Individual Details
Naomi Ielene Stump
(November 12, 1923 - )
"Memories of Ielene (Stump) Edmonson - I was born in Missouri and grew up on a farm where we had real food to eat. We grew our own vegetables and raised our own meat. Very little came from the grocery store. I remember a few times when Daddy took animals to market he would bring back a stalk of bananas. That was a real treat. On Christmas we got one orange in our Christmas stocking. Mamma made the dresses for us girls out of printed flour sacks. They were really very nice. Seems Mamma could do just about everything., bake, cook, sew, garden, etc. She also worked in the field. We all got that job. And if there was no special work to be done we GOT to pick up rocks.
"After graduating from Jasper High School I went to Springfield, Missouri to business college. From there I went to work for the Frisco Railroad. That was the place to work in Springfield. While working I managed to save over $800. which was a lot of money in those days.
"I married in November of 1945 and moved to Bremerton, Washington where Jim's family lived. They too, were from Springfield but went to Bremerton to work for the Naval Shipyard. The $800 was used to make a down payment on our first house. That house cost $4200. It was on the outskirts of Bremerton. We didn't have money to furnish it much. In the dining room we had a very old card table from Jim's mom and for chairs we had a stump and an apple box. For a refrigerator we had another apple box that we nailed to the back of the house. Can't imagine that keeping foods now. We had an oil stove to cook on. We lived there a year and sold it for the same price we paid for it. The same people still live there today. They have fixed it really nice.
"Then we moved to house #2 which was downtown Bremerton. It cost $4500. (This is for history only.) It was an older house in the older part of town. The first thing we did was cut the monster shrubs in front of the house. The garage was a drive-in into the basement. There were lots of steps in front and back of this house. In the year of 1949 Mamma and Virginia came out to see us. It was in April. We had the biggest earthquake we have had since I have been out here. We were having lunch at the time. We were all very frightened. Half of us ran out the front of the house and half out the back of the house. The neighbor's chimney tell smack dab behind Mamma on our sidewalk. After it was over and we were back in the house we finished our SHAKING TUNA sandwiches. Al learned to walk that day. He was 13 months old. Must have been the earthquake.
"We sold that house and moved to house #3 which was about halfway between the first and second house in a country neighborhood. It was a very narrow lot, but was 200 feet deep. In the back we had a yard, then a garden and then we had a large berry patch. It was good to have real live food from the garden again. One day we were out in the garden working and Al was helping us. He was very small. I noticed he kept putting something in his pockets. I asked him what it was. He answered, 'urms." He was putting worms in his pockets. That house cost $7200.
"In 1955 Jim got transferred from his job at Puget Sound Power & Light to Bellevue. We bought a brand new house about 5 miles from Bellevue for $13,000. Bellevue was growing like crazy in those days because of Boeing Airplane Company. We lived there for 8 years and then moved to downtown Bellevue where Jim could walk to work. That was in 1962. We are still in that same house. Bellevue has grown like you wouldn't believe. We paid $18,750 for this house then and today it would sell in a week for at least $250,000. (Again this is for history.)
"When I was fifty years old I had never had a birthday party so I decided it was about time I did. I had open house for my birthday and had friends from 9:00am to 9:00pm. It was really a fun day. And my little Teddy helped me celebrate. I loved my two little Poms.
" "The Button Lady" - - I started playing with buttons several years ago. I do Christmas bazaars in the fall at different locations. It's fun. I really like creating artsy things.
"Al got his first job when he was in High School delivering the Bellevue newspaper. With his first pay check he bought me a tea pot for my birthday. He bought his first wheels - a Vespa scooter. The decal on the front of the scooter tells you he is a scuba diver. The little car he had when he was in Spokane in the Air Force he purchased from another service man. He used to drive home about every other weekend to get his clothes washed and get a good meal. Al was killed in a one car accident at age 29. We miss him a lot.
"After Jeannie finished college she started teaching and has taught in the Primary department for 24 years. She taught at Forks, Washington on the coast for many years. She is now about 45 minutes from us which we like a lot better. She inherited PURDY from a neighbor. She lives on a lake. In the summer she and Purdy go swimming in the lake. She puts a dog life saver on Purdy in case she gets too tired. Purdy is even allowed to visit the classroom one day a week. The kids love her.
"Back to the farm - Daddy really enjoyed farming. His farm was always so neat. I remember one farm near Jasper that had a creek running through it just below the barn and there were lots of trees along the creek. Daddy trimmed all the trees up to nine feet. It looked just like a park. I remember once when a church baptized some of their people in Daddy's creek.
"Daddy loved music. He sang a lot. His favorite song was "The Yellow Rose of Texas." He also played the harmonica and whistled a lot. Another thing he did was when us kids were studying at night he liked to read our books." (Ielene (Stump) Edmonson, 10638 NE 14th, Bellevue, Washington 98004, 425-454-1943, email: jojo4@earthlink.net>, January 2001.)
"After graduating from Jasper High School I went to Springfield, Missouri to business college. From there I went to work for the Frisco Railroad. That was the place to work in Springfield. While working I managed to save over $800. which was a lot of money in those days.
