Henry Ford
Henry Ford was
our four wheel drive Ford truck. Travis was just a little tyke when Curtis
bought this family truck and Travis was the one who named this green truck
"Henry Ford Hatch". The name
stuck! And Henry took our little family on many adventures, including one we
almost didn't make it back from....a bear hunting trip up into the wilds of Idaho . We did see three bears...a mom and baby and
another medium size bear...but thankfully for me, none that we wanted to shoot.
The bears weren't the problem for our scary trip though. "Twas a
combination of snow, trails instead of road, and a fire incident that
frightened me more than coming face to face with the bear would have! Luckily
we made it out safe and sound. (you'd have to have been there to realize the
story I didn't tell here!)
Henry took us to
Yellowstone on another adventure. This was in
July of 1987, when we had a exchange student from Spain , Alexandra Turcot, staying
with us. Curtis was in so much pain from his leg ...(he kept saying it was just
a pulled muscle) that we cut our vacation short in order to get him home to get
some medical help (that he didn't want).
A couple of
weeks later, on my birthday Aug 14, I
had loaded Henry up with 12 scouts (including my son Travis and nephew Shane
Clawson) and gone up to Camp
Kiesel
No wonder he was hurting so bad. Stage 4. The Dr said less than 16 per cent chance of
survial, and maybe two months without chemo.
Because it hurt to sit, Curtis would get in the back of Henry (we had
put a mattress back there for the Yellowstone trip...it was still there...made
traveling with lots of kids more comfortable! And it worked better for Curt
too. Going down and coming home.
One day Curt
wanted to go check out a deer that he had heard was out by the cemetary in
Corinne. He took nine year old Katie with him.
They got out there just fine. I'm not sure if they saw the four point or
not. This was in the days before cell
phones. Curt couldn't get back to the truck by himself. Katie helped him get there and then they had
a word of prayer before trying to get home.
Curt told Katie not to stop praying till they were safe in the driveway
back at home. When he saw how scared she
was he joked "good thing Henry is so well trained and knows the way
home!" He knew that he was in no
shape to drive at all. When they got
home he said "we got here on a wing and a prayer."
Henry got hit
by a school bus down in Moroni
and retired a few years later. He was a
much loved part of our family! (no
offense to our car Betsey...she was well loved too!)
Henry Ford (the truck) and Betsey (the car) in background
Jared, Travis, Katie, Curt, Me and Camille
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