Person:Dora Throckmorton (3)

    Mother was always a happy person. Everyone was welcome to eat at her table. She loved to cook and always liked company. She was a hard worker (in the field and in the home)

Mother always tried to look on the bright side of things. One time their milk cow died and Father was all worried about it. She put her arms around him and said,"Don't worry, Father, as long as it (death) stays in the barn we will be O.K." She had a very good sense of humor. All of our friends enjoyed her. They werre always welcome to eat at our table, to visit for the day or all night.

    Mother was a good seamstress. She made all of our clothes...even our winter coats. She made rugs and sold them. She was always making quilts. She made some from worn out overalls and from scraps of material from the clothes she made us. We always had nice warm beds.
    She raised a flock of turkeys each summer to sell at Thanksgiving time. She would use the money to buy us shoes and such. She grew a big garden each year. She canned vegetables, pickles, fruit, jam, etc.

Mother had a knack of making sick people feel better. When women were about to give birth, they sent for her before they sent for the doctor. They said as soon as they saw her face, they felt better. There was a lot of love in our home. Mother and Father showed their love toward each other and to each of us children. Mother missed Father terribly after he died.

    She loved the Lord and was faithful in his work. She taught many Relief Society sisters her talent of quilt making.

Two of her grandchildren (Larry & RoseMarie) remember her home made bread. Almost everyday she would bake bread because grandpa loved fresh bread. They lived next door to us in Las Vegas, and when they came home from school, they would walk past her kitchen to see if they could smell hot bread. If they did, they would go into her house first, and she would always cut us a big slice. They loved her so much, and they knew she loved them. We always waited for them on Christmas morning to come over before we looked at our presents. Each year they teased us to let them sleep in, but we knew they liked to be there. We loved spending evenings with them just watching TV or playing games with them.

     Mother was buried next to her beloved husband.

--Written by her daughter, Dora Luella Pierce Ewell