Margaret Jo Holcomb Hill Snyder

I Am Jo, Jo Am I (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It started as a suggestion from our grief group leader to start journaling. It was formed when I joined a small writing group in Beverlys living room and we got the assignment to write Who are you now? and then to write Who were you before that? and Who were you......... and fi fteen before thats later I had the outline of this book. Th e telling became compelling as I worked over the four years and chronicled my story. I tell it because it affi rms for me who I am and maybe later generations will want to know something of where they came from. In the beginning my grandparents came into Oklahoma when it was Indian Territory and participated in the journey to statehood. Th e changes that took place between the time my mother was born in 1898 and when she died one hundred and fi ve years later are hard to imagine. She lived in three centuries and this story lives in these three centuries. Being a mother and enjoying two sons that are a joy to me to this day is a rich part of my life story and this part of my telling is a joy to remember. Th e love of two gifted men blessed my tale and fi lls me with appreciation for both of them. Th e three children from the second marriage are an amazing gift. What it meant to be a woman, wife and mother changed and morphed as I grew from childhood to an eighty- eight year old woman and I had the opportunity to work with women of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) as we began to struggle with issues that impacted our homes, schools, churches and political institutions. Retirement bloomed into ten great years exploring the United States and Canada and also helping the fi ve children that now form my family. Many hours of helping to redo, remodel and restore helped build relationships and gave me many special memories. Th is story of I am Jo/Jo am I is one womans story of life, love, learning and living toward the end. I am still doing it!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781503588752
• Artikelnr.: 52586412

Autorenporträt

I was born as the "Roaring Twenties" fell into the "Great Depression" in a small county seat railroad town just twenty years after Oklahoma became a state. My dad was Superintendent of Schools and mother stayed at home to raise my brother and I. As the depression sucked the life out of many families we moved on up the ladder and dad became president of Northeastern Oklahoma Junior College in Miami, Oklahoma. Those who had decent incomes could live pretty well and even though we lived in the new girls dorm instead of a President's Mansion it was a good time for me. This time in Oklahoma history good jobs in education were political and after another four year legislative cycle we moved to Putnam City, Oklahoma, the largest consolidated school in the state, where I spent the dust bowl days and childhood. Our move to Elk City in western Oklahoma rounded out my "living across Oklahoma" experience. Here I left for college, fell in love and married. My dad said "get a Home Economics degree and you will be prepared to be a wife and mother and it will be security if that is interrupted." It was interrupted after twenty three years when Virgil died. Joy did returned after much sorrow and I had twenty years of a career I loved and a wonderful second marriage full of fun and travel, my child rearing years were done. I was about four years behind "the Greatest Generation" and both my husbands were in its glory. My cohorts were born after the depression and came of age after World War II, we were "in between," but I was on the cusp of the Women's Movement and it was a great run.