From Margaret Knezek:

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From Margaret Knezek:

I so wish I had paid more attention to my mother Lulu when I was younger.After she died, then I realized it was too late. I do remember a fewthings. I know she longed to go back to Ohio to live. Seems the days shelived in Lancaster were happy ones. I was able to contact a friend ofhers from when they were about fifteen years old. They were only friendsfor a short time because her family moved to Oregon, but theycorresponded for several years. Lulu's cousin Barbara Downhour has beenvery helpful but she was much younger. She's the same age as I am. Allher memories are from what her mother, Estella (Sater) Hankinson had toldher. She says Lulu's family lived in what was called the Red Row Houses.The mine where Grandpa worked was what was known as a company, they ownedjust about everything in the town of Haydenville, such as stores andhouses. I'm still trying to find out when they moved to Lancaster. Theywere living at 800 W. Main in 1910. Lulu would've been fifteen years oldthen. Their Aunt Estella, Edith, and Lulu all worked at the Godman ShoeCompany. Barbara says her mother lived with the Hardesty's and oftentalked about all the good times they had.

May Day was an important day to my mother. Seems they would have a picnicat school, play on the May-pole and start going bare-footed for thesummer. Spring comes earlier in Central Ohio than it does in Michigan.Lulu came north in 1916-17, lived at 361 Cortland, Highland Park, MI. Sheworked behind the counter at a creamery, that's where my parents met.They married in 1917, lived at 318 Highland, Highland Park, and in 1919moved to 17820 Russel, in Detroit. Grandma, Flossie and Lulu would gettogether and knot quilts often. They would be just simple patterns,mostly squares and oblong pieces. My mother did lots of sewing, made mostof our clothes when we were young. During the Depression she would makemy younger brothers pants cut from adult clothes. Another thing she didto make a little money was every Saturday she would bake coffee-cakes andcinnamon rolls and Richard and Lloyd would deliver them to the customers.I would always help her too. Even in those bad times she had many regularcustomers. I can still smell and taste those rolls and my mother'shome-made bread. Also her peach and apple butter. Us kids would taketurns stirring the jam so it wouldn't burn. Grandpa made the stirrers. Mymother and Aunt Floss and Edith would always be proud of the canned goodsthey preserved for the winter. Wish I had a dime for every canning jar Iwashed.

My mother was not well after there were complications from a still-bornson in 1931. Aunt Flossie saved her life by giving her a direct bloodtransfusion. She contracted pneumonia in 1938 and with her weakenedcondition and there were no antibiotics at that time she just didn't havethe strength to fight it.

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