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The most striking thing about Mother is her perseverance. She never seems to let anything stand in her way. Having inherited that "perseverance" from her, we tended to collide often when I was younger. She always seems to be able to accomplish everything that she sets out to do. This mindset was present whether she was building rock walls, painting or starting her own business. I believe that she is the only woman I have known who bought her own electric concrete mixer so that she could build her own stone walls. And build them, we did! We could never escape when she would corral us into the truck in order to search for the rocks that became a part of the many walls we built. She and my father had a slight disagreement about how one should operate a pharmacy, so Mother opened her own pharmacy and was successful with it. She also opened numerous other businesses and was successful with them. She could look at an empty building and create a workplace from scratch. If she had it in her mind that something could be done, then it
would be done.
Today, as I gather vegetables from the garden and can them, I think about Mother canning and how she used to get me up at dawn to go pick blackberries before it got too hot. There we would be in our bathing suits, covered with chigger spray and keeping an eye out for snakes picking those@#!# blackberries. But the blackberry jam was wonderful. I hated it then, but now I love to get up and go pick blackberries and make that jam the old- fashioned way. S he could cook anything and would often have dinner parties ( and still does) and serve exotic dishes. She could sew clothes without patterns. My Barbie dolls were the best-dressed dolls in town! Bottom-line is that if Mother could see it in her mind, then it would become reality. I just wish she had saved that concrete mixer because I am gathering rocks to build my own stone walls at my own house!
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Suzanne Lockert, daughter
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