This is a picture of my Father James R. Hassall and my Mother Inez holding my sister Kathern Inez. I am standing on my mother's right (David Reed Hassall) and my brother James Richard Hassall is standing in front of my dad. This picture was taken in Dulce, New Mexico where my father worked for the Reformed Church of America at the Walter C. Roe Memorial Mission. This was one of the Dutch Reformed Chruches missions to the Jicarilla Apache Indians that was built in 1905 when the indians were moved to this reservation. My mother Inez was a teacher and taught in the Indian school at Dulce, New Mexico for a couple of years. She contracted Typhoid and had to give up her teaching. She taught the beginners or what we now call kindergarden. Most of the kids in her class were right off the reservation and spoke very little or no english and it was her job to teach them enough to be able to go into the first grade. She also helped my dad with his duties at the mission. There was always more work to do than there were people to do it so the wives and children of the mission staff were always additional hands to help with the work. My dad left the mission in 1959 and moved to Espanola, New Mexico where he worked as an agent for the Prudential Life Insurance Company until his death in 1970. My mother stayed in Espanola after dad's death and worked for the DeVargas Insurance Agency in Espanola, Taught senior swiming lessons at the local pool until sickness forced her to give it up. She was active in the Espanola community, in seniors clubs, women's clubs and an official in the Order of the Eastern Star. She passed away in 1993 at the age of 76.