Dial Family Index

Family dog Buttons. c. 1950.
Family dog Buttons. c. 1950.


Posts in Category “Dial-Family”

  • Blue Roads from: Adulthood, Dial-Family, Judson, Santiago-ChileBlue Roads
    Events between 1818 and 1994. Written September 1994. Monday, July 18, 1994, was a most memorable day! My daughter and her husband took my fourteen-year-old granddaughter, Lacy, and me on a trip where I would revisit times gone by. Lacy would learn about some of her Ohio ancestors. We first visited Redhaw, Ohio, a small settlement in ...
  • Member Instructions from: Dial-Family, Wertenberger-FamilyMember Instructions
      Documented Features This website is a membership site where any authorized group member can access and read the stories. Initially, every authorized user will be a member of the same group. The site is best viewed on a tablet, laptop, or desktop device. Everything will work on a phone, but the smaller screen forces ...
  • The Garden from: Adulthood, Dial-Family, Fairview-Park-OHThe Garden
    Events circa 1937-1972. Written April 1994. In 1937, the Robert Dials moved, with Robert and Dolly, their two children, from the City of Cleveland to the Village of Fairview. Fairview lay just beyond Rocky River’s ...
  • The Storm from: Adulthood, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family, Fairview-Park-OHThe Storm
    Event on July 4, 1969. Written April 1994 at Judson for The Scribblers. Clevelanders will always remember July 4, 1969. The day dawned hot, sultry, and foreboding. The air was so still it made the heat unbearable. Patriotic programs, ...
  • Rainbows from: Adulthood, Dial-FamilyRainbows
    Written April 14, 1987.  The following is the text from Lacy’s Grandmother Dial’s Easter letter to Lacy. Lacy’s bedroom had just been papered in the rainbow pattern that Lacy and her mother had purchased earlier. Dear Lacy Anne, Enclosed is a check for your father to pay for your “Easter ...
  • The Trip To New Haven (1922, 1957) from: Adulthood, Berea-KY, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family, Wertenberger-FamilyThe Trip To New Haven (1922, 1957)
    1957 text and audio recounting of the 1922 disaster-laden family trip from Ohio to the Yale University commencement.
  • The Dial Family Apartment from: Berea-KY, Cleveland-OH, Dial-FamilyThe Dial Family Apartment
    Event circa 1921. Written ????. It wasn’t the way it was supposed to be. My Prince Charming had invited me to see his home — meet his family. I had met his mother and father previously. They seemed ...
  • When A Distinguished Visitor Was Unwelcome! from: Adulthood, Cleveland-OH, Dial-FamilyWhen A Distinguished Visitor Was Unwelcome!
    Event circa 1931. Written September 1989. Dr. Emory Dial’s Lorain Ave. Clinic’s second floor housed the clinic surgery, recovery room, X-ray, and doctors’ offices around one huge waiting room. It also held his own spacious ...
  • My Trip To My Class Reunion – Ex ’23 from: Adulthood, Berea-KY, Cleveland-OH, Dial-FamilyMy Trip To My Class Reunion - Ex '23
    Event circa 19331. Written September 1989. There was a brilliant full moon when I set off for my alma mater, Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. I had acquired Robert’s agreement that I deserved a brief vacation. ...
  • The River Trip from: Adulthood, Cleveland-OH, Dial-FamilyThe River Trip
    Event in 1935. Written September 1989. It was the Mark Twain Centennial Year when Robert and I took a memorable vacation. We started out in our fancy new blue Buick, armed with “Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn,” which Robert read aloud as I drove toward the Mississippi River and Mark Twain country. We went through Nauvoo, the ...
  • Charley’s Pets from: Dial-Family, Fairview-Park-OHCharley's Pets
    1 Events circa 1943-1963. Written January 1992. Two-year-old Charley and Skippy the dog sat in a corner of the kitchen swapping biscuits. Charles was eating the dog bone and Skippy the aseptic Arrowroot biscuit meant for the ...
  • Grandma’s Family Christmas Party from: Dial-Family, JudsonGrandma's Family Christmas Party
    Event in December 1991. Written January 19921. Christmas begins for me in July here at Judson. For seven years, I’ve gone to Debbie Malakar’s office and reserved the Rendezvous Room for the last Saturday evening ...
  • Emory Dial Family Early History from: Dial-FamilyEmory Dial Family Early History
    Events circa 1890-1940. Written January 1993. In the early 1890’s Clara Partridge, age 18, left her comfortable home and family in South Bend, Indiana, to travel to far away Ohio to teach school. Her three sisters, ...
  • The Wedding from: Adulthood, Cleveland-OH, Dial-FamilyThe Wedding
    Event in 1935. Written April 1993. The excitement was at fever pitch in the Dial clan the day after we came home from our river trip. It was David’s wedding day! David was the family’s baby, a ...
  • Affirmation from: Dial-FamilyAffirmation
    Affirmation to the Grandchildren.  It is perhaps odd that I feel a certain rapport with the eulogy Earl Spencer delivered for his sister. Unlike Diana, my mother died a peaceful and private death. Yet both ...

