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Husband
James Clarence Titsworth
Born
Place
27 Jun 1906
Muskogee, Indian Territory Oklahoma, , USA
Died
Place
4 Oct 1984
Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Buried
Place
8 Oct 1984
Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Married
Place
6 Oct 1930 (Div)
Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Other Spouse
Gladys Mae Thomas
Married
Place
Sep 1947
, , Arkansas, USA
Husband's father
James Alfred Titsworth
Husband's mother
Myrtle Eletha Sparks
Wife
Artie Melvina Sinor
Born
Place
21 Sep 1914
Gamaliel, Baxter, Arkansas, USA
Died
Place
18 Jun 1972
San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
Buried
Place
21 Jun 1972
San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
Other Spouse
Melborne John Hollis
Married
Place
1953
San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
Wife's father
Miles Calep Sinor
Wife's mother
Theodoshia Ernest Gist
Children
List each child in order of birth.
Marian Marguaritte Titsworth
1 
F
Born
Place
24 Dec 1931
Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Spouse
Linney Dexter Jr. Hale
Married
Place
31 Aug 1948 (Div)
Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Spouse
Robert Leroy Stevens
Married
Place
21 Dec 1965 (Div)
El Cajon, San Diego, California, USA
Spouse
Robert Francis Dingman
Married
Place
21 Dec 1972
San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
Baby Boy Titsworth
2 
M
Born
Place
1933
Died
Place
1933
James Phillip Titsworth
3 
M
Born
Place
3 Oct 1936
Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Died
Place
1 Feb 2002
Tulsa, Tulsa, oklahoma, USA
Buried
Place
13 Feb 2002
Tulsa, Tulsa, oklahoma, USA
Spouse
Minnie Sue Carson
Married
Place
Feb 1955 (Div)
Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Robert Dean Titsworth
4 
M
Born
Place
11 Aug 1944
Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Spouse
Cathy Tompkin
Married
Place
Jun 1963 (Div)
San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
Spouse
Christine Anne Mary Stefaniak
Married
Place
29 Jul 2010
Notes
HUSBAND
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James Clarence Titsworth
JAMES CLARENCE TITSWORTH
Clarence as he became known, was born 27 June 1906 in Kefton, Oklahoma, Muskogee County when Oklahoma was 
still Indian Territory.  He was the second child, first son of James Alfred and Myrtle Eletha Sparks Titsworth.

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Husband
James Clarence Titsworth
Wife
Artie Melvina Sinor
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HUSBAND
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James Clarence Titsworth
(Continued)
Clarence as he became known, was born 27 June 1906 in Kefton, Oklahoma, Muskogee County when Oklahoma was 
still Indian Territory.  He was the second child, first son of James Alfred and Myrtle Eletha Sparks Titsworth.
Unfortunately, Clarence wasn't much to tell stories of his childhood days.  From what his oldest sister, Effie Wicket has 
told me there were many hardships.  The family moved from Madison County, Arkansas in 1905 looking for those 
greener pastures.  Alfred searched many years for a better life, but with little education and no skills it was difficult to 
do much more than share-crop for a living and a place to live.
The earliest picture found of Clarence was of the 2nd grade class in Hominy Oklahoma.  He was a tall boy with lots of 
blond hair and tended to show-off a bit for the picture.  The earliest school records found, May 15, 1924, show he 
graduated from the eighth grade at age 17 at Checotah, Oklahoma finishing in the upper half of his class.  These 
records show he was a very good student, well mannered and his best subjects were math and science.  His grades 
were in the 80 and 90's.
Records from Onapa Oklahoma school district #24 & #25 for 1925 and 26 show Clarence, along with brothers Charlie, 
LeRoy and Deward, sister Dollie still in school.  He graduated in 1928 in Napa, Oklahoma.
Farming was all the trade he knew and in the late 1920's and early 1930's times were very hard.  The depression was 
in full swing and what work there was to be found for Clarence was very hard.  All the children had to help on the farm 
and the older boys "followed the crops" to earn money for the necessities of life for the family of nine.
In 1927 in Mounds, Oklahoma a younger sister of Clarence, Dolly Irene, brought a friend  "Ruby Sinor" home with her 
from school.  After a few visits, Clarence took a "shine" to this shy little girl from Arkansas.
Clarence had earned enough money "haying" to buy his first car, a Model T Ford with a rumble seat.  He and brother 
Charlie would take their girls on a date.  When Clarence went with the crops in the fall he would leave his car with 
Charlie to care for and use.  Rubsy went "out" with Charlie in Clarence's car while he was gone. Grandmother, Myrtle 
use to delight in tellling the story at a family gathering.  Both Ruby and Aunt Bessie were shy, even after many years of 
marriage and would blush.  This was a sure way to cause a time of teasing and conversation full of memories, some 
real and some imagined for quite a while.  Grandmother had quite a good sense of humor and was much fun to be with.  
A loving mother and grandmother who was loved by all her family, including the daughter-in- laws.
Clarence and Ruby were married in Tulsa on 6 October 1930.  Ruby stated her age as 18 and was really only 16 years 
old.  Clarence was 24 years old. They were married by the Justice of the Peace, Samuel Crossland.  Ruby's real name 
was Artie Melvina but disliked her name and changed it to Ruby when the Sinor family moved to Oklahoma from 
Arkansas.
Clarence had a job in Tulsa as a Clerk in the Produce Section of a small Grocery Store.  They rented an apartment 
over the store with very low rent if they would watch the store at night and keep it clean.  I have heard daddy say that 
the workers of each section in the store would exchange items of food so every one would have a more ballanced diet.  
The over- ripe fruit and vegetables would be exchanged for cracked eggs, soup bones, meat trimmings, broken boxes 
or bent cans.   Times was hard and they felt lucky to have a job, roof over their heads and food on the table.
April 1933 Clarence went to work for the Board of Education in Tulsa to learn the Roofing trade where he later became 
foreman and worked until November 1946 when he and mother separated and he came to California.  He came back 
to Tulsa, February 1947 and worked at the Board of Education in the Maintenance Deptartment until October 1951 
when he started his own roofing business.
After he went to work for the Board of Education we moved from the little apartment on West Admiral.  Mother said we 
lived there only one winter and I had pneumonia and the doctor advised they move out of the damp basement to a 
drier place.  Ruby found a little three-room house for rent at $15.00 a month at 1406 W. Archer, just a couple blocks 
from their current place.
After showing the little house to Clarence and discussing the high rent they decided to rent it because it was clean and 
warm with a yard.
Daddy had a good steady job and things were looking up for the family.
Sometime between 1933 and 1935 there was a still-born son.  Then in 1936 a son James Phillip was born.  This 
beautiful healthy baby was welcome to the household.
