Collingsworth County Museum visitors Enrique Rojas and Stephanie Garcia, along with one-year-old daughter Nevaeh, peer into the dollhouse kit ordered by Phyllis Floyd for her daughters. Purchased from Sears & Roebuck in 1979, her husband, Ray Floyd, had the tedious job of helping assemble the life-like replica. The Red River Sun/Bev Odom
Collingsworth County Museum Curator Karen Caldwell highlights the doll collection made by the late Inez and Mabel Clement, which used real hair from family members. The late Lora Mae Sexton, Judy Wischkaemper’s mother, gave the late Ruth Caldwell, Karen’s mom, the doll, sitting on the antique multi-use child’s chair, near her feet.
WELLINGTON – Exploring in a back-room storage area of Collingsworth County Museum, Curator Karen Caldwell and Volunteer Glenda Anglin found a box of carefully wrapped porcelain dolls, the collection of an early day local pioneer, the late Fannie Mae Bennett.
From that moment, Caldwell began designing displays to exhibit, not only the Bennett collection of dolls, but a substantial nu...
