“Life at Tater Hill”
Ann started to school at East Waco Elementary in September of 1941. She only attended school there for five months. Her father had the opportunity to buy the house in the country, which was closer to his work. She transferred from East Waco Elementary, which was a city school to South Bosque, which was a country school with all twelve grades in the same building.
Her brother, Robert, was born in August of 1939. At first she felt resentment because she thought her father’s attention had been transferred to the baby boy. She and Robert fought a lot in childhood, but that’s a long time in the past. He lives in Brownwood Texas today. After her initial disappointment, Ann developed a wonderful relationship with her father, one that she has cherished throughout her lifetime. I can still remember the proud look on his face when he walked her down the aisle to give her to me in marriage.
Ann shares these memories of life at Tater Hill. “Our new home had no electricity for the first few weeks. After that was installed we waited several years for running water. We hauled water to a big cistern. On Saturdays we took baths in a big wash tub in the kitchen with water heated on the cook stove. We had butane gas which made cooking and heating much easier. Of course there was the outdoor toilet. The outhouse was “air conditioned” in the winter and heated in the summer, and it always had the Sears and Roebuck catalogue inside. This was quite a transition, but I have many fond memories of this home. We were a close family. My mother did not work outside the home until my brother was in high school. My sisters and I shared a bedroom all our growing up years. I vividly remember when my second sister, Joyce, got married. At 16 I had a bedroom to myself.”
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