On September 1, 1939 the owner of the little houses on Archer Street decided to sell and offered it to the renters with 
no money down and a promissary note of $810.00 payablae at the same as their rent, $15.00 per month at 7% intrest 
rate.  (B1348 Pg 300 Overlook Park two lots from a group of owners including Ray Trimble). Paid in full on 30 April 
1944.  This is the only home I remember from early childhood and I was married on August 31, 1948 in the living room 
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Wife
Artie Melvina Sinor
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James Clarence Titsworth
(Continued)
of this home.  Over the years daddy had built a new kitchen, added a bedroom, closets, modern bath a screened in 
porch. He covered the pine floors with hardwood. He removed the large front porch with two front doors and made a 
new modern porch with only one entry.
In 1937 my parents joined the Hagler Methodist Church and Clarence was a deacon in the Church also taught Sunday 
School to a class of young boys.  He was always good with kids, especially his own.  I remember many tender 
moments with my Daddy.  He was a man with emotions, compassionate and not afraid to show his love.  He was able 
to communicate with his family.  He could make me laugh at myself and made me know my self-worth.  He taught me 
to not be afraid to make a decision and to express my thoughts.  He helped me learn to accept my mistakes and profit 
by them.  He instilled self confidence and was a great help through my adolescence years.  He was a man with much 
love and understanding.
On 14 February 1940 a picture and article in the Tulsa Daily World shows the Young Married People's Group at Hagler 
Memorial Church with their leader, J. C. Titsworth and other officers.
On Sept 22, 1940 an article and picture appeared in the Tulsa Tribune showing J.Clarence Titsworth, Roofing foreman 
with other School Board Members inspecting the roof of Daniel Webster High School in West Tulsa.
In early 1941 Clarence and Ruby joined the Home Garden Assembly Of God Church in Sand Springs, Okla.  Daddy 
felt he had a "calling" to preach in th rural churches and his family began to suffer from many long absences.
On August 11, 1944, in Tulsa, Oklahoma a second son, Robert Dean was born.
He was a beautiful child who brought lots of happiness to the family especially his older sister, Marian.
About a year after Bobby was born, there began a current of marital problems developing in the home. On 3 February 
1947 Clarence and Ruby were divorced in Tulsa, Okla.  I remember a man who was broken in spirit and who had lost 
the family who was very dear to him.
On September of 1947 Clarence married Gladys Thomas, a life time resident of Tulsa.   He left the Board of Education 
in 1948 started a roofing business of his own.  They lived in Tulsa eventually buying a duplex on South St. Louis.  In 
February 1978 Clarence suffered a serious stroke and spent the rest of his life in a Convalescent Hospital in Tulsa.
Clarence died 4 October 1984 in Tulsa, Oklahoma with his wife, Gladys at his side.  He was buried at Memorial Park 
Cemetery grave lot 4 grave 3 in the Thomas plot on Oct 8th 1984.  His wife was Gladys Thomas Titsworth and they 
had a section of graves for many years.
A sad ending for a man who was strong, hard working, honest, yet tender, loving, gentle and kind to all who knew him.
WIFE
-
Artie Melvina Sinor
    Ruby as she became known to family and friends, was born on 21 September 1914 in Gamaliel, Boyou Township 
Baxter County, Arkansas.  She was the third child and daughter of Miles Kalep Sinor and Theodoshia Ernest Gist 
Sinor.  She had two older Sisters, Elsie Perlina and Betty Jo, who later was known as Mary Lou.  Two brothers, Lewis 
Lidell and Robert Lee and another daughter Leta Elzoria were born after her.
      Artie (Ruby) Melvina Sinor
Mother, (Ruby) told of moving very often as a child. Seems my grandmother (Doshia) was never happy in one place for 
very long.  Maybe they moved often because when the owner found they were living rent free in one of his houses they 
had to move on.  Mother remembered they would load all their belongings into a wagon and tie the cow to the back 
and drive until they found another empty house and move in.  These were depression days and lots of people without 
jobs and lots of empty houses in the country around Mountain Home, Arkansas.
Mother told once that her mother was sweeping the yard, when a man drove up and ask her if she lived there and she 
said "yes" and he ask if she was paying rent and to whom, she told him "no", they didn't know who owned the the 
house.  The man told her, "I own the house, but you can stay here since you are taking such good care of the place."  
Mother said it was the nicest house they had ever lived in, with two stories and enough room for the large family.
They lived in the Mountain Home area until she was about eleven years old. Mother spoke of her Grandfather as 
Daddy George (Sinor) and her favorite uncle was Uncle John and his wife Aunt Crickett Sinor.  Mother stopped to visit 
them in 1960 and my brother, Robert Dean found out where he got his special shade of blue eyes from.  Uncle John 
Sinor!
The family of Miles and Doshia were very poor.  Miles was a farmer and they never bought any land to settle on and 
accumulate possessions.  It appears that the Sinor family were not poor when Miles married Doshia.  He posted a 
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Wife
Artie Melvina Sinor
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Artie Melvina Sinor
(Continued)
bond of one hundred dollars prior to the marriage in Baxter County, Arkansas.  HIs uncle, Randolph D. Sinor was 
witness to the bond.
Mother told of life in the Mountain Home area and among the tales was the time she learned to swim.  The kids would 
swing on grape vines that grew in the trees out over the river in the area, trying to swing back to the river bank.  Mother 
was quite young and wanted to swing but could not swim.  The older kids told her to hang on and she would come 
back to the bank, well the vine broke in the middle of the river and she had to learn to swim real quick!  She said they 
would go blackberry picking and gathered other wild fruit which her mother canned and made into pies and cobblers.  
They always had a garden and grandmother canned for winters.
Mother said they never had an icebox only the spring or well to keep food from spoiling.  They would put the milk, 
butter, etc., into jars and set them in the shallow area that her dad would make in the spring and the cool water would 
flow through to keep things cool.  Most food was eaten the day it was prepared and not leftovers like today.  Milk was 
fresh everyday as was butter and eggs.  They always had a cow and some chickens and a pig or two for extra meat.  
Meat was salted, dried and smoked to keep from spoiling. She use to say if it hadn't been for beans and potatoes they 
would have starved.  So many mouth's to feed.
For most of her very young years she and Sister Mary Lou had to share a pair of shoes in the winter.  One child going 
to school one week, and the other wearing the shoes the next week.  She and Mary Lou only got about the third grade 
education in her childhood.  They each further educated themselves as adults.
In 1927 the family of Miles and Doshia moved to Okmulgee, Oklahoma where Miles' family had moved to.  Miles got a 
job working for the County tearing down and removing old bridges for the highway department with a team and wagon.  
While working he stuck a nail in his foot and developed Tetunis.  After a long illness, they removed his leg but it was to 
late to save his life.  He died in Okmulgee City Hospital on 17 Oct 1927.  Mother was 12 years old.
Mother said grandmother lost her pension when she married a widower with a number of children a short time later.  
The marriage didn't last very long mostly because of the boys fighting.