Posts in Category “Cleveland-OH”

Posts in Category “Fairview-Park-OH”

  • The Garden from: Adulthood, Dial-Family, Fairview-Park-OHThe Garden
    Events circa 1937-1972. Written April 1994. In 1937, the Robert Dials moved, with Robert and Dolly, their two children, from the City of Cleveland to the Village of Fairview. Fairview lay just beyond Rocky River’s ...
  • The Storm from: Adulthood, Cleveland-OH, Dial-Family, Fairview-Park-OHThe Storm
    Event on July 4, 1969. Written April 1994 at Judson for The Scribblers. Clevelanders will always remember July 4, 1969. The day dawned hot, sultry, and foreboding. The air was so still it made the heat unbearable. Patriotic programs, ...
  • The Passport from: Adulthood, Fairview-Park-OH, Santiago-Chile, Wertenberger-FamilyThe Passport
    September 1965 trip to Wayne and Ashland counties (Ohio) to locate birth and citizenship documents.
  • Charley’s Pets from: Dial-Family, Fairview-Park-OHCharley's Pets
    1 Events circa 1943-1963. Written January 1992. Two-year-old Charley and Skippy the dog sat in a corner of the kitchen swapping biscuits. Charles was eating the dog bone and Skippy the aseptic Arrowroot biscuit meant for the ...
  • Content Notes — MWD Essays from: Fairview-Park-OHContent Notes — MWD Essays
    Content Notes and Revisions — MWD Essays Editorial History Revision history and technical notes Wordpress and Grammarly interaction nightmare. WordPress design flaws. Revision History 1993-1998 Hand-written essay drafts transcribed into Microsoft Word 2.0. 2000 Original Word 2.0 document partially converted to Microsoft FrontPage 98. 2008-2009 Converted to W3C XHTML compliant Microsoft ASP.NET website. 2009 Several previously unpublished stories, primarily about the Dial family, were ...

Posts in Category “Judson”

  • Blue Roads from: Adulthood, Dial-Family, Judson, Santiago-ChileBlue Roads
    Events between 1818 and 1994. Written September 1994. Monday, July 18, 1994, was a most memorable day! My daughter and her husband took my fourteen-year-old granddaughter, Lacy, and me on a trip where I would revisit times gone by. Lacy would learn about some of her Ohio ancestors. We first visited Redhaw, Ohio, a small settlement in ...
  • Grandma’s Family Christmas Party from: Dial-Family, JudsonGrandma's Family Christmas Party
    Event in December 1991. Written January 19921. Christmas begins for me in July here at Judson. For seven years, I’ve gone to Debbie Malakar’s office and reserved the Rendezvous Room for the last Saturday evening ...
  • MWD Obituary from: Adulthood, JudsonMWD Obituary
    Mary W. Dial (nee Wertenberger) Beloved wife of the late Robert J. Dial M.D., loving mother of Robert J., Jr. (Donna), Dorothy Schwartz (Abba), and Charles, dear grandmother of eight and great-grandmother of 10, sister of the late Carl Wertenberger. Passed away Sept. 1, 2000. Memorial contributions may be forwarded to Judson Park Retirement Community, 2181 ...

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