speed Family, collected and prepared for
publication by Thomas Speed in 1892". As of this date I have not been able
to trace our ancestors to any of the families in that book.