Her mother and the children were living around Beggs, Oklahoma in 1928.  Mother had met a girl at school named 
Dollie Titsworth who took her home a few times.  My mother met Dollie's big brother, Clarence and he took a "shine" to 
this little gal from Arkansas.  They were married 6 Oct 1930 in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her sister Elsie Pearson as a 
witness to the marriage.  Artie stated she was 18 years old but was really only 16.
My father was Produce manager of a small grocery store and they received a discount on the upstairs apartment to 
also be security for the store.  On 24 December 1931 in that small apartment, their first child, a daughter Marian 
Marguaritte was born.  My grandmother, Myrtle Titsworth was there to assist Dr. P.G. Murray in the delivery.  I was told 
many times that this little girl was all they had for Christmas and they felt blessed.
My daughter, Anita Ness has the first piece of furniture that my parents bought, a gateleg table they used to eat on.  
She said they gave $10.00 for it, a great sum for the young couple.  It now has been refinished and sits proudly in the 
foyer of Anita's home.
Sometime between, 1932 and 1935 mother had a stillborn son.  The exact date and place of burial is not known.  The 
family never talked about it.  I do not remember going to the cemetery, but I was very young.  On 3 October 1936 at 
Flower Hospital, a strong healthy son, James Phillip was born.  On 11 August 1944 another son, Robert Dean was 
born and big sister was sure mother had him just for her pleasure.  Mother had a very difficult delivery and was sick for 
a number of months after his birth.
On 3 February 1947, Mother and Daddy divorced. It was a sad day in their children's lives.  After that Mother moved to 
Norfolk, Virginia where her sister, Mary Lou lived and stayed their one year.  After moving back to Tulsa and finally to 
Long Beach, California for a number of years, she spent all of her later years as a resident of California.
In 1952, mother went back to school taking a retail salesmanship class at Long Beach City College, trying to provide a 
better life for herself and young son, Bobby Dean.  On 3 April 1953 Ruby married M.J. (Bud) Hollis, a career Navy man, 
in Long Beach, California.  His career took them to San Diego in 1955 and except for a year in Florida, they were in 
San Diego after that time.  In November of 1956 they purchased their first home together at 6550 Cartwright St., San 
Diego, Ca.  My brother Bobby Dean and his wife now own this home and many memories are relived when the family 
visits.
In 1960-61 Mother went back to school again taking a class in Composition at Hoover-Crawford Adult School, getting 
honorable mention on her diploma.
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Artie Melvina Sinor
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WIFE
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Artie Melvina Sinor
(Continued)
By 1965 mother and Bud had divorced and she again needed to find employment. She soon realized she needed a 
better educaton and in 1967 went to Grossmont Adult school and received her much desired high school diploma.  
She wanted to get into the medical field and in 1968-69 she took a nursing education class at Grossmont College to 
become a Nurses Aid.  During that time she was employed at University Hospital, San Diego as an Inhalation Therapy 
Lab Assistant.  A Class for Inhalation Therapy Technician was started at University Hospital she applied and was 
accepted as a student and completed her course in 1970.  She was 55 years old that June, she had came a long way 
from the little girl from Arkansas with the third grade education.  She became a Inhalation Therapy Lab Technician and 
worked at University Hospital, San Diego until her death in 1971.
In the summer of 1970, Mother and Bud made a trip to Alaska to visit me and the family and she had many firsts on 
that trip.  First time on an island, Annette Island, Alaska, first time flying in a sea plane and walking the beach of Alaska 
beachcombing for artifacts that washed up.  We went to the island of Ketchikan by sea plane and home by fishing boat.  
She took many memories back to San Diego.
In January of 1972 she became very ill, had emergency surgery for gall- bladder and a few months later diagnosed 
with cancer of the Pancreas and died in her home on Cartwright on 18 June 1972 with her two children, Marian and 
Bobby Dean and husband Bud Hollis at her side.  She was 57 years old.
Mother tried to live a Christian life, was a very good mother and I believe a good wife.  Bud Hollis and she were 
remarried on 15 June 1972 at their home.
This history was written by her daughter, Marian M. Titsworth Dingman on 13 June 1993.
DEATH: 6550 Cartwright, 
BURIED: El Camino Cemetery S.D. California
    Ruby as she became known to family and friends, was born on 21 September 1914 in Gamaliel, Boyou Township 
Baxter County, Arkansas.  She was the third child and daughter of Miles Kalep Sinor and Theodoshia Ernest Gist 
Sinor.  She had two older Sisters, Elsie Perlina and Betty Jo, who later was known as Mary Lou.  Two brothers, Lewis 
Lidell and Robert Lee and another daughter Leta Elzoria were born after her.
      Artie (Ruby) Melvina Sinor
Mother, (Ruby) told of moving very often as a child. Seems my grandmother (Doshia) was never happy in one place for 
very long.  Maybe they moved often because when the owner found they were living rent free in one of his houses they 
had to move on.  Mother remembered they would load all their belongings into a wagon and tie the cow to the back 
and drive until they found another empty house and move in.  These were depression days and lots of people without 
jobs and lots of empty houses in the country around Mountain Home, Arkansas.
Mother told once that her mother was sweeping the yard, when a man drove up and ask her if she lived there and she 
said "yes" and he ask if she was paying rent and to whom, she told him "no", they didn't know who owned the the 
house.  The man told her, "I own the house, but you can stay here since you are taking such good care of the place."  
Mother said it was the nicest house they had ever lived in, with two stories and enough room for the large family.
They lived in the Mountain Home area until she was about eleven years old. Mother spoke of her Grandfather as 
Daddy George (Sinor) and her favorite uncle was Uncle John and his wife Aunt Crickett Sinor.  Mother stopped to visit 
them in 1960 and my brother, Robert Dean found out where he got his special shade of blue eyes from.  Uncle John 
Sinor!
The family of Miles and Doshia were very poor.  Miles was a farmer and they never bought any land to settle on and 
accumulate possessions.  It appears that the Sinor family were not poor when Miles married Doshia.  He posted a 
bond of one hundred dollars prior to the marriage in Baxter County, Arkansas.  HIs uncle, Randolph D. Sinor was 
witness to the bond.
Mother told of life in the Mountain Home area and among the tales was the time she learned to swim.  The kids would 
swing on grape vines that grew in the trees out over the river in the area, trying to swing back to the river bank.  Mother 
was quite young and wanted to swing but could not swim.  The older kids told her to hang on and she would come 
back to the bank, well the vine broke in the middle of the river and she had to learn to swim real quick!  She said they 
would go blackberry picking and gathered other wild fruit which her mother canned and made into pies and cobblers.  
They always had a garden and grandmother canned for winters.
Mother said they never had an icebox only the spring or well to keep food from spoiling.  They would put the milk, 
butter, etc., into jars and set them in the shallow area that her dad would make in the spring and the cool water would 
flow through to keep things cool.  Most food was eaten the day it was prepared and not leftovers like today.  Milk was 
fresh everyday as was butter and eggs.  They always had a cow and some chickens and a pig or two for extra meat.  
