Born and raised in Texas, lived here all her life but she loved to travel. When she finally go to go to Europe she was in her 60's and as excited as a child.
She valued education and saved money weekly so that her children could go to college. Her mother worked in various cotton mills throughout central Texas and they moved often when she was growing up. A move to Waco in the late 1920's made it her home for about 15 years. She graduated from Waco High School and a big highlight of her life was going to her 50th Class Reunion.
She shared many stories of her years living in Waco and I grew up thinking that Cameron Park and the zoo were her favorite haunts other than the downtown movie theatre. She lived on what is now a street absorbed into the Baylor University campus, and she attended classes there for a short while. She went to business college in Waco, she worked in Waco until she moved to Dallas in the early 1940's. She would window shop downtown, see a dress she liked, go home and describe it to her mother who proceeded to make it for her sans pattern.
My mother was a bookkeeper, and in her later years did accounts data input into "the machine" (she never learned to call it a computer!) until she retired.
in ways she was an extraordinary woman, in other ways she was simply doing her best to be the best mother that she could be. She raised her son and daughter to work, be independent, honest, and to love Jesus.
Hers is, I believe, a classic beauty, and I now know from my genealogy research that she looks like her paternal grandmother. I was happy when I was able to have her thick, still mostly black, hair French braided when she was laid to rest. The photo posted here remains my favorite of all I have of her.
She valued education and saved money weekly so that her children could go to college. Her mother worked in various cotton mills throughout central Texas and they moved often when she was growing up. A move to Waco in the late 1920's made it her home for about 15 years. She graduated from Waco High School and a big highlight of her life was going to her 50th Class Reunion.
She shared many stories of her years living in Waco and I grew up thinking that Cameron Park and the zoo were her favorite haunts other than the downtown movie theatre. She lived on what is now a street absorbed into the Baylor University campus, and she attended classes there for a short while. She went to business college in Waco, she worked in Waco until she moved to Dallas in the early 1940's. She would window shop downtown, see a dress she liked, go home and describe it to her mother who proceeded to make it for her sans pattern.
My mother was a bookkeeper, and in her later years did accounts data input into "the machine" (she never learned to call it a computer!) until she retired.
in ways she was an extraordinary woman, in other ways she was simply doing her best to be the best mother that she could be. She raised her son and daughter to work, be independent, honest, and to love Jesus.
Hers is, I believe, a classic beauty, and I now know from my genealogy research that she looks like her paternal grandmother. I was happy when I was able to have her thick, still mostly black, hair French braided when she was laid to rest. The photo posted here remains my favorite of all I have of her.
Born and raised in Texas, lived here all her life but she loved to travel. When she finally go to go to Europe she was in her 60's and as excited as a child.
She valued education and saved money weekly so that her children could go to college. Her mother worked in various cotton mills throughout central Texas and they moved often when she was growing up. A move to Waco in the late 1920's made it her home for about 15 years. She graduated from Waco High School and a big highlight of her life was going to her 50th Class Reunion.
She shared many stories of her years living in Waco and I grew up thinking that Cameron Park and the zoo were her favorite haunts other than the downtown movie theatre. She lived on what is now a street absorbed into the Baylor University campus, and she attended classes there for a short while. She went to business college in Waco, she worked in Waco until she moved to Dallas in the early 1940's. She would window shop downtown, see a dress she liked, go home and describe it to her mother who proceeded to make it for her sans pattern.
My mother was a bookkeeper, and in her later years did accounts data input into "the machine" (she never learned to call it a computer!) until she retired.
in ways she was an extraordinary woman, in other ways she was simply doing her best to be the best mother that she could be. She raised her son and daughter to work, be independent, honest, and to love Jesus.
Hers is, I believe, a classic beauty, and I now know from my genealogy research that she looks like her paternal grandmother. I was happy when I was able to have her thick, still mostly black, hair French braided when she was laid to rest. The photo posted here remains my favorite of all I have of her.
She valued education and saved money weekly so that her children could go to college. Her mother worked in various cotton mills throughout central Texas and they moved often when she was growing up. A move to Waco in the late 1920's made it her home for about 15 years. She graduated from Waco High School and a big highlight of her life was going to her 50th Class Reunion.
She shared many stories of her years living in Waco and I grew up thinking that Cameron Park and the zoo were her favorite haunts other than the downtown movie theatre. She lived on what is now a street absorbed into the Baylor University campus, and she attended classes there for a short while. She went to business college in Waco, she worked in Waco until she moved to Dallas in the early 1940's. She would window shop downtown, see a dress she liked, go home and describe it to her mother who proceeded to make it for her sans pattern.
My mother was a bookkeeper, and in her later years did accounts data input into "the machine" (she never learned to call it a computer!) until she retired.
in ways she was an extraordinary woman, in other ways she was simply doing her best to be the best mother that she could be. She raised her son and daughter to work, be independent, honest, and to love Jesus.
Hers is, I believe, a classic beauty, and I now know from my genealogy research that she looks like her paternal grandmother. I was happy when I was able to have her thick, still mostly black, hair French braided when she was laid to rest. The photo posted here remains my favorite of all I have of her.
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