During the early phase of introducing ourselves and exchanging documents I updated
my “Dependents of Loyal Alm” wih a note about Royce (Xavier) Hobart (Alm)
Wampler. The following is Barbara Boston’s response to her review.
Jim
Thank you so much. For some weird reason this means a lot to me. My father was a
wonderful man and father. He was very loving and supportive. We also had a cabin on
Island Lake besides our home in Duluth.
I rode everything at full speed and he bailed me out more times and just chuckled. I took
off on a 4 wheeler one time at the lake and no one told me how to stop it. I road on all
the dirt roads in the area and finally came back to our cabin realizing I had no idea how
to stop it. Sounds really stupid but I was young. Finally drove into the lake. That stopped
it. Janie and I were on a run away snowmobile one day. She was driving. We could not
stop that either. Turning off the key never occurred to us. We bailed as it was about to
cross a highway and eventually my Dad found it in the woods upside down. That
stopped it. When Roy Halvorson bought the Ski Doo franchise in the US we got all the
toys to try. We had a sea doo also. Somehow I never dumped that. I liked to water ski
right up on the edge of the shore so that I would not get my hair wet. My Dad put a stop
to that by dumping me in the bay. He would laugh whenever he did that. We had a lot of
fun. None of these things ever upset him. Learning to drive in Duluth is challenging
also. You slide into a few ditches until you get the hang of it. He always came with a
shovel and cheerfully dug me out. I have many fond memories of him.
Barbar