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Did you ever feel a hatred for another person?  Angry, but never hatred.

Have you ever hunted or tried to capture a wild animal?  We captured some baby rabbits in the middle of the night.  We were camping out with another family, and we were running after baby rabbits in our garments.  What a sight!

Make up a limerick about me
If I could make the draw
I'd choose you for my third daughter-in-law.
I love you!

Relate a favorite spring memory
Watching for the early spring flowers.  We picked dandelions, purple violets, red sagebrush, blue bells, and others.

Share a memory of going to church as you were growing up.
Our church group met in the school house on Sundays.  We held our Sunday School classes in each corner of the building.  Needless to say our church membership was under 100.

Share a memory about a church social activity.  We used to have church dances and the whole family attended - even babies. They'd get the babies asleep and put them on a blanket in the back of the hall.

Tell about Easter traditions. We'd all cook and color our eggs and each of us could choose our own colors and decorations. The next day we'd search the house for eggs and candy.

Did you ever have a recurring dream as a child?  Many times I'd dream I was in the bathroom and doing my thing - This dream led to many a mishap.

When you played make-believe, what did you pretend?  I played as if I were an actress and dancer.  I also gave orations from a pretend dias.

Did you ever write something that you were really proud of?  Poem.  I was ten years old and my brother Ward helped me.  It was so good the teachers kept it.

What is the biggest physical problem you had to deal with?
Obesity
Poun Guesion  (?)

Did you have any superstitions
Going under a ladder.  Having a black cat cross in front of me.  Friday, the 13th.


Tell about the first time you were ever behind the wheel of a car.
When I was about 14, I'd drive the car down to the outside toilet and then back it up, as you couldn't turn it around.

Did you ever take anything that wasn't yours?  Some pins (ornamental) off of the dresses on the sales rack in J.C. Penney.

What did you do with it?  Did you ever get caught?  I wore them.  I never got caught.

What childhood fear do you remember?  Darkness.  Being alone.

Did your mother ever make a special gift for you?  Mother knew I loved her cherry pies  She always baked cherry pie as something special for me.  She had bottled the cherries the summer before - She made excellent pies.

What kind of dances did you do as a youth?  Waltz, Foxtrot, Jitterbug, Cha cha

How many students were in your high school?  In your graduating class?  There were around 300 in my High School and when I graduated in 1943, there were 100 graduates. I loved high school and didn't want it to end.  "I cried".

Did you have homework?  I had very little in elementary but in high school I had a lot of shorthand as homework.

Tell us about Memorial Day traditions during your youth.  We usually went to Payson and purchased fresh flowers for the many graves on my mother's family. We usually ate dinner with one of Mother's cousins.

Did you play a musical instrument?  Only a horn that we all have that goes toot-toot.

Did you ever sleep under the stars?  On my 16th birthday, three girls and four boys gave me a surprise party.  This was in January and the boys slept outside on the haystacks.  The girls wanted to go sleep in the haystacks too, but Mother wouldn't let us.  We just couldn't understand why we couldn't  join the boys.  How dumb was I?

Did you ever go on a snipe hunt?  Yes.  When on a date and with a large group, several of us were invited to go on a snipe hunt and we searched for several minutes before the fellows burst out laughing and told us there were no snipes.  We didn't find it so funny.

Share a horse-riding story.  Once rode a horse around the yard.  Mom had clothes line strung on one side of the yard.  It was one long line with wooden supports.  The horse got frightened and started to run across the yard.  He ran under the line and it knocked me off.  I wasn't hurt, but scared.