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The days ahead were great, excitingly checking out a new city, yet missed family back home. We did make the drive to Bloomer at least once a month.
When I think about it today, pack up 4 people in a car, no air conditioning, old roads; interstate was unheard of at that time, late 40's. Windows had to be open because we all smoked. It was exciting to all of us and there seemed to be a bright future. Dad and Mom got a job at Western Publishing. Janice and I both were employed at SC Johnson.
At that time SC Johnson only hired single women. Today that would certainly be discrimination. When you married, you were let go to find a job elsewhere.
When I look back and think about the forties and the fifties, I remember them as good years. Jobs were plentiful, life was good. Both Janice and I married. Janice had 2 children, David living in Milwaukee and Sandy living in Austin, Texas. Sandy has 2 young boys names Nathan and Ben. Nathan to be married in 2009. David has no children but
enjoys Sandy's. I married also, two children. Tom living in Racine has one daughter Ericka and Stacy 3 boys, Justin, Austin and Camerin living in Colorado Springs. Her husband is in Iraq at this time.
We worked, we played, we enjoyed Racine. During those years we found new friends; we formed a card club and to this day there are still three of us left and we meet once a month for lunch. We feel this is so important to us, we must not lose each other. We are the Golden group, the remaining group. I still keep in contact with cousins and Aunts still living in Bloomer and love them all dearly. As time slips away from us, so does our family. We lost our Grandparents, then our father in 87" and Mom in 91. Sad times and sometimes difficult to adjust to the loss of loved ones. I can't possibly put pen to paper and describe the years we have spent with family and friends; beautiful years, so rewarding, so loving. I go back there often to recall some of those wonderful times. My last loss was my dearest sister Janice in 2004. We disagreed, we laughed, we got into trouble occasionaly but oh how much we loved each other. It has been four years now and I still feel the pain of her loss, the emptiness of not having her in my life. We shared so much but now I have the memories that I hold dear. There are days that I still mourn her. I place flowers on her grave site with David each year and feel a sense of caring; she knows we are there. I taught her to love flowers. I would show her how many faces a flower has. Pansies have smiling faces, daisy's are white with sunshine and Roses are love. We remembered how we lay on the ground and looked at the clouds and saw different pictures in our minds. This was us, somehow interwinded with the same thoughts, feelings and knowing that we are one. |
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