Wade Howard and Minerva Blankenship Howser

This was Vadie Howser Hanes parents, Garnets grandparents.

Around 1943 Mary Minerva Angeline (I called her Mammie) lived with us. She liked for me to comb her hair. She told me her hair had never been cut. When she sat on a chair it reached the floor. Most of the time she wore it in a ball type roll on the back of her head. I got a comb intangled in her hair while I was combing it. My mother thought she was going to cut the comb out. We continued to work and finally got the comb out of her hair. I don't remember combing her hair again after that.

- Story from Ovie Dell Simmons(Garnet and Ovie Dell would be first cousins, their mothers were sisters)