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James Clarence Titsworth
Wife
Artie Melvina Sinor
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WIFE
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Artie Melvina Sinor
(Continued)
Meat was salted, dried and smoked to keep from spoiling. She use to say if it hadn't been for beans and potatoes they 
would have starved.  So many mouth's to feed.
For most of her very young years she and Sister Mary Lou had to share a pair of shoes in the winter.  One child going 
to school one week, and the other wearing the shoes the next week.  She and Mary Lou only got about the third grade 
education in her childhood.  They each further educated themselves as adults.
In 1927 the family of Miles and Doshia moved to Okmulgee, Oklahoma where Miles' family had moved to.  Miles got a 
job working for the County tearing down and removing old bridges for the highway department with a team and wagon.  
While working he stuck a nail in his foot and developed Tetunis.  After a long illness, they removed his leg but it was to 
late to save his life.  He died in Okmulgee City Hospital on 17 Oct 1927.  Mother was 12 years old.
Mother said grandmother lost her pension when she married a widower with a number of children a short time later.  
The marriage didn't last very long mostly because of the boys fighting.
Her mother and the children were living around Beggs, Oklahoma in 1928.  Mother had met a girl at school named 
Dollie Titsworth who took her home a few times.  My mother met Dollie's big brother, Clarence and he took a "shine" to 
this little gal from Arkansas.  They were married 6 Oct 1930 in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her sister Elsie Pearson as a 
witness to the marriage.  Artie stated she was 18 years old but was really only 16.
My father was Produce manager of a small grocery store and they received a discount on the upstairs apartment to 
also be security for the store.  On 24 December 1931 in that small apartment, their first child, a daughter Marian 
Marguaritte was born.  My grandmother, Myrtle Titsworth was there to assist Dr. P.G. Murray in the delivery.  I was told 
many times that this little girl was all they had for Christmas and they felt blessed.
My daughter, Anita Ness has the first piece of furniture that my parents bought, a gateleg table they used to eat on.  
She said they gave $10.00 for it, a great sum for the young couple.  It now has been refinished and sits proudly in the 
foyer of Anita's home.
Sometime between, 1932 and 1935 mother had a stillborn son.  The exact date and place of burial is not known.  The 
family never talked about it.  I do not remember going to the cemetery, but I was very young.  On 3 October 1936 at 
Flower Hospital, a strong healthy son, James Phillip was born.  On 11 August 1944 another son, Robert Dean was 
born and big sister was sure mother had him just for her pleasure.  Mother had a very difficult delivery and was sick for 
a number of months after his birth.
On 3 February 1947, Mother and Daddy divorced. It was a sad day in their children's lives.  After that Mother moved to 
Norfolk, Virginia where her sister, Mary Lou lived and stayed their one year.  After moving back to Tulsa and finally to 
Long Beach, California for a number of years, she spent all of her later years as a resident of California.
In 1952, mother went back to school taking a retail salesmanship class at Long Beach City College, trying to provide a 
better life for herself and young son, Bobby Dean.  On 3 April 1953 Ruby married M.J. (Bud) Hollis, a career Navy man, 
in Long Beach, California.  His career took them to San Diego in 1955 and except for a year in Florida, they were in 
San Diego after that time.  In November of 1956 they purchased their first home together at 6550 Cartwright St., San 
Diego, Ca.  My brother Bobby Dean and his wife now own this home and many memories are relived when the family 
visits.
In 1960-61 Mother went back to school again taking a class in Composition at Hoover-Crawford Adult School, getting 
honorable mention on her diploma.
By 1965 mother and Bud had divorced and she again needed to find employment. She soon realized she needed a 
better educaton and in 1967 went to Grossmont Adult school and received her much desired high school diploma.  
She wanted to get into the medical field and in 1968-69 she took a nursing education class at Grossmont College to 
become a Nurses Aid.  During that time she was employed at University Hospital, San Diego as an Inhalation Therapy 
Lab Assistant.  A Class for Inhalation Therapy Technician was started at University Hospital she applied and was 
accepted as a student and completed her course in 1970.  She was 55 years old that June, she had came a long way 
from the little girl from Arkansas with the third grade education.  She became a Inhalation Therapy Lab Technician and 
worked at University Hospital, San Diego until her death in 1971.
In the summer of 1970, Mother and Bud made a trip to Alaska to visit me and the family and she had many firsts on 
that trip.  First time on an island, Annette Island, Alaska, first time flying in a sea plane and walking the beach of Alaska 
beachcombing for artifacts that washed up.  We went to the island of Ketchikan by sea plane and home by fishing boat.  
She took many memories back to San Diego.
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Husband
James Clarence Titsworth
Wife
Artie Melvina Sinor
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Notes
WIFE
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Artie Melvina Sinor
(Continued)
In January of 1972 she became very ill, had emergency surgery for gall- bladder and a few months later diagnosed 
with cancer of the Pancreas and died in her home on Cartwright on 18 June 1972 with her two children, Marian and 
Bobby Dean and husband Bud Hollis at her side.  She was 57 years old.
Mother tried to live a Christian life, was a very good mother and I believe a good wife.  Bud Hollis and she were 
remarried on 15 June 1972 at their home.
This history was written by her daughter, Marian M. Titsworth Dingman on 13 June 1993.
DEATH: 6550 Cartwright, 
BURIED: El Camino Cemetery S.D. California
    Ruby as she became known to family and friends, was born on 21 September 1914 in Gamaliel, Boyou Township 
Baxter County, Arkansas.  She was the third child and daughter of Miles Kalep Sinor and Theodoshia Ernest Gist 
Sinor.  She had two older Sisters, Elsie Perlina and Betty Jo, who later was known as Mary Lou.  Two brothers, Lewis 
Lidell and Robert Lee and another daughter Leta Elzoria were born after her.
      Artie (Ruby) Melvina Sinor
Mother, (Ruby) told of moving very often as a child. Seems my grandmother (Doshia) was never happy in one place for 
very long.  Maybe they moved often because when the owner found they were living rent free in one of his houses they 
had to move on.  Mother remembered they would load all their belongings into a wagon and tie the cow to the back 
and drive until they found another empty house and move in.  These were depression days and lots of people without 
jobs and lots of empty houses in the country around Mountain Home, Arkansas.
Mother told once that her mother was sweeping the yard, when a man drove up and ask her if she lived there and she 
said "yes" and he ask if she was paying rent and to whom, she told him "no", they didn't know who owned the the 
house.  The man told her, "I own the house, but you can stay here since you are taking such good care of the place."  
Mother said it was the nicest house they had ever lived in, with two stories and enough room for the large family.
