My name is Virginia Call Christensen. Call is my maiden name and Christensen is my married name. Mom & Dad said that my siblings named me. My nick name is Ginny. That's the name I go by. I've never liked the name Virginia. I was only called Virginia when I was in trouble or by those who didn't know me, calling roll etc. Mom used to call me "Ginger Peaches". Larry & Mary still call me that. I was born on Oct. 14, 1950, in North Ogden, Utah, where my dad was selling insurance for Prudential. I was born on Vivian's 12 birthday. I was the 6th of 7 children born to Williard Vivian Call and Melba Farnsworth Call. Lois, Vivian, Bill (Willard Farnsworth) Mary Leah, Evelyn and Ronnie (Ronald Fanrsworth) are my siblings.....just a note about them.....they are the best, the finest, the funnest, the kindest, wisest, most loving people on planet earth. We have an undying love & loyalty for each other. I feel very lucky have the brothers and sisters that I do. I used to think every family was this way, but I've learned that it's a rare thing to have the family bond that we do. We were living in North Ogden where my dad was employed by Prudential Insurance Company.
We moved from North Ogden to Pocatello Id. in about 1952. The address was 1839 East Clark. I think I was about 2 year old. The house was huge (in my 2-5 year old brain). My earliest memory was of me crying, asking where my mommy was. I was told she was in the hospital having a new baby boy. Vivian was also in the hospital with a bad case of hepititus. I remember being a very insecure child, but I adored baby Ronnie, 2 and a half years younger than me.
We had 7 kids in the family, their ages ranaging from 15--new born. Lois and Vivi were very active in school and very popular, so we always had a housefull of teenagers ever. Mom especially thrived on the commotion and fun. these friendships have lasted a lifetime for our family. We went to church at the Caldwell Park Building in the middle of town. I remember walking home from church one Sunday with Evelyn. She told me we needed to pick some beautiful flowers for Mom, which we did. We got into serious trouble from Dad we he found out that we had raided someone's flower garden and he took us back to the lady's house who they belonged to and made us apologize. That was my first memory of repentence"....and the first of many of Evy's shananigans.
These was the days of party lines. We picked up the phone and told the operator what number we wanted dialed. I don't remember our number, but I remember our friends' , the Petersens number......5240J "Please". They lived diagonally behind us. They had 5 kids, all the same ages as Bill, Mary, Evy, Mary & Ronnie. They were Bucky, Linda, Margo, Brucy (he was my best friend) and Roger--Roger was born on Jun 29th, the same day as Ronnie. I have lots of memories with that family. The kids were a bit spoiled, but we loved them. We always bragged about how smart and cute Ronnie was & they would brag about Roger.
I remember throwing rocks in a vacant lot by our house and hitting Brucy in the head. He bled pretty bad and had to get stitches--I felt so bad about it. Linda spent the night at our house one night and mom accidently threw her bedtime blandet away. (Mom said she thought it was an old rag). She couldn't sleep at all for weeks.
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