Lee David DETHROW, the son of the late Eli David DETHROW and Dallas ARNOLD DETHROW, was born June 21, 1906 in the Piney Community near Alton, Missouri, and departed this life July 29, 1985 at his home, Alton, Missouri, at the age of 79 years, 1 month, and 8 days. On July 30, 1924, he was united in marriage to Nora Etta BENNETT at Alton, Missouri. To his union two children were born.
He was a member of Alton Freewill Baptist Church and Alton Lodge No. 255 A.F. & A.M. He lived in the Piney Community until 1961 when they moved to Alton, Missouri. He worked for the Missouri Highway Department and has driven a motor grader over most of the Oregon County roads. He served as Associated Judge for the Northern District of Oregon County for six years. Interment was at Cave Springs Cemetery, Alton, Missouri, under the direction of Carter Funeral Home of Thayer, Missouri.
Grace Dethrow Gamet, remembered the following [taken with permission from her autobiography for her 90th birthday]
Brother Lee, 3 years my junior, and Haston, who is 18 months younger than Lee, we were buddies always! Lee was the jolly one, and so sloppy with his clothes when he was younger- shoelaces dragging, shirt tail out...Not Haston. He was so neat. He would bribe me to starch his overalls. He'd pay me with peanuts, and he was the quiet one, and one who liked to fight. When he was a teenager he'd go with Papa to the sales - with brass knuckles or ones taken from our old tubs, and fight, until one day he got the hell beat out of him - - black eyes...He just laughed and said, "No more fights". He also was a good horseman. He and Lee had goats, and Papa would kill a goat and Mama would make fried goat sandwiches and they would sell them and bags of peanuts until they made enough money to buy their new Sears saddles. They ordered them and then Papa made them get rid of the goats. Then they got pigs. The goats were taking over the pastures, but they gave plenty of wool.
Another time us kids - me 12, Lee 10- had to knock corn stalks down with along big stick -20 acres of them. We worked from early morning to night for a week. We would pass the time singing - Church songs and all the other songs we learned at school. And we had good loud voices. Our neighbors liked to hear us, so they said. When we got through after a week, we prayed, and we shouted like they did at church. We never forgot that day! Mr. and Mrs. Hays heard us and said it sounded like a Revival Meeting. I have always thought I was the one who got Lee singing, in our County until the day he died. He as the leader in Church and all, as he was one of the best for 50 years.
And one time a big Revival meeting was going on at Cotton Creek, and Papa would not go or let us go; he said the horses were too tired and he said the car needed gas. Well, we measured the gas. He didn't know about it. And Lee says, "we will slip out when they go to bed and back the car down the hill, and GO. Well, next afternoon Oliver Hays and his Pa came and Papa says," You all been to meeting? Is it good?" My heart was in my mouth, and Mr. Hays says, "Why don't you ask Grace and Lee? They were there last night." About that time I hit Oliver's horse and he bolted, and they all forgot about the meeting. We also laughed about that lots of times. My dear, dear brothers, oh how I wish they were here. I miss Lee more than anyone. When I had a bad day or would feel sad I'd call him on the phone, and he would make me laugh.
Oh, one thing that was fun when Lee was courting Nora: I was home on a visit, and he says, "Help me write Nora a real hot love letter", so I did and it was a corker. And I told her about it many years later, and she just laughed and went to get it and show it to me! Nora was so good and kind to me always when I was there. I could write a 100-page book on Lee, Haston and me. We used to sing on the front porch all the time."
He was a member of Alton Freewill Baptist Church and Alton Lodge No. 255 A.F. & A.M. He lived in the Piney Community until 1961 when they moved to Alton, Missouri. He worked for the Missouri Highway Department and has driven a motor grader over most of the Oregon County roads. He served as Associated Judge for the Northern District of Oregon County for six years. Interment was at Cave Springs Cemetery, Alton, Missouri, under the direction of Carter Funeral Home of Thayer, Missouri.
