GRANDPARENTS

David B. and Wynona Appleman
David and Wynona had three sons: Daniel, our dad Michael, and Gerry.  They grew up in Santa Monica; eventually David and Wynona moved to the Palisades.  As Granddaddy lived just across the canyon at 547 Muskingum Avenue we visited frequently.  The three of us went over on Saturdays to help in the garden, including mowing the lawns, pruning and weeding, and very often lunch.  We'd throw leaves and trimmings over the edge and bundle up bigger branches to put them out on the curb.  The garden included two macadamia trees, one of which was quite productive, a row of feijoa trees, which produced bags of the fruit, an old avocado tree, a stand of big bamboo, a stand of small bamboo and a rose bed, a more recently added apple tree, and a myrtle tree.  Granddaddy came over here for dinners on Sundays.  On some summers family from the East visited and there would be dinner around the big table or in the outdoor kitchen under the huge pine tree.  At some point he had an upstairs addition built, and for a while a guy named Eddie lived there to help out.  Also for a time I drove him in his green Dodge Dart to UCLA, where he had a lab in the Botany Building.

ARTICLES, NOTES AND PHOTOS 
 
DAVID B. APPLEMAN
 > University of California: In Memoriam, 1995
Scientific Publications


WYNONA APPLEMAN
Co-author of several scientific papers.



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John Milton and Irma E. Webber
J.M. and Irma had a son, Herb (Moose) and a daughter, our mom Irma.  They grew up in Riverside and moved to Berkeley around the time when mom was in high school.  Grandma and Grandpa lived in the house at 500 Arlington Ave..  Most summers Dad would drive us up there and we'd visit for a few days.  The house was very distinctive with wood shingles and diamond-paned windows; we stayed in the rooms downstairs.  Out back was a large oak tree and a shaded, sloping garden.  Out front, where it was sunny, Grandma grew a lot of flowers, and, in the strip by the curb, asparagus plants to discourage people from parking their cars there.  Because of the distance from L.A., we didn't know them as well as Granddaddy.  Items from when Mom and Moose were growing up include scrapbooks and cabinets with specimens of insects, shells and such.

ARTICLES, NOTES AND PHOTOS
 
IRMA E. WEBBER
Biography and Scientific Publications
> USDA National Agricultural Library
> Semantic Scholar

Children's Literature
Up Above & Down Below (William R. Scott, Inc., 1943)
Travelers All, The Story of How Plants Go Places (William R. Scott, Inc., 1944)
Anywhere in the World: The Story of Plant & Animal Adaptation (William R. Scott, Inc., 1947)
Bits That Grow BIG: The Story of Plant Reproduction, With Many Easy-to-Do-Experiments (William R. Scott, Inc. 1949)
It Looks Like This: A Point-Of-View Book (William R. Scott, Inc., 1949)
Thanks to Trees: The Story of Their Use and Conservation (William R. Scott, Inc., 1952)

> University of Minnesota Archival Collections: The collection contains illustrations, typescripts, proofs, and notes for five children's books, including Thanks to Trees and Up Above and Down Below

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JOHN MILTON WEBBER
Biography and Scientific Publications
> USDA National Agricultural Library - Crop Fiber Research Collection: Subseries IV.C. John Milton Webber's Yucca and Phormium File


GREAT GRANDPARENTS

HERBERT JOHN WEBBER
> California Avocado Society 1946 Yearbook 30: 128-29 [PDF from avocadosource.com]
> University of California: In Memoriam, 1946
> Online Archive of California: Herbert J. Webber papers, 2
> Semantic Scholar
ON THE TRAIL OF THE ORANGE
A Poem