Wednesday, October 2, 2019
I have many wonderful memories of my brother Stan. I still have the program for the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra concert he took me to in Iowa City in April 1959, about a month before I graduated from high school in Ferguson, Iowa. We heard pieces by Bach, Stravinsky, and Brahms.
Music was one of his many talents. He sang in a men's quartet when he was in high school, and the members were all from the Ferguson area: Clyde Speas, David Rockhill, and Marvin Cooper, and Stan.
My keepsakes include a newspaper picture of him in the Marshalltown Times-Republican, March 26, 1945. He had won the Marshall County Spelling Contest. For now I will share a photo of him on his rocking horse, probably taken in early 1933.
