52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week #19 theme is Food and Drink.  

We were always told that our maternal Grand Daddy, R. E. (Dick) Avera, had a candy store in Frederick Oklahoma.  His only child, Bess, our mom, even told us that the name of his store was the Queen Bess. This week in a newspaper dot com search for Frederick Oklahoma, I found this 1929 ad. So now we know that the name of the store was Candyland and he served food and drinks, and ice cream, at the soda fountain, as well as the candies he made himself on big marble slabs.  Queen Bess was one type of candy he made. Oddly, my mom didn't like chocolate much, but in later years he always presented family members with Whitman's Sampler candy boxes. And we often keep up that tradition today.