After 9 years of raising daughters, I was blessed with my first son. Quickly realized being a mom to boys was a whole lot different. 😂 Our babies grow up too fast! HAPPY 15TH BIRTHDAY SETH CRABB! #Boymom #rainbowbaby #blessed

letter from Aunt Mary 8-2-20

Yesterday I decided that I'd get food to go and go sit on a bench by the Vaile fountain. I did so, but to my disappointment the fountain wasn't on.

re: Covid-19 "...I don't want to hasten my demise!"

re: THS Alumni Newsletter..."For a memory I wrote that my parents allowed me and my sister FREEDA ('59) to host slumber parties and there was lots of laughter and little sleep. I believe we grew up in the best of times. The newsletters version: "Mary says she believes her parents allowed she and her sister FREEDA ('59) the best of times growing up with lots of laughter a little sleep." Aunt Mary isn't happy they changed HER to SHE. and they made is sound like our entire youth we had little sleep by omitting it was during a slumber party/sleepover. she wrote a letter to the alumni assn. of her disapproval of how they changed to concept with their omission.

Freeda and I worked part time at Joe Collins' broiler ranch during summers for 75cents/hr. we usually made about $15/wk. We would remove the intestines, drop them through an opening in a metal, work table into a trash barrel, hose the chicken out with an overhead faucet, snip off the lower legs and feet and toss the chicken into a tub of ice. Joe had a round, spinning thingie with rubber fingers that beat off the feathers prior to our part. He and his wife furnished our lunches. Your dad worked for Joe some later.

when I was around 8 years old we had a hog named GRUNT.