Christina Williamson
Christina Winne Williamson, 73, of Emmett, passed away on October 22, 2010. She was born March 18, 1937 in Cascade, Idaho, the third of ten children of Cecil and Rachel (Crawford) Logue. Christina attended several grade schools as her father followed jobs across ID and WA. The family grew larger so they settled in Garden Valley, where Christina graduated from high school. After several years of providing nanny and elder care she met Frank Williamson and they married on July 19, 1969 in Winnemucca, NV. Christina and Frank settled in Emmett where she raised animals while he worked at the sawmill in Horseshoe Bend. After Frank passed away in 1988, Christina centered her life around her daughter and grandkids. Christina is survived by her daughter, Christiana and grandchildren, Amethyst and Devin of Emmett, brothers, Cyril and Roger Logue of Boise, Tim (Mary Jo) Logue of Caldwell, and Gerald Logue of Albuquerque, and sister, Reba (Lyle) McMillan, of Nampa, numerous nieces and nephews and many dear friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a sister, Miriam, and three brothers, George, Tom and Adrian Logue Memorial services will be held at Potters Funeral Chapel, Emmett, on Wednesday, Oct 27, 2010 at 4pm with an informal gathering following.
posted in the Idaho Statesman newspaper, Tues, 26 Oct 2010.
From notes by Christina Williamson:
In Cascade we lived in a collapsible house. Then at McGregor, in a tent (Dad was piling brush for Boise Cascade). In Emmett Dad bought a trailer house. Cyril was born May 13, 1941. His doctor was CE Carver and when mother named Cyril the nurse, who was the doctor's wife, came in and asked if she wanted to give him the rest of the doctor's name - CE = Cyril Ellis. Mother had found the name Cyril in a book and liked it and Ellis is the only name she could find to go with it, so he wasn't really named after his doctor even if it might have looked that way.
Trail Creek in a trailer house on Salmon River three years, wintering in Cascade. Then Emmett, in a house across from the storage building. Dad helped Grandpa Crawford build a house below the cemetery.
While living in Boise, when Dad was going to sheet metal school, Christina had measles and then pneumonia and was in the hospital in Emmett. A lot of her stuffed toys were lost while they lived there. When they moved to Walla Walla, Christina fell off a sign board and tore a large triangular gash in her arm. She remembers going to the carnival while there, but not with Dad.
When they moved to Lewiston, Mom left Dad. Christina started school in the first grade at a church school. It was about six weeks after school had started, but because of the war and so many people moving in to work on the air bases, they weren't letting six year olds start school. When they moved to Payette, Cyril had measles, mumps and whooping cough all at the same time. It enlarged his tonsils. There are pictures of Christina's birthday, with Tommy, Cyril, and a boy friend (yes, she did have boy friends).
They then moved to Emmett and lived in a small house on River Street, right next to the canal. There was and still is a pipe across the canal there and a very small shallow spot where they played in the water a lot. Tommy, Cyril and Christina stayed alone a lot and went to sleep listening to western music on the radio. A kid who was allergic to poison oak had Christina and Tommy rub some all over them. But they never broke out but the boy who told them which leaves to pick really got a bad rash.
Mom went back to Dad because she couldn't get any help from her family to help support them. Her parents wouldn't even take care of use so Mom could work. Dad fathered a son to a woman in Boise - it must have happened while he was there going to school because from leaving Walla Walla to going to Mountain Home was all one school year. In Mountain Home they rented a place while Dad worked on the air base. It was a tent in a place like an unkept trailer park, with whatever kind of temporary housing they could put up. It was across the road from a service station and motel just south of the underpass. Dad had friends named Bennett. Christina learned about colored people. She had a red headed friend who's parents whipped him until his legs were a mass of sores. Then babied him and doctored them until they healed. They would put money on the railroad tracks so the train would run over it and flatten it. An older lady lived in a very small trailer house with a Boston bulldog. She was very upset and cried a lot when FDR died.
Christina had a spell where she couldn't see and had to set on the curb until she could see before going on home after school one day. her eyes were checked but they weren't bad (I know now it was a sinus problem). Mom was the one who needed her eyes checked.
Peggy and Jim H lived in the same park for a while and their son, Gary, killed our goldfish with a fork.
Cyril disliked eggs and if Tommy told him that cake had eggs in it, he wouldn't eat the cake. Cyril didn't talk much.
We lost out first pet dog, a small black and tan about the size of a Chuhuahua. We were playing in the park next to the service station and motel and the dog was setting back a ways from the road, waiting for us to come home. A car came along and went clear off the road to hit him.
Christina cracked a bone in her arm falling out of a tree in the service station park.
Mom tried to teach Christina to dance.
Jim H got drunk and told Dad the hunting story of shooting the deer and the deer shooting him.
Cascade - rented a house across from school. It was one of Johnny S's houses. Adrian was born March 23, 1946. Christina didn't sleep good because of Tommy's wetting the bed and would come home after school and go to sleep in a chair. Donkey Campbell lived next door to Grandma and Grandpa Logue. He got the name Donkey because he worked on a machine that was called a donkey. It used cable to haul logs up the mountain and Donkey to do to a cable what a good cowboy could do to a rope - like making loops and braiding it back into itself. Later Dad bought a 8' X 16' cabin on South 4th Street (pictures). Christina accepted Christ as her Saviour at the Community Bible Church during a revival.
High Valley - Dad worked for Art Hanson. He built a tent frame and we lived there summers - the first year by ourselves then Earl Allen moved in just up the creek from us. He was married to one of the Pattons. The pastor from the church at Cascade visited us that first year but he had moved from Cascade by the time we went back to school that fall. Reba was born in November, 1947.
