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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
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Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
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 Posted - Oct 20 2019 : 8:04:23 PM
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My mother was a Rosie the Riviter along with her two sisters, they wore a uniform and built airplanes in California. My mother was very brave. She traveled by bus from Texas to California. When She arrived no one was there to pick her up. Someone told her to stand in a certain place to wait for a city bus.Which she did. Finally a bus came along that was going to the neighborhood she needed to get to. ( I think I would have sat down on the curb and cried.) But I remind myself that the world was much safer then, except for the war.
Now for the funny part. After a few days of looking she found an upstairs room to rent. But when she brought her soldier husband "home" the land lady would not allow him to go up to the room she had rented. So the next morning she boarded another city bus to search for another place to stay, so she and my future daddy could spend some time together when he got leave. I think this was LA in 1942! After she located a place to live then she got the job at the aircraft factory. |
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debbieklann
True Blue Farmgirl
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Debbie
Madras
OR
USA
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Posted - Nov 09 2019 : 09:20:04 AM
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I have been wanting to share this picture of Brad's great grandma since this thread was started. I was finally able to get the files for our old pictures. It was taken in the early 1900s, not sure of the date. I would guess sometime between when they moved in 1904 and the 20s. Her name was Cora Luelling and was quite the farm wife. She and her 6 children grubbed out sagebrush so that the new fields could be planted while her husband was busy with his freighting business. She raised her chickens and sold her eggs and butter in town for things they needed. She also owned one of the first cameras in the newly formed county and documented everything going on. She built her own darkroom in an upstairs bedroom and developed her own pictures. Brad's cousin still has all of her negatives that are actually printed on 8x10" pieces of glass. Families had to work so hard back then just to survive and try and make a living! Their ingenuity keep-going attitude are inspiring!
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Debbie Klann
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2018 Farmgirl Sister of the Year
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levisgrammy
Scattered Prairie Hen Honcho
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Denise
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Nov 09 2019 : 12:52:07 PM
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| Our lives are nothing like the lives of those people who came before. Honestly, we have it much easier than they ever dreamed of having it. If it wasn't for them we wouldn't though. God bless them! |
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Sister #43
"I am a bookaholic with no desire to be cured."
"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path"
Psalm 119:105
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
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Posted - Nov 09 2019 : 3:10:11 PM
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| She reminds me of my maternal grandma, who had chickens, and sold her eggs. She saved enough money twice to do major remodels, in order to make a home for her family. My mother told me that she was about eight when the carpenters came and removed their roof, in order to add on to the tiny house they lived in. Thankfully it was summer and my mother fell in love with the night time sky and beautiful stars at that time. Then when My mother was 18 and in college they moved and Grandma had saved $700 more $$$ from eggs to turn a chicken house into a new rock home for them. My mother always referred to that house As mamma's house. Her childhood home was on the mountain near Ireland Texas. |
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
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Posted - Nov 09 2019 : 3:14:20 PM
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| Debbie don't you just love how determined they were? I'm glad her negatives were saved. Now days people do not value things that they worked so hard for. |
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Women: The Great Depression & WWII
