Strong Woman—Mom

Mom for mono Monday!

She was born in a time period when women gained the right to vote but few ran for office or were elected - she grew up in a working class family that raised chickens in their back yard and tried to hide when cleaning the chickens was going on . Her mom and her sisters and aunts all gathered to do canning so there would be plenty to eat all year. Her father brewed “root beer” in the basement altho I suspect other stuff may have been brewed in their cellar as it was during prohibition .

She lost both her parents by 22 and then married young . She went to collage when few woman did— was a math major on bc a scholarship and my dads family helped her and her younger sister get their degrees. She has a variety of jobs and lived on her own during the war years when my dad was stationed overseas in France.
She worked several jobs eventually helping the family tree business out as their bookkeeper. She was my Girl Scout troop leader for 14 years and raised four kids —- but her real love in life was —- her years in high school marching band!! She proudly played and matched with her flute — her high school band traveled to Chicago for a marching band contest and kept a scrapbook and journal of that time period .
There’s so much more but that’s all for now! To her dismay I stunk as a flute player , matched with cymbals and played an oboe:)
Mom was strong in so many many ways , but still felt the inequities of her time and felt inadequacies because of the discrimination that held all woman down . It was hard for her to really break loose from the social “shoulds” for woman of her day .
( I’m making up fir that lol )