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Contributed by: Barbara Plungy on 1/24/2008

My mom was never athletic but worked like a horse. She moved from the farm into the city in order to become a domestic and work her way through high school in 1937. She married and had five live births and three miscarriages. The last living child was developmentally disabled.

She coped... until Dad was bedridden with cancer. As her husband lay dying, she ran the farm, lifting two bales of hay at a time, and ran the dairy testing business. This involved using sulfiric acid to obtain the butterfat content from cow's milk. She ran herself ragged, until she fainted one day. I came home to ambulances...and a mom in the hospital. To this day, she has horrible scars. She buried dad and kept running the farm and worked at a dress shop.

She married again in 1960 only to have Arnie be killed in a car accident just three years later. My brother Bobbie was killed in a motorcycle accident a year later. She carried on, always taking care of my sister Jean. She then married again and John Daron died some 24 years later; she always joked that she wanted to get to 25 years just once! She took care of Jeannie until she was 85 and then fell and broke her hip. Yet she still battles her Parkinsons everyday. She was instrumental in fighting for the developmentally diasabled and farmers. She is one tough old broad...stronger in mind and heart than anyone else.

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Submitted By: Bill Prather

posted on 2/4/2008 @ 3:45:50 PM

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Sounds like a very stong woman! As the parent of a developmentally disabled child, I applaud your mother's work.

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Submitted By: Gail Kirkegaard

posted on 1/25/2008 @ 11:02:52 AM

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The first remark to come to my mind is now cliche, but it really fits your mom, "You go girl!"

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