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"Now they do for me," Mrs. Kendall said. "It’s a wonderful feeling to have friends like that.”
Her memories of Washington center primarily around its children. She remembers Circuit Court Judge Raynor V. Snead as “bashful little Ray” and recalls that Ruby Jenkins, VPI Extension Secretary and Washington museum proprietor, had the prettiest hair of all the little girls with her long shiny red curls.
She remembers Judge William Moffett as a chubby youngster and Washington Mayor Newbill Miller as the nicest boy in the neighborhood. She recalls Dorothy and George Davis’ son as blonde and bashful “Georgie Porgie.”
“Oh yes, I knew them all—all the children,” she smiled.
Arrived in 1918
Mrs. Kendall came to Rappahannock for the first time with her husband in 1918 to visit his Aunts Lydia and Molly. Washington has changed a lot since her trips in the early part of the century, when street lights were oil lanterns set on poles.
“We used to come to town with our own lantern until we
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