It was during a birthday celebration that one of Mother’s cows gave birth to twin heifer calves. The excitement from a lively group of chil— dren that day out— shone the birthday party.

Mother was a leg— end in her own time when it came to train- ing and caring for ani- mals. A farmer liked to tell a story of going for mother when his cow was sick, and how she was able with her skill to save the cow, that the family

depended on for their milk. Another story told by Joe was needing to get a doctor to his

home, but his horse would not go through a heavy bank of snow to get him there. He called for mother and with her horse she broke open the road, not only for him but for others waiting to get through for church at the time. ”This little woman” he said, ”weighing less than a hundred pounds, put her horse through those banks of snow, pUtting to shame us able bodied men, whose horses balked at every crack of the reins”. This was just a part of the stamina and kind nature of mother. She never turned her back on a challenge or someone in need. When the native Indian people would come to the village in

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