Tell about any skills you learned from your elders:

I suppose keeping a clean house.  We didn't have much but Moner kept it clean.  Me being the oldest of seven children taught me how to care for them and the house.  Especially when she was working.  We didn't have carpet or linoleum.  You took a broom with soap and water and scrubbed, then rinsed.  I helped Moner and Grandmama stitch a quilt (by hand of course).  I can't say how my stitches looked, they didn't do them over so they must have been okay.  I tried cooking once when Moner was sick.  We all survived so it must have been filling.  As for sewing, after Daddy and I was married I learned by trial and error.  Patterns and sewing guides helped.  Cookbooks helped with cooking.

Who was the President when you were born?

I had to look in the encyclopedia for the answer to this one.
 Franklin Delano Roosevelt  1933-1945  Democrat

Why was your name chosen for you?

 My Mom had a friend with a child named Willodean, and she liked it.  This is what I was told.  I never liked it but didn't have a choice in the choosing.


NOTE:  Since this is where Megan my daughter got the middle name for her daughter Emily.  In which they named her Emily Willow.