Grace Vandevert McNellis (Gracie)

 Grace at age 3 and, at right, Grace with her sister and brother, Mary Jean and Claude

Grace the fisherman, the graduate, the young woman

Grace brought her five sons back to visit her father and the ranch many times. Tom McNellis, her eldest son, writes:

"This old photo (taken by cousin Roger Vandevert in 1976) brought back some great memories of the dusty cinder stone road leading from Highway 97 into the Ranch.  As young boys, all of us would get so excited once we hit this road on our long trips down there.  We just couldn't wait to run up to the old rock pile and hunt for arrow heads or go fishing down the Little Deschutes or explore the old house.   There were millions of things to do there and we just couldn't wait to get started.  Sometimes, Grandpa would sit with us in his old lawn chair in front of the big picture window of the little house and tell us stories about when the Indians would come to visit them many years before.  Just being there was like taking a step back into a much more wonderful time in America."