My Story
Sue’s Story , a writing in progress. I know I was born at Stouder Memorial Hospital in Troy, Ohio. The first house I lived in was on the property of where my parents used to live, Grandma and Grandpa Cassell lived across from Great Grandpa Harley ( my Grandpa Harley Ditmer). The blue barn is where the their house was then and the current house is where their barn was at that time. I was just close enough to Aunt Mabel ( my mother’s only living sister) and Grandpa Harley’s house that I could run down the road to their house anytime I got upset with my mommy. I knew where they lived. I lived there with mom and dad until I was three years old, then we moved to what we called “Five Points”, one mile just north of Phillipsburg on route 49. We lived back a long quarter mile lane on a large farm that my daddy farmed for our land-lady, Mrs. Lolie Thomas. She lived in town and when we went with daddy to pay rent, she would give us homemade sugar cookies. Yum! Two and one half years late