Where We LIved

This is a copy of a paper that my mom, Kate Barnett, wrote about every place she lived, the address, and how long she lived there. I have followed it with an additional list of where I have lived after I left home.

List of Places I Have Lived

I, Catherine Green was born July 18, 1924, the daughter of Alma Beatrice Coe and Andy Boyd Green, in a 1 room house that my parents were renting from Granddad Andy Ervin Green. It was near the railroad tracks and about three miles west of Colorado City, Texas.
Moved to a two room house in the west pasture of the ranch, a half mile from Granddad’s ranch house when I was about six months old. We lived there until I was five. Elnora was born three days before we moved.
Moved to the Old Home Place as Granddad’s ranch house was called and lived there two years. Wanda was born there and we got my five cousins to raise, Uncle Herb’s kids.
Moved to Stanton, Texas. A farm, one section of land, 7 miles from town. Daddy rented it for four years.
Daddy’s health went bad so Daddy, Mother, Elnora, Wanda and I with Uncle Jack Black, a second cousin of Daddy’s, moved to Silver City, NM. 5 days on the road in Model T pickup. Got to Silver City December 1934. Stayed one week in Silver City Court Motel (was still there when Kate and Bob moved there in 1970. But think it is gone now.) then we got a house in Cottage San that was by a water tank and stayed two weeks. We had Christmas there. Had to find a cheaper place to rent.
Moved to house on corner. 2 rooms and a bath. Stayed until May.
Moved to Apartment house for I year. Daddy had charge of renting houses.
Moved to brown house for 1 year.
Moved to F Street was last house south for 1 year. Daddy worked a gold mine for owner.
Moved to (not able to make out this word) near turquoise mine for 1 month – mining west of White Signal. (now a ghost town, maybe it was then, too)
Moved to Rodgers House 1 year in Silver Heights (housing area of Silver City).
Moved to Central, NM (Central was the name of small town south of Silver City that has now changed it’s, but don’t remember what it is) from Feb. to June. Daddy and Mr. Martin put in a laundry mat but it didn’t work.
Moved to Tyrone Road for 1 year June to Aug. 1940. Daddy worked a mine part time for a man.
Moved to Albuquerque August 1940 lived at Glick Place on Pajarita (area of South Valley of Albuquerque) Daddy worked for milk truck farm and did taxidermy, ect.
Moved to Facuat Place in Armijo (area of Albuquerque now) in 2941-42.
Kate married Herman ‘Slim’ Linsey 1942, moved to Gallop, NM for 2 weeks.(either this information is wrong or some of the notes I took from the stories she told me in the 1990’s was wrong, not that it really matters, but I think this is correct).
Albuquerque, NM Mother’s House – Facuat Place 3 or 4 weeks.
Albuquerque, NM - Brown’s House on 5th St. - 1 room.
Silver City, NM - Rosedale Dairy - 1 month
Silver City, NM - South of Town at Snyder Camp for almost 1 year
Albuquerque, NM- Indian School Rd. across from Mr. & Mrs. Bibbs
Albuquerque, NM - Coffee Camp on North 4th St.- 1 or 2 months
Albuquerque, NM - Zimmerman’s Place -1 year
Portland, Oregon ---------------------------------------(I think he worked at a dairy farm)Janice says “Mother told me she lived in Portland, Oregon, but Elnora and Wanda said it was Vancouver. Was it both? I know they worked at a dairy and they didn’t like the man they worked for and he had a boy that worked for him and he was mean to the boy and they didn’t like it and they quit. She told me this when she was older but mostly still there especially on past events. I got the impression that her and husband #1 were getting along ok then. I was quizzing her about it after we visited Oregon. But as Cyndi says “Vancouver is practically Oregon.”
Vancouver, Washington - Dairy Farm - 4 months
Albuquerque, NM- Mothers house on Flora Vista Dr.- slept on porch for 1 month
Los Lunas, NM - Adobe house - worked for Libby - 1 month
Silver City, Nm – Snyder Camp – 3 months
Silver City – Chloride St. – taxidermy – 3 yrs
I went back to Albuquerque to Mother & Daddy (I guess this is when she got a divorce from first husband but I always thought it was while they were in Oregon, but maybe not)
Albuquerque, NM - Daddy’s house – Don Louis Rd. – 2 yrs
Met Bob Barnett we were married Aug. 31, 1950
Albuquerque, NM - Brown’s house – 3 rooms & bath – on 3rd St. – Aug. 1950 to June 1951 – Daddy died Nov. 1950
Albuquerque, NM - ---------------------- Barbara born Aug. 3, 1951
Albuquerque, NM – Mothers house on don Louis Rd. – Bob was in school in Cheyenne, WY for 3 months
Albuquerque, NM - 3302 Cypress Dr S.W – Bob went to military school in Denver, CO for 1 month while here – pregnant with Sarah Dec. 1954 – Bob got orders for England
Pampa, TX (Gram had moved to Pampa not long before and married Raymond Williams, whom I would call Papa) 203 Sunset Dr. – Sarah born July 1, 1955 – Bob back from England Sept. 1956 – Bob at Alconbury AFB England
Vermont – Ethan Allen AFB – P.O. Box 442, Winooski, VT – apt. – Janice born Jan 10, 1958 – moved to Pampa, TX when she was 5 weeks old
Pampa, TX - ----------------------Bob in school at base near Amarillo, TX – 3 months
Las Vegas, NV – 4900 Vermont Ave. – 1 yr
Las Vegas, NV – on Nellis AFB – first house on McCarran Blvd. – 2 bedroom – few months
Las Vegas, NV – on Nellis AFB – 17 McCarran Blvd. – 3 bedroom larger house - almost 3 years (this house was on the last row of houses with a big strip of desert behind it and the landing strip for the jet planes that Daddy worked on, we could almost see the planes land probably over a half mile away)
Tampa, FL – McDill AFB – 16 Paul Smith Dr. Apt. 8 – upstairs – 2 years
Tucson, AZ – Davis Monthan AFB – 5850 American Ave. – Bob retired here
Sandpoint, Idaho – 326 Euclid Ave. – 2 years
Albuquerque, NM - 5508 Arvilla Ave N.E. 87110 – Raymond died July 1967 – we went spent 3 weeks in Pampa, TX
Albuquerque, NM – 1709 Del Sur S.W. 87105 – bought house – Barbara graduate high school – Bob transferred to Arizona (Daddy moved near the base he was working at near Phoenix, AZ about 6 months before I was to graduate so we stayed in Albuq. Until I graduated)
Chandler, AZ – 637E. Commonwealth Pl. 85224 – Barbara joined Navy
Silver City, NM – 604 Spring St. – 1970 – Barbara married in San Diego, CA
Silver City, NM – 310 D St. 88061 – Sept. 1971 (Lee and I visited for a few weeks in Oct. 1971) (this is where Bob, he died Dec. 8, 1999, and Kate lived until they died, except for a few months when Mother had to be in the Silver City Nursing Home before she died – Sept. 3, 2003)

