Laidley, Sewing Award

Thanks to a free weekend at Newspapers.com, I was able to peruse the Warren Sheaf in search of my old relatives.  The Sheaf was popular for putting in the little newsy tidbits of local folk.  This one is about my Grandmother, Luella Laidley Pape .

My grandmother died when my mother was young, so she didn't know much about her own mother.  Her dad, Robert Pape, didn't discuss her much.  It was much later in his life that he told us he was "so damned mad that she died."  It's my belief that's his reason for not discussing her.

It was a pleasure for me to share this with my mother:  Luella won two awards at the Marshall County Fair in the Sewing Category for girls under 13.  August 1921.