"I married in November of 1945 and moved to Bremerton, Washington where Jim's family lived. They too, were from Springfield but went to Bremerton to work for the Naval Shipyard. The $800 was used to make a down payment on our first house. That house cost $4200. It was on the outskirts of Bremerton. We didn't have money to furnish it much. In the dining room we had a very old card table from Jim's mom and for chairs we had a stump and an apple box. For a refrigerator we had another apple box that we nailed to the back of the house. Can't imagine that keeping foods now. We had an oil stove to cook on. We lived there a year and sold it for the same price we paid for it. The same people still live there today. They have fixed it really nice.
"Then we moved to house #2 which was downtown Bremerton. It cost $4500. (This is for history only.) It was an older house in the older part of town. The first thing we did was cut the monster shrubs in front of the house. The garage was a drive-in into the basement. There were lots of steps in front and back of this house. In the year of 1949 Mamma and Virginia came out to see us. It was in April. We had the biggest earthquake we have had since I have been out here. We were having lunch at the time. We were all very frightened. Half of us ran out the front of the house and half out the back of the house. The neighbor's chimney tell smack dab behind Mamma on our sidewalk. After it was over and we were back in the house we finished our SHAKING TUNA sandwiches. Al learned to walk that day. He was 13 months old. Must have been the earthquake.
"We sold that house and moved to house #3 which was about halfway between the first and second house in a country neighborhood. It was a very narrow lot, but was 200 feet deep. In the back we had a yard, then a garden and then we had a large berry patch. It was good to have real live food from the garden again. One day we were out in the garden working and Al was helping us. He was very small. I noticed he kept putting something in his pockets. I asked him what it was. He answered, 'urms." He was putting worms in his pockets. That house cost $7200.
"In 1955 Jim got transferred from his job at Puget Sound Power & Light to Bellevue. We bought a brand new house about 5 miles from Bellevue for $13,000. Bellevue was growing like crazy in those days because of Boeing Airplane Company. We lived there for 8 years and then moved to downtown Bellevue where Jim could walk to work. That was in 1962. We are still in that same house. Bellevue has grown like you wouldn't believe. We paid $18,750 for this house then and today it would sell in a week for at least $250,000. (Again this is for history.)
"When I was fifty years old I had never had a birthday party so I decided it was about time I did. I had open house for my birthday and had friends from 9:00am to 9:00pm. It was really a fun day. And my little Teddy helped me celebrate. I loved my two little Poms.
" "The Button Lady" - - I started playing with buttons several years ago. I do Christmas bazaars in the fall at different locations. It's fun. I really like creating artsy things.
"Al got his first job when he was in High School delivering the Bellevue newspaper. With his first pay check he bought me a tea pot for my birthday. He bought his first wheels - a Vespa scooter. The decal on the front of the scooter tells you he is a scuba diver. The little car he had when he was in Spokane in the Air Force he purchased from another service man. He used to drive home about every other weekend to get his clothes washed and get a good meal. Al was killed in a one car accident at age 29. We miss him a lot.
"After Jeannie finished college she started teaching and has taught in the Primary department for 24 years. She taught at Forks, Washington on the coast for many years. She is now about 45 minutes from us which we like a lot better. She inherited PURDY from a neighbor. She lives on a lake. In the summer she and Purdy go swimming in the lake. She puts a dog life saver on Purdy in case she gets too tired. Purdy is even allowed to visit the classroom one day a week. The kids love her.
"Back to the farm - Daddy really enjoyed farming. His farm was always so neat. I remember one farm near Jasper that had a creek running through it just below the barn and there were lots of trees along the creek. Daddy trimmed all the trees up to nine feet. It looked just like a park. I remember once when a church baptized some of their people in Daddy's creek.
"Daddy loved music. He sang a lot. His favorite song was "The Yellow Rose of Texas." He also played the harmonica and whistled a lot. Another thing he did was when us kids were studying at night he liked to read our books." (Ielene (Stump) Edmonson, 10638 NE 14th, Bellevue, Washington 98004, 425-454-1943, email: jojo4@earthlink.net>, January 2001.)
Events
| Birth | November 12, 1923 | Lockwood, Dade County, Missouri | |||
| Marriage | November 24, 1945 | James Edward "Jim" Edmonson |
Families
| Spouse | James Edward "Jim" Edmonson ( - ) |
| Child | Allen Edward Edmonson (1948 - 1977) |
| Child | Jean Ann Edmonson (1951 - ) |
| Father | Allen Stump (1896 - 1975) |
| Mother | Sadie Myrtle Polston (1907 - 1974) |
| Sibling | Harlin Arthur Stump (1925 - ) |
| Sibling | Virginia Mae Stump (1926 - ) |
| Sibling | Alice Berniece Stump (1927 - ) |
| Sibling | Floyd Carl Stump (1929 - ) |
| Sibling | Reba Lois Stump (1931 - ) |
| Sibling | Wanda Lou Stump (1937 - ) |
| Sibling | Wilford Allen Stump (1946 - 1946) |