My mom, Gertrude Brakke, was a homebody. She liked to read and crochet. She never drove a car; she was content to stay at home and didn't visit or go places much.
She liked to work in the field, picking corn or shocking grain. She drove a team of horses and helped with the milking, milking the cows by hand.
She was always the first one up in the morning. She would start the fires and get breakfast going. She always saw to it that each of us got going. She did our sewing. She always sewed our dresses and aprons.
She liked to can and had a big garden. That was nice. When company came from Iowa, she never worried. She just told us to go downstairs and get beef, peaches and potatos. We always had sauce, peaches, and berries, too. We went down in the trap door to get whatever we needed for dinner.
This is a picture of Mom when she was older.
Photo from Mary's photo album
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