IN HER OWN WORDS:
"I was born in Wichita Kans.in 1921
(the house is still there..and my mother died in it
when I was 8 yr.old).
I married at age 17 & moved to California
.where Shara was born when I was 20,
Kathy came along 2 yrs later.
I was "Rosie the Riviter" until my husband went to war.
The girls and I moved back to Kansas
where Terri was born.

I worked at Boeing, after learning accounting, and moved from Wichita to the Seattle Boeing plant,
where I won a Employee of the Year award
for a suggestion I made.

(Shara's note: Mother is being too modest here: The award was for "Boeing 'Man of the Year'. She was the first woman ever to win this award and it was for revising their entire bookkeeping system.)

I then went to work at the University of Washington Medical School,
research div. until I retired.
My girls all grew up , but we keep in touch (even Kathy) and
and I am happily married again to a sweet man
who takes me on lots of trips in our RV. "