Hell, when I worked at the store in Seneca we'd sometimes serve meals to 96 men in one day. That's when Seneca was boomin'. There were more jobs too. She sold tickets at the theatre in Seneca, and bartended in the pool hall. She worked as a trimmer on the planer that Hudspeth built in Seneca.
Work is one thing, but caring for a family is another.
All the while she was out working, she and husband Frank were caring for their only son, Mike. When Mike was eleven, he was injured in an accidental shooting which left him confined to a wheelchair. She nursed him at home and through 28 operations in Portland. She recalls one day in particular when a phone call from Portland informed her that Mike needed immediate surgery. Mike passed away a few months before his 26th birthday in 1963.