“We bought twenty acres with a two room house on the property. We sold that place after a year as there was not enough ground to make a living. We then rented the Green Tree Ranch, a mile from Rupert, from Jerry Jones. Lois was born on October 1, 1929, Carol on August 28, 1932 and Jack on August 8, 1935. We moved out to Acequia on March 16, 1937 and Nola was born just a day after we moved out there. She was a St. Patrick’s Day baby.
“In March of 1945, we moved to Nampa. I had saved my money for years and we had enough to buy a small place. It was small farm off Madison Avenue out by the sugar factory. I worked for many years at the factory during campaign and in the summer I farmed. There wasn’t any row crop framing involved, just hay and grain and cows. I made some good friends at the sugar factory–one especially good friend is Maurice Hatch. Maurice and Jean live near us now in Nampa.
“Lois and Jerry were married in the Idaho Falls Temple on July 14, 1948 and our family was sealed together in the temple on that day. That was an important day in our lives.
“We sold our place out by the sugar factory in the spring of 1950 and in June we decided to try out our new Ford automobile by driving down to San Bruno to see Hubert and Anna. Carol did most of the driving and she did a good job even though she did hit a few jackrabbits. Hubert and Anna did a fine job of showing us around the San Francisco area. We took a boat trip around Alcatraz, went down to Fisherman’s Wharf and went to Santa Cruz to a beauty pageant.
“We rented a house in Nampa that summer, and then in August, 1950 moved out to a 30 acre place we had bought in Kuna. I was a small house but we added a back port and a small front porch and dug a basement out by hand. We had a nice garden there and a big front lawn and shade trees. Beatrice always 
planted a long row of zinnias right along the driveway next to the garden and they were beautiful all in bloom. In the backyard we had raspberries and a couple of fruit trees. We had friendly neighbors and the ward out there was large and the people friendly. We built a big new church building when we lived in Kuna and I did a lot of volunteer help on the building of it.
“Joe was born May 31, 1951 in the Nampa Mercy Hospital. The rest of the children had been born at home with the help of a doctor and usually a midwife. Fidelia had been so good to help at the time of the new babies being born. The Kuna Grade school was not far from our place so Joe didn’t have far to go for school. When the grandchildren came along Dan, Andy and Mark were close to Joe in age and they spent lots of weekends out at Kuna on the farm with Joe. The favorite place to play was down by the creek and when they were old enough a pastime was to float on inner tubes down Indian Creek.”
-John Joseph Straubhaar
Excerpt from Straubhaar Family History, July 1990
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