Sepia Saturday: My Grandmother's Life and Times
I often think of them, my paternal grandparents. Especially my grandmother and her life and times. Loren Lloyd Arnett and Mafie Marie Arnett nee Rosencrans She was born in 1899 in Iowa, on the cusp of a new century. During her early childhood, Orville and Wilbur Wright made history in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. She was a young woman at the time of the first World War. By that time, she had moved from Iowa to Snohomish County, Washington, then on to the Portland Area. From there, she lived for a time in Puyallup, Washington with an older married sibling, and in her early 20s took a position as a nanny for the minister's family of the Christian Church in Wenatchee, Washington. There she met and married Lloyd. As a young mother, she and her husband weathered the Depression while rearing three children, a son and two daughters. All three of those children attended college and my father earned a graduate degree and has been granted at least one honora...