Nelson Bradford
19th November 2005, 05:03 PM (17:03)
Several weeks ago - or less - Hans mentioned some pictures I posted quite some time ago of my godly father, H. P. Bradford who left us in April of 2002 to meet my Dear Mother in heaven and the Jesus he had served for more than 70 years.
After my mother’s passing in Jan 2000, my identical twin sister - there’s a joke there - moved in to help dad, for he was, at the time 90 years old. And with her came her Mac.
Being a PC kinda guy I’ve never forgiven her for that. But that’s another story for another time.
Dad noticed Nancy receiving/sending E-mails and therefore became interested. So she set up a block of E-mail addresses for him - all his kids and grandkids and even his nephew, my 1st cousin.
Now please bear in mind this was a man who remembered seeing his first airplane. He bought his first car for $25 and a used bicycle. And had an 8th grade education.
But he was interested so Nancy helped him. He never was very good at punctuation - even those hand written letters from him had that familiar note at the bottom, where he’d add an entire row of periods and commas and semicolons and tell us to put them wherever we thought they were necessary.
He then sat down and wrote out the E-mail - by hand - so he’d know what to punch into the computer.
And my sister had her camera ready for this “family history” making event.
Here’s the first picture - him keying in the words - one letter at a time - now remember, he had to first FIND the letter on the keyboard!
After my mother’s passing in Jan 2000, my identical twin sister - there’s a joke there - moved in to help dad, for he was, at the time 90 years old. And with her came her Mac.
Being a PC kinda guy I’ve never forgiven her for that. But that’s another story for another time.
Dad noticed Nancy receiving/sending E-mails and therefore became interested. So she set up a block of E-mail addresses for him - all his kids and grandkids and even his nephew, my 1st cousin.
Now please bear in mind this was a man who remembered seeing his first airplane. He bought his first car for $25 and a used bicycle. And had an 8th grade education.
But he was interested so Nancy helped him. He never was very good at punctuation - even those hand written letters from him had that familiar note at the bottom, where he’d add an entire row of periods and commas and semicolons and tell us to put them wherever we thought they were necessary.
He then sat down and wrote out the E-mail - by hand - so he’d know what to punch into the computer.
And my sister had her camera ready for this “family history” making event.
Here’s the first picture - him keying in the words - one letter at a time - now remember, he had to first FIND the letter on the keyboard!