Violet's parents were homesteaders, in Bryantine, Harding County, New Mexico. They lived in a dugout for the first few years and Violet and her older brother were both born in the dugout. They had a few cattle, and they would gather dried "cow chips" to use for fires.
The Post Office was at their place for a while and one day, feeling sorry for all the people without mail, Violet divided it up equally so that everyone would have something in his or her boxes.
Violet and her first husband Walter Kuykendall were married on Sunday 3 October 1926. They were married on a new car bridge across the Canadian River, which was the highest bridge in the United States until the Royal Gorge Bridge was finished the next year. They probably did this partly because of the novelty of it and partly because of the circuit minister's (the Logan Circuit Rider) area ended at the county line, which was the middle of the river.
Violet was only twenty-seven when Walter died in 1937, leaving her with two daughters that were eight and ten years old. She lost her father (who had been a widower for six years) three months after she lost her husband, so she packed up her daughters and left Tucumcari, moving to Oklahoma. Her daughters stayed with her sister Polly and brother-in-law Ernie in Woodward, Oklahoma, while she attended beauty school in Enid. After graduating, she opened a beauty shop first in Enid and then in Fairview, Oklahoma.
About a year later, they moved to Oakland, California and stayed with friends. While there, Violet answered an ad in a "Lovelorn" magazine, corresponding with and then marrying a man named Forrest Bitler. They were married in Reno, Nevada on 28 November 1939. They lived in Reno, Nevada where Forest was a painter, and Violet owned and operated a beauty shop for nineteen years.
Violet had been sick and had gone to different doctors who told her it was just a virus or the flu, etc. She was finally diagnosed with ovarian cancer a year later, but it had already metastasized. She lived one more year and then died when she was forty-eight years old.
Please note, there is a cenotaph for Violet in the Tucumcari Memorial Park.
The Post Office was at their place for a while and one day, feeling sorry for all the people without mail, Violet divided it up equally so that everyone would have something in his or her boxes.
Violet and her first husband Walter Kuykendall were married on Sunday 3 October 1926. They were married on a new car bridge across the Canadian River, which was the highest bridge in the United States until the Royal Gorge Bridge was finished the next year. They probably did this partly because of the novelty of it and partly because of the circuit minister's (the Logan Circuit Rider) area ended at the county line, which was the middle of the river.
Violet was only twenty-seven when Walter died in 1937, leaving her with two daughters that were eight and ten years old. She lost her father (who had been a widower for six years) three months after she lost her husband, so she packed up her daughters and left Tucumcari, moving to Oklahoma. Her daughters stayed with her sister Polly and brother-in-law Ernie in Woodward, Oklahoma, while she attended beauty school in Enid. After graduating, she opened a beauty shop first in Enid and then in Fairview, Oklahoma.
About a year later, they moved to Oakland, California and stayed with friends. While there, Violet answered an ad in a "Lovelorn" magazine, corresponding with and then marrying a man named Forrest Bitler. They were married in Reno, Nevada on 28 November 1939. They lived in Reno, Nevada where Forest was a painter, and Violet owned and operated a beauty shop for nineteen years.
Violet had been sick and had gone to different doctors who told her it was just a virus or the flu, etc. She was finally diagnosed with ovarian cancer a year later, but it had already metastasized. She lived one more year and then died when she was forty-eight years old.
Please note, there is a cenotaph for Violet in the Tucumcari Memorial Park.
Violet's parents were homesteaders, in Bryantine, Harding County, New Mexico. They lived in a dugout for the first few years and Violet and her older brother were both born in the dugout. They had a few cattle, and they would gather dried "cow chips" to use for fires.
The Post Office was at their place for a while and one day, feeling sorry for all the people without mail, Violet divided it up equally so that everyone would have something in his or her boxes.
Violet and her first husband Walter Kuykendall were married on Sunday 3 October 1926. They were married on a new car bridge across the Canadian River, which was the highest bridge in the United States until the Royal Gorge Bridge was finished the next year. They probably did this partly because of the novelty of it and partly because of the circuit minister's (the Logan Circuit Rider) area ended at the county line, which was the middle of the river.
Violet was only twenty-seven when Walter died in 1937, leaving her with two daughters that were eight and ten years old. She lost her father (who had been a widower for six years) three months after she lost her husband, so she packed up her daughters and left Tucumcari, moving to Oklahoma. Her daughters stayed with her sister Polly and brother-in-law Ernie in Woodward, Oklahoma, while she attended beauty school in Enid. After graduating, she opened a beauty shop first in Enid and then in Fairview, Oklahoma.
About a year later, they moved to Oakland, California and stayed with friends. While there, Violet answered an ad in a "Lovelorn" magazine, corresponding with and then marrying a man named Forrest Bitler. They were married in Reno, Nevada on 28 November 1939. They lived in Reno, Nevada where Forest was a painter, and Violet owned and operated a beauty shop for nineteen years.
Violet had been sick and had gone to different doctors who told her it was just a virus or the flu, etc. She was finally diagnosed with ovarian cancer a year later, but it had already metastasized. She lived one more year and then died when she was forty-eight years old.
Please note, there is a cenotaph for Violet in the Tucumcari Memorial Park.
The Post Office was at their place for a while and one day, feeling sorry for all the people without mail, Violet divided it up equally so that everyone would have something in his or her boxes.
Violet and her first husband Walter Kuykendall were married on Sunday 3 October 1926. They were married on a new car bridge across the Canadian River, which was the highest bridge in the United States until the Royal Gorge Bridge was finished the next year. They probably did this partly because of the novelty of it and partly because of the circuit minister's (the Logan Circuit Rider) area ended at the county line, which was the middle of the river.
Violet was only twenty-seven when Walter died in 1937, leaving her with two daughters that were eight and ten years old. She lost her father (who had been a widower for six years) three months after she lost her husband, so she packed up her daughters and left Tucumcari, moving to Oklahoma. Her daughters stayed with her sister Polly and brother-in-law Ernie in Woodward, Oklahoma, while she attended beauty school in Enid. After graduating, she opened a beauty shop first in Enid and then in Fairview, Oklahoma.
About a year later, they moved to Oakland, California and stayed with friends. While there, Violet answered an ad in a "Lovelorn" magazine, corresponding with and then marrying a man named Forrest Bitler. They were married in Reno, Nevada on 28 November 1939. They lived in Reno, Nevada where Forest was a painter, and Violet owned and operated a beauty shop for nineteen years.
Violet had been sick and had gone to different doctors who told her it was just a virus or the flu, etc. She was finally diagnosed with ovarian cancer a year later, but it had already metastasized. She lived one more year and then died when she was forty-eight years old.
Please note, there is a cenotaph for Violet in the Tucumcari Memorial Park.
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