Family Friday returns to Secondary Roads.  I have told you about my siblings, Sylvia and her siblings and our parents.

Today, I want to tell you the little bit I know about my my paternal grandfather, Frank LeRoy Hutchinson.  Grandpa Frank was born May 19, 1887 in Vassar Township of Tuscola County, Michigan.  Between 1900 and 1910 his parents moved to Pioneer Township in Missaukee County.  It was there he met my paternal grandmother.  They were married on November 3, 1913 in Lake City, Michigan.

The two met because her folks were bee keepers and his folks wanted to get into that business.  Grandma told us of how he would come courting on his big white horse.  “That was such a beautiful animal, I really loved that impressive creature” she would recall.  She also added, “Sometimes he had trouble catching the horse, so he’d walk two hours to visit me.  He always did have his ‘queers’.”

From the photo album

My dad, center rear, shown with some siblings and Grandpa Frank who encourages an uncooperative dog to pose

Great grandpa Elmer, me, Grandpa Frank and Dad – 1940

Grandpa Frank, the hunter, prepares to get some meat for the table in 1942

I didn’t know my paternal grandfather very well.  I started kindergarten as WWII was ending.  Shortly after that, these grandparents moved a couple of hundred miles away.  Nevertheless, we would visit them a few times each year.

Grandpa Frank passed away in July of 1975 at age 88.  Sylvia and I were living in Ecuador, South America at the time.

What about your family?  I invite you to share family stories be they humorous anecdotes, fables, foibles or history.  I’ll be doing that regularly on Fridays again and invite you to leave a link to your Family  Friday post.  Use the linky that follows