A Trip West, 1935    (Page 6 of 7)
On December 8, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signed a proclamation establishing Petrified Forest National Monument. It became a National Park on December 9, 1962.
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In Los Angeles, the Markleys enjoyed a visit with their friends Evarett Mills and his wife Alice. Reverend Mills (shown here with Franklin G. Markley, Jr.) was an evangelist who lived in Los Angeles and spent much of the year traveling with his wife to churches and youth groups throughout the country. It was on one of these visits to Ohio that he met and became friends with the Markleys.
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This photo is labeled  "'The Wee Kirk O'The Heather' Forest Lawn Memorial Park Los Angeles [Glendale], California, 1935."  This chapel would gain worldwide attention 2 years later, in June 1937, as the site of 26-year-old actress Jean Harlow's funeral.  In 1940 the wedding of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman was held in this chapel.
   At left are Mrs. Markley with an inidentified escort, possibly Rev. Mills.
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On the back of this photo is the description "A petrified tree in the National Petrified Forest near Holbrook, Arizona--August, 1935." To the left and right are Gertrude and Franklin G. Markley.
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The exact location of this photograph of Native American children is not know. This picture was taken with a small Brownie camera.
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Though he lived in cities most of his life, Rev. Markley grew up on a farm and found some common ground with these men in New Mexico. He wrote on the back of the picture: "This shows Mr. Albert Roybel R.F.D. #1, Box 19-B, Santa Fe, New Mexico doing his thrashing of wheat. This was about 20 miles toward Taos, N.M."
See Next Page for scans from 1935 Yellowstone Accommodations brochure.
their story . . .
Rev. Franklin G. Markley
Served 50 years as a Methodist minister in cities throughout Ohio
b. 1885   d. 1964		 Franklin G. Markley, Jr.
b. 1926  Now retired and resides in Ohio with his wife Gladys		 Gertrude Markley
Born Gertrude Ethel Wagoner; married F.G. Markley in 1906
b. 1889   d. 1963
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