Grace Dethrow Gamet, remembered the following [taken with permission from her autobiography for her 90th birthday]
Brother Lee, 3 years my junior, and Haston, who is 18 months younger than Lee, we were buddies always! Lee was the jolly one, and so sloppy with his clothes when he was younger- shoelaces dragging, shirt tail out...Not Haston. He was so neat. He would bribe me to starch his overalls. He'd pay me with peanuts, and he was the quiet one, and one who liked to fight. When he was a teenager he'd go with Papa to the sales - with brass knuckles or ones taken from our old tubs, and fight, until one day he got the hell beat out of him - - black eyes...He just laughed and said, "No more fights". He also was a good horseman. He and Lee had goats, and Papa would kill a goat and Mama would make fried goat sandwiches and they would sell them and bags of peanuts until they made enough money to buy their new Sears saddles. They ordered them and then Papa made them get rid of the goats. Then they got pigs. The goats were taking over the pastures, but they gave plenty of wool.
Another time us kids - me 12, Lee 10- had to knock corn stalks down with along big stick -20 acres of them. We worked from early morning to night for a week. We would pass the time singing - Church songs and all the other songs we learned at school. And we had good loud voices. Our neighbors liked to hear us, so they said. When we got through after a week, we prayed, and we shouted like they did at church. We never forgot that day! Mr. and Mrs. Hays heard us and said it sounded like a Revival Meeting. I have always thought I was the one who got Lee singing, in our County until the day he died. He as the leader in Church and all, as he was one of the best for 50 years.
And one time a big Revival meeting was going on at Cotton Creek, and Papa would not go or let us go; he said the horses were too tired and he said the car needed gas. Well, we measured the gas. He didn't know about it. And Lee says, "we will slip out when they go to bed and back the car down the hill, and GO. Well, next afternoon Oliver Hays and his Pa came and Papa says," You all been to meeting? Is it good?" My heart was in my mouth, and Mr. Hays says, "Why don't you ask Grace and Lee? They were there last night." About that time I hit Oliver's horse and he bolted, and they all forgot about the meeting. We also laughed about that lots of times. My dear, dear brothers, oh how I wish they were here. I miss Lee more than anyone. When I had a bad day or would feel sad I'd call him on the phone, and he would make me laugh.
Oh, one thing that was fun when Lee was courting Nora: I was home on a visit, and he says, "Help me write Nora a real hot love letter", so I did and it was a corker. And I told her about it many years later, and she just laughed and went to get it and show it to me! Nora was so good and kind to me always when I was there. I could write a 100-page book on Lee, Haston and me. We used to sing on the front porch all the time."
Lee David DETHROW, the son of the late Eli David DETHROW and Dallas ARNOLD DETHROW, was born June 21, 1906 in the Piney Community near Alton, Missouri, and departed this life July 29, 1985 at his home, Alton, Missouri, at the age of 79 years, 1 month, and 8 days. On July 30, 1924, he was united in marriage to Nora Etta BENNETT at Alton, Missouri. To his union two children were born.
He was a member of Alton Freewill Baptist Church and Alton Lodge No. 255 A.F. & A.M. He lived in the Piney Community until 1961 when they moved to Alton, Missouri. He worked for the Missouri Highway Department and has driven a motor grader over most of the Oregon County roads. He served as Associated Judge for the Northern District of Oregon County for six years. Interment was at Cave Springs Cemetery, Alton, Missouri, under the direction of Carter Funeral Home of Thayer, Missouri.
Grace Dethrow Gamet, remembered the following [taken with permission from her autobiography for her 90th birthday]
Brother Lee, 3 years my junior, and Haston, who is 18 months younger than Lee, we were buddies always! Lee was the jolly one, and so sloppy with his clothes when he was younger- shoelaces dragging, shirt tail out...Not Haston. He was so neat. He would bribe me to starch his overalls. He'd pay me with peanuts, and he was the quiet one, and one who liked to fight. When he was a teenager he'd go with Papa to the sales - with brass knuckles or ones taken from our old tubs, and fight, until one day he got the hell beat out of him - - black eyes...He just laughed and said, "No more fights". He also was a good horseman. He and Lee had goats, and Papa would kill a goat and Mama would make fried goat sandwiches and they would sell them and bags of peanuts until they made enough money to buy their new Sears saddles. They ordered them and then Papa made them get rid of the goats. Then they got pigs. The goats were taking over the pastures, but they gave plenty of wool.
Another time us kids - me 12, Lee 10- had to knock corn stalks down with along big stick -20 acres of them. We worked from early morning to night for a week. We would pass the time singing - Church songs and all the other songs we learned at school. And we had good loud voices. Our neighbors liked to hear us, so they said. When we got through after a week, we prayed, and we shouted like they did at church. We never forgot that day! Mr. and Mrs. Hays heard us and said it sounded like a Revival Meeting. I have always thought I was the one who got Lee singing, in our County until the day he died. He as the leader in Church and all, as he was one of the best for 50 years.
