Page 17 - Amarillo Senior Link Magazine Summer 2021 - Online Magazine

CELEBRATING A CENTURY

women and would kick the bucket care of others. She thought for a
over when a female milked her. This minute and added that they should
was a time when “everybody helped work hard and love their families.
each other”; everyone was “in the
same boat, and they didn’t know any Thinking back on her growing up
different.” years, Dorothy remembers that it was
hard. Crops failed, and cows died;
She smiled a little as she told me that wars came and went; dirt continued
her mother made all of her clothes. to blow. But her family, like all the
She had three school dresses and one other farming families, did what they
pair of school shoes. When she got could and kept going. She learned
home from school, she took off her from experience that “you have to
good clothes and put on her work have a lot of faith to be a farmer.”
Dorothy and her son, Jim
clothes. Most of her clothes were
made from chicken feed bags; they She has no regrets about her life; it
Dorothy remembers her life on the repurposed most everything they has been a good one. She loves her
farm, noting that it was just a normal had. She remembers when one of family. She raised three good ol’
farm life. Her chores included the chicken feed companies began American kids. She has seen a lot in
helping with the gardens and making colored feed bags, and her her 104 years, lots of changes, and
chickens. When Dorothy was about mom quit buying colored material! she added with a smile that she will
10 years old, her mother sold eggs be here tomorrow, the Lord willing.
for 15 cents a dozen so she could What would be Dorothy’s advice
buy groceries. Dorothy felt like she to this generation? She said people
was pretty lucky as she never had to should tend to their own business,
milk their cow; the cow didn’t like live a good Christian life and take

Communities of
Strength AMERICANS
OLDER

MONTH

**Due to COVID, Amarillo's celebration is scheduled for Friday,August 13,2021** COMMUNITIES OF STRENGTH:
Join us for lots of fun, free lunch and plenty of educational opportunities! We will
meet at the Region 16 Education Conference Center 5800 Bell St. Amarillo, TX MAY 2021
Friday, August 13, 2021
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For more information contact Lisa
Hancock@lhancock@theprpc.org or by calling
806-331-2227 or 800-642-6008

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