They lived in the Mountain Home area until she was about eleven years old. Mother spoke of her Grandfather as 
Daddy George (Sinor) and her favorite uncle was Uncle John and his wife Aunt Crickett Sinor.  Mother stopped to visit 
them in 1960 and my brother, Robert Dean found out where he got his special shade of blue eyes from.  Uncle John 
Sinor!
The family of Miles and Doshia were very poor.  Miles was a farmer and they never bought any land to settle on and 
accumulate possessions.  It appears that the Sinor family were not poor when Miles married Doshia.  He posted a 
bond of one hundred dollars prior to the marriage in Baxter County, Arkansas.  HIs uncle, Randolph D. Sinor was 
witness to the bond.
Mother told of life in the Mountain Home area and among the tales was the time she learned to swim.  The kids would 
swing on grape vines that grew in the trees out over the river in the area, trying to swing back to the river bank.  Mother 
was quite young and wanted to swing but could not swim.  The older kids told her to hang on and she would come 
back to the bank, well the vine broke in the middle of the river and she had to learn to swim real quick!  She said they 
would go blackberry picking and gathered other wild fruit which her mother canned and made into pies and cobblers.  
They always had a garden and grandmother canned for winters.
Mother said they never had an icebox only the spring or well to keep food from spoiling.  They would put the milk, 
butter, etc., into jars and set them in the shallow area that her dad would make in the spring and the cool water would 
flow through to keep things cool.  Most food was eaten the day it was prepared and not leftovers like today.  Milk was 
fresh everyday as was butter and eggs.  They always had a cow and some chickens and a pig or two for extra meat.  
Meat was salted, dried and smoked to keep from spoiling. She use to say if it hadn't been for beans and potatoes they 
would have starved.  So many mouth's to feed.
For most of her very young years she and Sister Mary Lou had to share a pair of shoes in the winter.  One child going 
to school one week, and the other wearing the shoes the next week.  She and Mary Lou only got about the third grade 
education in her childhood.  They each further educated themselves as adults.
In 1927 the family of Miles and Doshia moved to Okmulgee, Oklahoma where Miles' family had moved to.  Miles got a 
job working for the County tearing down and removing old bridges for the highway department with a team and wagon.  
While working he stuck a nail in his foot and developed Tetunis.  After a long illness, they removed his leg but it was to 
late to save his life.  He died in Okmulgee City Hospital on 17 Oct 1927.  Mother was 12 years old.
Mother said grandmother lost her pension when she married a widower with a number of children a short time later.  
The marriage didn't last very long mostly because of the boys fighting.
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Her mother and the children were living around Beggs, Oklahoma in 1928.  Mother had met a girl at school named 
Dollie Titsworth who took her home a few times.  My mother met Dollie's big brother, Clarence and he took a "shine" to 
this little gal from Arkansas.  They were married 6 Oct 1930 in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her sister Elsie Pearson as a 
witness to the marriage.  Artie stated she was 18 years old but was really only 16.
My father was Produce manager of a small grocery store and they received a discount on the upstairs apartment to 
also be security for the store.  On 24 December 1931 in that small apartment, their first child, a daughter Marian 
Marguaritte was born.  My grandmother, Myrtle Titsworth was there to assist Dr. P.G. Murray in the delivery.  I was told 
many times that this little girl was all they had for Christmas and they felt blessed.
My daughter, Anita Ness has the first piece of furniture that my parents bought, a gateleg table they used to eat on.  
She said they gave $10.00 for it, a great sum for the young couple.  It now has been refinished and sits proudly in the 
foyer of Anita's home.
Sometime between, 1932 and 1935 mother had a stillborn son.  The exact date and place of burial is not known.  The 
family never talked about it.  I do not remember going to the cemetery, but I was very young.  On 3 October 1936 at 
Flower Hospital, a strong healthy son, James Phillip was born.  On 11 August 1944 another son, Robert Dean was 
born and big sister was sure mother had him just for her pleasure.  Mother had a very difficult delivery and was sick for 
a number of months after his birth.
On 3 February 1947, Mother and Daddy divorced. It was a sad day in their children's lives.  After that Mother moved to 
Norfolk, Virginia where her sister, Mary Lou lived and stayed their one year.  After moving back to Tulsa and finally to 
Long Beach, California for a number of years, she spent all of her later years as a resident of California.
In 1952, mother went back to school taking a retail salesmanship class at Long Beach City College, trying to provide a 
better life for herself and young son, Bobby Dean.  On 3 April 1953 Ruby married M.J. (Bud) Hollis, a career Navy man, 
in Long Beach, California.  His career took them to San Diego in 1955 and except for a year in Florida, they were in 
San Diego after that time.  In November of 1956 they purchased their first home together at 6550 Cartwright St., San 
Diego, Ca.  My brother Bobby Dean and his wife now own this home and many memories are relived when the family 
visits.
In 1960-61 Mother went back to school again taking a class in Composition at Hoover-Crawford Adult School, getting 
honorable mention on her diploma.
By 1965 mother and Bud had divorced and she again needed to find employment. She soon realized she needed a 
better educaton and in 1967 went to Grossmont Adult school and received her much desired high school diploma.  
She wanted to get into the medical field and in 1968-69 she took a nursing education class at Grossmont College to 
become a Nurses Aid.  During that time she was employed at University Hospital, San Diego as an Inhalation Therapy 
Lab Assistant.  A Class for Inhalation Therapy Technician was started at University Hospital she applied and was 
accepted as a student and completed her course in 1970.  She was 55 years old that June, she had came a long way 
from the little girl from Arkansas with the third grade education.  She became a Inhalation Therapy Lab Technician and 
worked at University Hospital, San Diego until her death in 1971.
In the summer of 1970, Mother and Bud made a trip to Alaska to visit me and the family and she had many firsts on 
that trip.  First time on an island, Annette Island, Alaska, first time flying in a sea plane and walking the beach of Alaska 
beachcombing for artifacts that washed up.  We went to the island of Ketchikan by sea plane and home by fishing boat.  
She took many memories back to San Diego.
In January of 1972 she became very ill, had emergency surgery for gall- bladder and a few months later diagnosed 
with cancer of the Pancreas and died in her home on Cartwright on 18 June 1972 with her two children, Marian and 
Bobby Dean and husband Bud Hollis at her side.  She was 57 years old.
Mother tried to live a Christian life, was a very good mother and I believe a good wife.  Bud Hollis and she were 
remarried on 15 June 1972 at their home.
This history was written by her daughter, Marian M. Titsworth Dingman on 13 June 1993.
DEATH: 6550 Cartwright, 
BURIED: El Camino Cemetery S.D. California
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                                                         MEMORIES OF A GRANDMOTHER
                                                          
I was born 24 December 1931 AT 2:05 P.M on a Thursday at my parent's home located at 1544 E. First St., Tulsa, 
Oklahoma.  My Grandmother Titsworth was there to assist Dr. P.G. Murry in the delivery.  It was a hard delivery for my 
mother, I was born "breech".  My father was 25 yrs old when I was born and my mother was 17.  My Father was born 
June 27, 1906 Indian Territory Oklahoma and my Mother was born 21 Sept 1914 in Baxter Co. Arkansas.
