![]() To this day, she’s the most dominant Scrabble player I have ever played with, including playing against English/Lit majors in college. She’s always been a sharp lady and was great at balancing playtime with focus and study. She became a Rosie the Riveter, working on airplanes during World War II alongside thousands of other women employed in factories to support the wartime effort.īy the time I was born, my grandma’s resume had shifted from building airplanes to baking delicious cookies, giving lots of hugs, and making sure I kept up with my French horn practice. ![]() She moved out to California when she was 18, following in the footsteps of her older sister. ![]() She is one of eight kids who grew up on a farm in a town that has hovered around a population of 1,000 people for the last hundred years. My grandma was born in 1924 in the rural town of Panora, Iowa toward the end of the Greatest Generation. ![]() ![]() For those who aren’t quick with mental math, that was 79 years ago. That’s the year that my Grandma Virgie estimates was the last time she rode a bicycle. ![]()
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