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Sandpoint Chapter
Idaho Writers' League
Poet of the Year
2007
Poet of the Year
2004
Poet of the Year
2002
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2000
Vardis Fisher Award
2000
I was a child of the Depression, born in North Dakota in 1922, at the end of a prosperous period and the beginning of the dust bowl years.
My parents finally gave up on the farm and, in 1936, we joined the great exodus to the West, driving to Idaho because my mother's family lived at Sandpoint. There were many travelers on the road; old cars pulling trailers filled with household goods, desperate families hoping for a fresh start and better living conditions.
My parents bought a farm, I finished High School and went to work at Lewis' Bakery. In l942 I went to Seattle to work for Boeing Aircraft, met and married a co-worker, had three children, was divorced, came back to Sandpoint.
Then I married a dairyman on a farm near Priest River, and have lived on the same place ever since.
My husband became ill and spent almost a year in a TB hospital in Gooding, Idaho. I started a baking business, delivering bread, sweet rolls and pies to customers in Priest River. Then, I went to work for the Priest River Times as newswriter, proof reader, and secretary, and was there for 11 years. The paper was sold to the Hagadone Syndicate and I was finally free to work in my garden.
When our house burned in l980, we built one up on the hill overlooking the Priest River, and I have lived here ever since. My husband died in l993, and since then, I have been writing just for fun. First, my autobiography, and then four poetry books. It has been a joy not only to write but to be associated with the Writers League and all the wonderful friends I have met there. This has been the happiest time of my life, and I don't feel old at all, but since the calendar doesn't lie, I have to say that when I wake up in the morning, I'm always surprised.
Updated: October 15, 2007
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