the Ehri side

Here is a wonderful picture of my mom and I, along with my brothers, standing with Auntie and Uncle Ed.  I am sure this picture was taken during the Spring of 1948.  I look like I am about three months old at the time.  Auntie and Uncle Ed took my mom and her siblings into their home when they were very young children and needed someplace to live and someone to care for them.  Auntie and Uncle Ed eventually became our grandparents and that is the way I think of them.  I always remember Auntie wearing a dress--never pants.  She usually wore a cotton day dress and always wore an apron when she worked in the kitchen.  She made most of her clothes.  The aprons were made from flour sacking materials.  Uncle Ed worked for Pillsbury Mills and had access to the flour sacks.  I understand there was quite an "in house" trading system at the mill where the workers would trade sacking so they could acquire more yardage of a given print.  The more yards of a specific print meant more fabric to use on a garment.  My mom had a love/hate relationship with the flour sack dresses.  As a girl, the fabric was passable but as she got older, the fabric was easily identifiable and was more embarrassing to wear.  But, this was what happened during the Great Depression.  You used what you had.  Anyway, I like this picture.  And, this is my mom's side of the family.  Now you know.