My earliest memories are of living in a basement apartment, I have been told was on West Admiral St., in Tulsa.  I can 
still remember the damp smell and going down stairs that were dark and musty.  Mother said I was sick all winter we 
lived there with colds and brochitis.  I believe I was two years old that winter.  One spring day mother and I were taking 
a walk and Mother found this little 3 room house, with a very big yard, lots of big elm trees....For Rent!  Eager to get us 
out of the damp basement and for a yard for play and her garden, they rented this little house for $15.00 per month.  
On Sept. 1, 1939 they bought the house for $810.00, no down payment just the same $15.00 per month.
That house at 1406 West Archer was our family home for many years.  It was a white wood frame house with a long 
front porch, two front doors.  It had belonged to Dr. Trimble, a dentist who also owned the house east of us and a few 
other rentals.  Daddy took the long porch off and made a small one, took the extra front door off and put an extra 
window in the front bedroom.  He also painted the trim blue and put a picket fence around the front.  Later he added a 
new kitchen, extra bedroom and screen porch.  There was a beautiful red rose bush in front of the north bedroom 
window.  We always wore a red rose to church on Mother's Day.  I still love red roses.
We had a very large old oak tree on the west side of the house that kept the house nice and shady in the hot summers.  
My brother Jimmie played cars in the dirt where the grass would not grow under the tree.  We also had two smaller oak 
trees in the back yard that I believe Daddy planted after they bought the place.  We had long clothes lines to hang the 
wash on after we used a wringer washer and two #3 washtubs to wash and rinse the clothes every monday.  I have 
hung clothes up that froze as fast as I put them on the line.  They actually froze dry.  We had a line or two on the back 
porch to hang heavy things that had not dryed in the winter.  Until 1938 Mother had chickens each spring in a coop in 
the back yard.  These chickens often became our Sunday dinner's. I remember the little chicks were kept in the house 
by the kitchen stove when they were very young and until it got warm enough and they were big enough to put in the 
coop.
I have got up and found they had got out of the box and were all over the kitchen.  Mother would put them back and 
put them on the porch while we ate breakfast.
Each year about March an old black man came up the alley to the backyard with a team of horses and a plow to turn 
the ground where mother planted a very big garden.  What wasn't eaten was canned and saved for winter meals.  As 
soon as I was old enough I helped in what ever way my litle hands could.  I often got the job of washing the fruit jars 
that had been stored under the house as we emptied them the winter before. I was always afraid of the bugs that were 
in them.  We also went to the"Farmer's Market" and bought fruit by the bushel to can.  I learned to peel peaches, 
apples, pit apricots and other fruits very young.  I must admit I ate quite a bit as I went!!   Most summer mornings I 
would awaken to find Mother in the garden weeding and watering or perhaps picking for the days canning.  I remember 
sitting on the back porch step with a salt shaker and a couple very large ruby red tomatoes for a snack.  Oh, so good!!  
Daddy and Mother never let us go hungry or any one else who came to their home.  I am sure there were memories of 
many days in their childhood with not enough to eat.
There was a very large barrel, I guess a 50 gallon drum in our back yard next to the alley.  We had to burn our trash 
and there was a special bucket for garbage (no disposals in those days).  Some "old man" picked it up every few days 
to slop his hogs with, somewhere in the country.  I never much liked pork, I think because of this.
When I was about 8 years old my grandmother Titsworth made her annual visit to Oklahoma and always stayed at 
least a month with our family.  Mother and grandmother were sitting on the sofa one hot summer day with mother's 
scrap bag between them and piecing a quilt top.  I ask if I could make a quilt and grandmother said "sure you can" and 
began getting pieces together along with a needle and thread and showed me how to piece a quilt.  I made a quilt for 
my doll and used the Singer treddle sewing machine that summer to put it together.  That was the start of my love of 
sewing, expecially making quilts.  I didn't have a thimble and grandmother and mother took me to town  and bought a 
thimble and grandmother taught me to use it while sewing.  That is why I can make small stitches.  Later Mother taught 
me to embroidery.  She took an old sheet from the rag bag and make a scarf lenght and I hemmed it on the treddle 
sewoing machine and mother pressed it and put a design on it to embroidery.  She also taught me how to chrochet 
around the outside edge to complete the project.  I still love to embroidery and sew nearly every day 70 years later!
My favorite past-time was roller skating.  I had metal skates that clamped to your shoes and you would use a key 
(which you wore on a string around your neck) to tighted the clamps to your shoes to keep them on.  I would spend 
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hours skating up and down the hill.  After 1940 when Daddy put the new hardwood floors in our house, I would love to 
sneek in on the skates to the bathroom or for a drink of water.  In my teen's I went to a skating rink and loved it.  
Skating to music, that was tops.
Mother and Daddy had bou8ght me a piano, all winter long I took lessons and come spring I wanted to roller skate 
outside in the sunshine after school instead of practice.  One day Mother said she would sell the piano if I wouldn't 
practice, now I really wanted to keep the piano, I justed wanted to be outside for a few days because I had been 
indoors all winter with the cold weather but Mother didn't understand that I just needed a break and I was too young to 
explain.  So one day I came home from school and Mother had SOLD THE PIANO.  It was gone and I was crushed.  I 
never got another piano and to this day wish I had practiced.  I would love to be able to sit down and play the piano.
We had no television then but I remember the tall Philco radio that stood by Daddy's chair.  I would sit in my little red 
rocker and listen to W.S.M Nashville, The Grand Ole Opry with Daddy every Saturday night.  I am sure he would put 
me to bed when I fell asleep, but it was a big thrill to get to stay up with him for that special treat.  We also listened to "
Your Hit Parade" after I was about 12 years old.  I loved music and sang in the church choir from the time I was about 
10 years old.  Mother and I would sing while we did the dishes every evening, she was an alto and I sang soprano, 
what fun we had.  Now I like lots of kinds of music, from country to semi-classical, some light jazz and my favorite 
Broadway Musical music.
I had lots of paper dolls, we got in a book like a coloring book, with the dolls on the front cover and clothes we cut out.  
They had tabs to fold over the shoulders to hold the clothes on.  I would make furniture out of boxes and spools that 
thread came on. It took imagination and hours of fun.  I also had baby dolls and a Shirley Temple doll with china heads, 
a green wicker doll buggy that the Brazel boys broke running each other up and down the alley with one night.  I had a 
red rocking chair that grandmother Titsworth bought for me in 1936 to rock my new baby brother.  I always had a cat 
even though I was allergic to them and I use to dress them in doll clothes and push them around in my green baby 
buggy.  My how patient they were.  I was given a dog named Buster the summer Bobby Dean was born.
