A Papa-less family

Papa died of heart failure in 1920. They have told me that he was in bed a lot before he died. I used a "walker" to walk up to his bed and whisper, “Pa-Pa.” I don't remember him as I was only nine months old when he died. But he must have been my father figure for those nine months, since Mother would not let my father play that role.
When Papa died, the three women, Mama, Lura—the second daughter, and my mother Johnnie were left alone in the family home with me.
Aunt Sister, the oldest daughter, had married Mack Houston on the 2nd of November, and so had left home when my mother was about two years old.
Mack, the spoiled son of a country doctor, was more or less a ne'er-do-well. I guess he was an alcoholic, but I never saw him inebriated. No one in our family drank alcohol. Aunt Sister adored Mack, though, and he was a loving husband and father.
Mack and Aunt Sister had 6 children—Agnes, Ethel, Guy, Dan, Ben, and Dottie Jean—over lots of years. The two older girls were teachers and worked to help rear the younger children.
Uncle Dan, the second oldest child, and his wife Velma lived in Athens. He was elected County Clerk there. After that, he and Velma both taught school.
The third daughter, Aunt Eva, had married Bill Garner. Their children, Beth Ann and Billy, were born in Murchison. Soon after Billy was born they moved to Commerce, in Hunt County, when Bill got a transfer on his railroad telegraph job. (Bill had grown up in Hunt County.)