Grandma Miller
Uncle Garth with Grandma Miller 1971
Uncle Garl, Bill, Billy Gene with Grandma Miller.
Norma and Billy Gene with Grandma Miller. I am not sure the date, but Billy Gene was born in 1968, and he can't be more than two, maybe three here.Looks like Grandma is knitting here.
Posting a comment for Shirley Kunz Williams, daughter of Aunt Jessie and Uncle Ellis who writes: When I was about 10 or 11 years old, I asked Aunt Clara (Grandma Miller) to make a pair of mittens for my dad for Christmas. I purchased some beautiful maroon wool yarn and took it to her. Later she brought the mittens to church for me in a little brown paper bag. I looked at them and was disappointed because they were a natural color with a few
ReplyDeletestitches of maroon in them. I didn't say anything to her, but I did complain to my Mom. She said "Oh honey, don't be disappointed. She has used yarn that she spun, and it is much better than what you took to her. These will wear better even if they aren't so pretty." Well, Dad absolutely loved them. He wore them until he had holes
in them and Mom would patch them and the process was repeated over and over until there just wasn't anything left to patch. Dad's hands were susceptible to cold because when he was about 14 he got a cut in his finger on a barbed wire fence. It was deep and he
got infection in it. It was, of course, before antibiotics and when he got gang green in it they had to amputate it. The surgery was done by Dr. Keith, a lady Doctor in Driggs.
So those pictures remind me of that experience and I love seeing them. I never did get to watch her spin or knit. I didn't spend much time there. I do remember having a Sunday dinner there before Grosmutty died. I went with Carmen Schiess down for dinner and that is about the only time I remember being there. Shirley