I had two brother's, James Phillip born Oct 3, 1936 and Robert Dean born August 11, 1944. I was 12 years old and 
was so excited to have a new baby in our house.  I had a "live doll".  He was a great joy to our family.  I remember my 
best friend, Greta Clark and I would take him everywhere we went.  We didn't have to, mind you, we just wanted to.  I 
became his "Sissie" and took him to the drug store to share our sodas or sundae.  I took many rolls of film on my box 
Kodak Brownie camera of him.  I also tried to keep my parents from correcting him, spoiling him awful I'm sure.  He 
was such a joy to me and I was much help to my mother, I am sure.  I took him to Carl, the barber at "Kays Corner" for 
his first hair cut and cried when the barber cut his curls.  I saved every one and put them in his Baby Book.
This house hold many good memories for me.  I remember our lovely neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stahl who lived next 
door for many years.  She was there when Jimmie Phil was born and took care of me while Mother was in the hospital. 
I remember her hiding her dishes under the sink and going to town to window shop with mother and I.  No dishwasher 
then, just a pan of hot water and a large sink in the kitchen.  There was the Brazel family on the corner, they had 2 
boys and a girl, Jerry, Gary and Mary.  Their father was a city bus driver.  We had a bus route that came up our street 
and stopped across the street from our house.  The bus made a loop, called the North Denver Loop, and ended back 
at "Kays Corner" at the foot of the hill a couple blocks from our house.  To the west was a rental house with a small 
rental on the back of the lot also.  That is where my friend Greta Clark lived when they first moved to Tulsa from 
Arkansas.  Next door to the rental was the Davis Grocery Store.  When I was very small, Harold Davis' mother owned 
and ran the store and when she became old and sick Harold and Linney took it over.  They lived in the small apartment 
in back for quite a while, then bought a house across the street from the store.  Harold was a ham radio operator and 
had a very big tower in his yard.  He helped during disasters and during the war (Korea) assisted families with radio-
phone patch for their boys stationed far away.   It was the elder Mrs. Davis who spread the rumor that I had smallpox 
instead of chickenpox (a very bad case of it) when I was about 8 year old.  What a crisis that caused in the 
neighborhood!  We had to be quarantined in those days even with chickenpox.  Harold and LInney had three children, 
Eddie about my age, Donna Lou, a couple years younger and Mary who was Jimmie Phil's age. All nice kids.  Across 
the street was the Seabolt's.  I don't remember their names but they had one son, Sammy who joined the Navy in 
World War II. and next door to us was a Marine.  At 11 years old I was impressed.  When they came home on leave (at 
the same time) Greta and I would sit on my front porch and sing the Navy and Marine songs to the top of our lungs to 
get their attention.  Down on Admiral St. lived our babysitter, Mrs. Shillings.  Her husband was very ill and finally she 
was left a widow.  She would come and sit with Jimmie and I and do Mother's ironing while she was there.  She was a 
very sweet lady.
I loved the seasons then, I remember winter and looking out the front room window hoping it would snow for my 
birthday and Christmas Day. Snow was rare that early. Spring when the trees first showed their green buds and the 
flowers peeked through the ground, fall with the beautiful big oak and maple leaves with all their colors would fall and I 
would kick them as I walked to Irving Elementary and Roosevelt Jr. High School.  I remember the smells of the 
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seasons, fall was "musty" and spring was clean and fresh, winter burned my nose and made my feet and legs tingle 
with the cold.  We made snow icecream with a clean fresh large pan of snow, some cream and sugar with an egg yolk 
beat up in it. and flavor with vanilla.  Beat the eggwhites until they were stiff and fold into the mixture, mmm.. so good 
and very cold.it made the back of my throat hurt.  I probably ate it to fast.
There was a KATY railroad track across the street from our house and many a "hobo" came to our back door for food. 
My parents never turned them away. They always ask if there was work to be done and sometimes daddy would find 
something for them to do. Our postman was Jimmie and he new every one on his route. We got mail twice a day 
delivered to our door for a 3 cent postage stamp. He worried about the mother's who didn't get letters from their sons 
who were away at war.  Mr. and Mrs. Randall had four boys and two served in in W.W. II and one in Korea.  She would 
meet the postman everyday and I remember his saying, how he wished he had a letter for Mrs. Randall today. People 
had time to care about each other then.  We also had an Ice Man who delivered ice for the "Ice Box".  He delivered ice 
with a big truck and wore a large leather vest effect that covered his back and shoulder, he picked up the ice with large 
picks curved with handles and carried it into the house on his back.  It was stored in the icebox on top with a drain that 
let it melt into a pan that sat on the floor under the icebox.  You must remember to empty the pan often.  The ice man 
would give all the kids a chunk of ice to eat.  It was 1940-41 before mother had a new Philco refrigerator.  I remember 
our phone number was 23654 for years before we got a prefix.
We were a christian family, my parents were Methodists until I was about 10yrs old.  In 1941 they begain to attend the 
Home Gardens Assembly of God church in Sand Springs and later joined that church. Sundays were church days and 
we always ate Sunday dinner in the dining room, using the good dishes and silverware.  Some Sunday's we had 
company for dinner.
There was no air conditioning or forced air heat when I was small, only a radiant heater in the front room and the oven 
in the kitchen.  In summer we had fans and in 1944, when mother was expecting Bobby Dean, Daddy had a Attic Fan 
installed.  It worked at night pulling out the hot air and bringing in the cooler evening air.  I don't remember it being 
much help.
Daddy had an Aunt Sally and Uncle Henry Townsley who lived in Coweta on a farm and we went there on to visit quite 
often.  They had no children left at home and us kids got bored.  He also had an Uncle Brian an Aunt Addiebell Sparks, 
who were younger and had kids our age, we loved to visit with them. They all lived in the country and we city kids 
found that intresting.
When I was 11 years old and the summer before I went into the sixth grade, Mother, Jimmie and I went to New York.  
Mother's sister, Mary Lou Shoemaker, lived on Staten Island.  Her husband, Jimmie was in the Navy and gone to the 
war.  We took the Greyhound Bus all the way from Tulsa to New York.  What a trip!  I really don't remember a lot about 
the trip except that Jimmie and I sang every song we knew for pastime.  On Staten Island the kids thought Indians still 
were on the warpath in Oklahoma.  It was strange, how little they knew of Oklahoma and how little we knew of New 
York.  Now with television we know more about the foreign countries than we knew of other states.  I really enjoyed 
that trip.  I saw the Statue of Liberty on Bedlow Island, took ferry's everytime we left Staten Island.  Went to the Empire 
State Building, the tallest building in New York at that time.  We went to the top and looked down, everyone looked like 
ants and cars like toys.  Mother bought me a pair of shoes in Macey's Department Store where I rode my first escalator, 
moving stairs, amazing thing!  I even saw a man in a skirt!  I was so shocked I ask mother why that man had on a skirt 
and she told me that was a kilt and he was from Scotland.  I remember he talked to me for a few minutes and sounded 
so strange with his accent.  I am sure saw other things that I cannot remember.  What stories I had to tell when I went 
back to school in Tulsa, Oklahoma that fall.  I had many "firsts" that summer.  I remember the smell of the ocean, I had 
never seen the ocean or fog before and both were strange.  The summer "squalls" of rain would come when we were 
out playing and not a cloud in sight one minute and rain buckets the next.  Usually not lasting more than a few minutes, 
however.  I fell in the alley behind Aunt Mary Lou's apartment and still carry a scar on my right knee from my New York 
trip.
