From Cousin James (Jim)  and our summer visits to Lawrence --
One of my Dad's (Noel) summer vacation treats was to visit each of his 3 brothers on his 2 week summer vacation.  We lived in Spokane WA and Mom (teacher) and Dad (Carnation Co.) would make a "run to Kansas" about 1700 miles each way. We tried to take different routes  and stop and see points of interest  each year.  We made the trips each year from 1950 to 1959.   Our Lawrence stop was busy with 4 cousins to visit.  We would always stay over night and seem to stuff ever minute with some activity.  I'll just note a few that stand out in a rambling fashion.
Each evening was interrupted with a trip into town and a stop at the AW Root Beer stand -- cold root beers in a "frosted glass mug" and much laughter and story telling.   One afternoon, Curtis climbed up the ladder of their Model 55 John Deer Combine -- that was sitting in the yard -- and flopped down in the "drivers seat" and proudly announced that he was the "Captain of the Space Ship" -  we all had a good chuckle.   And then April 13, 1970, 15 some years later he help re-write the re-entry computer code for the Apollo 13.
One summer I was invited to spend a week with them and experience farm life.  They "experience me" !    The boys taught me how to move irrigation pipe in corn 2 or 3 feet taller than we were, and in 6 or more inches of mud.  We only had to move it 10 or 12 rows.   Used pitch folks with the middle tine removed. Thankfully the rows were only about a 1/4 mile long.
Moving milk cows from the milking barn to pasture across a lazy creek.
Climbing up the 40 foot plus silo and inside, to level out the silage.  And watching the milk cows sip the juices running out from the bottom with their tails high in the air.
The evenings were spent playing Monopoly - BW TV had just been invented --  hadn't made it to the farm yet.
And the nights we spent sleeping upstairs, with the windows all open, in hope of a breeze.  One quite night, I asked about the noise out side --  they said it was "the corn growing".  Some yeas later I had the chance to experience it, standing in a corn field one evening  -- they were right !
I think one of his greatest accomplishment for the Robb family, was the incredible devotion that he spent compiling and assembling our family tree.   A magnificent  amount of history preserved for us and for the other members of the Robb family to follow.
Thank you Curtis --  may you rest in peace.