I miss my Grandmother

A little over a year ago my Grandmother passed away. I think about her all the time. And miss her very much. Tonight, while looking for some of my wedding pictures on myspace I found this and though I would share it tonight.....

I have just learned that at the first service for my Grandmother I have the honor of reading something she wrote to a cousin of my Mothers a few years ago. Here it is...
Alethe Green Clodfelter: Reminiscences of my youth
As written to a nephew about 10 years ago
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As a child I was quite shy. Perhaps one reason was that I seemed to be known as Vernon's or Evelyn's sister - or "one of the Green girls." Also with a January birthday the question was "Shall we wait until the following year to send her to school?" So I was 7 1/2 when I started school and always felt old. My mother said she felt that climbing the hill to catch the bus would be too much for me.
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My childhood was wonderful. We always had chores to do. The first responsible job I remember having was waiting at the end of the lane at the farm and putting a little rock in a pile as each cow went through the gate. I don't know if I couldn't count to 25 or 30, or if the cows spaced their going though so I wouldn't keep track.
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I remember always having a lot of relatives and friends staying with us during the summer. When fall came and everyone left it was lonely. That may be the reason I've never liked fall. School was not hard for me, yet I was not at the very top of my class. In second grade the teacher thought I read well enough that I should go on and do second and third grades that year. In 1932 I had the honor of being elected Battle Ground High School student body treasurer (there wasn't a dime to take care of in those days, so the job was very easy.) My senior year I was Vice President of the class. Apparently it didn't mean much because at the time of our 50th reunion something was said about the V. P. and I asked who it was.
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I think one usually finds a gift, or talent that one enjoys and mine was fixing people's hair. My high school years occurred during the depths of the depression and I fixed people's hair for 25 cents. I bought a pair of shoes for $1.98, a dress for $2.98 and a coat for $6.00 for graduation with the money earned. People just didn't have a dime to spare in those days. After graduation I went to Portland to spend a few days with some friends before summer work at home. Each day I would go to meet the friends when they would get off work. One day the Personnel director asked me if I'd like to work there too. Of course I said "yes", and from then on I had no help from home - and didn't need it!....
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Vacations were always spent at the farm, and I worked at the store for 4 1/2 years and attended U of Oregon night classes until I won a scholarship (small but still OK) to Beauty School. I worked during the day and went to school at night. At that time the State of Oregon required 1500 hours of work experience before one could take the State Board exams. I thought the 1500 hours would never end! It took 3 years!.
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I lived in a boarding house in Portland and a girl friend went with a young man from Newberg. He had an acquaintance who lived at the same place as he, (another boarding house) and he brought the young man to Portland for weekends. I heard the young man was somewhat different, but very bright. My friend told me that she had told the young man that I would go to the Mazama Winter Formal with him. I was quite upset, since the reports about him were not very good. I told her I wouldn't go. Well, she won, and I went! The young man was very polite, and seemed to be almost normal. His name was Harland, and I began dating him. My landlady told my mother "Harland bears acquaintance. He's all right!" I married the young man in 1938. All these years later we are still married. Yes, he really is all right, and also very bright!