Snowy, snowy night

 Early on a snowy morn

Johnclarestokes 

Mamma never tired of telling how her brother Kermit drove her to St Luke’s Hospital from Crumpler to Bluefield in a Saturday night storm on icy snow covered roads, how Kermit, the Andy Ford car salesman who liked to imbibe a bit beyond moderation, how they made it at some point over the narrow mountain switchbacks past Pinnacle Rock where Luke had proposed some few years earlier, made it to room 301 where the boy, named for a United Methodist Bishop John Branscomb and a District Superintendent Clare Cotton came into this life at 9:25AM January  30th on a Sunday of 1955, weighing 6-15 3/4 pounds and all 20 inches by Dr Foweres, who wasn’t imbibed, who got the date right, unlike the doctor who delivered Clara Jean in October though he thought September.

Uncle Kermit Orander on the right with Grandfather Richard Orander by the 47 Kaiser. Richard owned a busline from Crumpler to Northfork which mainly carried miners.