A couple of days ago, I wrote about my sister Helen. Tuesday, I attended her final service, held in Texas. It was a tribute planned by her children and grandchildren and Helen would have been pleased because her life centered around her family. Each one told a bit about what she had meant to them. They shared warm […]
Jun 4, 2013
Etta–A Dear, Familiar Place
·This is the final part of my sister Helen’s thoughts about our grandparents, Levi and Edna Latty, and life on the farm at Etta Bend. “When I hear anything about Nixon’s ‘Watergate’, I get a flashback to Pappy’s ‘watergap’ and I giggle. Anyway, the watergap of my childhood was a fence of vertical boards hung […]