Raymond Waller
Raymond and Grandpa Waller stand beside the Raymond Waller
home. It has been fixed up since the photo shown under Oris Waller a couple of
pages back. The house is just up the road from the Waller home, we lived there
for a time.
Uncle Raymond had a lot of curiosity, as is normal for farm
boys. He investigated many ideas. He gave me a book he had as a boy on using
cards to tell fortunes. He learned to play the fiddle. And he sent off for fun
sounding things he saw advertised in magazines. He and Uncle Oris lived on the
Waller place and farmed for a living. He would tell me tales of his boyhood
when I stayed at Grandfathers.
Left: Raymond’s violin, what is left of it. I first saw it
lying on the piano in Grandfather’s home. I learned to play it. I traded a
banjo to Uncle for it. Right: The box is addressed to Raymond. It is a viewer
to look at frame clips from motion pictures.