And one time a big Revival meeting was going on at Cotton Creek, and Papa would not go or let us go; he said the horses were too tired and he said the car needed gas. Well, we measured the gas. He didn't know about it. And Lee says, "we will slip out when they go to bed and back the car down the hill, and GO. Well, next afternoon Oliver Hays and his Pa came and Papa says," You all been to meeting? Is it good?" My heart was in my mouth, and Mr. Hays says, "Why don't you ask Grace and Lee? They were there last night." About that time I hit Oliver's horse and he bolted, and they all forgot about the meeting. We also laughed about that lots of times. My dear, dear brothers, oh how I wish they were here. I miss Lee more than anyone. When I had a bad day or would feel sad I'd call him on the phone, and he would make me laugh.
Oh, one thing that was fun when Lee was courting Nora: I was home on a visit, and he says, "Help me write Nora a real hot love letter", so I did and it was a corker. And I told her about it many years later, and she just laughed and went to get it and show it to me! Nora was so good and kind to me always when I was there. I could write a 100-page book on Lee, Haston and me. We used to sing on the front porch all the time."
He was a member of Alton Freewill Baptist Church and Alton Lodge No. 255 A.F. & A.M. He lived in the Piney Community until 1961 when they moved to Alton, Missouri. He worked for the Missouri Highway Department and has driven a motor grader over most of the Oregon County roads. He served as Associated Judge for the Northern District of Oregon County for six years. Interment was at Cave Springs Cemetery, Alton, Missouri, under the direction of Carter Funeral Home of Thayer, Missouri.
Grace Dethrow Gamet, remembered the following [taken with permission from her autobiography for her 90th birthday]
Brother Lee, 3 years my junior, and Haston, who is 18 months younger than Lee, we were buddies always! Lee was the jolly one, and so sloppy with his clothes when he was younger- shoelaces dragging, shirt tail out...Not Haston. He was so neat. He would bribe me to starch his overalls. He'd pay me with peanuts, and he was the quiet one, and one who liked to fight. When he was a teenager he'd go with Papa to the sales - with brass knuckles or ones taken from our old tubs, and fight, until one day he got the hell beat out of him - - black eyes...He just laughed and said, "No more fights". He also was a good horseman. He and Lee had goats, and Papa would kill a goat and Mama would make fried goat sandwiches and they would sell them and bags of peanuts until they made enough money to buy their new Sears saddles. They ordered them and then Papa made them get rid of the goats. Then they got pigs. The goats were taking over the pastures, but they gave plenty of wool.
Another time us kids - me 12, Lee 10- had to knock corn stalks down with along big stick -20 acres of them. We worked from early morning to night for a week. We would pass the time singing - Church songs and all the other songs we learned at school. And we had good loud voices. Our neighbors liked to hear us, so they said. When we got through after a week, we prayed, and we shouted like they did at church. We never forgot that day! Mr. and Mrs. Hays heard us and said it sounded like a Revival Meeting. I have always thought I was the one who got Lee singing, in our County until the day he died. He as the leader in Church and all, as he was one of the best for 50 years.
And one time a big Revival meeting was going on at Cotton Creek, and Papa would not go or let us go; he said the horses were too tired and he said the car needed gas. Well, we measured the gas. He didn't know about it. And Lee says, "we will slip out when they go to bed and back the car down the hill, and GO. Well, next afternoon Oliver Hays and his Pa came and Papa says," You all been to meeting? Is it good?" My heart was in my mouth, and Mr. Hays says, "Why don't you ask Grace and Lee? They were there last night." About that time I hit Oliver's horse and he bolted, and they all forgot about the meeting. We also laughed about that lots of times. My dear, dear brothers, oh how I wish they were here. I miss Lee more than anyone. When I had a bad day or would feel sad I'd call him on the phone, and he would make me laugh.
Oh, one thing that was fun when Lee was courting Nora: I was home on a visit, and he says, "Help me write Nora a real hot love letter", so I did and it was a corker. And I told her about it many years later, and she just laughed and went to get it and show it to me! Nora was so good and kind to me always when I was there. I could write a 100-page book on Lee, Haston and me. We used to sing on the front porch all the time."
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