SUNDAY MEMORIES
Judy Wills
6. Every time we go to Virginia to visit, we always like to drive by our old house.
Photo Credit Judy Wills
We lived in that house nearly 13 years, and really loved it. We notice changes that were made from when we lived there. When we purchased the house, it had brown shutters (for looks only) on the windows. After Fred found decay and critters in the shutters, he removed them. There are now forest green shutters on all the windows. Looks nice, and we don’t have to care for them. There were evergreen trees just beside the front door that are now gone, and only small shrubs are all across the front of the house now.
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When we lived there, someone before us had made a patio in the back of the house out of slate stones.
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I could stretch a line across from a tree to the trellis there, and hang clothes and sheets on that line to dry. I now saw that a deck had been built over that patio, that looked quite nice. But no hanging clothes there now! They had also added a shed in the backyard. We did have a nice, large backyard with lots of trees – almost 1/2 acre of land for the house and yard.
We purchased this house in Seaford, Virginia in 1983. Wikipedia states: Seaford is an unincorporated community in York County, Virginia, United States, on the Virginia Peninsula. As of the 2010 Census, the Seaford postal area (ZIP Code 23696) had a population of 3,669.
And Wikipedia also states: Seaford is mostly a rural area and includes Seaford Road and the roads attached to it. There are different neighborhoods within Seaford, some of these include Port Meyers, Sommerville, and Cheadle Loop. Seaford is located on multiple creeks including Chisman Creek and Back Creek, both of which lead out to the York River, which eventually takes you to the Chesapeake Bay. Most people in Seaford work in the surrounding areas such as, Newport News, Hampton, and Williamsburg.
We lived in the neighborhood off Cheadle Loop.
As we drove through Seaford, we reminisced about people we had known who lived in Seaford and what house they had lived in. We remembered the first pastor of our church in Seaford when we arrived in 1983 – Jim Weston. He was a single man at that time. But he eventually married and he and his wife had children, and he built a house along the water in Seaford. Literally built that house himself! It was a bit of an odd-shaped building, but was more unique than weird! The man who was Fred’s dentist at the time also lived in a house near the water in Seaford. We wondered whether or not he was still there and living in the house that was his. His children would be grown by this time. He and his family came to our church.
7. Driving around Seaford we noticed some new sub-communities within the small community of Seaford itself. I can just hear the Seafordites now: we don’t want Seaford to grow more! We want it to be kept small! (We heard these types of comments when we lived there) Well cupcake, times change, and growth is inevitable. And Seaford has to grow as well.
And that reminds me that, while we were living there, a Vietnamese family had purchased a house in Seaford and essentially turned it into a restaurant. They served really good food in that little house, and we enjoyed eating there many times. There was a local newspaper from Yorktown, called The Yorktown Crier, that published a story on this family and their eatery in Seaford. That story increased their business so much that they moved from Seaford into Newport News – and the business failed. We were sorry to see that happen to them. We just wished they had stuck it out in Seaford, but they didn’t.
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Judy is living in Central Florida with her retired U.S. Air Force husband of 50+ years. Born in Dallas, Texas, she grew up in the Southwestern United States.She met her husband at their church, where he was attending the university in her town. After college and seminary, he entered the Air Force, and their adventures began.They lived in eight of our United States, and spent six years in Europe, where their oldest daughter was born. She was a stay-at-home mom for many years .
Judy has always been involved with music, both playing the piano and singing. Always interested in exercise, she was an aerobic dancing instructor, as well as a piano teacher for many years, and continues to faithfully exercise at home.
After moving to Central Florida, she served as a church secretary for nearly nine years.Her main hobby at this point in time is scanning pictures and 35mm slides into the computer. She also enjoys scrapbooking.She and her husband have two married daughters and four grandchildren, including grandtwins as well as a great-grandson and a great-granddaughter. She and her husband enjoy the Disney parks as often as possible.
Old Things R New 
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