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The Lockes

Jacob and Joyce Locke first moved to Oak Cliff when they started having children 52 years ago, because they wanted to settle down in a nice neighborhood. When their daughter, Jerri, moved out and started a family, she didn’t go far for long. She moved in next door to her parents on montclair Avenue.

Jerri says she likes having her parents as next-door neighbors because she gets to be with them in the “fun years,” instead of just coming around for special occasions, or when they’re sick or have a problem.

Although Joyce and Jacob are close to 80, they seem much younger.

“Grandpa gets on the floor and plays with the girls, while grandma’s in the kitchen cooking dinner for the family,” she says. Jerri’s daughters, Grace and Annabel, who she adopted from China, love to watch grandma cook, and help every chance that they get. “If the girls are helping grandma cut vegetables, she’s right there and patient,” Jerri says.

Jacob walks to rosemont elementary School every school day to pick up his grandchildren, just as he walked to get his daughters years ago, stopping to say “hello” or chat with neighbors along the way. Joyce has been a volunteer at edgefield Church of Christ for many years, and the couple also volunteers at methodist Dallas medical Center, where Jerri works.

everything in this family is done with humor, so it’s no surprise that Jerri couldn’t think of one negative aspect of living next to the house where she grew up. Although, her own house is part of the family’s history as well. Jerri says that when she and her sisters were growing up, “a mean old woman” lived in the house where she lives now. It’s hard to believe that the house, which was such a source of anxiety for them, has now turned into a house of immense love, she says.

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