My Grandparents . . .  My Dad's Parents

 

Frances Haley Elmore Chiles & Olin Ionis Chiles

 

My Grandmother's Antiques

 

My Grandmother's Poetry

 

My Parents,

 

Jim and Dorothy Chiles

Lieutenant James Olin Chiles and Dorothy Ruth Lindenmayer Chiles

 

Children are a Gift from God. 

 

    

 

Frances "Haley"

Annaliese

Robin Elizabeth

 

 

My Sister and her Husband,

 

  

Charlene and Ruedi

 Ruedi is from Aldorf Switzerland.

 

Sisters . . .

 

Charlene and Diana

 

 

Diana . . .

 

the days of my youth!

 

My Grandparents . . . My Mother's Parents

 

              

Olga Mae Robinson & Gottlieb David Lindenmayer, Sr.

 

William Henry Lindenmayer -- Our Uncle Bill	G. David Lindenmayer, Jr. -- Our Uncle Dave

 

 

 

One of the letters that my father wrote to my mother

while he was a young Navy Pilot on the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier

included this following statement,

which has been an inspiration for me and for my family:

 

 

"One last word on this subject. 

Do not despair for the uncertainty of the future. 

It has looked black before. 

Someone has always come through, 

and if trouble develops, why can't it be us. 

If the end of the world itself comes, and judgment day,

then so much the better,

for you and I, and our children 

will have gone to a better place anyhow. 

The insurance I have in which I place my stock is the assurance

that I will go to Heaven come what may, war with Russia or what not. 

With faith in God and this assurance, how can we loose?  We can't.

                                                                                                                                        Lt. James Olin Chiles

                                                                                                                                        December 2, 1947

                                                                                                                                        U.S.S. Midway