In 1945 I went to Springfield, Mo. at the Assembly of God bible camp. The first time I had been away from family longer 
than overnight.  I got so homesick, but I would never admit it.  I did have a good time and quite an experience. Each 
time I called home I would ask about Bobby Dean and my dog, Buster, mother said.   All the girls wore nylon hose, I 
wore my first pair then.
I learned to take the bus to town by the time I was 12 years old and usually my friend Greta was with me.  We would go 
to the movie and to a soda fountain after.  We also would go shopping even if it was only window shopping.  I babysat 
for neighbors as Greta and I were the oldest girls on our street and I usually had some money.  I got 25 cents a hour 
then.  It was safe on the streets of Tulsa when I was young, I never remember being afraid going to town or to church.  
I had a boyfriend named Burnard who worked at the Davis Grocery Store and we would walk a few blocks to his 
church young people's meeting at night.
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I also "fell in love" at 14 yrs. of age with the preacher's, Rev. Marney, son at a church Greta and I visited.  He was in 
the Korean war and Mrs. Marney had a picture of him on the piano at the parsonage and it was love at first sight of the 
picture, later he came home from the navy and I really was "In Love".  He came into the church the first night home and 
Greta and I and a couple other girs were sitting in a pew, when he and a friend came in after the service had started 
and sat right behind me.  I got out my little compact and took a peak at who was back there and he winked at me.  My 
heart skipped and spluttered.  In a few minutes he got up and left and I was sure I would not see him again that 
evening.  In a few minutes a rose fell into my lap and Wow.. I was hooked.  We "dated", would sit together at church 
and he came over to "call" all winter, then mother found out he was 21 years old.  Off to Norfolk, Va. we went for the 
summer.  He left Tulsa and went to Texas, I really never got over that first love.  HIs name was Larkin Marney and he 
was a real gentleman.
On 3 February 1947, my parents divorced.  Such a shock for me, I never even heard them argue.  Little did I suspect 
my life would be turned up-side-down.  That spring we went to Norfolk, Virginia to visit Aunt Mary Lou again.  I enjoyed 
the beach and outings with my cousin, Joe Caskey.  We double dated with his girlfriend, Virginia and her brother 
Graham Sumner, going to the pike amusement park, to beach parties and the movies.  When Joe joined the Navy I 
wanted to come home to Tulsa and my friends.  Daddy sent me a train ticket and I made that long trip home alone and 
scared to death.  Mother had warned me of "strangers" and I wouldn't talk to anyone.  I never went to the dining car for 
fear I would not find my seat again, but they had men come by with sandwiches and such, I bought to eat.
Daddy and his lady friend, Gladys Thomas, who he later married, met me at the train station.  I went to stay at her 
house on North Cincinnati St., a big rock house that was beautiful and I even had my own bath.  We lived there for a 
few months until it was sold as part of her father's estate.
I went to Tulsa Central High School until after I was married.  On August, 31, 1948, I was married in the front room of 
the house on Archer St. to L.D. Hale, Jr.  We had a very nice wedding and reception.  It was a lovely wedding and my 
father gave the bride away.  I was only 16 years old.  Both my parents had tried to talk me into waiting until I finished 
High School.  I was sure I could continue school after I was married.  I did start, but by December I was expecting my 
first child, Linda and to sick to attend school so I dropped out.
L.D. Hale and I had an two room and share bath apartment close to my mother's house as our first "home".  We moved 
to a larger apartment closer to his work at the Frisco Railroad by December and lived there a few months, then moved 
to a small apartment on West Archer just up the street from my home.  My Mother was in California by then and had 
her home rented.  Later we moved back to 1406 W. Archer and lived there until after Larry was born.  In September of 
1952, L.D. was working for American Airlines and I talked him into moving to Long Beach, Ca.  He transfered with 
American Airlines and we lived in the Los Angeles area until 1956 when we moved to San Diego.  We finally bought 
our first home at 9440 Stoyer Drive, Santee, Ca. in March 1958.  It was new 3 bedroom house with a yard for the 
children.  We payed about $10,900 for it and felt so proud to have our first home.
L.D. and I had five children, Linda Dianne born 25 July 1949, Sheila Kay born 31 October 1950, Larry Don born 24 
June 1952 all born in Tulsa, Ok. and Teena Rochelle born 26 December 1955 in Long Beach, Ca. and Anita Marie 
born 12 December 1956 in San Diego, Ca.  We had no other children by later marriages.
I became very active in the P.T.A. at the children's school in Santee and worked on the first library for the school.  
Encouraged by the teachers I worked with, I went back to school at the Grossmont Adult School in Santee getting my 
high school diploma and taking a Junior College class in Medical Secretary and terminology. In the fall of 1964 I got a 
job as the Membership Secretary for the San Diego County Medical Society and worked there until 1967 when I went 
to work for University Hospital.  I stayed there most of my working career.  On 19 December 1965 L.D. and I received 
our final decree of divorce and in 21 December 1965 I married Robert LeRoy Stevens and we were married until 
February 1971 when we were divorced.  On December 21, 1972 I married Robert Francis Dingman.
After leaving San Diego in 1979 for Northern California and living in a number of cities we have been in Yuma, Az. 
since 1983.  I hope someday to move back to San Diego and live out my years close to some of my family.
On this date I have eleven grandchildren and five great grandchildren.  Linda has two children, Shelly Ann Hutchins 
Barnes and William (Billy) Wheeler Hutchins.  Shelly has two sons, Daniel and Darren Barnes.  Sheila has three 
children, daughter Tracy Lynn Oaks Dlugos who has one son, Anthony James Dlugos, and two sons, Matthew and 
David Oaks.  Larry has two children, Shannon and Shaun Stevens.  Teena has two daughters, Sherree and Heather 
Clark and Anita has two children, Christina and Gabriel Ness. Christina has a son, Daniel Sterling Ness.
written: August and Sept of 1993
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Family Group Record
Husband
James Clarence Titsworth
Wife
Artie Melvina Sinor
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Notes
CHILD  3
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James Phillip Titsworth
Married twice after divorce from Sue but no children of either marriage.
CHILD  4
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Robert Dean Titsworth
Robert Dean legally shortened his name to WORTH in 1959 in Florida.
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