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 Rowe's
Collide with the Coops in 1961!!!
In 1961 my father, Alvin Cecil Rowe of Silverton, Oregon met my mother,
Patricia Lorine Coop, a native San Franciscan.
The Rowe clan are even to this day a rough bunch, rabble rousers... my dad has
two sisters, Maurita who loves the Lord with all her might, and Alveta who can
talk sailor talk with the best of 'em! Dad called Aunt Maurita a
"holy roller." For the most part I saw the Rowe side of the family as
trouble, and not too civilized. To make matters worse, as I traced my
roots, I found that the McClaskey's were horse thief's... and the Rowe's
had degraded themselves from being war hero's in the Civil War, to just country
bumpkins who resolved their differences with fists and 2x4's if necessary.
Enter Coops, on the surface, at least some of them are as sweet, and honest as
can be. Civil, moral..... Well, call it family myth.. or Peggy's skewed
perceptions left over from childhood.. All I know is that the Rowe's
collided with the Coops and with that union came my sister (1965) and I (1962).
And as far as I am concerned, we are the cream of the crop!
On the picture on the left: Daisy Viola Hall Coop, Charles Coop (big
brother), and Earl Coop, my grandpa!
Family Picture on the right: Forward left: Alvin Rowe,
Oldest male: Earl Otho Coop (grandpa), Female to extreme back: Peggy Lind (uncle
Tom's ex wife), Oldest Female: Hazel Lorine VanZandt Coop (grandma), Littlest
girl: Pamela Lorine Rowe (my sis), Teenaged Girl: Peggy Ann Rowe (myself),
mustached man in blue: Thomas Earl Coop (uncle Tommy to you!), and lady in black
sweater, Patricia Lorine Coop Rowe (my mother).
If there was anyone in this world that I knew loved me..
it was this grandpa, grandma, and my uncle Tommy.... thank you.
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Peggy
Rowe's 
