The Life and Times of William Sand Mueller

Sissy Spacek, Norah Jones, Laura Bush, Janis Joplin, Dale Evans,  Georgia O'Keeffe, Mary Kay Ash (Of Mary Kay cosmetics), Ann Richards Laura Bush writes about how west Texas shaped her.  "You know, the landscape is so barren. There's no room for artifice. You have to be who you are." ***** Kathleen Elizabeth Sawyer was born on July 18th, 1921 in Hillsboro, Texas to Ferman and Laura Beulah Sawyer. Her family lived nearby in an even smaller town, Osceola, Texas, south of the Dallas/Fort Worth area.  Kathleen was the second child, her sister, Fermanetta, had been born in 1918.  Ferman was a school superintendent, Laura stayed at home.  A few newspaper blurbs of the day mention Ferman. The Amarillo Globe Times, March 3, 1925 & Pampa Daily News, June 1, 1936 Kay grew up primarily in Canadian, Texas.  Canadian, founded in 1908, served as the county seat and is located in the Eastern part of the Texas panhandle, near the Oklahoma border.  It has bee

My name is Arena Marsh Mueller.  I was named after my father, William Sand Mueller, who goes by Sand.  Arena means Sand in Spanish.  My mother's name is Marsha, so I really have parts of both of their names in mine. Once, when I was young and collecting autographs from everyone in my life, a family friend wrote: Arena~From Sand and Marsh your name has come. And as you live in the grist mill of life, may the bread you eat be one of happiness.   A perfect inscription in my Care Bear Autograph book.  The sentiment even captures the origin of our family surname.  Mueller meaning miller in German.  Anyway, my dad and I have decided to collaborate on this project which will outline .... his life and times.  I am interested in setting down history for our family.  My dad is interested in having many of his unique experiences, perspectives and evolution known and preserved.  He is seventy-three, recently moved into a tiny home on my sister's property, and has a bit of tim