Brenda Puryear:  

I moved to coast of California after high school then moved back to Bakersfield then met my brother's room mate when he was in the airforce and moved to Oregon and got married & had two sons.My oldest son's name is Dale which is 6'foot tall which wife's name is Rhayanna and my youngest son's name is Dusty which is 6'foot 5" inches tall.We are very proud of both of our sons.I also have a step daughter, which I am very proud of, named Jen and son-in-law named Jeff. I have 2 granddaughters, named Jessica and Alexis and one little grandson named Chance.I managed a gas station, opened a saddle,tack and boot repair shop and also had new saddles and tack, did that for over 16 years while doing books for husbands towing and wrecking yard businesses for several years.Owned and operated an auto parts store for a few years. Now live in Nv and am a seamstress for a office chair manufacturing company.We have even made chairs for the Pentagon.These aren't chairs that you can buy in the stores as the are more elaborate. I've always been a very active person. Come home periodically to see what family I have left there in Bakersfield. Don't know where all my friends went. Would like to find some of them. I have 25 brass horses which is why I have the email address of brasshorse53.I have recently bought an older big bronze statute of a mare and a stallion,(horses) made by Pierre Jules Mene. It is beautiful! If anyone wants to email me they can. I also have a few ceramic horses and some bronze figures. I have always had a love for horses and most all animals. I originally wanted to be an animal veterinarian, but I didn't want to go to college for 8 years, so that changed my mind. My Dad and Mom asked me after I grew up if I had ever dreamed I would be a seamstress and I told them, no I didn't. But I do like to sew. When we was little my Grandma Clara Puryear gave us girls some JC Penny's and Sears Catalogs and she told us we could cut out some of the people in there and then cut out some clothes in there and that could be our paper dolls. We even cut out the guys. I also used to pretend I was a designer and I sketched out some different styles of clothes on paper. My Grandma Puryear was a very smart Grandma and a great cook.We loved to go to our other grandparent's house too as we had a lot of fun with them.There names was Wes and Gladys David. Grandma would take us places while Grandpa worked. Grandma would take us out to their oil fields to see Grandpa and I always thought the oil rigs looked like giant grasshoppers.I just loved going out there.Sure miss all of them. Feb 6th 2010: I am still working thank goodness! I have talked to ...Expand for more