George Franklin GARNETT

                   Personally from Sylvia Garnett Phillips his daughter. 2001
Entered this day Jan 21, 2005, Albert Geoth Garnett was a good man, who made sure that his family was well feed, clothed, kept well  and warm with a roof over their heads.  He was the father of five children,raising 4 to maturity.  The one passed away when she was 3 years old from something bad, either something she ate or a flu.  My mother, Velma always said that it was the doctors fault, but I could see how she might in her grief want to blame someone. My father was born the first of 13 children and his parents always called him Goeth.  I think at the time he was born that times must have been really hard, that was in 1910 the month and day of May 28th.  He must have been a beautiful baby, with his black hair, fair skin and brown eyes.  I know that he had a problem when he turned 5 years old that his mama would send him to the field to help with the crops, plowing, and such.  He can only remember being in the field with a horse infront of him and him so small that he could not keep the plow in the ground, that he would be so tired and hungery that he would go sit under a tree where it was cool and take a nap.  Or he would go back to the house because he was hungery for food and be told to get back to the field or get a whippen.  Sure must have been hard times.  Needless to say that he had not ever forgotten that time.
    
I remember the times he would drink a lot and get the blues and start singing the old timey religious songs from that time and just cry.  He really did have a soft heart, but usually when his gaurd was down.  He was pretty hard on his children, all but Shirley,  but it had to be because the way he was raised.  All and all he was a good man.  Couldn't say I love you to any one, but mom,. but that was the way he was raised.  Before he died I asked him why he never said that he loved me and his answer was, because you never did anything that I wanted you to do.  I think he was a controlling person by nature and it rubbed off on me. By trade he was a miner whe he was working in Bisbee, Arizona, a welder when he worked in the shipyards in  San Pedro, California, then worked as a mechanic in 3 service stations that he owned, 2 in San Pedro and 1 in Eureka, California. After moving to Eureka in 1947 and spent only 1 year in the service station he started his career in the saw mills in the area.  He first pulled on the green chain, then went to grader, then to mill wright and on to the planer mills as builder and mill wright.  He was ggood at what he did, but the drink started taking it's toll on him.  I remember getting a call one day that he had been injured and was in the hospital in Arcata, that is where the mill was located that he was working on, so we rushed to Arcata to find him there in the hospital with his head all bandaged up.  He had been trying to get a hydraulic lift which set at the end of the planer,  unjammed, when he reached down to removed the stick the lift bar opened and caught his head in it. Lucky for him it was not all the way in or it would have mashed his head like a watermelon.  He was able to get over that ok, but years later he shaved his hand in the blades he had just sharpened, that was because he was tipsy from drink.  He actually lost that job because of this accident.
This is a record of where he got his SS# :
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Name:		Albert G. Garnett			
SSN:		526-07-9915 			
Died:		27 Jun 1988			
State (Year) SSN issued:		Arizona (Before 1951 )			
					

Source Information: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 2004.
                  

                   This record entered by Sylvia Phillips for Irie Franklin Garnett.  Irie was married to Beatrice Rives and had 2 beautiful children, Bobby Elwood and Laura Sue.  Beatrice died 12 Apr 1963 of breast cancer.  He then remarried Ora Lee McManus.
                  

                   He died when he was not quite 20 years old of a ruptured appendix.  He had been swimming and dove in the water and had to be removed and taken to the hospital.  It was also said by his brother Henry Cletus Garnett, that he saw the other side of the veil before he died and stated that it was beautiful.  Henry has since died in 2001.
                  

                   Not too sure what happened to him when he died.  They found him in his apartment in Chicago and from what I heard he had or someone made him drink an acid fo some kind and it ate his throat and part of his face.  It must have been a horrible death.  I remember that when we heard about it Grover my son had just been born on Dec. 1 1958 and it really scared me.  I remember so many things about Freddie Joe Garnett.  When he was a baby the spoiled him rotten they said.  In my mind they probably treated him like they should have treated all of their children.  Anyway he was so cute as a baby and as he grew up he was almost crippled by his club feet and the flatfeet that he had.  He had a very hard time walking and the family did not get him to a doctor to have this problem solved and he continued to grow and got heavier and had a harder time coping with his problem. As a result he got fat in the bottom and was kinda narrow in the shoulders and ever one made fun of him and he would really get anger.  He could not get a girl friend so he leaned toward homosexuality and I don't think he was a homosexual, but a frustrated heteralsexual young man.  If only his parents could have helped him with his foot problem he might not have had so many problems.  I guess this is the test that we have to go through.  It sure would have been neat to have seen him if he could have had his feet fixed and to see what he would have been.  He had a very good education and degree from college and did all of that, but could have done so much more.
                  

                   October 15, 2006 Record of Birth received from Gyndel himself.  His death recorded by Sylvia Phillips.  
Gyndel was a very special person and the family loved him dearly.  He was a very Educated man, graduated from Murrey College and loved his work, which was superintentant of schools for the county of Mayfield for many years.  After a while it was really taking it's toll on him so he retired at a pretty early age, I think around 50  years old and moved to Hawaii were he lived for probably 15 years or so, of course this was after his mother died, my grandmother Fannie Garnett.  He made his trips to the mainland often at least 2 times a year.
He never married, but loved life and children.   He was a good uncle to all of us that did marry and have children.  A very generous man to all of his family.  When he died he left all  that he had to the College where he received his education except what he gave to his significant other which was $50,000.00.  Very thoughtful.  He will be sorely missed.  His death was very sudden.  One minute he was in Las Vegas and the next he was home in Kentucky dying of cancer.  The Doctors said that he had no pancreas and that his liver and lungs had cancer.  Basicly he was full of cancer and he just decided to let nature take it's course and he just went into a coma.  He lived 19 days from the time he knew  he had the cancer.  Again we all will miss him.