Wash days were a real chore when we had to do the whole wash on the wash board, but the second year we were in High Valley, Dad wanted a power saw and Mom wouldn't sign for the loan until he agreed to get enough and get her a washing machine. It was still alot of work but so much easier especially when all Reba's messy diapers had to be soaked and rubbed on the wash board.
There was fishing, hunting - bear, deer, grouse - huckleberry picking and trips to town.
In Cascade we lived in a collapsible house. Then at McGregor, in a tent (Dad was piling brush for Boise Cascade). In Emmett Dad bought a trailer house. Cyril was born May 13, 1941. His doctor was CE Carver and when mother named Cyril the nurse, who was the doctor's wife, came in and asked if she wanted to give him the rest of the doctor's name - CE = Cyril Ellis. Mother had found the name Cyril in a book and liked it and Ellis is the only name she could find to go with it, so he wasn't really named after his doctor even if it might have looked that way.
Trail Creek in a trailer house on Salmon River three years, wintering in Cascade. Then Emmett, in a house across from the storage building. Dad helped Grandpa Crawford build a house below the cemetery.
While living in Boise, when Dad was going to sheet metal school, Christina had measles and then pneumonia and was in the hospital in Emmett. A lot of her stuffed toys were lost while they lived there. When they moved to Walla Walla, Christina fell off a sign board and tore a large triangular gash in her arm. She remembers going to the carnival while there, but not with Dad.
When they moved to Lewiston, Mom left Dad. Christina started school in the first grade at a church school. It was about six weeks after school had started, but because of the war and so many people moving in to work on the air bases, they weren't letting six year olds start school. When they moved to Payette, Cyril had measles, mumps and whooping cough all at the same time. It enlarged his tonsils. There are pictures of Christina's birthday, with Tommy, Cyril, and a boy friend (yes, she did have boy friends).
They then moved to Emmett and lived in a small house on River Street, right next to the canal. There was and still is a pipe across the canal there and a very small shallow spot where they played in the water a lot. Tommy, Cyril and Christina stayed alone a lot and went to sleep listening to western music on the radio. A kid who was allergic to poison oak had Christina and Tommy rub some all over them. But they never broke out but the boy who told them which leaves to pick really got a bad rash.
Mom went back to Dad because she couldn't get any help from her family to help support them. Her parents wouldn't even take care of use so Mom could work. Dad fathered a son to a woman in Boise - it must have happened while he was there going to school because from leaving Walla Walla to going to Mountain Home was all one school year. In Mountain Home they rented a place while Dad worked on the air base. It was a tent in a place like an unkept trailer park, with whatever kind of temporary housing they could put up. It was across the road from a service station and motel just south of the underpass. Dad had friends named Bennett. Christina learned about colored people. She had a red headed friend who's parents whipped him until his legs were a mass of sores. Then babied him and doctored them until they healed. They would put money on the railroad tracks so the train would run over it and flatten it. An older lady lived in a very small trailer house with a Boston bulldog. She was very upset and cried a lot when FDR died.
Christina had a spell where she couldn't see and had to set on the curb until she could see before going on home after school one day. her eyes were checked but they weren't bad (I know now it was a sinus problem). Mom was the one who needed her eyes checked.
Peggy and Jim H lived in the same park for a while and their son, Gary, killed our goldfish with a fork.
Cyril disliked eggs and if Tommy told him that cake had eggs in it, he wouldn't eat the cake. Cyril didn't talk much.
We lost out first pet dog, a small black and tan about the size of a Chuhuahua. We were playing in the park next to the service station and motel and the dog was setting back a ways from the road, waiting for us to come home. A car came along and went clear off the road to hit him.
Christina cracked a bone in her arm falling out of a tree in the service station park.
Mom tried to teach Christina to dance.
Jim H got drunk and told Dad the hunting story of shooting the deer and the deer shooting him.
Cascade - rented a house across from school. It was one of Johnny S's houses. Adrian was born March 23, 1946. Christina didn't sleep good because of Tommy's wetting the bed and would come home after school and go to sleep in a chair. Donkey Campbell lived next door to Grandma and Grandpa Logue. He got the name Donkey because he worked on a machine that was called a donkey. It used cable to haul logs up the mountain and Donkey to do to a cable what a good cowboy could do to a rope - like making loops and braiding it back into itself. Later Dad bought a 8' X 16' cabin on South 4th Street (pictures). Christina accepted Christ as her Saviour at the Community Bible Church during a revival.
High Valley - Dad worked for Art Hanson. He built a tent frame and we lived there summers - the first year by ourselves then Earl Allen moved in just up the creek from us. He was married to one of the Pattons. The pastor from the church at Cascade visited us that first year but he had moved from Cascade by the time we went back to school that fall. Reba was born in November, 1947.
Wash days were a real chore when we had to do the whole wash on the wash board, but the second year we were in High Valley, Dad wanted a power saw and Mom wouldn't sign for the loan until he agreed to get enough and get her a washing machine. It was still alot of work but so much easier especially when all Reba's messy diapers had to be soaked and rubbed on the wash board.
There was fishing, hunting - bear, deer, grouse - huckleberry picking and trips to town.
As the family grew and moving around was not helpful to their education, they moved to Garden Valley in 1950 and there Christina graduated from high school.
She then left Garden Valley and stayed with different single mother families, watching their kids while the moms worked.
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| Christine stayed with Aunt Kate after her husband died. |
Finally she met and married - Frank Williamson.
Then came Christi. And later, the two grandchildren.
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| Ame |
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| Devin |
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