Older generation and masquerades

Lyman County, South Dakota Genealogy

The older generation

    MaryAnn and Charlie Rogers celebrated their 40th anniversary Sunday, 1998. Ed and I passed our 40th in March. Marjo (Fletcher) Crain was in the office the other day and the subject came up. Seems 40th anniversaries were running rampant last year for us Reliance people ... she and Maurice, Patty (Fletcher) and Donnie Weber, Helen (Schelle) and Skip Sievers, just to name a few we knew. (Probably Don and Bonnie Schindler) My gosh, times they are a'changin'.      Suddenly, or was it all of a sudden, we're the older generation! Our children are adults with children, some who are practically grown themselves. We have gray hair, or in some cases, and I won't mention any names, almost no hair. Now we're at the age where some of the people we grew up with are leaving us, physically, as well as spiritually. Well, let's get a little maudlin here and do the "life is so short" thing, shall we?
     I can remember it as well, as if it were yesterday, the day one of my teachers was talking about the year 2000. There was no doubt in my mind that I would never live to see that day and here it comes. Just think, in five -ten years our great-grandchildren will be staring at us in amazement that we actually lived "back in the 1900s"!
     According to my lifeline, I should live to be about 90. I assumed that meant a healthy old age. Forgot to pay attention to the good health part of life. When I think of old age, I think along the lines of still being ambulatory and still able to put together a reasonable sentence. Not contributing to the value of the stock in a diaper company that many of the old birds depend on.

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