My Aunt Lamie - actually born Lambertine Younger - aka Pat, Skinny and a couple of other nicknames. She actually went down the widow trail twice. The first time in 1974 and the second in 2002. She has 4 kids (3 boys & 1 girl) and 7 grandkids. Aunt Lamie lived most of her life between California and Sedonia Arizona. When her husband Kenneth died in 2002 she thought she was coming to Colorado to die but has learned instead to live, laugh & dance as a widow.
On our trip to Kansas we had to search high and low for the ditch my grandparents found her in. You see Aunt Lamie is really tall and she tells us her Mom told her they found her in a basket in some ditch. She wanted to find her birthplace. Never did find the ditch but did find the farm where they were born. Well maybe not the whole farm but at least the foundation of the house and the barn.
It's fun to listen to their stories of life during and after the depression. Living through sandstorms that would eventually bring them to Colorado in a 1932 Whippit. Did you know there was even such a car as a Whippit? We actually googled it! So many more stories to tell and hear........................
very interesting. do you find that the older you get, the more important things of the past are?
ReplyDeleteI'm finding that out. Yay for Aunt Lamie.
Things that used to be important aren't so much anymore and yes it seems a need to cling to some of those stories. My inlaws died in 1992 within 3 months of each other. They took so many stories and memories to their grave. We can't get them back. I would encourage everyone to ask their parents, grandparents, aunt & uncles for their life stories and either write them down or record them.
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