Growing up in Protection

Posting a photo from 1957. My cousins, Neil Wymer and Abe Evelyn Friesen standing on a stack of concrete forms on a trailer being pulled by our 1951 Chevrolet station wagon. The forms were to be used to form the walls of the basement of the house that was being moved from a farm outside Meade, Kansas to our new property that was located east of Dodge City on the Ft. Dodge Rd.

photo of Nila Price and Julie Price.. Julie Price and Gayle Petty at the Protection Pool. posted by Julie Price Herd.

Here are several photos of the old service station located on Broadway in Protection, Kansas. 1st photo from sometime in 1964 or later..

I now have one copy of the Comanche County History Book that was published in 1981. I also have a copy of the Vol II of the Comanche County History Book that was published in 2007. I will look up and post information on your family that is in these books if you email me.
Wendell Melrose [email protected]
My family (Mrs. Ruth Anna (Wymer) Melrose and my sisters
(my twin, Patricia) lived on N. Madison Street across from the Holler and the Morton families from abt. 1946 until we moved
to Dodge City during the summer of 1956. Our mother, Mrs. Hugh H. Melrose, was a WWII widow. She operated the Melrose Photography Studio in the front living room of our house for most of the years we lived in Protection. Our mom also was the photographer that took the elementary school class photos. Ruth graduated from Protection High School in 1932. Ruth's husband, Hugh Melrose was a soldier in the U.S. Army''s 90th Division, 357th Inf. Reg., Co. G. He was Killed In Action in Normandy, France several days after the D Day landings on June 6, 1944. Ruth never remarried.
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Photo posted by Julie Herd several days ago. Patricia Shaw , Charlotte Eubank and Carmen Edmonston. That guy on the right kind of looks like David Leeper. in front of Jones Drug Store on Broadway. date abt. 1954

posted by Gayle Petty Harris Harden 9 April 2020

Kathy Webster Vickers and Ron Verita Larrick
Back in the day.....We got spirit, yes we do!
Lol!
from the top down
Betty Jantzen and Pat White
Verita Jellison and Carol Selzer
Kathy Webster and Gayle Petty
Vickie Williams