PERSONAL SYNOPSIS..
The oldest child of Earl Collins and Mabel DeLong Heflin, Wilma Catherine HEFLIN Beach, was a very strong, tenacious woman who had to shoulder more than her share throughout her lifetime. Strait-laced, no nonsense, tough as nails -- but Wilma could have a good-ol' time as well. A supportive mother, she raised her three boys pretty much in spite of the often tumultuous life that was thrown her way; then, she raised some of their children.
Wilma typified the hardy "cross-over" mélange of the two primary cultures of the initial early settlers of Tipton and Madison Counties – Buckeye and Old Dominion (via Kentucky) States bred and born. Even her middle name, Catherine – with a "C", is a hold-over from the first immigrants of the area of Berks County, Pennsylvania, from which her Alsatian DeLong-surname forebearers hailed.
Whilst her three siblings lived a high society life, Wilma, or "Sissy", as she was called, remained down-to-earth and kept it "real", honoring and preserving ONE HUNDRED YEARS (1885-1985) of local generational family roots through her numerous descendants who enable -- yet and still -- those relies who have wandered afar to always have a place called HOME.
The oldest child of Earl Collins and Mabel DeLong Heflin, Wilma Catherine HEFLIN Beach, was a very strong, tenacious woman who had to shoulder more than her share throughout her lifetime. Strait-laced, no nonsense, tough as nails -- but Wilma could have a good-ol' time as well. A supportive mother, she raised her three boys pretty much in spite of the often tumultuous life that was thrown her way; then, she raised some of their children.
Wilma typified the hardy "cross-over" mélange of the two primary cultures of the initial early settlers of Tipton and Madison Counties – Buckeye and Old Dominion (via Kentucky) States bred and born. Even her middle name, Catherine – with a "C", is a hold-over from the first immigrants of the area of Berks County, Pennsylvania, from which her Alsatian DeLong-surname forebearers hailed.
Whilst her three siblings lived a high society life, Wilma, or "Sissy", as she was called, remained down-to-earth and kept it "real", honoring and preserving ONE HUNDRED YEARS (1885-1985) of local generational family roots through her numerous descendants who enable -- yet and still -- those relies who have wandered afar to always have a place called HOME.
PERSONAL SYNOPSIS..
The oldest child of Earl Collins and Mabel DeLong Heflin, Wilma Catherine HEFLIN Beach, was a very strong, tenacious woman who had to shoulder more than her share throughout her lifetime. Strait-laced, no nonsense, tough as nails -- but Wilma could have a good-ol' time as well. A supportive mother, she raised her three boys pretty much in spite of the often tumultuous life that was thrown her way; then, she raised some of their children.
Wilma typified the hardy "cross-over" mélange of the two primary cultures of the initial early settlers of Tipton and Madison Counties – Buckeye and Old Dominion (via Kentucky) States bred and born. Even her middle name, Catherine – with a "C", is a hold-over from the first immigrants of the area of Berks County, Pennsylvania, from which her Alsatian DeLong-surname forebearers hailed.
Whilst her three siblings lived a high society life, Wilma, or "Sissy", as she was called, remained down-to-earth and kept it "real", honoring and preserving ONE HUNDRED YEARS (1885-1985) of local generational family roots through her numerous descendants who enable -- yet and still -- those relies who have wandered afar to always have a place called HOME.
The oldest child of Earl Collins and Mabel DeLong Heflin, Wilma Catherine HEFLIN Beach, was a very strong, tenacious woman who had to shoulder more than her share throughout her lifetime. Strait-laced, no nonsense, tough as nails -- but Wilma could have a good-ol' time as well. A supportive mother, she raised her three boys pretty much in spite of the often tumultuous life that was thrown her way; then, she raised some of their children.
Wilma typified the hardy "cross-over" mélange of the two primary cultures of the initial early settlers of Tipton and Madison Counties – Buckeye and Old Dominion (via Kentucky) States bred and born. Even her middle name, Catherine – with a "C", is a hold-over from the first immigrants of the area of Berks County, Pennsylvania, from which her Alsatian DeLong-surname forebearers hailed.
Whilst her three siblings lived a high society life, Wilma, or "Sissy", as she was called, remained down-to-earth and kept it "real", honoring and preserving ONE HUNDRED YEARS (1885-1985) of local generational family roots through her numerous descendants who enable -- yet and still -- those relies who have wandered afar to always have a place called HOME.
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