(All of these address would apply to me from the time I was born and the same for my sisters.) Anything in ( ) is what I have added.

I am now going to add the address’s of where I have lived after I left my family in 1969 to begin my own life.

Sept. 1969 to Dec. 1969 – Bainbridge Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, Maryland – for Woman’s Navy Boot camp
Dec. 1969 to Nov. 1970 – Woman’s Barracks, San Diego Naval Training Center Base, San Diego, California – where I did secretarial work at the Machinery Repairman’s School
Nov. 1970 – Oct. 1971 – K Street, San Diego, CA – I was out of Navy – this was mine and Lee’s first apartment when we got married on Nov. 28, 1970
Oct. 1971 – 310 D St. Silver City, NM – visited with Mother for about 2 weeks while on vacation and moving to Waukegan, IL.
Oct. 1971 - Petersburg, WV – visited with Lee’s family for about 2 weeks while on vacation and moving to Waukegan, IL – Their apartment was upstairs over Petersburg Motor Co. which was a Chrysler dealer.
Nov. 1971 to Feb. 1972 – American Ave., Waukegan, IL – our second apt. while Lee went to Engineman Class C School at Great Lakes Naval Station.
Feb. 1972 to May 1972 – Silver City, NM – Lived with Mother & Daddy while Lee went to Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Honolulu, Hawaii.
May 1972 to Aug. 1972 – 501 (?) Seaside Ave. Honolulu, Hawaii – had 1 room apt with Lee while his ship USS Abnaki ATF96 was in port at Pearl Harbor while the engines were overhauled before the going on a WestPac Tour during end of Vietnam War. We could see Ala Wai Canal at the nearest corner to our apt. I could walk about 2 miles east along canal and visit the library and Honolulu Zoo. We could walk south to Waikiki Beach, The International Market Place, a couple of small stores, a bank, and a bar called the Crow’s Nest which is where Lee took me for my 21st birthday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ala_Wai_Canal
Aug. 1972 to March 1973 – 310 D St. Silver City, NM – lived with Mother & Daddy while Lee was on the Abnaki on West Pac Tour which included Vietnam.
March 1973 to June 1973 – 6th St, Silver City, NM – small apt, Lee got job working for Birchfield Motors.
June 1973 to Dec. 1976 – 300 D St. Silver City, NM – large apt. next door to Mother. Daddy bought the duplex for a couple of years to have control over the renters.
Dec. 1976 to Feb. 1977 – Central Ave. SE Albuquerque, NM – lived in small trailer house in trailer court on east part of Central Ave. (long gone now) Lee started school at NM Tec in diesel class. I worked for Accent Gardens.
Feb. 1977 to Feb. 1978 - Aztec Ave. NE., Albuquerque, NM – Lee still in school, I worked at Peoples Flower Shop.
Feb. 1978 to July 1978 – 501 California Ave. – small house – Lee worked at International Harvester and I worked at different flower shops.
July 1978 to Jan. 1983 – 11101 San Jacinto Ave. NE, Albuquerque, NM – we managed to buy our first house, Dustin was born here July 3, 1980.
Jan. 1983 to June 1983 – Maxine Pl, NE, Albuquerque, NM
June 1983 to Nov. 1983 – 306 D St. Silver City, NM – lived next to Mother again in other side of duplex. Lee couldn’t get a job so he went back to Albuquerque – lived in Scout worked at IH until he could buy a house.
Nov. 1983 to April 17, 2003 – 946 Nyasa, Rio Rancho, NM – we were here 20 years.
April 17, 2003 to NOW – 1200 10th St SW, Rio Rancho, NM