Back then my family had no motor vehicle. Not all that many people did. We had to walk anywhere and everywhere we wanted to go. So, my family was pretty slim and had lots of exercise. We were all beautiful young girls, too.

The school my siblings and I attended was the 'Sandy Valley School. As a joke, I called it the 'Sandy Valley Monkey College.' I'm not really sure why, though, I always thought that the kids were pretty well-behaved. This school was a small, two-room schoolhouse, with one classroom on each end of the school. That made two rooms. In one, they taught grades one through four. In the other they taught grades five through eight. My two teachers there were : Miss Mary Marvin and Mrs. Helen Penhall. Miss Marvin had long red hair and we always had a recess. Well, during the recess, I would comb her hair, the whole time. She loved it and I enjoyed it because then I thought I would've liked to have been a beautician. She always said that she was going to take me home because she liked me so much. I think that I would have been considered the 'Teachers Pet'. Also, every day, I would bring in an apple for the teachers. Miss Marvin was a teacher that would spend her day helping you. At the beginning of every day, she would read some of the Bible to us and have us pray, then we would salute the flag. She held these 'Spelling Bees'. That is, if you would win, you would get payed fifty cents. And to make even more money, I would usually stay after class to help clean up the room. I would make sure it was all neat and clean. With that, I earned two dollars. But you only got paid at the end of the month. So, you would have however much you earned from the 'Spelling Bees', and that two dollars, all at the end of the month. Mrs. Penhall, was just as sweet as Miss Marvin. But Mrs. Penhall had a small, terrier dog that she would bring into class. She would yell at it, 'Sit down Judy', when it would bark or act up during class. She was married to a man named Theodore Penhall, 'Teddy' for short. He was in the Navy and then he was discharged and went on to be an insurance man in Reynoldsville. Mrs. Penhall is still living. She lives in Reynoldsville still. Sorry to say, her husband passed away a year or so ago.

Well, with the money I had made at school, I would take my sisters and me, and walk downtown to Reynoldsville, about 3 miles away from home. We would go and watch a 'Cowboy Movie', and a 'Love Story Movie' type thing. It only cost us eleven cents a piece. I was always in love with the Lone Ranger. Then, later, on the walk home, I would buy my sisters and I an ice-cream cone each. There were three of us, and one of us would get vanilla, one would get chocolate, and one would get strawberry. Those only cost about five cents a piece.

Some of the technology of today that was kind of scarce back then is : electricity, telephones, televisions, radios, and motorized vehicles. Cars weren't very popular, but they were around. The oil lamp was our main source of light, even at the schools.

I started my freshman year in school at 'Reynoldsville High School' (RHS) But about my junior year, my mother (Grandma Ethel) got very ill. I had to miss a lot of school to stay home and help take care of her, so, by my senior year, of course she wanted me to return to school, but I was too worried about her. So I never made it to my senior year. If I could go back, I would. I would finish school. About two years after all of this, I met my husband, we got married, then by age twenty-eight we had 4 kids running around. One boy, and three girls.