Saturday, May 10, 2014

Mother’s Day thoughts

jadeidcar

This is my mother with her younger brother John Dietz, probably in 1938 or 1939 on their farm in Carroll County, Indiana.

Mom was a nursing student at Indiana University in Indianapolis. Her brother died in the autumn of 1939 of head injuries suffered in a horseback riding accident. Her mother died about the same time.

So this photo was shot a few weeks or months before a big part of her world collapsed.

But she was game and became the first person in her family to get a college education. She stayed home with me for much of my childhood while dad’s insurance agency and real estate business paid the bills.

She worked for a year or so in a hospital, then spent the rest of her working life as a nurse in a local doctor’s office.

She was a wonderful mother and I miss her every day, especially on Mother’s Day.

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