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When Carrie Conley's husband left in the early 1960s, she started raising six children on her own. She took a job at a hospital, delivering meals to patients as what was called "a tray girl".

Jerry Johnson, the youngest child in the family, was 5 years old when his dad left. Speaking with his mother recently, Johnson heard his mother repeat the question she asked at that time. "Lord, what am I going to do with all these kids by myself?" The answers came in the form of lima beans, black-eyed peas and low prices on chicken necks. "Something to boil for every day of the week," Conley said.

"I cannot remember one Christmas that I didn't feel like the luckiest kid in the world," Johnson said, "even though now I realize we had hardly anything in terms of money."

"How did you hold all that together?" he asked his mother.

Conley said she would save up her sick days at work, going in no matter how she felt. Then in December, the company would pay her for the unused sick days. More help came in castoffs , when wealthy families would clean out their toy chests at Christmastime and take a load of toys to the Salvation Army. Conley would pick through them, finding the best ones for her children. The result of those sacrifices led to a big, happy Christmas for Conley and her kids.

"But I never did tell you it was a Santa Claus," Conley said, "I couldn't give any man credit for what I had done."

Johnson thanked his mom for her sacrifices, and for the good example she set for him and his siblings. "I think it's helping us all be better parents," Johnson said.

In 1975, Conley retired from Detroit's Outer Drive Hospital. Jerry was a sophomore in college at that time. He later graduated from Washington University Medical School and received a degree in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.

1. When did Carries husband leave?
2. How many kids did she have?
3. Did she have help taking care of them?
4. Where did she work?
5. What did she do there?
6. What did people call the position?
7. What year did she retire?
8. What was the name of her last son that was born?
9. How old was he when his father left?
10. Where did he go to school?
11. What did he go for?
12. Did he feel like his Christmases as a child were bad?
13. How did he say he would feel on that holiday?
14. Did they have a lot of cash?
15. What did his mom conserve all year even if she was feeling ill?
16. What would the place she worked for do?
17. Would she get donated gifts for them?
18. Did she let them think the stuff was from Santa?
19. Why?
20. Does he believe she was a bad role model?
21. What does he think her influence has taught him?
1. in the early 1960s
2. six
3. No
4. at a hospital
5. she delivered meals to patients
6. "tray girl"
7. 1975
8. Jerry Johnson
9. 5 years old
10. Washington University Medical School
11. Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
12. No
13. He said he would feel "like the luckiest kid in the world"
14. No
15. her sick days
16. the company would pay her for the unused sick days
17. Yes
18. No
19. Because she couldn't give any man credit for what she had done
20. No
21. To be better parents